21 years since the release of their debut album Leisure in 1991 and due to popular demand, Blur?s body of work has been personally compiled by the band and gathered together in one box, due for release by Parlophone on 30th July 2012 (31st July in North America).
All seven studio albums are collected with over 5½ hours of unreleased material including 65 previously unreleased tracks and more than twice as many rarities, 3 DVDs, a collector?s edition book featuring rare and unseen photos and a new and exclusive interview with the band, and a special limited edition 7-inch vinyl featuring a track recorded under the band's original name, Seymour. The box will also include a digital download code for the albums and all bonus material.The collection - which sees the first 5 albums re-mastered by Frank Arkwright in Abbey Road Studios - has been fully overseen by Graham Coxon and producer Stephen Street. Highlights of the box include early versions of tracks recorded for Leisure, bare bones early demos of the classic singles ?For Tomorrow? and ?Beetlebum?, previously unheard songs ?Saturday Morning? and ?Hope You Find Your Suburbs? and never released sessions with Bill Laswell and the legendary session with XTC?s Andy Partridge. Other rarities are ?Don?t Bomb When You?re The Bomb?, ?The Wassailling Song? and ?Fools Day? which appear on CD for the first time. DVD material includes Live at Alexandra Palace 1994 and Live at Wembley ?The Singles Night? 1999.Videos