RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2018

• DELUXE FOUR DISC LIMITED EDITION BOXED SET OF THE CLASSIC 1976 ALBUM BY BE BOP DELUXE, REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES

• FEATURING AN ADDITIONAL 39 BONUS TRACKS DRAWN FROM NEW 5.1 SURROUND SOUND AND STEREO MIXES FROM THE ORIGINAL MULTI-TRACK MASTER TAPES, BBC RADIO SESSIONS FROM 1976, PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED OUT-TAKES FROM THE ALBUM SESSIONS, ALONG WITH A PREVIOUSLY RELEASED UNISSUED 1976 HARVEST RECORDS PROMO VIDEO OF ‘SHIPS IN THE NIGHT’ AND A BBC TV OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST APPEARANCE FROM FEBRUARY 1976

• INCLUDES A LAVISHLY ILLUSTRATED 68 PAGE BOOK WITH MANY PREVIOUSLY UNSEEN PHOTOGRAPHS AND NEW ESSAY BY BILL NELSON. ALSO INCLUDES A FACSIMILE OF THE 1976 SUNBURST FINISH TOUR PROGRAMME, POSTCARDS AND A REPLICA POSTER

Recorded in the Autumn of 1975 at Abbey Road studios (with some sessions also taking place at AIR studios in London), ‘Sunburst Finish’ was the third album by Be Bop Deluxe and the first to feature the line-up of Bill Nelson (vocals, guitars, keyboards), Charlie Tumahai (bass, vocals), Andy Clark (keyboards) and Simon Fox (drums).

It was also the first Be-Bop album to be co- produced by Nelson and John Leckie. An album of immense musical inventiveness and creativity, ‘Sunburst Finish’ was one of the finest albums of its era, a perfect cohesion of ten classic songs written by Nelson (featuring his highly imaginative guitar playing) and a stylised and striking artwork package. Including such classic tracks as ‘Heavenly Homes’, ‘Crying To The Sky’, ‘Sleep That Burns’, ‘Life In The Air Age’, ‘Crystal Gazing’ and ‘Blazing Apostles’, the album also spawned the hit single ‘Ships In The Night’ and launched Be-Bop Deluxe as one of the major breakthrough acts of 1976.

This expanded re-issue has been newly remastered from the original master tapes and features an additional 39 bonus tracks drawn from a 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 In Concert performance from January 1976, a rare John Peel session from February 1976 (unavailable on CD for over 20 years), along with an unissued and previously unreleased 1976 Harvest Records promotional video for ‘Ships In The Night’ and a session for BBC TV’s Old Grey Whistle Test show from January 1976.