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Details: Limited 17 CD set. After discreetly having pre-release album cuts played on the UK's pirate jazz-funk and soul stations, Imagination, with their charismatic lead singer, Leee John, burst onto the scene in May 1981, when their debut single 'Body Talk' entered the UK Charts at #68, with it peaking at #4 on 18th July 1981, having gained momentum after their momentous and unforgettable debut performance on BBC One's Top Of The Pops on 4th June 1981. In the period 1981-1983, Imagination had hits in almost 30 countries around the world, with very high popularity across Europe, especially in France, Italy, Benelux, and Germany, whilst also appearing in the Billboard US Dance and R&B Charts on a regular basis in the throughout the '80s. They really were a internationally successful British group, earning numerous Platinum, Gold and Silver discs, for hit singles 'Flashback', In And Out Of Love', the much-sampled 'Just An Illusion' and 'Music And Lights', 'New Dimension', 'State Of Love', 'Looking At Midnight' and 'Thank You My Love' and albums Body Talk, In The Heat Of The Night, Scandalous, Night Dubbing, Closer and Like It Is. 40 YEARS is a career-encompassing retrospective of Imagination's and Leee John's recorded music output, with 189 tracks across 17CDs, including all of their studio albums from 1981's Body Talk, up until 2016's Retropia. 40 Years also features a 2-disc collection of Unreleased Trax, Mixes & Demos, a 2-disc collection of alternate and unreleased mixes from Closer, a Live Trax disc from several shows spanning the decades and a disc of extended versions in 12" Singles Selection.
Tracklist:
- Body Talk
- So Good So Right
- Burnin' Up
- Tell Me Do You Want My Love
- Flashback
- I'll Always Love You (But Don't Look Back)
- In and Out of Love
- In the Heat of the Night
- Heart 'N' Soul
- Music and Lights
- All Night Loving
- Just An Illusion
- All I Want to Know
- One More Love
- Changes
- Flashback
- Just An Illusion
- Music and Lights
- So Good So Right
- Body Talk
- Heart 'N' Soul
- Changes
- Burnin' Up
- New Dimension
- State of Love
- Point of No Return
- When I See the Fire
- Shoo Be Doo Da Dabba Doobee
- Wrong in Love
- Looking at Midnight
- The Need to Be Free
- Last Days of Summer
- Body and Soul
- One Heart
- You've Got the Lovin'
- Found My Girl
- Blue Day Gone
- Sunshine
- Breathless
- Thank You My Love
- Rock Me Slow
- I'm Coming to Get You
- Trilogy
- I Know What Love Is
- Hold Me in Your Arms
- Paranoia
- Where Are You Now
- The Last Time
- For Members Only
- Touch (Part One)
- Instinctual
- Who (Tell Me Who)
- Operator
- Over
- Hot Nights
- Skin Time
- Closer
- Changes
- Burning Up
- Just An Illusion
- Body Talk
- L.T.O. (Love's Taking Over)
- In and Out of Love
- Instinctual
- So Good So Right
- Flashback
- Music and Lights
- Give Into Love
- In the Heat of the Night
- Megamix (Edited Version) Just An Illusion/Music and Lights/So Good So Right/Flashback
- Work
- I Like It
- The Best of My Life
- Ooh Aah
- Loving Tight
- Fascination of the Physical [12" Version]
- The Night We Loved
- I Can't Wait
- Private Hearts
- Call on Me
- Sensuality
- Now Is the Time
- The Thin Line
- Embraceable You
- Feel My Spirit
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Jazzamatazz
- Flamingo Blue
- U Never Know
- Small World
- Strange Fruit
- Jazzamatazz (Funk Version)
- Now Is the Time (C'est Le Moment)
- Leee John Medley By Symix: Passion/Mighty Power of Love/Love Me Like You Do/Call on Me/Pearls
- Just An Illusion (21st Century Mix)
- Just An Illusion (Dero's Mix)
- I Can C 4 Miles
- Everybody Wakeup (Soul Version)
- Slippin' Slowly
- Mind Body and Soul (Funk Version)
- Come on Over
- Fool in Love
- Alone Again
- Groove Thing
- Utopia
- Secrets
- Fantasia
- Solitude
- Do It Right Now
- Hello Goodbye
- Tell Her Love Has Felt the Need
- Highway to Hell
- Brighter Day
- Make Your Mind Up
- The Best I Could
- Visions
- Just An Illusion (21st Century Version) - Remastered
- Krash (All Night Long) (New Radio Mix)
- Police and Thieves
- The Truth (Alternative Version)
- Instinctual [Dave Morales Mix Edit]
- For Members Only [7" Mix]
- I Know What Love Is [7" Version]
- The Last Time [Special DJ Edit of the Cool Sax Remix]
- (Wanna Get) Over [LP with Horns]
- Instinctual [Dave Morales Mix - Def Vocal Mix]
- Who (Tell Me Who) [A-Side with Solo]
- The Last Time [The Long Cool Mix]
- For Members Only [12" Mix]
- Hold Me in Your Arms [12" Master]
- I Know What Love Is [The Philadelphia After Dark Mix]
- Instinctual [Def Groove Mix]
- One Day I Found Me
- Paranoia [12" Mix]
- The Last Time [The Cool Sax Remix]
- Instinctual [Dave Morales Mix - Stink Mix]
- The Key (Only You) (Imagination)
- Give Into Love - Dub Version (Leee John ; Adam Pendse)
- Fly (Imagination)
- In the Heat of the Night - Alt Version (Imagination)
- Changing Times (Leee John ; Sinitta)
- Gyration (Imagination)
- Casualty (Leee John)
- Daydreamer (Leee John)
- Two of a Kind (Leee John)
- Keep a Lite (Leee John)
- Make Your Mind Up - Original Version Demo (Leee John)
- Are You Ready (Leee John)
- Ay Ay [Version 1] (Leee John Ft Ezzy)
- Best of My Love (Leee John)
- Cherish (Leee John)
- Turn It Out (Leee John)
- When Love Calls (Leee John)
- New Dimension [Alternative Chorus "In a Mans World"] (Imagination)
- Looking at Midnight [Alternative Mix] (Imagination)
- Heart 'N' Soul [Alternative Vocal Version Mix] (Imagination)
- Passion [Original Leee John Vocal] (Imagination Ft Leee John)
- Passion [Duet English/French Version] (Imagination Ft Leee John and Mourad)
- Passion [Deevious Mix By Dee Vaz] Duet English/French Version (Imagination Ft Leee John and Mourad)
- Passion [Tefa French Rap] Duet English/French Version] (Imagination Ft Leee John and Mourad)
- Too Late (Leee John)
- Notorious [Original Demo Became 'Wrong in Love' from 'Scandalous'] (Imagination)
- Happiness [Original Demo Which Became 'One More Love'] (Imagination)
- Going Round in Circles [Demo] (Imagination)
- Halfway to Paradise [Demo Which Became 'So Good So Right'] (Imagination)
- Stop Look ; Listen (Leee John)
- Some People (Leee John)
- Tell Me Do You Want My Love [Live Circa 1984]
- Found My Girl [Live Leeds 1985]
- Shoo Be Doo Da Dabba Doobee [Live UK Circa 1985]
- Thank You My Love Live UK Circa 1986]
- Heart 'N' Soul [Live Leeds Circa 1986]
- We Turn the World -PT 1/ PT 2 [Live Leningrad Russia Circa 1989/90]
- In and Out of Love - Reggae [Live Russia 1989/90]
- Love's Takin Over [Live Russia]
- Body Talk [Live Russia]
- Instinctual [Live Russia]
- Slippin' Slowly [Live UK Circa 1999] (Leee John)
- New Dimension [Us Remix Edit] (Imagination)
- State of Love (Imagination)
- Body and Soul (Imagination)
- Thank You My Love (Imagination)
- Last Days of Summer (Imagination)
- Changes (Dimitri from Paris Is Nightdubbin' Remix)
- The Best of My Life [12" Re-Edit]
- No More Lies (Nelson Leeroy Ft. Leee John of Imagination)
- Do It Right Now [Victor Simonelli Remix] (Imagination Featuring Leee John)
- Burnin' Up [New Vocal Extended Mix] (Leee John)
- Solitude [Dario Caminita Long Edit] (Leee John of Imagination Feat. Jorge Vercillo)
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