Now That's What I Call Music 4 (U.K. series)

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This article describes the 4th album in the UK Now! series. It should not be confused with the 2000 US album of the same name. For more information, see Now That's What I Call Music! 4 (U.S. series).

Now That's What I Call Music 4 or Now 4 was released in 1984. The album is the 4th edition of the (UK) Now! series. This album reached #2 on the UK Albums Chart, kept off the top by the newly premiering Hits album series.

Also notable is that this volume marked the first Now album to be released on Compact Disc. It was seemingly a test run as the single-CD contained a selection of tracks from Now 2, Now 3 and Now 4, collecting 15 tracks altogether. It wasn't until two years later in 1986 that a Now compilation was next released on CD, with a single-CD issue of Now 8.[1]

The Now 4 CD is now extremely collectable and with the item being so rare, it can frequently attract bids of up to five hundred pounds on internet auction sites as fans complete their Now CD collections.

Now That's What I Call Music 4
Compilation album by Various Artists
Released	December 8, 1984
Recorded	Various Times
Genre	Pop
Length	2:06
Label	Virgin / EMI
Series chronology
Now That's What I Call Music 3 (U.K. series) (1984) Now That's What I Call Music 4 (UK series) (1984) Now That's What I Call Music 5 (U.K. series) (1985)

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Disc one

1. Paul McCartney : "No More Lonely Nights (Special Dance Mix)"
2. Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey : "Together In Electric Dreams"
3. Bronski Beat : "Why?"
4. Limahl : "The Never Ending Story"
5. Nick Heyward : "Warning Sign"
6. John Waite : "Missing You"
7. Michael Jackson : "Farewell My Summer Love"
8. Lionel Richie : "Hello"
9. Culture Club : "The War Song"
10. Elton John : "Passengers"
11. Julian Lennon : "Too Late For Goodbyes"
12. The Style Council : "Shout To The Top"
13. Thompson Twins : "Doctor! Doctor!"
14. Heaven 17 : "Sunset Now"
15. Kane Gang : "Respect Yourself"
16. Tina Turner : "Private Dancer"

[edit] Disc two

1. Queen : "It's a Hard Life"
2. Status Quo : "The Wanderer"
3. Big Country : "East of Eden"
4. U2 : "Pride (In The Name Of Love)"
5. Feargal Sharkey : "Listen to Your Father"
6. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark : "Tesla Girls"
7. Kim Wilde : "The Second Time"
8. Nik Kershaw : "Human Racing"
9. Ray Parker Jr. : "Ghostbusters (Searchin for the Spirit)"
10. UB40 : "If It Happens Again"
11. Pointer Sisters : "Jump (for My Love)"
12. Level 42 : "Hot Water"
13. Eurythmics : "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)"
14. Rockwell : "Somebody's Watching Me"
15. Malcolm McLaren : "Madam Butterfly"
16. Eugene Wilde : "Gotta Get You Home Tonight"

[edit] CD Tracklisting

1. Duran Duran : "The Reflex" ^{Originally included on the standard edition of Now 3}
2. Ray Parker Jr. : "Ghostbusters (Searchin for the Spirit)"
3. Culture Club : "The War Song"
4. John Waite : "Missing You"
5. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark : "Locomotion" ^{Originally included on Now 3}
6. UB40 : "If It Happens Again"
7. Tina Turner : "What's Love Got to Do with It" ^{Originally included on Now 3}
8. Bronski Beat : "Why?"
9. The Style Council : "Shout to the Top"
10. Phil Collins : "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" ^{Originally included on Now 3}
11. Giorgio Moroder & Philip Oakey : "Together In Electric Dreams"
12. Julian Lennon : "Too Late for Goodbyes"
13. Status Quo : "The Wanderer"
14. Thompson Twins : "Doctor! Doctor!"
15. Queen : "Radio Ga Ga" ^{Originally included on Now 2}

Curiously, the standard edition of Now 4 contained the latest hits by both Tina Turner, with Private Dancer, and OMD's Tesla Girls, yet on the CD release, their previous hits from Now 3, What's Love Got To Do With It and Locomotion respectively, are included instead. Similarly, Queen's Radio Ga Ga was originally the lead track from Now 2, although current hit It's A Hard Life was a track on Now 4.

[edit] See also

• Now That's What I Call Music
• List of Now That's What I Call Music! albums
• Now That's What I Call Music! 4 (U.S. series)