Now That’s What I Call Music! 4 (1984) UK TV Advert. Voiceover by Brian Glover.

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.

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.

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^{Side 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”}

^{Side 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”}

^{Info taken from Wikipedia}