This 14 track collection features the 10 tracks of the original album plus 4 essential bonus tracks.
Five Star were the youngest act to top the album chart with the million-seller Silk & Steel.
The album peaked at number 7 and contains 3 UK top 30 singles.
The 12” remix of the single ‘Whenever You’re Ready’ (UK #11) appears here for the first time on CD in the UK. Also included is the Shep Pettibone 12” remix of ‘Somewhere Somebody’ (UK#23), previously only available on vinyl.
The collection also includes the 1987 full vocal b-side How Dare You (Stay Out Of My Life), which was used as the theme tune to ITV’s How Dare You, and is previously unreleased on CD.
Ending this collection is an eleven minute megamix featuring 9 of Five Star’s biggest hits (Can't Wait Another Minute, Let Me Be The One, All Fall Down, Whenever You're Ready, Find The Time, If I Say Yes, R.S.V.P., Love Take Over, The Slightest Touch) and previously unreleased on CD.
The CD booklet contains comprehensive sleeve notes, including interviews with several writers and producers of the album, 1987 single discography, and a brand new exclusive interview with Five Star’s Doris Pearson.
Five Star were awarded Top British Group in Smash Hits magazine and at the 1987 Brit Awards.
The Five Star story began in 1983 when the children of reggae musician Buster Pearson decided to form their own pop group. Under their father's watchful managerial eye, they signed to his own label Tent Records. Their debut album "Luxury Of Life" was released in August 1985 and peaked at #12 in the album charts. Their second album, the #1 hit "Silk & Steel" followed in August 1986 and became triple platinum. In the 1980s the band recorded 21 hit singles, 11 of them top 20, and 4 original albums followed by a Greatest Hits album in 1989. The band, likened predictably to the Jackson 5 were one of the leading UK pop acts of the decade.

  1.  "Somewhere Somebody" (Dean Chamberlain, Martin Briley) - 4:14
  2.  "Whenever You're Ready"(Lionel Job, Cliff Dawson, Bill Hagans) - 4:21
  3.  "Strong As Steel" (Diane Warren) - 5:21
  4.  "Read Between The Lines" (Marti Sharron, Clif Magness) - 4:50
  5.  "Live Giving Love" (Deniece Pearson) - 5:03
  6.  "Ain't Watcha Do" (Scott Cutler, Jeff Hull, Amy Sky) - 3:40
  7.  "Made Out Of Love" (Joey Gallo, Wardell Potts, Pamela Phillips Oland) - 4:27
  8.  "You Should Have Waited" (Lorraine Pearson) - 3:35
  9.  "Knock Twice" (Delroy Pearson, Doris Pearson) - 4:11
  10. "Hard Race" (Deniece Pearson) - 4:25

Bonus Tracks

 11.   "Whenever You're Ready" (The New York Mix)
 12.   "Somewhere Somebody" (The Pettibone Remix)
 13.   "How Dare You (Stay Out Of My Life)"
 14.   "The Five Star Hit Mix" (including Can't Wait Another Minute, Let Me Be The One, All Fall Down, Whenever You're Ready, Find The Time, If I Say Yes, R.S.V.P., Love Take Over, The Slightest Touch)


Label : Cherry Pop  94
Ean : 5013929429420