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

: "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)."

Infobox Album
Name = Now That's What I Call Music 4
Type = Compilation album
Artist = Various Artists


Released = December 8, 1984
Recorded = Various Times
Genre = Pop
Length = 2:06
Label = Virgin / EMI
Reviews =
Chronology = Series
Last album = "Now That's What I Call Music 3 (U.K. series)"
(1984)
This album = "Now That's What I Call Music 4 (UK series)"
(1984)
Next album = "Now That's What I Call Music 5 (U.K. series)"
(1985) |

"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". [http://www.ukcollectibles.co.uk/nowthatswhaticallmusiccds.htm]

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. Fact|date=August 2008

Track listing

ide one

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

ide two

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

CD Tracklisting

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

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)