Now Yearbook Extra 1979

Next month, the Now That’s What I Call Music Team are to release NOW Yearbook ’79 Extra, a 3CD companion to the original NOW Yearbook ’79 that was issued last week.

This triple-disc package features 67 hits from 1979 and includes a decent selection of big names and some less predictable offerings.

Queen’s ‘Crazy Little Thing Called Love’ kicks things off and a strong CD 1 also includes The Police, Blondie, Pretenders, ELO, Roxy Music, Kate Bush (the Live On Stage version of ‘Them Heavy People’), Ian Dury & The Blockheads, Madness, Sparks and more.

CD 2 has more of a post-punk/new wave vibe going on and includes ‘The Sound Of The Suburbs’ from The Members, ‘Babylon’s Burning’ from The Ruts, songs from The Jam, The Clash, The Stranglers, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Sex Pistols and Japan, OMD and the band Eurythmics could have been, The Tourists.

The final disc sees a reprise from Blondie (‘Sunday Girl’) and runs the gamut from Boney M.‘s ‘Painter Man’ to BA Robertson’s ‘Knocked It Off’! You’ll find music from Earth, Wind & Fire, Barry White, Commodores, Toto, Thin Lizzy and Status Quo. It signs off with Macca’s Wonderful Christmastime, the Christmas song everyone pretends to hate.

NOW Yearbook Extra 1979 will be released on 21 October 2022.

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Tracklisting

Now Yearbook ’79 Extra Various Artists /

• 3CD set
  • CD 1
    1. Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
    2. The Police – Message In A Bottle
    3. Blondie – Union City Blue
    4. Pretenders – Kid
    5. Electric Light Orchestra – Last Train To London
    6. Roxy Music – Angel Eyes
    7. Kate Bush – Them Heavy People
    8. Squeeze – Up The Junction
    9. The Boomtown Rats – Diamond Smiles
    10. Ian Dury & The Blockheads – Reasons To Be Cheerful (Pt. 3)
    11. Sparks – The Number One Song In Heaven
    12. The Three Degrees – The Runner
    13. Donna Summer – Dim All The Lights
    14. Sister Sledge – Lost In Music
    15. Chic – My Feet Keep Dancing
    16. Rose Royce – Is It Love You’re After
    17. Boney M. – Gotta Go Home
    18. Voyage – Lets Fly Away
    19. Madness – The Prince
    20. Darts – Duke Of Earl
    21. Mike Oldfield – Blue Peter
    22. Fiddler’s Dram – Daytrip To Bangor (Didn’t We Have A Lovely Time)
  • CD 2
    1. The Members – The Sound Of The Suburbs
    2. The Ruts – Babylon’s Burning
    3. The Jam – Strange Town
    4. The Clash – English Civil War
    5. The Stranglers – Duchess
    6. Siouxsie And The Banshees – Playground Twist
    7. Public Image Limited – Death Disco
    8. Skids – Working For The Yankee Dollar
    9. The Undertones – Jimmy Jimmy
    10. Sex Pistols – C’Mon Everybody
    11. Feelgood – Milk And Alcohol
    12. The Dickies – Banana Splits
    13. Secret Affair – Time For Action
    14. Jags – Back Of My Hand
    15. The Tourists – The Loneliest Man In The World
    16. Japan – Life In Tokyo
    17. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark – Electricity
    18. Shalamar – Take That To The Bank
    19. Dan Hartman – This Is It
    20. Edwin Starr – H.A.P.P.Y. Radio
    21. The Isley Brothers – It’s A Disco Night (Rock Don’t Stop)
    22. Chic – My Forbidden Lover
    23. Diana Ross – The Boss
    24. Cher – Take Me Home
  • CD 3
    1. Blondie – Sunday Girl
    2. Boney M. – Painter Man
    3. The Three Degrees – My Simple Heart
    4. Commodores – Sail On
    5. Earth, Wind & Fire – After The Love Has Gone
    6. Barry White – Just The Way You Are
    7. Billy Joel – Honesty
    8. Marianne Faithfull – The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan
    9. Gerry Rafferty – Get It Right Next Time
    10. Toto – Hold the Line
    11. Status Quo – Whatever You Want
    12. Thin Lizzy – Waiting For An Alibi
    13. Driver 67 – Car 67
    14. BA Robertson – Knocked It Off
    15. Cats U.K. – Luton Airport
    16. Racey – Some Girls
    17. Darts – Get It
    18. Dollar – Who Were You With In The Moonlight
    19. Sally Oldfield – Mirrors
    20. Lena Martell – One Day At A Time
    21. Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmastime