Various artists now yearbook ’91 / now yearbook 76 extra / now 12” 80s volume two / now 12” 80s 1985 part two now

John & Yoko/ Plastic Ono Band Power ...

The accessibility, affordability and portability of synthesizers in the late 70s had a profound effect on popular music, particularly in the UK, where the likes of Ultravox!, Gary Numan and OMD reshap

Of course Trevor Horn is a genius. But part of Horn’s talent is in seeing ideas through to their maximum potential. And this gigantic boxset of possibly the ultimate 80s album reveals how the initial

Live and “on fire”.

£35, Anastasia Publishing, hardcover, 176 pages, ISBN: 9781739116606

The third Thompson Twins Best Of and first since 2003 is significant as the only compilation the trio have authorised: Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie chose the tracklist and are extensively interviewed