Dead Or Alive has sold more than 30 million albums and 25 million singles worldwide and gave Stock, Aitken & Waterman their first #1 single in 1985. Their first three self-penned albums, all reached the UK Top 30, with Youthquake reaching the Top 10 in 1985.

Respected US magazine Billboard, ranked them in their all-time Top 100 most successful ‘dance artists’ chart.

2025 marks Youthquake’s 40th Anniversary. It reached #9 in the UK Album Chart and spent a quarter of a year on it. Combined, the four singles spent 59 weeks on the UK Singles Chart.

Featuring four UK Top 30 hits, Youthquake features the singles ‘In Too Deep’, ‘Lover Come Back To Me’, ‘My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me To The Doctor)’ and the Band’s #1 hit ‘You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)’. It took 17 weeks to hit the top spot, which meant that it was more than a flash in the pan single. It is a multi-million physical and download seller, with streaming figures in excess of Half-A-Billion!

Packaged in a 7” Deluxe Double-Gatefold Wallet with O-Ring, this 41-track, 4CD edition captures the band in the studio, as well as in a live setting that can be ordered now!

CD1 contains the original album, whilst CD2 is dedicated to ‘You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)’ with a variety of mixes and alternate versions.

CD3 features a selection of 7” and 12” versions, remixes and instrumental versions and CD4 contains the ‘Youthquake Live Tour’, recorded at The Hammersmith Odeon in July 1985.

Although Pete Burns and Steve Coy are no longer with us, they along with Mike Percy and Tim Lever created and delivered some of the most memorable moments in popular music during the mid-1980s, which have truly stood the test of time.

Tracklisting

CD1

1. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
2. I Wanna Be A Toy
3. D.J. Hit That Button
4. In Too Deep
5. Big Daddy Of The Rhythm
6. Cake And Eat It
7. Lover Come Back To Me
8. My Heart Goes Bang
9. It's Been A Long Time
   
   

CD2

1. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) [Big Ben Mix]
2. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) [Performance Mix]
3. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) [Buzzing Bees Mix]
4. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) [Murder Mix]
5. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) 2003 [Metro 7" Edit]
6. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) 2003 [Alternative Metro 7" Edit]
7. You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) 2003 [Metro 12" Extended Mix]
   
   

CD3

1. Lover Come Back To Me [7" Bonus Mix]
2. In Too Deep ['Off Yer Mong' Mix]
3. My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me To The Doctor) [7” Version]
4. Lover Come Back To Me [Extended Remix]
5. In Too Deep [7" Version]
6. My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me To The Doctor) [American 'WIPE-OUT' Mix]
7. Lover Come Back To Me [Extended Version]
8. My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me To The Doctor) [Extended Version]
9. In Too Deep [Instrumental]
10. Lover Come Back To Me [Instrumental]
11. My Heart Goes Bang (Get Me To The Doctor) [Instrumental Version]
    
    

CD4

1. Cake And Eat It [Live]
2. My Heart Goes Bang [Live]
3. In Too Deep [Live]
4. Big Daddy Of The Rhythm [Live]
5. Far Too Hard [Live]
6. Misty Circles [Live]
7. It's Been A Long Time [Live]
8. Lover Come Back To Me [Live]
9. DJ Hit That Button [Live]
10. What I Want [Live]
11. You Spin Me Round.... [Live]
12. In Too Deep [Encore] [Live]
13. My Heart Goes Bang [Encore] [Live]
14. You Spin Me Round.... [Encore] [Live]

With her Tension Tour kicking off in Perth, Australia this weekend, Kylie Minogue joins forces with Brazilian producer Alok on dance drop "Last Night I Dreamt I Fell In Love". "Just in time for Valentine's Day" the pair said as they announced the track on social media. "We're so ready for everyone to hear this!".

Beloved British trio Saint Etienne are set to release their twelfth studio album, “The Night”, on December 13th, 2024, through Heavenly Recordings. A follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2021 album, “I’ve Been Trying To Tell You”, “The Night” delivers an ambient escape from the chaos of daily life, capturing the essence of the after-hours. The album takes listeners through layered tranquility, offering calm to restless minds and a gentle respite from modern life's relentless pace.

“The Night” album continues Saint Etienne's tradition of immersive storytelling through sound. Listen to the focus track, “Half Light”, available on streaming platforms and YouTube, as an early glimpse into the album’s sound.

Produced by Saint Etienne in collaboration with composer and producer Augustin Bousfield, “The Night” was recorded across two locations in Saltaire and Hove, from January to August 2024.

Pete Wiggs says: “It was great to all be in the same studio together again up at Gus’s in Bradford, we realised that it had been several years since we’d actually done that, sprawling out on the carpet, mugs of coffee in hand, sheets of lyrics and half ideas for titles lying around us. We wanted to continue the mellow and spacey mood of the last album, perhaps even double down on it, but it’s a very different album, not based on samples; Songs, moods and spoken pieces drift in and out whilst rain pours down outside. It’s the kind of record I like to listen to in the dark or with my eyes closed. Half Light is about the edge of night, the last rays of the sun flickering through the branches of trees, communing with nature and seeing things that might not be there.”

Sarah Cracknell says: “It was so good to be back in the studio together after recording the last album remotely. One of my favourite songs on the record is Preflyte, it made me cry when I sang it for the first time.”

Bob Stanley says: "We wanted The Night to be a calming album, warm and serene, but at the same time we wanted to create something gorgeous and dense. We were trying to find the state that's between being awake and asleep, that dream space, with half forgotten thoughts drifting in, bits of TV dialogue, place names, streets, or football grounds you've never even been to. You feel very receptive to sound and half-covered memories when you're in that state. Rain noise runs right through it. It was designed to gently wash away the stuff in your head that keeps you awake at 2am. I think The Night sounds really three-dimensional. A lot of that is down to Gus Bousfield who played the guitars and did a wonderful production job. Recording it in his studio, with so much light and space, has helped to shape it too. The three of us brought in our own songs, but lyrically we were all in tune with each other without having to swap notes first. You could think of it as one continuous, single track. It's definitely a headphone album."

The album’s sleeve notes are penned by award-winning author Benjamin Myers who says: “Saint Etienne take us gently by the hand, to sink deep down through the layers of the after-hours and pull tired minds back from the brink of despair. With The Night all anxieties abate, the wickedness of a quickening mind is slowed to a soft-focus smear, and everything takes on a lofty and agreeable appeal of utter tranquility. The Night belongs to a long tradition that begins in the pre-times with one man finding solace in the sound of the wind in the grass or water running over rock, then strolls on through centuries of softening sounds, passing through collage and the music of the new age. It takes in contemporary somnambulist masterpieces such as Virginia Astley’s From Gardens Where We Feel Secure, the KLF’s Chill Out and Talk Talk’s Spirit of Eden. Its architecture is ambient, its lighting low, its surfaces gleaming with infinite possibility. All nocturnal life is to be found here, but though in the basement of the night the dimensions are different. Words take on new meaning, shadows lean ever longer and a lone fox pauses beneath a solitary streetlight on a nameless street, something snatched and held between its beautiful, bladed teeth. Out here anything is possible. Hectic times breed hectic minds but here there is no such thing as a lonely hour, just the many laminated layers of The Night and all the soothing secrets that lie within. So easy does it. Slip on in. And breathe.”

Release date: December 13, 2024