NOW Yearbook 1990 (4CD)

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NOW Music is proud to present the next instalment in our ongoing Yearbook series and the second to celebrate the 90s,NOW Yearbook 1990; 79 tracks from a fantastic year in Pop!

Kicking us off with the rewind back to 1990 are iconic legends George Michael with Praying For Time, and Elton John with his #1 single Sacrifice, followed by Roxettes It Must Have Been Love from the soundtrack to Pretty Woman. Disc One includes #1s from New Order, New Kids On The Block, Steve Miller Band, and The Beautiful South, as well as Pop smashes from The KLF, The B-52s, Kylie Minogue, Whitney Houston Kim Appleby, and concluding with the theme from Twin Peaks, Julee Cruises Falling, Chris Isaak with Wicked Game and Pet Shop Boys defining Being Boring.

Dance floor-fillers kick off Disc 2 from Deee-Lite with Groove Is In The Heart, #1s from SNAP!, and from Adamski & Seal plus club classics from Bass-O-Matic and Adventures Of Stevie V with Dirty Cash (Money Talks), plus the unexpected collaboration between DNA & Suzanne Vega. British R&B legends Innocence and Soul II Soul appear ahead of a run of Indie-Alt legends including Happy Mondays, The Stone Roses, The Charlatans, Primal Scream and The Cure before finishing on Candy Flips cover of Strawberry Fields Forever, and All Together Now from The Farm.

Disc 3 opens with the still-breathtaking interpretation of Princes Nothing Compares 2 U from Sinad O’Connor. Up next are film related hits; Maria McKees Show Me Heaven, from the Days Of Thunder soundtrack, and the Young Guns II track Blaze Of Glory from Jon Bon Jovi. Faith No More had their UK Top 40 Chart debut with Epic, and the Grammy Award-winning US #1 for Alannah Myles Black Velvet appears, alongside huge US artists Cher, Heart, and 1990s biggest US hit from Wilson Phillips and theres still room for Pop-Reggae from UB40 and Maxi Priest, and the huge Rap debut from M.C. Hammer and a further two #1 singles both debuts – from Partners In Kryme with Turtle Power and Vanilla Ice with Ice Ice Baby.

The tenth consecutive Top 10 hit for Pet Shop Boys So Hard opens the final disc, followed by the superb cover of the Disco classic You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) from Jimmy Somerville, before a second appearance from Kylie Minogue with her Disco anthem Step Back In Time and one of Stock, Aitken & Watermans greatest dancefloor tracks Happenin All Over Again from Lonnie Gordon. Pop/Dance gold from 49ers, Blue Pearl, and Bananarama lead into timeless Pure-Pop from Dusty Springfield, Halo James, Jason Donovan, Adam Ant, and another track from the Pretty Woman soundtrack this time from Go West before the collection winds down with two classic covers from Deacon Blue and a-ha, closing with two 60s hits that became hits once again, Bobby Vintons Blue Velvet following its use in film, and tv commercials, and The Righteous Brothers with their rendition of Unchained Melody featured in 1990s biggest film Ghost which helped catapult the song to #1, 25 years since its initial release, when it reached #14.

NOW Yearbook 1990 A celebration of the diversity and creativity during a stellar year in Pop.