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Limited 12 disc box set Well now, following on from the remastered, bonus track enhanced albums that came out on Edsel earlier this year, the same company are bringing us "The Singles And The Promo Videos". So, what you're getting is a 12 disc box set comprising reproductions of 11 Gillan singles plus a DVD containing seven promo videos. So why would you want it? Well, it's rather obvious isn't it? You get all those Gillan 7" singles you never play in a shiny cardboard box, all ready to play in your CD player. Spanning the three years from "Mr Universe" to the demise of Gillan (the band), the singles are all faithfully reproduced. I mean they don't give you the fancy fold out sleeves or story booklets, and they don't (and this is important) contain any unavailable songs. The remastered albums swept up the single tracks in amongst all the other bonus tracks. Unless you include a couple of single edits. And I don't. So don't start whingeing about "ripping off the fans, man". It's obvious what it is, so don't buy it, if you don't want it. And there are, so I'm told, only 3,000 of them being issued, so you may want to grab one before its to late. It's really a collection for collectors, or folks too lazy to buy up the original versions at their friendly, local record fair. And it probably works out cheaper than buying up the vinyl, even if Gillan singles are usually in the pound box. Of course, you also get the promo videos on a handy DVD, to save you all that YouTube downloading. Which is very amusing in a 'my God, was that what passed for a video in those days?', kind of way. I mean, a band looking like Gillan wouldn't get through the door at a record company nowadays. Mr Gillan has graciously contributed some tales from back in the days to go with the workmanlike booklet, and it did bring back hazy, warm memories of rushing down to Haymarket on the day of release to snaffle them up. Especially with the promo stickers reproduced as well! Was it really a whole £1.15 for the 'No Laughing In Heaven EP'? That was 16p over my budget back then, you know. The B-sides are where the fun lies, and work better in this format than as bonus tracks, and I still remember the bother I got into for singing 'Your Sister's On My List' just that little bit too loudly! Not for the casual passers by, but Gillan fans should find it a treat, and hardly a bank breaker for the kids to buy you for Christmas. Track listing: 1. Vengeance 2. Smoke On The Water-live at Kingsway Recorders 3. Sleeping On The Job 4. Higher And Higher 5. No Easy Way-single edit 6. Handles On Her Hips 7. I Might As Well Go Home (Mystic) 8. Trouble 9. Your Sister’s On My List 10. Mr' Universe-live 11. Vengeance-live 12. Smoke On The Water-live 13. Mutually Assured Destruction 14. The Maelstrom 15. New Orleans 16. Take A Hold Of Yourself 17. No Laughing In Heaven-single edit 18. One For The Road 19. Lucille 20. Bad News 21. Nightmare 22. Bite The Bullet-live 23. Restless 24. On The Rocks-live 25. Living For The City 26. Breaking Chains 27. Purple Sky 28. Long Gone 29. Fiji Dvd listing: The Videos 1. Sleeping On The Job 2. No Laughing In Heaven 3. Lucille 4. Nightmare 5. Restless 6. Living For The City 7. Long Gone