NOW Music proudly presents NOW 12 80s: 1984 Part One, a 4CD set packed with 46 extended, full-length, and remixed versions from one of the greatest years ever in the singles charts. The collection showcases the diversity of the era, with genres including synth-pop, alt-pop, disco, hi-nrg, electro, and hip-hop, featuring the essential 12″ mixes, that ruled the charts and the dance-floor.

CD1 opens with Queens timeless I Want To Break Free, in its extended mix and begins a run of 1984 Pop gold – Alison Moyets Top 10 debut Love Resurrection (Love Injected Mix), and Duran Durans New Moon On Monday are followed by Culture Club, who scored a huge worldwide hit on 12 single with Its A Miracle / Miss Me Blind and Bananarama, who delivered a Top 3 smash with Robert De Niros Waiting. More gems feature from Matthew Wilder with Break My Stride, Ray Parker Jr.s blockbuster soundtrack theme Ghostbusters (Extended Mix), and Nik Kershaws The Riddle, with Howard Jones and Ultravox bringing the first disc to a close.

CD2 is a celebration of electro-dance, hi-nrg and 80s disco, kicking off with Freddie Mercurys synth classic Love Kills and Shannons electro classic Let The Music Play still sounding as fresh today as it did in 84. Sister Sledge feature with the 1984 Bernard Edwards & Nile Rodgers Remix of their peerless Lost In Music, while The Pointer Sisters’ Jump (For My Love) and Dead Or Alives cover of Thats The Way (I Like It) are guaranteed floor-fillers. Hi-NRG made a huge chart impact in 1984 and the 12 single was made for the genre Bronski Beat and Laura Branigan feature alongside early chart smashes for production team Stock, Aitken & Waterman from Divine with You Think Youre A Man and Hazell Dean with Whatever I Do. The genre defining anthem High Energy from Evelyn Thomas ruled the clubs dance-floors, and the disc still has room for party favourite Its Raining Men from The Weather Girls and Kim Wildes synth-pop hidden gem The Touch.

CD3 opens on the dancefloor with soulful vocals and electro beats from Chaka Khans I Feel For You, followed by Womack & Womacks Love Wars and the sublime full-length version of Jocelyn Browns Somebody Elses Guy. The often-sampled old-school hip-hop of The Worlds Famous Supreme Team and Grandmaster Melle Mels White Lines (Dont Do It) are up next ahead of Nick Heywards pop-dance essential Warning Sign, and synth gold from Tears For Fears and Scritti Politti. The remainder of the disc celebrates some of the years greatest alt-pop 12s, featuring Propagandas incredible Das Testament Des Dr Mabuse, Cocteau Twins with the sublime Pearly Dewdrops Drops and Echo and the Bunnymens stunning The Killing Moon.

CD4 delivers a charged mix of iconic chart gold:- Frankie Goes To Hollywoods 9 week #1 Two Tribes (Annihilation) opens a stellar run featuring Duran Durans epic 12 of The Wild Boys and Spandau Ballets Only When You Leave. Paul Youngs Im Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down is next, and leads into Adam Ants superb Apollo 9 (Francois K Splashdown Mix). Up On The Catwalk from Simple Minds has a great extended version and synth-pop essentials from Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark with Tesla Girls, Blancmange with Dont Tell Me Alphavilles Big In Japan, and Howard Jones second appearance on this collection with the International Mix of Like To Get To Know You Well leads the set to its conclusion not only 1984s biggest selling single, but at the time the U.K.s biggest ever seller Do They Know Its Christmas from Band Aid in its full 12 mixa fitting finale and thats where we leave our salute to the 12 singles from this incredible year for now.

NOW 12 80s: 1984 Part One – An essential celebration of the incredible year in music that was 1984!… and coming soon, the second part of one of pops greatest ever years as our journey through the decades unforgettable 12 singles continues