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Let Them Drag My Soul Away - Singles, Demos, Sessions & Live 1979-1982 - Sealed

DEAD OR ALIVE Let Them Drag My Soul Away: Singles, Demos, Sessions & Live 1979-1982 (2023 UK/EU limited edition 3-CD set featuring 39 tracks exploring the early years of the Pete Burns fronted bands Nightmares In Wax & Dead Or Alive. Fold-out digi-style picture sleeve with liner notes by Mat Smith and interviews with Wayne Hussey, Joe Musker and Franceso Mellina. Factory sealed. Recommended)

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Release Date 21st Jul 2023
Release Year 2023 - 2 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format 3-CD album set (Triple CD)
Record Label Cherry Red
Complete Stock List Go to Dead Or Alive
Product Catalogue No CDRED879
Music Genre POP, 80's Pop, 90's Pop, Dance
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
 
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• 3CD SET EXPLORING THE EARLY YEARS OF LEGENDARY PETE BURNS FRONTED DEAD OR ALIVE.

• FEATURING EARLY SINGLES, PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED DEMOS, PEEL SESSIONS AND LIVE RECORDINGS. WITH 16 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS!

• SLEEVENOTE ESSAY INCLUDES CONTRIBUTIONS FROM BAND MEMBERS WAYNE HUSSEY AND JOE MUSKER, AND MANAGER FRANCESCO MELLINA.

• A LONG OVERDUE SHOWCASE FOR THE FORMATIVE YEARS OF ONE OF THE POST-PUNK AND 80S POP SCENE’S MOST MEMORABLE FIGURES.

• OUT, PROUD, AND VERY, VERY LOUD!

Having been ‘discovered’ working in Liverpool’s Probe Records during the punk rock explosion, Pete Burns found himself fronting his own band, Nightmares In Wax who mutated into the more familiar Dead Or Alive, eventually bringing Pete into the UK pop mainstream, and a star was born.

Bringing together early singles by both Nightmares In Wax and Dead Or Alive, Peel sessions and previously unheard demos and live recordings, ‘Let Them Drag My Soul Away’ shines a light on the pre-fame Burns and a revolving cast of bandmates and collaborators, many of whom were mainstays of both the Liverpool and broader British post-punk scene.

From the disco punk funk of ‘Black Leather’ through proto-Gothic singles ‘It’s Been Hours Now’ and ‘The Stranger’, and into early versions of hi-NRG tracks which would eventually find their way onto the band’s debut album, this is both an invigorating exploration of an emerging talent and a valuable time capsule of an important figure in both the 80s pop and gay club scenes. While so many pop stars hid their homosexuality for the sake of record sales and middle America, Burns stuck up two fingers and sang loudly about both his own inner world and his desire for large, leather clad boys!

Featuring sleeve notes by Electronic Sound magazine’s Mat Smith (with new interview contributions from Wayne Hussey, Joe Musker and Francesco Mellina), and a plethora of previously unheard recordings, this is a must for fans of Pete Burns, post-punk and pop enthusiasts and those with an interest in British pop culture in the aftermath of punk’s liberation.

DISC ONE

THE SINGLES
Nightmares In Wax
1 Black Leather
2 Girl Song
3 Shangri-La
4 Girl Song (1985 Mix)
5 Shangri-La (1985 Mix)

Dead Or Alive
6 I’m Falling
7 Flowers
8 Number Eleven
9 Namegame (Live version)
10 It’s Been Hours Now
11 Whirlpool
12 Nowhere To Nowhere
13 It’s Been Hours Now 2
14 The Stranger
15 Some Of That

DISC TWO

THE DEMOS
Nightmares In Wax
1 Black Leather (4-Track Demo)*
2 Girl Song (4-Track Demo)*
3 I’ll Turn Away (4-Track Demo)*
4 Shangri-La (4-Track Demo)*

Dead Or Alive
5 Selfish Side (Demo)*
6 Far Too Hard (Demo 2nd Mix)*
7 Misty Circles (Demo)*
8 What I Want (Demo)*
9 Give It To Me (Demo)*
10 Selfish Side (Alternate Early Mix) *
11 Untitled Instrumental #1*
12 Untitled Instrumental #2*
13 Untitled Instrumental #3*
(*previously unreleased)

DISC THREE

THE PEEL SESSIONS & LIVE RECORDINGS
1 Nowhere To Nowhere (Peel Session)
2 Running Wild (Peel Session)
3 Number Eleven (Peel Session)
4 Flowers (Peel Session)
5 Number Twelve (Peel Session)
6 The Stranger (Peel Session)
7 Misty Circles (Peel Session)
8 Misty Circles Pt 2 (Peel Session)
9 Gilded Splinters (Live In Manchester)*
10 Don’t Tell Me (Live In Manchester)*
11 Flowers (TV Version)*
(*previously unreleased)


TRIPLE CD  
Recording Artist Dead Or Alive
Product Title Let Them Drag My Soul Away - Singles, Demos, Sessions & Live 1979-1982 - Sealed
Product Information Dead Or Alive Let Them Drag My Soul Away - Singles, Demos, Sessions & Live 1979-1982 - Sealed UK 3-CD album set (Triple CD).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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Artists Related To Dope, Gemini Five, International Chrysis, Lana Pellay, Massive Ego, Nightmares In Wax, Pete Burns, Queer, Roger Lee, The Mad Lads (90s)
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