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After leaving UFO in 1978, legendary guitarist Michael Schenker returned briefly for a second stint in The Scorpions before deciding to form his own group - settling on a name that left no confusion about the creative force in the group! To date The Michael Schenker Group has released 12 studio albums, amassing two UK Top-10s, and 6 Top-40s in the process.
Chrysalis Years 1980-1984 collects together all six of Schenker’s albums recorded for Chrysalis Records, from his eponymous 1980 debut (UK No.8) featuring vocalist Gary Barden, 1981’s ‘MSG’ (UK No.14) featuring Cozy Powell on drums and UFO’s Paul Raymond on keyboards and guitar, and the legendary Japanese double live ‘One Night At Budokan’ (UK no.5), recorded in Tokyo on MSG’s 1981 tour. Released the same year, ‘…Budokan’ is followed by 1982’s ‘Assault Attack’ (UK No.19), and was the sole recording to feature former Rainbow vocalist Graham Bonnet, before Barden’s return for 1983’s ‘Built To Destroy’ (UK No.23).
This set is rounded off by MSG’s second live album, ‘Rock Will Never Die’ (UK No.24), recorded at London’s fabled Hammersmith Odeon on their 1983 tour, and which effectively became the swan song for this era of the band. Also included on CD for the first time is the “Radio Remix” of debut single ‘Armed And Ready’ as featured in “Guitar Hero: Metallica”, as well as six previously unreleased live tracks recorded at Manchester’s Apollo on MSG debut tour in 1980, including a version of the UFO classic ‘Rock Bottom’. Also featured are live b-sides of ‘Armed And Ready’ and ‘Into the Arena’, promo edits of ‘Cry For The Nations’ and ‘Let Sleeping Dogs Lie’ and the song ‘Girl From Uptown’, which originally appeared as the b-side to the single ‘Dancer’.
CD1
1. Armed and Ready
2. Cry for the Nations
3. Victim of Illusion
4. Bijou Pleasurette
5. Feels Like a Good Thing
6. Into the Arena
7. Looking Out from Nowhere
8. Tales of Mystery
9. Lost Horizons
10. Armed & Ready (In Concert At the Manchester Apollo)
11. Cry for the Nation (In Concert At the Manchester Apollo)
12. Victim of Illusion (In Concert At the Manchester Apollo)
13. Rock Bottom (In Concert At the Manchester Apollo)
14. Tales of Mystery (In Concert At the Manchester Apollo)
15. Lost Horizons (In Concert At the Manchester Apollo)
CD2
1. Armed and Ready (Live At the Manchester Apollo)
2. Into the Arena (Live At the Hammersmith Odeon, London)
3. Cry for the Nations (Radio Edit)
4. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (Sounds Flexi Edit)
5. Ready to Rock
6. Attack of the Mad Axeman
7. On and On
8. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
9. But I Want More
10. Never Trust a Stranger
11. Looking for Love
12. Secondary Motion
CD3
1. Introduction (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
2. Armed and Ready (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
3. Cry for the Nations (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
4. Attack of the Mad Axeman (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
5. But I Want More (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
6. Victim of Illusion (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
7. Into the Arena (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
8. On and On (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
9. Never Trust a Stranger (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
10. Let Sleeping Dogs Lie (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
11. Courvoisier Concert (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
12. Lost Horizons (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
13. Doctor Doctor (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
14. Ready to Rock (Live At the Budokan, Tokyo 12/8/81)
CD4
1. Assault Attack
2. Rock You to the Ground
3. Dancer
4. Samurai
5. Desert Song
6. Broken Promises
7. Searching for a Reason
8. Ulcer
9. Girl from Uptown
10. Rock My Nights Away
11. I'm Gonna Make You Mine
12. The Dogs of War
13. Systems Failing
14. Captain Nemo
CD5
1. Still Love That Little Devil
2. Red Sky
3. Time Waits (For No One)
4. Rock Will Never Die (Walk the Stage)
5. Captain Nemo (Live At the Hammersmith Odeon)
6. Rock My Nights Away (Live At the Hammersmith Odeon)
7. Are You Ready to Rock (Live At the Hammersmith Odeon)
8. Attack of the Mad Axeman (Live At the Hammersmith Odeon)
9. Into the Arena (Live At the Hammersmith Odeon)
10. Rock Will Never Die (Live At the Hammersmith Odeon)
11. Desert Song (Live At the Hammersmith Odeon)
12. I'm Gonna Make You Mine (Live At the Hammersmith Odeon)
13. Doctor Doctor (Live At the Hammersmith Odeon)
14. Armed and Ready (As Featured in Guitar Hero: Metallica)
