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Drastic Plastic would be the final Be Bop Deluxe album and was recorded in the summer of 1978 in the South of France at The Villa Saint Georges, Juan-les-Pins, utilising the Rolling Stones mobile studio, with final sessions taking place at The Manor Studio and Abbey Road Studios. The record saw Bill Nelson (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Charles Tumahai(bass, vocals), Andy Clark (keyboards) and Simon Fox (drums) venture into new musical styles, with the album being ground-breaking in its move to more “art rock” and “new wave” influences. In many ways it can be seen as the signpost to where Bill Nelson would head with his Red Noise project with a desire to continue to progress as an artist by pushing musical boundaries.
Co-produced by Bill Nelson and John Leckie, Drastic Plastic was another hit album in both the UK and the USA and featured such classic material as Electrical Language, Panic in the World, New Mysteries, Islands of the Dead and Surreal Estate. The recording sessions produced many more tracks which would appear as singles (such as Japan) and others that were originally planned for release as an EP set (Autosexual, Lovers are Mortal, Speed of the Wind, Quest for the Harvest of the Stars, Face in the Rain), all of which eventually appeared on the retrospective compilation The Best of and the Rest Of… later in 1978.
6CD - This expanded deluxe reissue has been newly re-mastered from the original master tapes and features an additional 88 tracks, (43 of which are previously unreleased), drawn from stunning new 5.1 surround sound and stereo mixes from the original multi-track tapes by award winning engineer Stephen W. Tayler, previously unreleased out-takes from the album sessions, a BBC Radio John Peel Show session from January 1978, along with a CD of Bill Nelson’s previously unreleased demos for the album, A Feeling of Playing.
Also included is an additional DVD featuring Be Bop Deluxe in the South of France, (a collection of Bill Nelson’s 8mm home movies shot whilst recording Drastic Plastic) and the band’s Sight and Sound In Concert performance for BBC TV from 1978.
Title: Drastic Plastic
Format: CD/DVD
Release Date: 26 Feb 2021
Artist: Be Bop Deluxe
Sku: 2617005
Catalogue No: PECLEC62745
Category: Rock
DISC 1
01. ELECTRICAL LANGUAGE
02. NEW PRECISION
03. NEW MYSTERIES
04. SURREAL ESTATE
05. LOVE IN FLAMES
06. PANIC IN THE WORLD
07. DANGEROUS STRANGER
08. SUPERENIGMATIX (LETHAL APPLIANCES FOR THE HOME WITH EVERYTHING)
09. VISIONS OF ENDLESS HOPES
10. POSSESSION
11. ISLANDS OF THE DEAD
12. TRACKS
13. JAPAN
14. FUTURIST MANIFESTO
15. PANIC IN THE WORLD (SINGLE EDIT)
16. BLUE AS A JEWEL
17. ELECTRICAL LANGUAGE (SINGLE VERSION)
18. LOVE IN FLAMES (SINGLE VERSION)
19. FACE IN THE RAIN (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD)
20. ISLANDS OF THE DEAD (TAKE FOUR) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
21. THE SAXOPHONIST (JUAN LES PINS VERSION) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
DISC 2
01. AUTOSEXUAL
02. LOVERS ARE MORTAL
03. BLIMPS
04. SPEED OF THE WIND
05. QUEST OF HARVEST FOR THE STARS
06. NEW PRECISION (BBC IN CONCERT 1978)
07. SUPERENIGMATIX (BBC IN CONCERT 1978)
08. POSSESSION (BBC IN CONCERT 1978)
09. DANGEROUS STRANGER (BBC IN CONCERT 1978)
10. ISLANDS OF THE DEAD (BBC IN CONCERT 1978)
11. PANIC IN THE WORLD (BBC IN CONCERT 1978)
12. LOVERS ARE MORTAL (BBC IN CONCERT 1978)
13. LOVE IN FLAMES (BBC IN CONCERT 1978)
14. BLAZING APOSTLES (BBC IN CONCERT 1978)
15. SUPERENIGMATIX (JOHN PEEL SESSION 1978)
16. POSSESSION (JOHN PEEL SESSION 1978)
17. PANIC IN THE WORLD (JOHN PEEL SESSION 1978)
18. LOVE IN FLAMES (JOHN PEEL SESSION 1978)
DISC 3
01. ELECTRICAL LANGUAGE (NEW STEREO MIX)
02. NEW PRECISION (NEW STEREO MIX)
03. NEW MYSTERIES (NEW STEREO MIX)
04. SURREAL ESTATE (NEW STEREO MIX)
05. LOVE IN FLAMES (NEW STEREO MIX)
06. PANIC IN THE WORLD (NEW STEREO MIX)
07. DANGEROUS STRANGER (NEW STEREO MIX)
08. SUPERENIGMATIX (LETHAL APPLIANCES FOR THE HOME WITH EVERYTHING) (NEW STEREO MIX)
09. VISIONS OF ENDLESS HOPES (NEW STEREO MIX)
10. POSSESSION (NEW STEREO MIX)
11. ISLANDS OF THE DEAD (NEW STEREO MIX)
12. JAPAN (NEW STEREO MIX)
13. FUTURIST MANIFESTO (NEW STEREO MIX)
14. BLUE AS A JEWEL (NEW STEREO MIX)
15. AUTOSEXUAL (NEW STEREO MIX)
16. FACE IN THE RAIN (NEW STEREO MIX)
17. LOVERS ARE MORTAL (NEW STEREO MIX)
18. SPEED OF THE WIND (NEW STEREO MIX)
19. QUEST FOR THE HARVEST OF THE STARS (NEW STEREO MIX)
DISC 4
01. SPEED OF THE WIND (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)
02. SURREAL ESTATE (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)(PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED)
03. THE SAXOPHONIST (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)
04. ELECTRICAL LANGUAGE (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)(PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD)
05. VISIONS OF ENDLESS HOPES (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)
06. POSSESSION (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)(PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD)
07. ISLANDS OF THE DEAD (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)(PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD)
08. NEW MYSTERIES (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)(PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD)
09. JAPAN (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977) (PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD)
10. DANGEROUS STRANGER (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)(PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD)
11. BLUE AS A JEWEL (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)
12. AUTOSEXUAL (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)(PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD)
13. QUEST FOR THE HARVEST OF THE STARS (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)(PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD)
14. NEW PRECISION (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)(PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD)
15. LOVE IN FLAMES (BILL NELSON DEMO 1977)(PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED ON CD)
DISC 5
DVD
01. ELECTRICAL LANGUAGE
02. NEW PRECISION
03. NEW MYSTERIES
04. SURREAL ESTATE
05. LOVE IN FLAMES
06. PANIC IN THE WORLD
07. DANGEROUS STRANGER
08. SUPERENIGMATIX (LETHAL APPLIANCES FOR THE HOME WITH EVERYTHING)
09. VISIONS OF ENDLESS HOPES
10. POSSESSION
11. ISLANDS OF THE DEAD
12. JAPAN
13. FUTURIST MANIFESTO
14. BLUE AS A JEWEL
15. AUTOSEXUAL
16. FACE IN THE RAIN
17. LOVERS ARE MORTAL
18. SPEED OF THE WIND
19. QUEST FOR THE HARVEST OF THE STARS
DISC 6
01. BE BOP DELUXE IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE
02. BILL NELSON'S HOME MOVIES FILMED WHILST RECORDING“DRASTIC PLASTIC”
03. NEW PRECISION (BBC TV SIGHT & SOUND IN CONCERT)
04. SUPERENIGMATIX (BBC TV SIGHT & SOUND IN CONCERT)
05. POSSESSION (BBC TV SIGHT & SOUND IN CONCERT)
06. DANGEROUS STRANGER (BBC TV SIGHT & SOUND IN CONCERT)
07. ISLANDS OF THE DEAD (BBC TV SIGHT & SOUND IN CONCERT)
08. LOVERS ARE MORTAL (BBC TV SIGHT & SOUND IN CONCERT)
09. PANIC IN THE WORLD (BBC TV SIGHT & SOUND IN CONCERT)
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