The Very Best Of 1989 – 2023

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The song Hi is quite Morricone with its guitar theme and this idea of these wild west guys coming into town, a little bit badass. In its original form, it was the lead single from 1997’s six times platinum White On Blonde – the band’s fourth album and first UK Number One – and was followed by four more smashes: Halo, Black Eyed Boy, Put Your Arms Around Me and Insane, all included here. Here are 24 diamonds from a glittering career, in the year that they’ve been booked for a prestigious Pyramid Stage slot on the opening day of Glastonbury. For Spiteri, though, those detours were anything but – although she admits that, for OG Texas, they were rock or die.

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Spiteri thanked Glastonbury’s Emily Eavis for being a “massive supporter of female musicians” during the band’s performance.

Completing ‘The Very Best Of’ is two new songs – the instant classic After All and Northern Soul cover Keep On Talking – both of which sit seamlessly alongside the group’s back catalogue and prove that, decades into their career, Texas remain in fine form.

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Lifted from their debut LP, ‘Southside’ (1989), the single entered the Top 10 and its parent album peaked at No. All image and audio content is used by permission of the copyright holders or their agents, and/or according to fair dealing as per the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Sides A and C labels have an image of Sharleen Spiteri with the tracks listed on side B for sides A and B, and side D for sides C and D.The announcement arrives ahead of the Scottish pop-rock band’s appearance on the Pyramid Stage at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. Since then, they’ve gone from strength-to-strength, topping the charts with follow-up ‘The Hush’ (1999) and releasing a total of 10 albums, including their most-recent, 2021 LP ‘Hi’, all of which are represented on the 24-track collection. Texas: The Very Best Of 1989-2023 (release date 16 Jun 2024) has all of the above, and more, not least its two brand new tracks.