Brighouse, Bootle, Featherstone, Speke, Runcorn, Rotherham, Rochdale, Barrow, Morecambe, Macclesfield, Lytham St. I did always wonder this, though… “The lyrics, “Walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale” refers to Beale Street, an actual street in Memphis. It doesn’t have dates, or any real specifics, but it does capture the mood of a very particular moment in my life.

They all vary from one to five disc compilations (occasionally six disc), starting in 1986 and continuing to the present day (Jan 2023). The original Now Dance series began in 1985 and has been released in a variety of titles, formats, and release frequency.The Now Yearbook series also releases a vinyl selection of its primary release, with an Extra round-up vinyl boxset featuring tracks from the CD-only series, released at the end of 2022. but those artists "deliver songs that are either tepid retreads or safe compounds of past hits", but it's the songs by the newer artists of the time "that keeps the compilation from being disposable", pointing out tracks by the Pussycat Dolls, Fall Out Boy, and Rihanna as standouts from this volume. If I bought an LP with no times, I would get the stop-watch out and slip a yellow sticky on the front with the durations of each track. I've always written how the American NOW compilations do not even come close to the British ones, and my opinion has not since changed. How about PM Dawn’s “Set Adrift On Memory Bliss” – the trippy hip-hop with which disc one concluded?

Had the album come out a few weeks later do you think its possible a Queen/Freddie Mercury track might have been added to the album? This was a hi-fi built at a cost, and obviously 30 years later, it really does show, but being able to play records and takes, and listen to the radio, was all that mattered to me. Given the prominence of dance music at the time (and my love of the genre), it’s a very un-dancey Now.It’s fair to say that Now 20 is relatively light on dance music with Now Dance ’91 picking up a lot of the slack in the absence of the main series’ summer release.