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The Boomtown Rats
The First 50 Years: Songs Of Boomtown Glory - Sealed
UK 2-CD album set
THE BOOMTOWN RATS The First 50 Years: Songs Of Boomtown Glory (2025 UK/EU 27-track double album 2-CD set. Marking their 50th anniversary and celebrating the career of one of the most successful bands of the late 1970s and early 1980s with a definitive 2-CD collection. In November 1978, "Rat Trap" knocked Grease's "Summer Nights" off the top of the UK chart, ending its seven-week run and becoming the first-ever number one by a punk or new wave act, and the first by any Irishrock band. The band marked the moment on Top of the Pops by tearing up a photo of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John live on air; Bob Geldof, denied permission to mime saxophone on camera, instead played the solo on a candelabra he spotted on set, a bit that became such a fixture that fans began bringing their own candelabras to gigs. All tracks on this collection have been personally selected by the band to mark their anniversary tour, gathering that single alongside "I Don't Like Mondays," "Banana Republic," "She's So Modern" and many more. Housed in a tri-fold picture sleeve with brand new artwork and commentary, hype sticker & factory sealed. Recommended) In Stock - Buy Now for shipping on Thu 10-Sep
£ 14.99 | US$ 20.24
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Paul Heaton
Jenius - Indie Exclusive White Vinyl - Sealed
UK 2-LP vinyl set
PAUL HEATON Jenius (Indie Exclusive 2026 UK/EU limited edition 15-track double album 2-LP pressed on 180-gram White Vinyl. Written in the months following 2024's The Mighty Several and, as with much of Paul Heaton's recentwork, largely finished during cycling breaks in a village north of Amsterdam, Jenius was recorded at Manchester's Blueprint Studios in early 2026, right as his ten-year marriage was ending. None of that turmoil surfaces directly in thesongs themselves, which Heaton had alreadybegun before the split, but he's said the sessions became a genuine refuge, a chance to be around friends and bandmates rather than dwell on what was happening at home. Longtime guitarist Jonny Lexus, who's worked with Heaton since 2010's Acid Country, earned eight co-writing credits here and helped arrange further tracks, while producer Ian Broudie, returning from The Mighty Several, continues a working relationship Heaton describes as instinctive: Broudie "understands where I want to get to" without either of them needing to over-explain it. Guest vocalists Rianne Downey and Declan O'Rourke both feature across the record, Downey picking up where she left off on The Mighty Several, O'Rourke bringing a country turn to "The Whisky Did." The album's cover marks the first time Heaton's own photograph has appeared on one of his records since The Housemartins' 1986 debut, London 0 Hull 4, released 40 years ago this year. Gatefold picture sleeve, factory sealed) In Stock - Buy Now for shipping on Thu 10-Sep
£ 36.99 | US$ 49.94
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