Erasure - Total Pop! The First 40 Hits

To be released on the 23rd February 2009 is Total Pop! The First 40 Hits - a collection of Erasure's first 40 hits.

Featuring all the hit singles from the band's five Number 1 albums and including 17 Top 10 singles, the album also contains a brand new remix by Jeremy Wheatley of the 1994 classic 'Always' which will feature on 'Pop! Remixed', out on 9th February 2009.

As well as a double CD package and download, Total Pop! will also be released as a special four-disc deluxe edition which includes Pop! & Pop2! (all tracks remastered), a live disc and a DVD featuring classic BBC performances from 1986–2005, ranging from Sometimes on Top of the Pops in 1986 to Ship Of Fools on Wogan to appearances on Later... With Jools Holland.

One of the most beloved and enduring success stories in modern British pop, Erasure have been writing world-conquering anthems of love, lust and longing since 1985 and this classic collection brings together all 40 hits in one glittering package.

Total Pop! The First 40 Hits can be pre-ordered now.

"...Andy & Vince play The Ritz. They go down a storm. Millions of young people jump up & down to the songs, and two lone punks attempt to jump over each other." - NYC Gig Review - NME (1986)

"Truth be told, Erasure are the band St Etienne, Pulp, and the rest of our indie kitsch-merchants would like to be if only they had the money." - NME (1992)

"By the time Andy comes slamming in with that "We'll be together again" at the start of 'Stop', if you aren't screaming along, you have no soul and I despair of you. ...this is classic pop." - Gig Review - Melody Maker (1996)

"Let's face it — there is nothing Kraftwerk did that Erasure didn't do better, for longer, and while wearing a blue sequinned cowboy hat and chaps." - Caitlin Moran - The Times (June 2005)