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Why hasn Mike released a CD of his B-sides, out-takes etc?

B-sides CD Mike out-takes released
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Why hasn Mike released a CD of his B-sides, out-takes etc?

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Apparently Clive Banks said a proper rarities album was on the list of things to do, just not very high. Elements (the 4CD Box Set version) was going to be a rarities release. The other problem is all the rare stuff is in Virgin’s locker so WEA don’t directly have access to it. WEA won’t pay Virgin (see 3.13) and Virgin’s stuff is old and they won’t want to promote an artist they don’t have. Mike would have to convince WEA to cough up and release it, and Mike wants to look to the future, not the past. Mike has power of veto over the release of all his old music, be it Virgin or WEA – remember, he had to approve the Elements tracklist even though it was a Virgin release and he was on WEA by then. And given his known embarrassment with many (most?) of his early rarities, I don’t think we’re very likely to see any action on this in the foreseeable future… but I guess anything’s possible! Credit: Alex Reid, voyager@sourceofsecrets.f9.co.uk, Gareth Randall, Gareth_Randall@itv.co.uk.

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Apparently Clive Banks (Mike’s manager in the early 1990s) said a proper rarities album was on the list of things to do, just not very high. Elements (the 4CD Box Set version) was going to be a rarities release. The other problem is all the rare stuff is in Virgin’s locker so WEA don’t directly have access to it. WEA won’t pay Virgin (see 3.13) and Virgin’s stuff is old and they won’t want to promote an artist they don’t have (with the exception of The Best Of Tubular Bells, which was a collaboration between the two labels). Mike would have to convince WEA to cough up and release it, and Mike wants to look to the future, not the past. Mike has power of veto over the release of all his old music, be it Virgin or WEA – remember, he had to approve the Elements tracklist even though it was a Virgin release and he was on WEA by then. And given his known embarrassment with many (most?) of his early rarities, I don’t think we’re very likely to see any action on this in the foreseeable future.

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