Live In The Air Age
1977 release - Top 10 UK hit upon release
For years this recording was available in the UK on EMI and available in the US via a license with One Way Records. This recording has gone out of print worldwide during 1999.
Bill Nelson Advocacy Page
Numerous Bill Nelson recordings are out of print worldwide due to a variety of reasons. This web page is your link to the companies that have allowed Be Bop Deluxe and solo recordings to go out of print. Let the companies know that you want to buy these recordings and hopefully a release will occur!
Suggest Bill
for Later With Jools Holland
Be Bop
Deluxe
Getting The Holy Ghost Across and other Bill Nelson Major Label Solo
Simplex/Cocteau Catalog Re-releases
Campaign To Get Bill Nelson on
Later With Jools Holland
Chris Needham came up with an excellent idea. While
visiting the Later with Jools Holland web site - http://www.bbc.co.uk/later
- he noticed that the show is canvassing for suggestions for the 16th series later this
year. Do we know anybody who ought to be on Later with Jools Holland? I think we do! Email
your suggestion to later@bbc.co.uk
King Biscuit Flower Hour - British Biscuit - Live In Oxford, 1978
This show was broadcast on King Biscuit Flower Hour, but as "the British
Biscuit." The broadcast was all tunes from Drastic Plastic, with the exception of
Forbidden Lovers.
How Can We Get It Released?
Contact Pet Rock Records, the distributor of the King Biscuit Flower Hour
recordings. Email them at info@kbfh.com and let
them know you'd like the Be Bop Deluxe "British Biscuit" recordings released!
Or visit the King
Biscuit/Pet Rock web site by clicking here. Pet Rock encourages people to email
them about unreleased material!
Live In The Air Age
1977 release - Top 10 UK hit upon release
For years this recording was available in the UK on EMI and available in the US via a
license with One Way Records. This recording has gone out of print worldwide during
1999.
How Can We Get It Re-Released?
Contact One Way Records in the US via email at
webmaster@aent.com.
Contact EMI in the UK/worldwide. Good luck
finding an email address or street address on their web site.
Futurama and Drastic Plastic
1975 and 1978 releases, respectively
These recordings have been re-released a couple times over the past years. They
were put out on CD and re-released in 1990 in the UK, then allowed to go out of print
while Axe Victim and Sunburst Finish have stayed in print since then and Modern Music
stayed in print sproadically. All Be Bop Deluxe studio albums have never been
offered for sale in the US on CD.
How Can We Get Them Re-Released?
Contact EMI in the UK/worldwide. Good luck
finding an email address or street address on their web site.
In 1986, Bill's US album On A Blue Wing (Getting The Holy Ghost Across in the UK, with a slightly different track listing) was issued on vinyl and cassette, but not compact disc! It's long been out of print! On A Blue Wing was issued on Portrait, then a division of CBS. Getting The Holy Ghost Across was released on CBS in the UK. A few years ago Sony bought CBS. Bill stated in Nelsonian Navigator, Issue 2 (December, 1995) that CBS owns the album and it's up to them to put it out on CD. Here's a way for you to let Sony know that you want to buy this album gathering dust in their vaults:
Vistamix was also allowed to go out of print on CD in the US in 1998. This album is a US release of the Chimera EP plus a couple of early singles and b-sides. This was released on the CBS/Epic label, now owned by Sony.
How Can We Get Them Re-Released?
Go to the Sony Legacy Recordings artists web site. Use the Legacy Recordings Reissue/Compilation Suggestion form and request that On A Blue Wing, Getting The Holy Ghost Across, and Vistamix are all reissued.
Also try: feedback@legacyrecordings.com or http://legacyrecordings.com/contactus
Also, write a nice letter to Sony at the following address: Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
, Sony Music Online, 550 Madison Ave, 27th Fl New York, NY 10022-3211 Send an email to: SonyMusicOnline@sonymusic.com or use the fill-out form on Sony's site: http://www.sonymusic.com/feedback
Bill planned on re-releasing his recordings on his own Cocteau Records label in the 1980's
on Populuxe in 1997. This was later scrapped when he left the Resurgence (UK) label.
When Bill hooked up with Discipline
Global Mobile in early 1998 it was thought that re-releases would occur. So far
only What Now, What Next?, a double CD of Cocteau Records tracks, plus 6
new songs, have been released. Nothing has been heard of the back catalog, including
the legendary Simplex album, being re-released in some time. Bill
has not mentioned anything about back catalog releases in his diary.
How Can We Get Them Re-Released?
The DGM Guestbook is usually full of King Crimson fans, but since Bill is associated with the label it might not hurt to make some postings regarding Simplex and the Cocteau Records back catalog. How would they know there is a demand if we don't speak up?
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