THE FACTORY RECORDS STORY

Rhino Honors Legendary Indie Label With Digital-Only Compilation Featuring 63 Tracks Released Between 1978 And 1992, Including Songs By Joy Division, New Order, Happy Mondays, OMD, James, The Durutti Column And Cabaret Voltaire

Available Exclusively On iTunes June 23, All Other DSPs On July 7

LOS ANGELES – Factory Records was more than an independent record label based in Manchester, England, where influential artists such as Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays found a home. During its frenzied reign from 1978 to 1992, Factory was also a state of mind, as noted music journalist Paul Morley explains in the liner notes of Rhino’s new 63-song collection celebrating Factory: “… it was about what music means, and why it is important … and it was about how a record label can and should operate as a place, a space, and the spaces in between, that can be filled with thoughts, some of them musical …”

More than 30 years after Factory opened its doors, Rhino looks back with a digital-only collection that captures the glory and chaos of the label’s journey. FACTORY RECORDS: COMMUNICATIONS 1978-92 will debut exclusively on iTunes June 23 for $29.99. The set will be available two-weeks later, on July 7, through all digital service providers. It will be available as a digital release only. A free stream of six tracks from this release are available now at https://www.rhino.com/fun/listeningparties/factoryrecords_PartyPlayer.lasso.

Arranged chronologically, the set begins with Joy Division’s “Digital”—from Factory’s first release A Factory Sample EP—and ends with the label’s swan song, the Happy Mondays’ 12” “Sunshine and Love.” Compiled by music journalist Jon Savage, the collection tells the label’s story by mixing most of its hits with lesser-known classics, like Marcel King’s “Reach For Love” and Section 25’s “Looking From A Hilltop.” In addition to the aforementioned Morley essay, the set also features a track-by-track rundown from Factory expert and historian James Nice.

Factory released hundreds of records in different formats from a wide array of artists during its 14-year run. While nearly half of COMMUNICATIONS 1978-92 is dedicated to the label’s most recognizable artists—Joy Division, Happy Mondays, and New Order (and its many offshoots)—the collection also features an eclectic selection of artists who shared their labelmates’ penchant for doing things their own way, but never quite broke through. Those artists include: The Royal Family And The Poor (“Art on 45”), Minny Pops (“Dolphin’s Spurt”), Crispy Ambulance (“Deaf”), Crawling Chaos (“Sex Machine”), and The Wake (“Talk About The Past”).

Factory began in May 1978 as a club launched by British television host Tony Wilson and local band manager Alan Erasmus. The club evolved into a record label later that year with the release of A Factory Sample, an EP that featured Joy Division, The Durutti Column, Cabaret Voltaire, and comedian John Dowie. Factory went on to play a major role in cultivating the “Madchester” scene before its demise in 1992.

FACTORY RECORDS: COMMUNICATIONS 1978-92
Track Listing

1. Joy Division – “Digital”
2. Cabaret Voltaire – “Baeder Meinhof”
3. Joy Division – “Glass” (2007 Remastered)*
4. OMD – “Electricity” (Remastered Original 7” version)*
5. Joy Division – “She’s Lost Control”
6. The Distractions – “Time Goes By Slowly”*
7. Joy Division – “Transmission”
8. The Durutti Column – “Sketch For Summer”*
9. X-O-Dus – “English Black Boys”*
10. Joy Division – “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
11. Section 25 – “Girls Don’t Count”
12. Crawling Chaos – “Sex Machine”
13. Joy Division – “As You Said”*
14. The Names – “Night Shift”
15. New Order – “Ceremony” (Original Version)
16. Minny Pops – “Dolphin’s Spurt”
17. John Dowie – “It’s Hard To Be An Egg”*
18. Crispy Ambulance – “Deaf”
19. Section 25 – “Dirty Disco”
20. New Order – “Everything’s Gone Green”*
21. Tunnelvision – “Watching The Hydroplanes”
22. The Durutti Column – “Messidor”*
23. Royal Family And The Poor – “Art On 45”
24. Swamp Children – “Taste What's Rhythm”
25. New Order – “Temptation”
26. 52nd Street – “Cool As Ice”
27. New Order – “Blue Monday”
28. Cabaret Voltaire – “Yashar” (John Robie Remix)*
29. Quando Quango – “Love Tempo”
30. The Wake – “Talk About The Past”

31. New Order – “Confusion”
32. Marcel King – “Reach For Love”
33. Section 25 – “Looking from A Hilltop (Restructure)”
34. Stockholm Monsters – “All At Once”
35. Life – “Tell Me”*
36. The Durutti Column – “A Little Mercy”*
37. James – “Hymn From A Village”
38. Kalima – “Trickery”
39. Quando Quango – “Genius”*
40. Happy Mondays – “Freaky Dancin”*
41. Miaow – “When It All Comes Down”
42. The Railway Children – “Brighter”
43. New Order – “1963” (12” Version)*
44. The Durutti Column – “Otis”
45. Biting Tongues – “Compressor”
46. New Order – “True Faith”
47. Happy Mondays – “24 Hour Party People”
48. New Order – “Fine Time”
49. Happy Mondays – “W.F.L. (We Think About The Future)”
50. Revenge – “Seven Reasons”
51. Happy Mondays – “Hallelujah” (Club Mix)
52. Electronic – “Getting Away With It”
53. Happy Mondays – “Step On”
54. Northside – “Shall We Take A Trip”
55. New Order – “World In Motion”
56. Happy Mondays – “Kinky Afro”
57. The Durutti Column – “Home”
58. Electronic – “Get The Message”
59. Happy Mondays – “Loose Fit”
60. Northside – “Take 5”
61. Cath Carroll – “Moves Like You” (Remix)
62. The Other Two – “Tasty Fish”*
63. Happy Mondays – “Sunshine and Love” (Lionrock Remix)*

*Previously unreleased digitally

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EDDIE RABBITT’S NUMBER ONE HITS

Rhino Collects 17 of the Country Star’s #1 Hits for Career-Spanning Collection
that Includes His Signature Smash, “I Love A Rainy Night”

Available May 12 from Rhino Records

LOS ANGELES — As one of country music’s most progressive crossover artists, Eddie Rabbitt epitomized the changes transforming the genre in the mid-1970s, helping usher it out of the backwoods and barrooms and into suburban subdivisions and malls. Rhino celebrates the innovative country artist with a collection featuring 17 of his #1 country hits. NUMBER ONE HITS will be available May 12 from Rhino Records at all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $18.98 (CD) and $9.99 (digital).

Arranged chronologically from 1976 to 1990, the disc encompasses Rabbitt’s prolific career, which included a remarkable 33 straight Top 10 hits. Rabbitt continued to record and tour through the ’90s, but died in 1998 at the age of 56 after battling lung cancer.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Rabbitt moved to Nashville in the late ’60s where he wrote hits for
other artists, including “Kentucky Rain,” a song Elvis Presley took to Top 20 and “Pure Love,” a #1 for Ronnie Milsap. Rabbitt’s first hit, singing his own song, came in 1976 with “Drinkin’ My Baby (Off My Mind).” The single established his style too, with tempos influenced by light rhythm & blues and vocals with plenty of echo, all sounding like they would fit on an album by Dion or The Drifters. Despite the citified sound, his themes came straight from the country jukebox.

Rabbitt’s string of hits continued with “You Don’t Love Me Anymore,” “Suspicions,” “The Best Year Of My Life,” and “You Can’t Run From Love.” NUMBER ONE HITS also includes the duets “You And I” with Crystal Gayle and “Both To Each Other (Friends And Lovers)” with Juice Newton. But it is Rabbitt’s finger-snapping hits — a blend of old-time rock, Broadway sass, and country simplicity — that he is best known for: “Drivin’ My Life Away,” “I Love A Rainy Night,” “Gone Too Far,” and “Someone Could Lose A Heart Tonight.”

Rabbitt was part of a generation that greatly diversified country music, all but defining what became known as the Urban Cowboy movement. As a new day dawned in country music, it was this country boy from New Jersey who helped turn the calendar.

NUMBER ONE HITS
Track Listing

1. “Drinkin’ My Baby (Off My Mind)”
2. “You Don’t Love Me Anymore”
3. “I Just Want To Love You”
4. “Every Which Way But Loose”
5. “Suspicions”
6. “Gone Too Far”
7. “Drivin’ My Life Away”
8. “I Love A Rainy Night”
9. “Step By Step”
10. “Someone Could Lose A Heart Tonight”
11. “You And I” – with Crystal Gale
12. “You Can’t Run From Love”
13. “The Best Year Of My Life”
14. “Both To Each Other (Friends & Lovers)” – with Juice Newton
15. “I Wanna Dance With You”
16. “The Wanderer”
17. “On Second Thought”

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THE DOORS SHAKE THE BIG APPLE TO ITS CORE

Live In New York Documents The Doors’ Final Four New York Concerts with Jim Morrison In Their Entirety with Six-Disc Collection

Boxed Set Due November 17 From Rhino and Bright Midnight Archives

180-Gram Vinyl Pressings of All the Band’s Studio Albums Available September 15

LOS ANGELES – Rhino and Bright Midnight Archives unleash four inspired performances from The Doors’ final tour with LIVE IN NEW YORK. The latest addition to the band’s acclaimed series of archival concert releases, this six-disc collection contains all four of The Doors’ performances – in their entirety – recorded in 1970 at the Felt Forum in New York City. The collection will be available November 17 at all retail outlets, including www.thedoors.com and www.rhino.com, for suggested list price of $89.98 for the physical boxed set. A digital version featuring select highlights from all four Felt Forum shows will also be available at all digital retail outlets for $9.99. An exclusive stream of “Break On Through (To The Other Side)” from the second show on January 17, 1970 will premiere at spinner.com beginning this Thursday, August 27.

Recorded January 17 and 18, 1970 – just a few weeks before the release of Morrison Hotel – these concerts find Jim Morrison, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, and Ray Manzarek locked in tight as they deliver smoking takes on soon-to-be-classics from their forthcoming album, including “Roadhouse Blues,” “Peace Frog,” “Ship Of Fools,” and “Maggie M’Gill.” The shows also feature a number of driving blues covers, such as Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love,” Howlin’ Wolf’s “Little Red Rooster,” and John Lee Hooker’s “Crawling King Snake.” “Those were the bluesy songs we always used to do,” Krieger says. “We probably hadn’t done them in years, but we resurrected them for these shows.”

The year prior to these shows, The Doors became one of the first rock bands to play New York City’s Madison Square Garden. When they returned in 1970, Densmore says they chose to play the Felt Forum, a smaller venue at the Garden. “It was more intimate, and you could feel the audience more,” he says. “There was more interaction, and the acoustics were much better, because it was designed for music.”

Manzarek hails these shows as a return to the group’s early days, when they used to play a small Los Angeles club called the London Fog. “I mean, talk about going back to basics. We used to do four sets a night at the London Fog, and we only had a small block of songs written up to that time. So we would do other people’s material. And in New York, it was like the same thing. We’ve got four shows to play here, two sets tonight, two sets tomorrow night. Let’s play whatever we want! Let’s just go!”

And go they did. Along with a mix of then-unheard new songs and old covers, the band also tapped into its 1967, self-titled debut, peppering the set lists with signature songs such as “Break On Through (To The Other Side),” “Soul Kitchen,” “The End,” and “Light My Fire,” The Doors’ first #1 hit.

For the final show of the Felt Forum stand, the band was joined onstage by two guests – The Lovin’ Spoonful’s John Sebastian (who played harmonica on the studio version of “Roadhouse Blues”) and drummer Dallas Taylor, who’d played on Crosby, Stills & Nash’s debut. Sebastian sat in for “Rock Me” and was joined by Taylor for “Going To N.Y. Blues” and “Maggie M’Gill.”

Fans will be blown away by the crisp sound found on LIVE IN NEW YORK. All four shows were mixed and mastered by the band’s longtime engineer, Bruce Botnick, who recorded a number of shows from The Doors’ 1970 tour on multi-track tape for the Absolutely Live album. While most of the music contained on LIVE IN NEW YORK is unreleased, a few songs (and portions of songs) surfaced in 1970 on Absolutely Live and in 1997 on The Doors Box Set.

Sadly, these shows represent The Doors’ final New York City performances with Morrison, who passed away July 3, 1971.

Prior to the release of LIVE IN NEW YORK, Rhino will release 180-gram vinyl versions of all six Doors studio albums on September 15. Previously available only in 2007’s The Doors Vinyl Box, original stereo mixes of The Doors, Strange Days, Waiting For The Sun, The Soft Parade, Morrison Hotel, and L.A. Woman will now be available individually at all vinyl retail outlets for a suggested list price of $24.98 each.

THE DOORS LIVE IN NEW YORK
Track Listing

Disc 1
January 17, 1970 (First Show)
1. Start Of Show
2. “Roadhouse Blues”
3. “Ship Of Fools”*
4. “Break On Through (To The Other Side)”
5. Tuning/Breather
6. “Peace Frog”
7. “Blue Sunday”
8. “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)”
9. “Back Door Man”*
10. “Love Hides”*
11. “Five To One”*
12. Tuning/Breather
13. “Who Do You Love”
14. “Little Red Rooster”
15. “Money”
16. Tuning/Breather
17. “Light My Fire”*
18. More, More, More
19. “Soul Kitchen”*
20. End Of Show

Disc 2
January 17, 1970 (Second Show)
1. Start Show 2
2. Jim “How Ya Doing?”
3. “Roadhouse Blues”
4. “Break On Through (To The Other Side)”*
5. “Ship Of Fools”
6. “Crawling King Snake”
7. “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)”
8. “Back Door Man”*
9. “Five To One”
10. Pretty Neat, Pretty Good
11. “Build Me A Woman”
12. Tuning/Breather
13. “Who Do You Love”*
14. Tuning/Breather
15. “Wild Child”*
16. Cheering/Tuning
17. “When The Music’s Over”

Disc 3
January 17, 1970 (Second Show) continued
1. Tuning/Breather
2. “Light My Fire”*
3. Hey, Mr. Light Man!
4. “Soul Kitchen”*
5. Jim’s Fish Joke
6. “The End”
7. End Of Show

Disc 4
January 18, 1970 (Third Show)
1. Start Show 3
2. “Roadhouse Blues”*
3. “Ship Of Fools”*
4. “Break On Through (To The Other Side)”*
5. Tuning/Breather
6. “Universal Mind”*
7. “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)” – False Start*
8. “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)”*
9. “Back Door Man”*
10. “Five To One”
11. Tuning/Breather
12. “Moonlight Drive”
13. “Who Do You Love”*
14. Calling Out For Songs
15. “Money”*
16. Tuning/Breather
17. “Light My Fire”
18. More, More More
19. “When The Music’s Over”*
20. Good Night – End Show

Disc 5
January 18, 1970 (Fourth Show)
1. Start Show 4
2. “Roadhouse Blues”*
3. “Peace Frog”*
4. “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)”*
5. “Back Door Man”
6. “Five To One”
7. We Have A Special Treat
8. “Celebration Of The Lizard”
9. Alright Let’s Boogie
10. “Build Me A Woman”
11. “When The Music’s Over”*
12. More, More, More

Disc 6
January 18, 1970 (Fourth Show) continued
1. “Soul Kitchen”*
2. For Fear Of Getting Too Patriotic
3. Petition The Lord With Prayer
4. “Light My Fire”
5. Only When The Moon Comes Out
6. “Close To You”
7. The Encore Begins
8. “Rock Me”*
9. What To Do Next?
10. “Going To N.Y. Blues”*
11. Tuning/Breather
12. “Maggie M’Gill”*
13. Tuning/Breather
14. “Gloria”*/End Of Show

*Previously unreleased

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A CHRISTMAS STORY SOUNDTRACK DEBUTS

Rhino Presents A Collection Of Previously Unreleased Music
Composed And Arranged For The Classic Holiday Comedy

Available November 10 From Rhino

LOS ANGELES – Released in 1983 by MGM, A Christmas Story became a true holiday classic thanks to its impeccable comedic performances, triple-dog dares, and countless cable marathons. One aspect often overlooked is the music composed for the film by Carl Zittrer and Paul Zaza. Their musical contributions, unreleased until now, capture the film’s nostalgic charm and transport viewers to an age of innocence. A CHRISTMAS STORY: MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE will be available November 10 from Rhino at all retail outlets, including www.rhino.com, for a suggested list price of $18.98 (physical) and $11.99 (digital).

Zittrer and Zaza first began working with director Bob Clark in 1979, earning a Genie Award for their score to Clark’s Murder By Decree. A few years later, they joined up with Clark again for A Christmas Story. During the sessions, Zittrer says the music fell into place quickly. “Oftentimes scoring a film means trying out lots of music to see if it fits. By an incredible coincidence, the test pieces we selected were natural fits. For instance, we used themes from Peter And The Wolf in several scenes featuring the bully. It instantly conveys the bully’s villainy, but it also works on a deeper level because the young boys in the film most certainly would have known this music and understood its menacing connotation.”

Also featured prominently in the film is Zittrer and Zaza’s arrangement of “Grand Canyon Suite,” which can be heard playing during a fantasy sequence where young Ralphie Parker repels an attack on his backyard by Black Bart and his cronies. “It is the quintessential Western music,” Zittrer says. “All you need to hear are those first two notes and you’re on a dusty trail somewhere.”

A Christmas Story is based on several short stories written by Jean Shepherd, who is also the film’s narrator. Set during the ’40s, it is the story of nine-year-old Ralphie Parker’s (Peter Billingsley) Christmas quest for an official Red Ryder BB gun. While not an instant hit during its 1983 theatrical run, the film has become one of the most beloved holiday films of all time and a pop culture icon. With an annual 24-hour marathon on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day on TBS (and previously TNT), a museum at the house where the movie was filmed in Cleveland, and a yearly fan convention, the legend of A Christmas Story continues to grow.

A CHRISTMAS STORY: MUSIC FROM THE MOTION PICTURE
Track Listing

1. “Bob’s Major Award”
2. “Jogging To School”
3. “Black Bart Bites The Dust”
4. “Meeting Of The Minds”
5. “And They’re Off!”
6. “Truth Or (Triple Dog) Dare”
7. “Jingle Bells”
8. “He Had Yellow Eyes”
9. “A Chip Off The Old Block”
10. “When Things Seem Hopeless…”
11. “Feet, Do Your Stuff!”
12. “Ralphie’s Brilliant Idea”
13. “Ming The Merciless”
14. “Don’t Look Back!”
15. “Sleigh Bells”
16. “Ralphie’s Revenge” & “The “F” Word”
17. “Joy To The World” & “Silent Night”
18. “The Bumpus Hounds Make Their Rounds”
19. “Glorious, Beautiful Christmas”
20. “Silent Night” – The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

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CHRIS BELL’S COSMOS EXPANDS

Rhino Handmade’s Two-Disc Deluxe Edition Combines Remastered Version Of
Bell’s Acclaimed Solo Album With Rare And Unreleased Recordings

Available Exclusively From Rhino Handmade September 28

First 1,000 Orders Receive Special 7” Single

LOS ANGELES – Chris Bell was an immensely gifted songwriter, musician, vocalist and producer who struggled throughout his short life to have his songs heard. Sadly, the Memphis-born artist did not live long enough to see the enormous impact his music–both with Big Star and as a solo artist– would have on future generations. Bell’s influential legacy grows thanks to a pair of releases: Rhino Handmade’s September 28 release of C, and Rhino Records’ September 15 release of Keep An Eye On The Sky, the definitive Big Star anthology. Available exclusively at www.rhinohandmade.com for a suggested list price of $39.98, the two-disc deluxe edition of I AM THE COSMOS contains more than a dozen unreleased recordings. As a special bonus, the first 1,000 orders will receive a free 7” single of “I Am The Cosmos” b/w “You And Your Sister.”

I AM THE COSMOS–DELUXE EDITION contains a remastered version of the original 1992 Ryko compilation on one disc, plus a second disc of rare and unreleased music recorded between 1970 and 1976. On the second disc, all but two of the 15 tracks are previously unreleased. Among the wealth of unissued recordings are eight alternate versions and mixes of album tracks, including “You And Your Sister” with Mellotron in place of the original’s string arrangement, and a later version of “Get Away” featuring Big Star’s Alex Chilton on guitar, Ken Woodley on bass, and Richard Rosebrough on drums.

Revisiting the original 1992 release of I Am The Cosmos, Rhino Handmade’s deluxe edition includes the previously released acoustic version of “You And Your Sister.” The original also featured a “Slow Version” of the title track, which is heard in its entirety for the first time on this double-disc set.

The collection also gathers up a number of unreleased songs Bell recorded that did not appear on I Am The Cosmos, including two songs by Icewater (a precursor to Big Star); collaborations with Memphis songwriter Keith Sykes (“Stay With Me”) and singer Nancy Bryan (“In My Darkest Hour”); and “Clacton Rag,” an instrumental recorded in 1976 that features Bell solo on guitar.

The beginnings of I AM THE COSMOS can be traced back to 1972, when Bell left Big Star, the seminal power-pop band he cofounded. After helping Big Star write and record a few songs for Radio City, the band’s follow-up, Bell left for France in 1974. While there, he recorded several demos at Hérouville Studios for a planned solo album. Following the sessions, Bell and his brother David took the tracks to the London studio owned by The Beatles’ producer George Martin, where they mixed the songs with Geoff Emerick, who engineered several of The Beatles’ albums.

The songs were shelved and Bell returned home to Memphis, where he recorded more songs with a revolving cast of Memphis musicians. In 1978, Car Records released a single featuring Bell’s “I Am The Cosmos” b/w “You And Your Sister.” Encouraged by the positive reaction to single, Bell was planning a return to music when he was killed in a car accident in 1978, two days after Christmas. His music remained unreleased until 1992, when several of his demos were released posthumously as I Am The Cosmos.

I AM THE COSMOS–DELUXE EDITION
Track Listing

Disc 1
1. “I Am The Cosmos”
2. “Better Save Yourself”
3. “Speed Of Sound”
4. “Get Away”
5. “You And Your Sister”
6. “I Got Kinda Lost”
7. “Look Up”
8. “Make A Scene”
9. “There Was A Light”
10. “I Don’t Know”
11. “Fight At The Table”
12. “Though I Know She Lies”

Disc 2
1. “Looking Forward” – Icewater*
2. “Sunshine” – Icewater*
3. “My Life Is Right” – Rock City
4. “I Don’t Know” – Alternate Version*
5. “You And Your Sister” –Alternate Version*
6. “I Am The Cosmos” – Extended Alternate Version*
7. “Speed Of Sound” – Alternate Version*
8. “Fight At The Table” – Alternate Mix*
9. “Make A Scene” – Alternate Mix*
10. “Better Save Yourself” – Alternate Mix*
11. “Get Away” – Alternate Version*
12. “You And Your Sister” – Acoustic Version
13. “Stay With Me” – with Keith Sykes*
14. “In My Darkest Hour” – with Nancy Bryan*
15. “Clacton Rag” – Instrumental*

*Previously Unissued

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