NOW 20 – Giant Floating Letters in Space
One of the fun things about this blog is the amount of misremembering I’ve been doing; you know that weird feeling you get when you are utterly convinced of something from your past despite all…
One of the fun things about this blog is the amount of misremembering I’ve been doing; you know that weird feeling you get when you are utterly convinced of something from your past despite all…
In some ways the much-derided (by smart arses like me), and often ignored (by everyone else) re-vamp of the NOW design is nice and simple. No one was calling the albums by their full name,…
For the second year in a row, NOW’s summer release would take the season as the inspiration for its cover. Sadly the content is about as anti-summer as it’s possible to get. When I think…
Every decade has its game changing year, the year that rocks the music world, the year where, if you'll pardon the cliché, nothing will ever be the same again. It may be the birth of…
Like your first kiss, the first time you got drunk, or the first 18-rated film you see (or X-rated if you're a tad older than me), your first NOW album is special, and never forgotten.…
End of year compilations were not NOW's style. They tried it once before, using NOW 4 as a way of hoodwinking the public into buying a compilation that had only a passing resemblance to the…
Welcome to the future! For Christmas 1986, NOW would deliver a lovely shiny package for its fans, because the future is always shiny, isn't it? NOW 8 is fit to burst with number ones, top…
To talk about NOW 7, you have to have a copy to hand. And I don't mean a digital copy, or a playlist made from the track listing. You have to have an actual…
Batman needs the Joker. Tottenham Hotspur need Arsenal. Jerry needs Tom. But I suspect NOW could have done without the bother of the Hits Album. Having seen EMI and Virgin come together to dominate the…