Now Yearbook ’86
Next in the 4CD / 3LP ‘Yearbook’ series
1986 gives 1985 and 1984 a run for their money
The Now That’s What I Call Music Team continue their popular Yearbook series with a new volume devoted to 1986. Now Yearbook ’86 is available as a 4CD deluxe book edition, a 3LP coloured vinyl (both limited) and a standard 4CD set.
As is often the way, these compilations serve as a reminder of quite how much great pop was delivered in any 12-month period, and 1986 is no exception.This ’86 Yearbook delivers George Michael’s ‘A Different Corner’ and Wham!’s ‘The Edge of Heaven’, two superb chart-toppers and also offers a pair of tracks from new sensation a-ha in ‘The Sun Always Shines On TV’ (which out-charted ‘Take On Me’ in the UK) and ‘I’ve Been Losing You’, the first single from their second album Scoundrel Days.
There’s massive iconic hits everywhere you look, including Duran Duran’s ‘Notorious’, The Bangles’ ‘Manic Monday’, Berlin’s ‘Take My Breath Away’, Paul Simon’s ‘You Can Call Me Al’, Swing Out Sister’s ‘Breakout’, Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s ‘Rage Hard’, Eurythmics’ ‘Thorn in My Side’, Stevie Winwood’s ‘Higher Love’, The Rolling Stones’ ‘Harlem Shuffle’, Falco’s ‘Rock Me Amadeus’ and more.
The 4CD sets have 80 tracks in total, while the vinyl edition offers 43 tracks over three purple translucent vinyl recordsl
Now Yearbook ’86 is released on 24 February 2023.
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Tracklisting
Now Yearbook ’86 Various Artists /
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CD 1
- George Michael – A Different Corner
- a-ha – The Sun Always Shines On T.V.
- Duran Duran – Notorious
- Kate Bush – Hounds Of Love
- Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart – Thorn In My Side
- Falco – Rock Me Amadeus
- Level 42 – Lessons In Love
- Kim Wilde – You Keep Me Hangin On
- Nick Kamen – Each Time You Break My Heart
- Owen Paul – My Favourite Waste Of Time
- The Bangles – Manic Monday
- Pretenders – Don’t Get Me Wrong
- Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al
- Suzanne Vega – Marlene On The Wall
- Fine Young Cannibals – Suspicious Minds
- Amazulu – Too Good To Be Forgotten
- UB40 – Sing Our Own Song
- Boris Gardiner – I Want To Wake Up With You
- Simply Red – Holding Back The Years
- Spandau Ballet – Through The Barricades
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CD 2
- Wham! – The Edge Of Heaven
- The Communards with Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way
- Bananarama – Venus
- Mel & Kim – Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend)
- Bucks Fizz – New Beginning (Mamba Seyra)
- Miami Sound Machine – Bad Boy (Shep Pettibone 7″ Remix)
- Sinitta – So Macho
- Samantha Fox – Touch Me (I Want Your Body)
- Debbie Harry – French Kissin’ (In The USA)
- Belouis Some – Imagination
- The Blow Monkeys – Digging Your Scene
- Swing Out Sister – Breakout
- Aretha Franklin – Who’s Zoomin’ Who?
- Gwen Guthrie – Ain’t Nothin’ Goin’ On But The Rent
- Jaki Graham – Set Me Free
- Cameo – Word Up!
- Five Star – Can’t Wait Another Minute
- Jermaine Stewart – We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off
- Whitney Houston – How Will I Know
- Lionel Richie – Dancing On The Ceiling
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CD 3
- The Smiths – Panic
- Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Rage Hard
- Sigue Sigue Sputnik – Love Missile F1-11
- Paul Hardcastle – The Wizard (Part 1)
- New Order – Bizarre Love Triangle
- The Psychedelic Furs – Pretty In Pink
- Simple Minds – All The Things She Said
- Talk Talk – Life’s What You Make It
- Furniture – Brilliant Mind
- It’s Immaterial – Driving Away From Home (Jim’s Tune)
- Public Image Limited – Rise
- Big Audio Dynamite – E=MC2
- Pete Wylie – Sinful
- Red Box – For America
- a-ha – I’ve Been Losing You
- Culture Club – Move Away
- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – (Forever) Live And Die
- Howard Jones – No One Is To Blame
- The Damned – Eloise
- Doctor & The Medics – Spirit In The Sky
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CD 4
- Berlin – Take My Breath Away (Love Theme From “Top Gun”)
- Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer
- Europe – The Final Countdown
- RUN DMC feat. Aerosmith – Walk This Way
- Robert Palmer – Addicted To Love
- Tina Turner – Typical Male
- The Rolling Stones – Harlem Shuffle
- The Police – Don’t Stand So Close To Me ’86
- Status Quo – In The Army Now
- Mr. Mister – Broken Wings
- Chris De Burgh – The Lady In Red
- Nick Berry – Every Loser Wins
- Jackie Wilson – Reet Petite
- Billy Ocean – When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
- Steve Winwood – Higher Love
- The Human League – Human
- Nu Shooz – I Can’t Wait
- Five Star – Rain Or Shine
- Whitney Houston – Greatest Love Of All
- The Housemartins – Caravan Of Love
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