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Now That's What I Call Music 3 (UK series)

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Released
  
23 July 1984

Release date
  
23 July 1984

Length
  
1:57:39

Label
  
NOW

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Now That's What I Call Music 3 (1984)
  
Now That's What I Call Music 4 (1984)

Genres
  
Pop music, Rock music, New wave

Similar
  
Now That's What I Call Music II, Now That's What I Call Music, Now That's What I Call Music! 4, Now That's What I Call Music! 7, Now That's What I Call Music 8

Now That's What I Call Music 3 or Now 3 was released in 1984 in the United Kingdom on vinyl record and audio cassette. The album is the third edition of the Now! series in the UK. It was the first in the series to debut at number one in the UK Albums Chart as the previous two had debuted at lower numbers before each climbing to number one. It stayed at the top for eight weeks, the longest run for any Now album on the chart until the Compilations Chart was created in 1989. It was the 300th album to reach number one in the chart's history. It was also the first in the series to be released with the familiar 'NOW' logo of red, blue and green circles, with a yellow streak that carries the 'That's What I Cal Music' portion of the title, the last being Now 17 in 1990 but it all ready omits the yellow streak, the last album to feature that would be Now 16 in 1989.

Contents

Now 3 features three songs which reached number one on the UK Singles Chart: "The Reflex", "Two Tribes" and "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go".

Video selection

A video selection was also released featuring selected tracks from the main album and twelve which did not appear on any Now album.

  1. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark : "Locomotion"
  2. Simple Minds : "Up on the Catwalk" †
  3. Thompson Twins : "You Take Me Up"
  4. Madness : "One Better Day"
  5. The Farmer's Boys : "In the Country" †
  6. Helen Terry : "Love Lies Lost" †
  7. Loose Ends : "Emergency (Dial 999)" †
  8. Working Week : "Venceremos" †
  9. Tina Turner : "What's Love Got to Do With It"
  10. Phil Collins : "Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now)"
  11. Talk Talk : "Dum Dum Girl" †
  12. Kajagoogoo : "Turn Your Back on Me" †
  13. Gary Glitter : "Dance Me Up"
  14. The Mighty Wah : "Come Back" †
  15. I-Level : "Our Song" †
  16. Limahl : "Too Much Trouble" †
  17. The Flying Pickets : "When You're Young and In Love"
  18. Thomas Dolby : "I Scare Myself" †
  19. The Blue Nile : "Tinseltown in the Rain" †
  20. David Sylvian : "Red Guitar"

† Never appeared on any NOW album.

Songs

1The ReflexDuran Duran4:24
2I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on MeNik Kershaw2:31
3Thinking of YouSister Sledge7:25

References

Now That's What I Call Music 3 (UK series) Wikipedia
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