Sunday, 4 October 2015

Not sure of date - ebay listing for Acetate version

and then on ebay appeared



An unmatched in terms of dates version of the double album

Disc 1 Mastered 11th March 83

Secret Messages, Loser Gone Wild, Bluebird, Take Me On And On.

Stranger, No Way Out, Beatles Forever, Letter From Spain, Danger Ahead

Disc 2 Mastered 4th March 83

Train Of Gold, Danger Ahead, Endless Lies, Hello My Old Friend

Four Little Diamonds, Buildings Have Eyes, Time After Time, After All, Rock and Roll is King.


It was noted that

Danger Ahead had a different intro on disc 1
Danger Ahead on disc 2 was the standard acetate version
Hello my old friend has a 3 second wind intro
Afterall was the 41 second version

[Mandalay was missing]


Secret Messages came out in (5th ?) June. Less than 3 months after these demo discs were made.

 It shows Jeff was still unsure of the track order, but did have an idea of whats songs he wanted.

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