Chris Spedding – The RAK Years: 4CD Box Set
Chris Spedding

• 50 track 4 CD clam shell box set rounding up guitar supremo Chris Spedding’s time with RAK Records between 1975-1980.

• Includes the hit single ‘Motor Bikin’’ which reached No.14 in the UK charts in 1975.

• Also features one of the first UK Punk singles, Chris’s ‘Pogo Dancing’ which he recorded with The Vibrators.

• Disc 1 is his self-titled debut for RAK which featured the aforesaid ‘Motor Bikin” plus the ‘Guitar Jamboree’, ‘Jump In My Car’ and ‘New Girl In The Neighbourhood’ singles and was produced by Mickie Most.

• The second CD contains the “Hurt” album from 1977, produced by Chris Thomas, and which features the ‘Get Outa My Pagoda’ and ‘Silver Bullet’ singles. Pretender Chrissie Hynde guests on backing vocals whilst seminal session players Herbie Flowers, Clem Cattini and Ray Cooper provide the musical backing.

• “Guitar Graffiti” is Disc 3 , self-produced and featuring the ‘Video Life’, ‘Bored Bored’ and ‘Gunfight’ singles (the latter as a bonus track).

• The final disc is the “I’m Not Like Everybody Else” album from 1980, once again produced by Mickie Most and including the single ‘The Crying Game’.

• The booklet features detailed liner notes by 70’s expert Phil Hendricks and comes with pictures of all the relevant singles. Each of the CD’s comes in a card wallet depicting the original LP artwork.

• As well as being the “go to guy” for bands as diverse as Roxy Music, the Sex Pistols and the Wombles, Chris leads the reformed Sharks who also feature Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook and original Sharks vocalist Snips who contributed co-writes on many of the tracks on this box set.

Track List

DISC ONE
CHRIS SPEDDING

1. NEW GIRL IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
2. SCHOOL DAYS
3. SWEET DISPOSITION
4. BEDSIT GIRL
5. GUITAR JAMBOREE
6. JUMP IN MY CAR
7. HUNGRY MAN
8. MOTOR BIKIN’
9. CATCH THAT TRAIN
10. NERVOUS
11. BOOGIE CITY

BONUS TRACKS
12. WORKING FOR THE UNION
13. RUNNING ROUND
14. TRUCK DRIVIN’ MAN

DISC TWO
HURT

1. WILD IN THE STREET
2. SILVER BULLET
3. LONE RIDER
4. WOMAN TROUBLE
5. AIN’T SUPERSTITIOUS
6. WILD WILD WOMEN
7. ROAD RUNNER
8. STAY DUMB
9. GET OUTA MY PAGODA
10. HURT BY LOVE

BONUS TRACKS
11. POGO DANCING (WITH THE VIBRATORS)
12. THE POSE (WITH THE VIBRATORS)
13. HEY MISS BETTY

DISC THREE
GUITAR GRAFFITI

1. VIDEO LIFE
2. RADIO TIMES
3. TIME WARP
4. MIDNIGHT BOYS
5. BORED BORED
6. WALKING
7. BREAKOUT
8. FRONTAL LOBOTOMY
9. HEY MISS BETTY
10. MORE LOBOTOMY (PARTS 1 AND 2)
11. BREAKOUT (CONCERT VERSION)

BONUS TRACKS
12. GUNFIGHT
13. EVIL

DISC FOUR
I’M NOT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE

1. I’M NOT LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE
2. BOX NUMBER
3. I GOT A FEELING
4. THE CRYING GAME
5. DEPRAVITIE
6. MUSICAL PRESS
7. CONTRACT
8. COUNTERFEIT
9. A SHOT OF RHYTHM ‘N’ BLUES
10. MAMA COCA