Following on from Belinda Carlisle’s worldwide ‘Decades’ tour, her first four solo albums are collected as part of a brand new reissue series.
Courtesy of the Edsel label, the first 4CD set contains The Go-Go’s star’s first four albums: ‘Belinda’ (1986), ‘Heaven On Earth’ (1987), ‘Runaway Horses’ (1989) and ‘Live Your Life Be Free’ (1991).
Between them, the albums feature 16 hits, including Heaven Is A Place On Earth, I Get Weak, Circle In the Sand, Leave A Light On, Summer Rain, (We Want) The Same Thing, and Live Your Life Be Free.
Alongside the music, the set includes a 36-page booklet with all the lyrics and credits, plus annotation and photos.
‘Decades Volume 1: The Studio Albums Part 1’ is out September 1 and available to pre-order now.
Tracklist: Decades Volume 1: The Studio Albums Part 1
BELINDA
1. Mad About You
2. I Need A Disguise
3. Since You’ve Gone
4. I Feel The Magic
5. I Never Wanted A Rich Man 6. Band Of Gold
7. Gotta Get To You
8. From The Heart
9. Shot In The Dark
10. Stuff And Nonsense
HEAVEN ON EARTH
1. Heaven Is A Place On Earth 2. Circle In The Sand
3. I Feel Free
4. Should I Let You In?
5. World Without You
6. I Get Weak
7. We Can Change
8. Fool For Love
9. Nobody Owns Me
10. Love Never Dies
RUNAWAY HORSES
1. Leave A Light On
2. Runaway Horses
3. Vision Of You
4. Summer Rain
5. La Luna
6. (We Want) The Same Thing 7. Deep Deep Ocean
8. Valentine
9. Whatever It Takes
10. Shades Of Michaelangelo
LIVE YOUR LIFE BE FREE
1. Live Your Life Be Free
2. Do You Feel Like I Feel?
3. Half The World
4. You Came Out Of Nowhere 5. You’re Nothing Without Me 6. I Plead Insanity
7. Emotional Highway
8. Little Black Book
9. Love Revolution
10. World Of Love
11. Loneliness Game
The music legend recently returned with ‘Kismet‘ – her five-track EP, written by Diane Warren, featuring the singles Big Big Love and If U Go and marking her first pop collection in over 25 years.
“Diane’s songwriting is both a joy and mystery to me,” says the Mad About You star. “She makes it look so easy, where I imagine it must be unbelievably hard, to do what she does so amazingly well over so many years and so many records.
“I can’t thank her enough for writing this music for me and I only hope everyone else loves it as much as I do.”
Belinda shared details of her latest project in an exclusive interview with RETROPOP’s January 2023 issue, revealing she’s also working on a brand new studio album with writer and producer Gabe Lopez.
“The working title is ‘Once Upon a Time in California’, because that’s really where it all began for me. Everything’s done, all the artwork – I just have to finish the songs,” she said. “After I made ‘Wilder Shores’, people were complaining like, ‘Why don’t you do something in English?’ And I said, ‘Well, whatever I do has to really mean something’.
“After I got sober, ‘Voila’ was the first time I was able to work from the heart and just love what I was doing. I have to really love it; I can’t just put out an English-language pop album for the sake of it. So that’s why this is a surprise. I didn’t really expect to get excited about the classic pop songs until I was given the most amazing songs from Diane.”
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