Mirage - World Goes On Around You: The Mirage Anthology 3 (CD)

Details: Three CD set. First-ever complete anthology of cult late '60s UK psychedelic pop band Mirage. After serving an apprenticeship on the mid-60s Hertfordshire beat scene, The Mirage became house band at Beatles' publisher Dick James' Oxford Street demo studio. After forming a friendship with The Hollies, The Mirage cut a couple of singles for CBS before James and his regular business partner, Kinks/Troggs manager Larry Page, oversaw the band's subsequent, heavily Beatles-influenced releases on the Philips and Page One labels. The Mirage then moved over to Mervyn Conn's Carnaby label, where they cut a single as Portebello Explosion before releasing a 1970 album under the name Jawbone. A lavish 3CD digipack set, 'The World Goes On Around You' is the first-ever complete Mirage anthology, featuring all of their singles, the Jawbone album, numerous studio out-takes, alternative versions and BBC sessions. The package includes some great previously unseen Mirage photos and a new 7000-word essay on the band that's based around a new interview with guitarist Ray Glynn, who speaks for the first time of their involvement with the film Georgy Girl and their appearance alongside Jefferson Airplane at the first Isle of Wight Festival.

Tracklist:

1. It's in Her Kiss
2. What'cha Gonna Do About It
3. Go Away
4. Just a Face
5. Tomorrow Never Knows
6. You Can't Be Serious
7. Hold on
8. Can You Hear Me
9. The Wedding of Ramona Blair
10. Lazy Man
11. Mystery Lady
12. Chicago Cottage
13. Here Comes Jane (As Yellow Pages)
14. Ding Dong Bell (As Yellow Pages)
15. Carolyn
16. The World Goes on Around You
17. We Can Fly (As Portebello Explosion)
18. Hot Smoke and Sassafras (As Portebello Explosion)
19. The Wedding of Ramona
20. Blair (BBC Session)
21. Hold on (BBC Session)
22. What'cha Gonna Do About It (BBC Session)
23. Strange Feeling (BBC Session)
24. Another Saturday Night (BBC Session)
25. Ebaneezer Beaver (BBC Session)
26. The Wedding of Ramona
27. Blair (Stereo Version)
28. Ebaneezer Beaver
29. Mrs. Busby
30. I See the Rain
31. My Door No. 4 (Aka Lonely Highway)
32. Hello Enid
33. Is Anybody Home
34. What Do I Care
35. How's Your Pa
36. Lazy Man (Alternative Version)
37. See My World
38. Cathy Must Fly (Aka Katherine)
39. You and Me Baby
40. Go Away (Demo Version)
41. Wild Thing
42. Gone to Your Head
43. I Want Love
44. One More Time
45. That I Know
46. I Love Her
47. Love Is Where You Find It
48. Ebaneezer Beaver
49. (Acoustic Demo)
50. The Wedding of Ramona
51. Blair (Backing Track)
52. Honeysuckle Redwood Cabin
53. Homestead
54. How's Ya Pa?
55. Brave White Knight
56. Bulldog Goes West
57. Across the Universe
58. Million Times Before
59. Money Is
60. Mister Custer
61. Song for Sunny
62. Chicago Cottage
63. Jeremiah Dreams
64. Way Down Down