All The Old 45s - You Can Have It All

On the 1st September, Deacon Blue will release two new compilations on the Cooking Vinyl label. All the Old 45s - The Very Best Of Deacon Blue is a double album (with a choice of CD, or vinyl, including a limited edition coloured vinyl edition. You Can Have It All is a 14 CD box set, containing all the bands, studio albums, plus Riches and Ooh Las Vegas. The CD box set will also contain an exclusive unplugged album, called Peace Will Come

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Both releases can be pre-ordered now from TM Stores. Some of the versions on TM Stores will include signed prints, which will not be available from anywhere else. The releases will also be available on Amazon, and all good record stores.

The Amazon link for You Can Have It All

Amazon link for the black vinyl All The Old 45s

Amazon link for the double CD All The Old 45s

The packaging for both All The Old 45s and You Can Have It All features rare photos from over the years, and extensive liner notes with new insights from all current members of Deacon Blue, who reflect on the songs - and albums, and memories - that mean the most to them.

The tracklisting for the CD version of All The Old 45s- The Very Best Of Deacon Blue is as follows:

    CD 1

  1. Dignity
  2. Loaded
  3. When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)
  4. Chocolate Girl
  5. Real Gone Kid
  6. Wages Day
  7. Fergus Sings The Blues
  8. Love And Regret
  9. Queen Of The New Year
  10. I'll Never Fall In Love Again
  11. Your Swaying Arms
  12. Twist And Shout
  13. Closing Time
  14. Cover From The Sky
  15. Your Town
  16. Will We Be Lovers
  17. Only Tender Love
  18. Hang Your Head
  19. I Was Right and You Were Wrong
  20. Bound To Love

    CD 2

  1. Homesick
  2. Every Time You Sleep
  3. Bigger Than Dynamite
  4. The One About Loneliness
  5. The Hipsters
  6. The Outsiders
  7. That's What We Can Do
  8. Turn (Remix)
  9. You'll Know It's Christmas
  10. A New House
  11. I Wish I Was A Girl Like You
  12. Bethlehem Begins
  13. Win
  14. The Believers
  15. This Is A Love Song
  16. Gone
  17. I Will And I Won't
  18. City Of Love
  19. Hit Me Where It Hurts
  20. Wonderful
  21. Riding On The Tide Of Love

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The vinyl edition has the following tracklisting:

    Side 1

  1. Dignity
  2. When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)
  3. Chocolate Girl
  4. Real Gone Kid
  5. Wages Day
  6. Fergus Sings The Blues

    Side 2

  7. Queen Of The New Year
  8. Love And Regret
  9. I'll Never Fall In Love Again
  10. Your Swaying Arms
  11. Twist And Shout
  12. Closing Time

    Side 3

  13. Cover From The Sky
  14. Your Town
  15. Will We Be Lovers
  16. Only Tender Love
  17. Hang Your Head
  18. I Was Right and You Were Wrong

    Side 4

  19. Every Time you Sleep
  20. Bigger Than Dynamite
  21. The Hipsters
  22. A New House
  23. The Believers
  24. City Of Love

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The CD box set contains all the studio albums, plus Riches and Ooh Las Vegas. Ooh Las Vegas is two CDs - and the Bacharach David EP is appended to the end of the CD. Disc 13 is Riding On the Tide Of Love.

The final disc in the box set is called 'Peace Will Come' and is a brand new unplugged selection of hits, live favourites and cover versions.

"We really enjoyed playing our campfire sets on the last tour, when we deconstructed and rearranged songs to fit an acoustic format," says Ricky Ross. "Essentially, Peace Will Come is an extension of that concept. It's rough around the edges, but it captures the core of what we do. There are no overdubs or drops - we all just sang and played together and took the best take. Almost all of our albums are represented in its tracklisting - plus, we include a couple of cover versions we've often sung towards the end of our live shows. The one original song is the title track."

Along with that new song, 'Peace Will Come' - a unifying hymn for the ages, which echoes Deacon Blue's earliest single - the unplugged CD revels in fresh takes on harmonic career-highs like Chocolate Girl (from Raintown), Delivery Man (from 2016's Believers), and In Our Room (from City of Love) - and that's not to mention gorgeous renditions of Bruce Springsteen's Dancing in the Dark, and their long-standing live encore of Bob Dylan's Forever Young. Recording the Peace Will Come CD has been a galvanising experience for the band, says Ross. "It ended up being a vital artistic exercise for us. After we'd finished, I did think -"Why have we never done this before?"'

The tracklisting for Peace Will Come is as follows:

  1. She'll Understand
  2. Queen Of The New Year
  3. Chocolate Girl
  4. Cover From The Sky
  5. Dancing In The Dark
  6. All Over The World
  7. When Will You (Make My Telephone Ring)
  8. In Our Room
  9. Every Time You Sleep
  10. Delivery Man
  11. Forever Young
  12. Peace Will Come

I have been told that 'some' of the tracks from Peace Will Come will be released as digital singles, but the album will be exclusive to the physical boxset for at least six months. It is now being released as a limited edition white vinyl for Record Store Day 2024.

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Pre-orders can be made at TM Stores. There is a limited edition coloured vinyl from the TM Stores site, and a signed art print.

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