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street fighting years: picture cd (label)

tracks
1. Street Fighting Years(6:26)
2. Soul Crying Out(6:07)
3. Wall Of Love(5:20)
4. This Is Your Land(6:22)
5. Take A Step Back(4:23)
6. Kick It In(6:11)
7. Let It All Come Down(4:56)
8. Mandela Day(5:45)
9. Belfast Child(6:42)
10. Biko(7:34)
11. When Spirits Rise(2:01)


catalogue
Virgin PMIND 1
MINDSCD-1 1 1



format
CD with picture label in jewelcase with eight page booklet.


release date
December 1990


credits
produced by stephen lipson & trevor horn

charles burchill: acoustic & electric guitars
michael macNeil: piano, accordian & electronic keyboards
jim kerr: vocals
mel gaynor: drums
manu katche: drums
john giblin & stephen lipson: bass guitars
lisa germano: violin

special thanks to:
stewart copeland - "the rhythmatist"
lou reed for cameo vocal on this is your land (courtesy of sire/wea records)

additional musicians:
sidney thiam, abdul m'boup & leroy williams: percussion
william lithgow & sheena mckenzie: cellos
maureen kerr: pennywhistle & bodhran
roger sharp: bagpipes
john altman: orchestral arrangements
lorna bannon: backing vocals

managed by bruce findlay, robert white, jimmy devlin and sandra dods at "schoolhouse management", 63 frederick street, edinburgh

technical master: dougie cowan
engineers: heff moraes, robin hancock
assistant engineers: danton supple, martin plant
mastered by bob ludwig, masterdisk
all digitally recorded and mixed analogue - i.e. "dad"
nourishment: ying ho au yeung
logistics: paul kerr
co-ordination: jane ventom
talk and encouragement: willie richardson, simon draper, jon webster, steve ralbovsky & gil friesen, steve lewis, gary wathen and all our many friends at virgin and a&m records (america).

street fighting years song written in memory of victor jara.

made in scotland march '88 - march '89
studio drums provided by tama
photography by guido harari & nasa/science photo library
source of graphic: "the beauty of fractals" by peitgen richter design by assorted images

out there in the darkness, our there in the night, out there in the starlight,
one soul burns brighter than a thousand suns


additional information
This release suddenly appeared in the shops without any fanfare in the weeks before Christmas. The jewel cases were adorned with a small red sticker which stated "Special Picture Disc CD" because, other than the new catalogue number, there was no way of telling it was different from the standard CD copies of the album. Some shops also put the jewelcases in the racks with the booklet removed which showed off the picture CD.

The picture CD itself was extremely poor. It looked like one of the printing runs had failed - so an overhead view of arable fields, and a view of a desert region, were joined by unfinished blocks of solid white and blue. The jagged low-resolution outlines of regions picked out in solid black didn't help either.

My theory is that the printing process was botched but rather than bin the entire run, Virgin decided to sell it anyway.








street fighting years: reissue cd (label)

tracks
1. Street Fighting Years(6:26)
2. Soul Crying Out(6:07)
3. Wall Of Love(5:20)
4. This Is Your Land(6:22)
5. Take A Step Back(4:23)
6. Kick It In(6:11)
7. Let It All Come Down(4:56)
8. Mandela Day(5:45)
9. Belfast Child(6:42)
10. Biko(7:34)
11. When Spirits Rise(2:01)


catalogue
Virgin 07777 864432 3 MINDSCD 1
EMI 786443 CDM01



format
CD with black typed label in jewelcase with eight page booklet.


release date
July 1997


credits
produced by stephen lipson & trevor horn

charles burchill: acoustic & electric guitars
michael macNeil: piano, accordian & electronic keyboards
jim kerr: vocals
mel gaynor: drums
manu katche: drums
john giblin & stephen lipson: bass guitars
lisa germano: violin

special thanks to:
stewart copeland - "the rhythmatist"
lou reed for cameo vocal on this is your land (courtesy of sire/wea records)

additional musicians:
sidney thiam, abdul m'boup & leroy williams: percussion
william lithgow & sheena mckenzie: cellos
maureen kerr: pennywhistle & bodhran
roger sharp: bagpipes
john altman: orchestral arrangements
lorna bannon: backing vocals

managed by bruce findlay, robert white, jimmy devlin and sandra dods at "schoolhouse management", 63 frederick street, edinburgh

technical master: dougie cowan
engineers: heff moraes, robin hancock
assistant engineers: danton supple, martin plant
mastered by bob ludwig, masterdisk
all digitally recorded and mixed analogue - i.e. "dad"
nourishment: ying ho au yeung
logistics: paul kerr
co-ordination: jane ventom
talk and encouragement: willie richardson, simon draper, jon webster, steve ralbovsky & gil friesen, steve lewis, gary wathen and all our many friends at virgin and a&m records (america).

street fighting years song written in memory of victor jara.

made in scotland march '88 - march '89
studio drums provided by tama
photography by guido harari & nasa/science photo library
source of graphic: "the beauty of fractals" by peitgen richter design by assorted images

out there in the darkness, our there in the night, out there in the starlight,
one soul burns brighter than a thousand suns


additional information
This reissue CD was intended as a European-wide release and replaced the UK (MINDSCD1), French (PM 570) and German (259 795) issues. The artwork retained the UK catalogue numbers.

Only the back of the sleeve, CD label itself and the new bar-code on the back cover had the new catalogue number (07777 864432 3).