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Dusty Springfields late career renaissance owed its triumphs more than a little to her collaborations with the Pet Shop Boys, a partnership that resulted in 4 tracks being written by them and 5 tracks being co-produced by them for her 1990 album Reputation (UK#18) including her last big hit singles, In Private (UK#14) and Nothing Has Been Proved (UK#16). This is the first time that her critically acclaimed and commercially successful comeback album has been re-issued as a fully expanded collection. This 3-disc collectors edition includes the original album, all known extended versions and remixes, the B-sides from the singles released from it and the promotional videos of those singles on a DVD. Also, although not part of the original release, this edition also includes Shep Pettibones Disco Mix version of the 1987 Pet Shop Boys with Dusty Springfield hit What Have I Done To Deserve This? (UK#2, US#2) on which Dusty was joint lead vocalist. This was the song to catapult Dusty back into the public eye and the charts for the first time in well over a decade! This comprehensive curation of remixes includes Marshall Jeffersons input on the Dance Mix of Nothing Has Been Proved, seven additional Shep Pettibone remix variants of the tracks In Private and Reputation and Phil Harding & Ian Curnows extended 12 mix of Born This Way for PWL. The album also includes the talents of Pet Shop Boys co-producer Julian Mendelsohn, producer Dan Hartman on Time Waits For No Man and Born This Way and orchestration by Angelo Badalamenti on Nothing Has Been Proved. Packaged in a mini LP style sleeve, this special collectors edition is completed with a 32 page full colour booklet containing extended sleeve notes that compile Dustys own thoughts on the album and its songs. Also included are exclusive insights from Dustys close friend and backing singer Simon Bell and from Tris Penna who worked for EMI at the time of the albums original release and who had special responsibility for overseeing it.
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