Cicero’s debut album, ‘Future Boy’, has been newly-expanded for its 30th anniversary with a host of additional content.
Originally released in 1992, the LP features the Top 20 hit single, Love is Everywhere, produced by Pet Shop Boys, along with the singles Heaven Must Have Sent You Back To Me and That Loving Feeling.
Marking its latest milestone, a triple-disc reissue packages the record with a host of B-sides, remixes and rarities – including the previously-unreleased song, Pretend – while a white vinyl edition also includes a DVD of the singer’s music videos, performances and original press kit.
Also featured are five newly-commissioned 2023 remixes of the hit single ‘Love Is Everywhere’ by a range of leading underground synth-pop acts.
It comes presented in a triple-disc Digipak and complete with a richly-illustrated 24-page booklet, with an introduction written by Cicero himself as well as track by track comments by the singer.
‘Future Boy’ is out September 29 on SFE and available to pre-order now.
After breaking into the UK Top 20, Cicero appeared to be onto a winner, but he missed out on a coveted ‘Top Of The Pops’ performance because of time constraints owing to Michael Jackson’s 10-minute Black or White music video which soon saw it slip out of the charts.
“I was meant to be on ‘Top Of The Pops’ but Michael Jackson had his song Black or White out,” Cicero told RETROPOP. “It had a 10-minute video and I was meant to be on ‘Top of the Pops’ but they said, ‘Sorry, we can’t have Cicero on this week because we’re going to show the 10-minute video from Michael Jackson’.”
He admitted: “I was raging, because I was one of the highest climbers that week. I got to No. 19 and they showed about a two-second clip of Love is Everywhere and then they said, ‘Now we’re going to show you the video from Michael Jackson’.”
