Fly Records' 40th Anniversary Reissue Series:
THE MOVE’s 4-CD Box Set
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FLY RECORDS, in conjunction with SALVO, announce the release their latest release in the 40th Anniversary Reissue Series.
Release scheduled for late October 2008
THE MOVE’s comprehensive career-spanning 4-CD Box Set is chock full of “…Roy (Wood)’s incredible melodies and hook-laden songs…” (Tony Visconti), and unassailable covers, boasting an incredible 2/3rds of previously unreleased content.
Amongst the many unreleased tracks are The Move’s recently discovered very first recordings, and a stereo mix of their raucous live performance recorded over two nights at the legendary Marquee Club in 1968, revealing after 40 years, a live document of The Move at their very peak in their preferred environment and crackling with their raw energy.
The story of The Move is a mad, bad and dangerous rock’n’roll tale of finely crafted Pop hits amidst and axe cases of thunder flashes and smoke bombs, sharp suits & destroyed stages.
Foremost music writer Mark Paytress has written the absorbing liner notes, nee ‘book’, which are replete with a host of unseen photos of the band, many by their ‘official’ photographer Robert Davidson, with memorabilia inclusions from The Move’s Archive.
The initial pressings will contain a poster and a set of postcards – one for each member of the ‘classic’ line-up.
Dedicated to the group lead vocalist Carl Wayne, who died of cancer in 2004 just as the band’s reissue project commenced, the box set is released to coincide with the 40th Anniversary of the release of the band’s first Number One single ‘Blackberry Way’ (UK No 1, 1968) . “There’s unfinished business,” said Carl Wayne, the band’s frontman, prime-mover and spokesman in 2003. “The Move is one of the greatest myths and cults of all time because it broke up before it did too much damage to itself.”
The Move are revealed here as a defining example of late ’60s pop era eclectics, and with this crowning treasure trove to celebrate one of the most under-rated ‘Hit’ Pop acts of the Sixties, their rightful repositioning into the pantheon of coveted Sixties bands that roll off music lovers tongues, is ensured. 