Grapefruit Records to release “The Stockport Shuffle – Complete UK Label Anthology 1972-1974” boxset, a comprehensive 6xCD/Blu-Ray overview of the first two albums by Art-Pop titans 10cc.
Featuring previously-unissued alternative versions, album session highlights, out-takes, rehearsals and BBC recordings, the Blu-Ray includes live TV performances and Atmos mixes.
With a 40-page booklet featuring rare photos, band quotes and a 7000 word essay on the band’s time at UK Records, The Stockport Shuffle is the early 10cc mother lode.
During their two-year spell at Jonathan King’s UK Records label, fledgling Pop polymaths 10cc — all four of whom had served protracted apprenticeships on the Manchester music scene of the 60s — cut two widely acclaimed albums, “10cc” and “Sheet Music,” as well as a handful of major hit singles that included “Donna,” “The Wall Street Shuffle” and the chart-topping “Rubber Bullets.”
These recordings have been collected on numerous occasions over the last few decades, but finally the full, previously undocumented picture can be unveiled. With 6xCDs and a bonus DVD/Blu-ray of video performances and Surround Sound mixes, “The Stockport Shuffle” is a forensic, revelatory examination of the band’s activities at their Strawberry Studios base in Stockport during the first two years of their existence.
Alongside remastered versions of both albums and numerous singles are a dazzling number of previously unissued multitrack highlights (featuring alternative versions/arrangements/lyrics/ vocalists as well as works-in-progress, studio chatter, isolated vocal tracks and discarded instrumental/vocal parts), BBC session recordings and Eric Stewart’s 1974 mono-only mixes for radio/TV use.
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