When I was at the Cherry Red HQ to get the lowdown on the Bill Nelson box we posted about yesterday, how could I have not posted hot on its heels about this fabbo new Bruce Woolley boxed set devoted to the one album that he released for CBS in the late 70s. As there were but a handful of singles and the usual US version gambits of the time period, the three disc set digs deeply into demos and features a plethora of unreleased material.

Here’s the last sentence of the review I wrote for the 2009 single CD edition that Cherry Red released earlier when I reviewed it in 2015:

As an exultant Bruce Woolley proclaims on his website, after resolving his disputes with CBS records which were longstanding at 43 years, the artiste had now obtained the rights to the “Shadows” album, which is featured, with adjacent material, on the second disc in this set! That’s rerason right there to buy this even if you have the 2009 edition, yes?

Additionally, the third disc consists of two concerts from the UK and USA on Woolley’s tours of the time. As we can see, he was confident that the second album would eventually get a release owing to the appearance of the [then unreleased] material in the set lists of the 1980 tour. <flash forward 43 years> So what are the tracks included? Bonus tracks in red, with previously unreleased material in bold.

DISC 1: English Garden – Expanded Version

1. English Garden
2. Video Killed The Radio Star
3. Dancing With The Sporting Boys
4. Johnny
5. No Surrender
6. Flying Man
7. You Got Class
8. WW9
9. Clean Clean
10. Get Away William
11. Goodbye To Yesterday
12. Goodbye To Yesterday (Reprise)
13. You’re The Circus (I’m The Clown)
14. News (Eden Studios)
15. The Killers – No Surrender
16. The Killers – Killer On The Dancefloor
17. Clean Clean (US Version)
18. Video Killed the Radio Star (US Version)
19. Goodbye to Yesterday (US Version)
20. Bobby Bad
21. You’re The Circus (I’m The Clown)
22. You Got Class (Soundsuite Studios)
23. Going To The City
24. Needletime
25. Sugar Daddy (8 Track Demo)

DISC 2: Polaroid – Snapshots Of Sound

1. I Set Fire To You
2. Ghost Train
3. Killer On The Dancefloor (Olympic Studios)
4. Trouble Is
5. Only Babies Can Fly
6. All Real Americans
7. Morning Shadows
8. Ghost Train (Olympic Studios)
9. All At Once
10. Warning Shadows
11. Blue Blue Victoria
12. 1000 MPH
13. The Black Girls Understand
14. Ghost Train (Club Mix)
15. How Do You Say Goodbye?
16. Too Late For Tears (Demo Version)
17. Blue Blue Victoria (Demo Version)
18. You Got Class (Revox Demo)
19. News (Olympic Studios)
20. House Of Wax
21. Radio Pictures (Bye Bye Love)

DISC 3: In Concert

Live at High Wycombe Town Hall 6th May 1979 [1-12]

Live at My Father’s Place, Long Island, USA 25th March 1980 [13-23]

1. You’re The Circus (I’m The Clown)
2. You Got Class
3. Too Late For Tears
4. Clean Clean
5. The Problem
6. Goodbye To Yesterday
7. Johnny
8. Video Killed The Radio Star
9. No Surrender
10. Dancing With The Sporting Boys
11. News
12. Flying Man
13. You’re The Circus (I’m The Clown)
14. News
15. You Got Class
16. Trouble Is
17. Johnny
18. Get Away William
19. Dancing With The Sporting Boys
20. I Set Fire To You
21. No Surrender
22. English Garden
23. Video Killed The Radio Star

This Cherry Red clamshell gem can be yours on the 15th on November for the admission fee of £24.95/$32.93. It’s another item to add to the mile-long want list and if your eyes are bugging as well, then DJ hit that button!

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