Fade to Grey – The Singles Collection
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| Compilation album by Visage | ||||
| Released | November 1983 | |||
| Genre | Synthpop | |||
| Label | Polydor | |||
| Producer | Midge Ure, Visage | |||
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Fade to Grey – The Singles Collection is a 1983 compilation album by the British synthpop group Visage.
Released as a stop-gap between studio albums whilst the band was experiencing contractual difficulties, the compilation includes all of the Visage singles released up to that point (five of them UK Top 30 hits), as well as a couple of non-single tracks. The cassette version was released as a Special Dance Mix Cassette, featuring remixes of each of the album's tracks as well as a bonus track, "Der Amboss" (a German-language version of the song "The Anvil"). In British HMV stores, a limited number of copies of the album and cassette were issued with a free 7" vinyl picture disc of the "Pleasure Boys" single from 1982. The album reached #38 on the UK Albums Chart and was certified Gold, based on pre-release sales to shops.
The album was re-released a decade later as Fade to Grey – The Best of Visage with a similar cover and track listing but with the inclusion of two tracks not featured on the original release: "Love Glove" (Visage's penultimate single from 1984) and the Bassheads/Andy Stevenson remix of "Fade to Grey", which became a minor Top 40 hit again in 1993. The only single not included on this compilation was "Beat Boy", the band's final single from 1984.
Original 1983 release:
The following two tracks were included on the 1993 re-release:
Writing credits: Track 1 - B. Currie/M. Ure/C. Payne, Tracks 2,3,4 - S. Strange/M. Ure/B. Currie/J. McGeoch/R. Egan/D. Formula, Track 5 - S. Strange/M. Ure/B. Currie/J. McGeoch/R. Egan/D. Formula/B. Adamson, Track 6 - R. Evans, Tracks 7,8,10 - S. Strange/M. Ure/B. Currie/R. Egan/D. Formula, Track 9 - S. Strange/R. Egan/B. Currie/D. Formula/S. Barnacle, Track 11 - S. Strange/R. Egan/S. Barnacle
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