The first official release of this much bootlegged performance. This is five tracks from U2’s open-air performances at the RDS Arena, Dublin in August 1993 on CD and yellow vinyl.
Rick Astley stayed with RCA for this third album, but ditched the Stock Aitken Waterman songwriting/production team for 1991’s Free. This 2CD reissue via BMG features a 2024 remaster and 18 bonus tracks including B-sides, remixes and instrumentals. There’s a new vinyl version too which for the first time features the full 11-track version of the album (previously ‘Is This Really Love?’ was absent).
While Sidney Lumet’s 1978 film adaptation of 1974 musical The Wiz was a critical and commercial disaster, the Quincy Jones-helmed soundtrack fared a little better. It saw Jones work with Michael Jackson for the first time (MJ was The Scarecrow in the film) and produced a minor hit in ‘Ease on Down the Road’. Polydor are this week reissuing the album on vinyl.
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By Paul Sinclair
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