Teenbeat: January 2025 round up

 Well it is Internet Free Saturday.

A mess up being polite by the people responsible means we have no internet or much else today so today we are going to look a couple of things one being Now Yearbook, who having given us the main 1977 volume which we brought the three Lp version last year have released the Extra on three cds.

An annoyance with the otherwise excellent series is we don’t get at the time vinyl editions of the Extras, just as with the 1980-84 portion two boxes of one set of extras that are close but not identical to the corresponding cd issues.

The cd features some sixty-two songs taking in Queen’s Good Old-fashioned Lover Boy from the Queen EP, the last Rubettes single to trouble the charts Baby I Know and it’s era mates the Bay City Rollers with It’s A Game with a good helping of the New wave from the Stranglers, Jam and Boomtown Rats plus Disco from Shalamar, Diana Ross, Tavares and many of the supremely talent Philadelphia International acts like Billy Paul.

Pop was well served by The Brotherhood of Man, classic rock as we call it today by Thin Lizzy and Status Quo and an ever present Donna Summer.

I do hope much of this makes its way lp in due course.

The other thing has been rediscovering my Mariah Carey albums mainly from the 90’s which I’d bought on compact disc and minidisc and original dvd of Glitter, the much maligned film based on the story of a young female singer that caused issues for her and put something of a cloud over her then unassailable career.