The Best of Visage

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Fade To Grey - The Singles Collection

Compilation album by Visage
Released	June 1983 (UK)
Genre	New Romantic, New Wave
Label	Polydor
Producer	Midge Ure Visage

Fade To Grey - The Singles Collection is a 1983 compilation album by the British New Romantic band Visage. Released as a stop-gap between studio albums whilst the band were experiencing contractual difficulties, the compilation includes all seven of the Visage singles released up to that point (five of them top 40 hits) as well as three non-single tracks. The album reached no.38 in the UK album chart, but was certified Gold by the BPI based on pre-release sales to shops. A limited number of copies of the vinyl album were issued with a free 7" vinyl picture disc of the "Pleasure Boys" single (1982), where as the cassette version of the album featured remixes of each of the tracks.

The album was rereleased a decade later as "The Best Of Visage" with a similar cover and track listing but with the inclusion of two tracks not featured on the original release; "Love Glove" (one of Visage's last singles from 1984) and the Bassheads/Andy Stevenson remix of their seminal hit "Fade to Grey" which had been a minor top 40 hit again in 1993. The only single not to feature on this compilation was "Beat Boy", the band's final single from 1984.