- Artist:
- Simple Minds
Sparkle In The Rain (40th Anniversary): 4CD Box Set
Release date: 22 November, 2024
Long regarded as one of the jewels in the band’s catalogue, 1983’s ‘Sparkle in The Rain’ kicked off a run of three consecutive Number 1 albums in the UK for Simple Minds and delivered the classic hit singles ‘Waterfront’, ‘Up on The Catwalk’ and ‘Speed Your Love to Me’.
This 4-CD Box Set version comprises a host of bonus material including; B-sides and extended mixes; BBC sessions; a previously unreleased Glasgow Barrowlands concert; a booklet containing sleeve notes and interviews plus track-by-track annotation. It was extensively re-mastered originally in 2014 at Abbey Studios, London.
Track List
CD1: Sparkle in The Rain
- Up On the Catwalk
- Book Of Brilliant Things
- Speed Your Love to Me
- Waterfront
- East At Easter
- Street Hassle
- White Hot Day
- "C" Moon Cry Like a Baby
- The Kick Inside of Me
- Shake Off the Ghosts
CD2: B Sides & Rarities
- Waterfront - Edit
- Hunter And the Hunted - Live B-Side
- Waterfront - Remix (Extended)
- Speed Your Love to Me - Edit
- Bass Line - B-Side
- Speed Your Love to Me - Extended
- Up On the Catwalk - Edit
- A Brass Band in Africa - B-Side
- Up On the Catwalk - Extended
- A Brass Band in Africa Chimes - B-Side
- Waterfront - Single Version
CD3: LIVE-Barrowlands Glasgow 1984
- Shake Off the Ghosts [Intro]
- Waterfront
- Up On the Catwalk
- The Book of Brilliant Things
- Glittering Prize
- The American
- King Is White And, In the Crowd,
- Speed Your Love to Me
- Someone Somewhere in Summertime
CD4: LIVE-Barrowlands Glasgow 1984
- Promised You a Miracle
- Big Sleep
- New Gold Dream [81,82,83,84]
- Love Song
- Radio One Session 11/09/1983
- Waterfront
- Kick Inside
- New Gold Dream
- Formats:
- CD Box Set
- Label:
- UMR / Virgin