NOW That's What I Call The 80s 5-Disc CD

Its time to celebrate an amazing decade for pop music as popular today as it was back then...and with so many fantastic hits to choose from we had to make this a 100 track selection across 5 CDS including over 50 1 singles Time to immerse yourself in the decade that never stops legwarmers on its NOW Thats What I Call The 80s Opening with one of Queens signature anthems I Want To Break Free, and followed by the incredible Every Breath You Take from The Police and Eurythmics with Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This you know from the start that this is a massive collectionBerlins Take My Breath Away leads into a run of synthpop smashes from Ultravox with Vienna, Aha and Take On Me, Temptation from Heaven 17, and 1s from The Human League with Dont You Want Me and Soft Cell with Tainted Love Huge new pop bands emerged in the early 80s including, and featured here, Culture Club, Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet Next up a run of hits from the movies including Fame, Ghostbusters, Never Ending Story and Billy Oceans When The Going Gets Tough from the film The Jewel Of The Nile.The first disc closes with more synthdriven pop from Nik Kershaw, Tears For Fears, and two 1s Dave Stewart amp Barbara Gaskins take on Its My Party and Nena with the global smash 99 Red Balloons.Legends including Elton John, Billy Joel, and Paul Simon feature on Disc 2, alongside popparty classics including Footloose and Come On Eileen. Adam amp The Ants, ABC, Bananarama and Haircut 100 had all scored their Top 5 debuts by 1982 and are joined by more artists making their chart debuts Matthew Wilder, Katrina amp The Waves and King, plus original 1s from The Specials and Madness, 1 covers from Shakin Stevens and The Spinners and a retro style chart topper from Sister Sledge.CD3 is all about dancefloor gold Kicking off with Irene Cara and FlashdanceWhat A Feeling along with 1s from Whitney Houston and Chaka Khan, and one the most popular hiphop tracks of all time White Lines Dont Do It from Grandmaster Flash amp Grandmaster MelleMel. Donna Summer and Shalamar present disco 80s style, and from the end of the decade massive tracks from Yazz amp The Plastic Population, and Soul II Soul amp Caron Wheeler which both scored 1s. The writing and production team of Stock, Aitken and Waterman are featured many times across this collection and on this disc with a pair of chart toppers for Jason Donovan and Sonia Sinitta had a massive hit with So Macho, and alltime favourite artists Dolly Parton and Cliff Richard both produced classics in the 80s with time left for pure pop from Kelly Marie and Bucks Fizz, and a rerelease for Michael Jackson that went all the way to the top of the charts.Blue Monday from New Order starts our fourth disc, and opens a run of iconic electronic hits, including 1s Heart from Pet Shop Boys and 19 from Paul Hardcastle, with hinrg floorfillers from The Communards with Sarah Jane Morris and Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Dead Or Alive, and Hazell Dean. One of the decades most enduring new stars Kylie Minogue is up next with her debut 1 I Should Be So Lucky alongside fellow new chart star Rick Astley with his global smash debut Never Gonna Give You Up At the start of the decade pop gems emerged from newwave stars including here, Toyah and Altered Images, whilst established hitmakers enjoyed continued success including The Jam and The Clash and Brass In Pocket became the first new 1 of the decade for the Pretenders. Simple Minds and Robert Palmer enjoyed worldwide hits and winding down to finish disc 4 are two of the decades most popular power ballads from Toto with Africa and I Want To Know What Love Is from Foreigner.The final disc features a stellar run of timeless tracks from legendary artists Dancing In The Dark from Bruce Springsteen opens, ahead of Bon Jovi with Livin On A Prayer, Philip Bailey amp Phil Collins collaboration on Easy Lover and Cher with her defining If I Could Turn Back Time Rock classics from Survivor and ZZ Top feature along with explosive ballads from Bonnie Tyler and TPau Power pop from Belinda Carlisle, The Bangles and Men At Work lead into reggae flavoured 1s for Blondie, UB40 and Musical Youth. Some of the 80s most beautiful tracks take us to the end from Smokey Robinson, Lionel Richie and Paul McCartney Paul Young enjoyed a massive song over the Christmas season in 1983 with his version of Love Of The Common People, but the last word is given to the biggest selling single of the 1980s and a truly inspirational Christmas classic 1984s Do They Know Its Christmas from Band Aid.100 Essential 80s Classics on one Essential album NOW Thats What I Call The 80s.