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Paul Young / The Secret of Association 2LP coloured vinyl reissue

SIGNED copies exclusive to SDE

By Paul Sinclair

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Paul Young’s 1985 album, The Secret of Association will be reissued as a limited and expanded coloured vinyl pressing early next year, with signed copies available exclusively via SDE.

The album was an enormous success and followed its predecessor, No Parlez, to the top of the UK charts. The Secret of Association features three UK top 10 singles in ‘I Wanna Tear Your Playhouse Down’, ‘Everything Must Change’ and ‘Every Time You Go Away’ and the final 45, ‘Tomb of Memories’, reached number 16 in Britain.

Most impressively, Paul Young scored a US number one single with ‘Every Time You Go Away’ (a cover of the Hall & Oates album track from 1980’s Voices) and then consolidated this Stateside success when the reissued ‘I Wanna Tear Your Playhouse Down’ reached number 16.

The Secret of Association saw Paul and keyboard player Ian Kewley step up and write more material themselves (including the single ‘Everything Must change’) although Paul’s penchant for picking fine songs to cover continued, with an interpretation of Tom Wait’s ‘Soldier’s Things’, Earl Randle’s ‘I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down” and The Sutherland Brother Band’s ‘I Was In Chains’. Cassette and CD editions of the album also added an excellent Vangelis-like cover of Billy Bragg’s ‘The Man In The Iron Mask’.

Music On Vinyl have expanded this vinyl reissue to include a selection of B-sides and extended mixes on sides three and four and both records are pressed on gold & black ‘marbled’ vinyl which looks rather swish (note the image is a mock-up and final product may vary). This are limited to 2,000 units worldwide.

Secure an exclusive signed copy of The Secret of Association vinyl reissue from the SDE shop

As with previous PY reissues, Paul Young will be exclusively SIGNING copies for the SDE shop. These will be limited to 500 units. Additionally, to coincide with this release, SDE is publishing number 11 in the ongoing SDE booklet series. Paul Young on The Secret of Association will feature an exclusive and in-depth interview with Paul Young discussing the album as well as words from producer Laurie Latham and other related features, including SDE editor Paul Sinclair discussing the album and going behind-the-scenes with working with Paul on some of the reissues of the past decade.

#11 in the SDE keepsake booklet series focuses on Paul Young’s 1985 album, The Secret of Association

The signed vinyl reissue and the Paul Young SDE booklet are both exclusive to the SDE shop. These can only be ordered from the SDE shop via this link or using the buttons below. There’s a specially-priced bundle with both products.

The Secret of Association 2LP coloured vinyl reissue and the Paul Young SDE booklet are both released on 28 January 2022.

Gavin Sutherland, who wrote ‘I Was In Chains’, also penned Rod Stewart’s ‘Sailing’

Tracklisting

The Secret of Association Paul Young / 2LP coloured vinyl

    • LP 1
      Side A
      1. Bite The Hand That Feeds
      2. Every Time You Go Away
      3. I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down
      4. Standing On The Edge
      Side B
      1. Soldier’s Things
      2. Everything Must Change
      3. Tomb Of Memories
      4. One Step Forward
      5. Hot Fun
    • LP 2
      Side C
      1. This Means Anything
      2. I Was In Chains
      3. I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down (Extended Mix) (bonus track)
      4. Everything Must Change (Extended Mix) (bonus track)
      Side D
      1. Give Me My Freedom (bonus track)
      2. Every Time You Go Away (Extended Remix Version) (bonus track)
      3. Tomb Of Memories (12” Mix) (bonus track)
      4. Man In The Iron Mask (bonus track)
      5. Bite The Hand That Feeds (Live At The Hammersmith Odeon) (bonus track)
      6. No Parlez (Live At The Hammersmith Odeon) (bonus track)

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  3. Received today in France (had to pay £15.00 Brexit fee, charming…).
    Was not expecting the extra P.Y photo, thanks Paul. Everything in this parcel looks stunning !!!
    Keep up your great work !!
    Thanks again

  4. Postie got me up earlier than I had wished but it was worth it. Great sound and a lovely booklet to boot! The things talked about were such a part of my life in my final year of sixth form it was an integral album to feeling grown up and one of only two full albums I took abroad with me in 1985. The sound is better than I had hoped for. Good job all round. Thank you Pauls.

  7. Hi Paul,
    Thank you so much for your unwavering enthusiasm for Paul Young. As a hardcore fan from Germany, I am now firmly convinced that it is thanks to you that there have been so many brilliant re-releases in recent years, just think of the “Remixes and Rarities” compilation, the “Tomb of Memories” box, the singles box-set, the Rockpalast release (which – although I saw it live on TV at the time – I never dreamed would be officially released), etc., but this vinyl re-release of “The secret of Association” puts the crown on everything. I only wish “No Parlez” would have had such a worthy vinyl re-release by Sony. But this is not the moment for complaints. Thank you very much for your efforts! Ordered!

  8. Oh boy, $75 shipped to the colonies and I do not even have a deck anymore. Sold regardless, one of my Island Records back in the 80s together with No Parlez….
    Anyone needs a blue Steven Wilson Last Day in June vinyl to offset the costs? Lol. Peace.

  13. Having had a vinyl free year, what a nice way to come back to the SDE shop. My second purchase since getting my new deck and one I am so looking forward to, pee’d off I had to miss out on the other signed one’s but hey ho it makes this one all the sweeter. This album, this very album, got me out of an emotional hole. Stuck in a foreign country for 12 months at 18, missing my then girlfriend like crazy and literally all I had was The Secret of Association and The Ups and downs on my home-made TDK SA90 tapes. It’s wonderful that they have fleshed it out a bit although having Soldier’s Things as an opener on side B might throw me a bit….

    Thank you Paul and Paul. You make a decent Team.

  19. Good work, Paul. Out of interest, how come this (double vinyl and signed by the artist) sells for the same price (£35) as Macca’s ‘Wildlife’ 50th anniversary release (single vinyl and no signature)? The current economics of vinyl leave me baffled.

      1. What you say is true misterioustraveller, however the reading of any McCartney thread with 100+ posts will have a very large percentage of them saying what a load of old bollocks this is. The marketing, the costs, the options, the hassle, the manipulation. So yes, it’s a no brainer that of the Pauls, McCartney is the bigger, but I rarely (read – never) read a bad word about Mr. Young or his output, which is much smaller and easier to deal with yes, but we have seen even smaller archives handled much worse. So from a marketing point of view McCartney does seem to be able to get away with £35 a slab but I don’t feel (from reading these pages) that he is particularly respected for it.

        Most McCartney releases end up with a new and unique type of debacle, so the word “trailblazer” is apt on the cock-up front. Disappearing stock (create fake demand), miraculously re-appearing stock (satisfy newly created fake demand) is a well worn trick with McCartney records these last couple of years. Not good for legacy, which the back catalogue holds up mostly on it’s own, with little help from the 21st century humans in the mix.

        1. Thanks for replying. I have no interest in Mr. McCartney solo nor Mr. Young, or autographs, for that matter. I don’t think Mr. McCartney is very much involved in determining the price of his back-catalogue editions or any other marketing tricks. It’s up to you and me not to fall for these tricks, unless you want to. In a full life of music listening and collecting, I never felt cheated by anyone (well, maybe once, by Archie Shepp …) On the contrary, against initial expectations, my collection has risen somewhat in financial value over the decades. That just adds a little bit of satisfaction, to the immense joy and pleasure I got from this still mysterious, intangible form of art. Autographed (only on the back cover or inside the gatefold, please …) or not.
          PS: I’ve checked the last 3 Mac-archival editions here: a total of 109 comments: 3 of them are (wholly) negative. Most of them are (very) positive. No sign of ‘debacles’.

    2. The amount of work involved in producing the Wings album will be one reason; half-speed remastering & high quality bespoke packaging will cost more. Music On Vinyl tend to press from existing masters via licence, like they did with Tin Machine II. That said, their packaging is one of the best in the business so they don’t scrimp on quality in that department.
      Paul Weller is another who’s releases tend to be generally more expensive than others, again down to the overall quality of the product. Compare one of his albums to any of the recent UMG coloured vinyl reissues brought out for things like National Album Day and you’ll see what I mean. Some of the sleeves are barely thicker than an old 12” single.
      In the current market £35 for a decent double album on coloured vinyl (and signed by the actual artist on the cover!) is a decent deal.

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