A Video Selection was also released featuring selected tracks from the main album release, and one which didn't appear on any NOW album. The first of a mini dance sequence gets underway with the Gap Band’s funky Big Fun and yet another quality single from Five Star – the edgy Stay Out Of My Life. The filling in this hair metal sandwich is Land Of Confusion; possibly the weakest of the five singles pulled from Invisible Touch. The selection is very ‘1987’ and it includes some brilliant pop songs like Simply Red‘s ‘The Right Thing’, Curiosity Killed The Cat‘s ‘Down to Earth’, Erasure‘s ‘Sometimes’, Robbie Nevil‘s ‘C’est La Vie’, Mental As Anything‘s ‘Live It Up’, The Blow Monkeys‘ ‘It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way’, a-ha‘s ‘Manhattan Skyline’, the Pretenders‘ ‘Hymn to Her’ and Berlin‘s ‘Take My Breath Away’, to name but a few.

I do wonder whether the other A-ha and Simply Red tracks that turned up on Hits compilations would have found their way onto Now albums instead had there not been a Hits Album out at the time for them to be included on. No direct Hits competition meant that the labels behind A-ha (Warners) and Simply Red (WEA) – both part of same group – were happy to licence them out and make some money. Read more about the condition New: An item that is still in its original shrink wrap from the manufacturer and the original manufacturer’s seal (if applicable) has not been removed.The "Murder Remix" featuring Ja Rule is the version of the song released as a single (and subsequently reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100) in the US.

In a lazy burst of lift and shift the opening 1-2-3 blast of side 3 is teleported to CD songs 12 to 14. The album version of " Turn Off the Light" by Nelly Furtado is included over the popular remix featuring Ms. I’m not a huge Five Star fan, and I find this one pretty dull, though some of the instrumental hooks are quite interesting. Like the previous volume, it was given a single CD release which featured a selection of tracks available on the full vinyl/cassette release. Then there’s the Nick Kamen track that nobody remembers – the Four Tops cover – before A-ha’s epic Manhattan Skyline.

However this method contains some madness as three of the seven number ones are not on board [Caravan Of Love, Jack Your Body and The Final Countdown]. Solo Freddie can be divided into good [Love Kills, Barcelona], mediocre [Living On My Own] and tosh [The Great Pretender]. I should, however, point out that as a professional editor, I absolutely hate that misspelling of ‘my’ in the title.