The Collection

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Album Info

Release Date: 2008-03-14

Labels: Sony BMG Music Entertainment, MCI

Outer cardboard slipcase
3 standard jewel cases with 4-page inserts
Inserts: artwork, track details, release credits

Versions are original album versions, except:
1-3 Rivers Of Babylon 4:19 – original 7" version
1-6 Rasputin* 4:43 –, original 7" version
1-7 Ribbons Of Blue 4:03 – non-album track, overdubbed full length version, first released on More Gold - 20 Super Hits Vol. II [incorrectly marked 'previously unreleased on CD']
1-10 Bahama Mama* 3:36 – original 7" version
1-11 New York City 3:43 – non-album track, B-side of "Sunny" single
2-1 Daddy Cool (Anniversary Recording '86)* 5:17 – 7" version of the 1986 non-album remix
2-2 Children Of Paradise 5:19 – non-album track, original 12" version
2-3 Malaika* 5:01 – original 7" version
2-4 Boonoonoonoos* 6:26 – previously unreleased edit of the album medley "Boonoonoonoos / That's Boonoonoonoos/Train To Skaville / I Shall Sing
2-5 Going Back West 5:03 – non-album track, original 12" version
2-7 Gadda-Da-Vida 5:05 – non-album track, original Japan 7" A-side version
2-8 Consuela Biaz* 5:19 – original full length version, released on France 12" and Hungary 7" of "Malaika"
2-9 Bang Bang Lulu* 3:59 – original 12" version
2-10 Living Like A Moviestar 3:03 – first CD release with complete intro (snippet missing from intro on all previous releases)
2-12 Dreadlock Holiday 4:17 – remix released in 1987, after the group was officially disbanded, under the moniker 'Top Deck', see Dreadlock Holiday (Rap-Sody). Top Deck is uncredited on this release.
2-13 Somewhere In The World 5:07 – original 12" version
2-14 The Carnival Is Over (Goodbye True Lover) 4:53 – non-album track, original 12" version
3-1 to 3-8 – original 12" versions
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*Version previously unreleased on CD: 1-6, 1-10, 2-1 to 2-4, 2-8, 2-9, 2-13, 3-1 to 3-8.

Thanks to Frank Eberlein for being there with your extraordinary archive know-how - and thanks to Didi Zill and Mario Hallhuber for the outstanding shots of THE four.

1-1, 1-6 to 1-12, 2-1 to 2-4, 2-6, 2-8 to 2-11, 2-13, 3-4, 3-7: FAR M.V.
1-2: Connelly Music
1-3: Blue Mountain Music Ltd./FAR M.V.
1-4: FAR M.V./EMI
1-5: Neue Welt Musikverlag
1-13: Sugar Music
1-14: Bob Marley Music Ltd.
2-5: Melodie der Welt J. Michel KG Musikverlag
2-7: Capriccio
2-12: FD&H GmbH
2-14: Chappell/FAR M.V.
3-1: Orchestralmusic Edizioni SRL/Ed. Renata
3-2: FAR M.V./Autobahn M.V.
3-3: Strum/Telstar Music
3-5: Kraut Musik
3-6: Grandi Firme Della Canzone SRL
3-8: Jobete/Black Bull/FD&H GmbH

[3-3 writers are incorrecty listed as 'Massara/Conz/Strum' - Strum is a publisher].

1-2: ℗ 1976 (1-2, 1-11, 1-13, 1-14), ℗ 1977 (1-1, 1-5, 1-8), ℗ 1978 (1-3, 1-6, 1-12), ℗ 1979 (1-4, 1-7, 1-9, 1-10, 3-2), ℗ 1980 (2-2, 2-7, 3-3 to 3-5), ℗ 1981 (2-3, 2-4, 2-8, 2-11), ℗ 1982 (2-5, 2-14), ℗ 1984 (2-6, 2-10, 2-13, 3-1, 3-6), ℗ 1985 (3-7, 3-8), ℗ 1986 (2-1, 2-9), ℗ 1987 (2-12) BMG Berlin Musik GmbH/MCI.

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Distributed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Made in the EU

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