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This includes alternative session takes of certain tracks and live cuts from the 100 Club in 1983.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50467574874443,"sku":"276999","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/b1f4967c-942e-4845-aac6-6a28a7985e00_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727339444"},{"product_id":"i-helped-patrick-mcgoohan-escape","title":"I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape","description":"\u003cp\u003eSecond single from The Times reissued here with an extra track from the 12\". 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This single is just over three minutes of pop perfection that will not leave your stereo for weeks. \u003ci\u003eRed With Purple Flashes \u003c\/i\u003eis pure Mod revival meets 60’s pop that sits next to the Television Personalities, The Creation and The Jam in your collection. The flip \u003ci\u003eBiff! Bang! Pow!\u003c\/i\u003e is another uptempo mod stomper that would have been an A-Side for most bands. The sleeve design features a pastiche of Warhol's Campbell's soup cans. Finally reissued on 7” so you don’t have to spend £200+ on the original. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Static Shock","offers":[{"title":"Black | 7\"","offer_id":50498745925963,"sku":"1094425","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/516cd71e-d944-4802-9a88-b689556be6ff_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727756245"},{"product_id":"my-picture-gallery-the-artpop-recordings","title":"My Picture Gallery  The Artpop! 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Pow!’ which has sold for over £300 on Discogs and was named as one of the top five mod revival singles in Mojo magazine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBonus tracks include The Times’ legendary take on the ‘Theme From Dangerman’, a cover of\u003cbr\u003eDavid Bowie’s ‘London Boys’, tracks from the 12” EPs ‘I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape’ (1983), ‘Blue Period’ (1985), ‘Boys About Town’ (1986) and ‘Times TV’ (1986) and an alternative version of perhaps their most famous song ‘I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape’ (inspired by cult TV series The Prisoner) taken from the ‘A Splash Of Colour’ compilation that celebrated the early 1980s psychedelic revival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Ball was a member of cult band The Television Personalities alongside his school friend Dan Treacy before leaving to concentrate on The Times. Treacy plays guitar on the \u003ci\u003ePop Goes Art!\u003c\/i\u003e album which was originally released on Dan and Ed’s Whaam! Records before being reissued on Edward’s Artpop! label.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Whaam! label set up by Edward Ball with the Television Personalities’ Dan Treacy and Ball’s own Artpop! Label were a direct inspiration for Alan McGee to set up Creation Records who signed Edward Ball in 1988. McGee was a fan of The Times and the ‘Pop Goes Art!’ and ‘This Is London’ albums and they inspired his own band Biff Bang Pow! and Creation Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 1986 album \u003ci\u003eUp Against It\u003c\/i\u003e is the soundtrack to Joe Orton’s rejected screenplay for The Beatles that was staged by Edward Ball and Mood Six’s Tony Conway at a West London theatre. 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