Sons And Fascination


UK LP Cover
Tracks : LP
In Trance As Mission(6.50)
Sweat In Bullet(4.30)
70 Cities As Love Brings The Fall(4.48)
Boys From Brazil(5.30)
Love Song(5.03)
This Earth That You Walk Upon(5.26)
Sons And Fascination(5.23)
Seeing Out The Angel(6.11)
Tracks : Cassette
In Trance As Mission(6.50)
Sweat In Bullet(4.30)
70 Cities As Love Brings The Fall(4.48)
Boys From Brazil(5.30)
Theme For Great Cities(5.50)
The American(3.49)
20th Century Promised Land(4.53)
Love Song(5.03)
This Earth That You Walk Upon(5.26)
Sons And Fascination(5.23)
Seeing Out The Angel(6.11)
Wonderful In Young Life(5.20)
League Of Nations(4.55)
Careful In Career(5.08)
Sound In 70 Cities(5.01)
Tracks : CD
In Trance As Mission(6.50)
Sweat In Bullet(4.30)
70 Cities As Love Brings The Fall(4.48)
Boys From Brazil(5.30)
Love Song(5.03)
This Earth That You Walk Upon(5.26)
Sons And Fascination(5.23)
Seeing Out The Angel(6.11)
Theme For Great Cities(5.50)
The American(3.49)
20th Century Promised Land(4.53)
Wonderful In Young Life(5.20)
Careful In Career(5.08)
Release Information
Country Date Vinyl Cassette CD
UK September 1981 Virgin V 2207 Virgin TCV 2207
UK April 1986 Virgin CDV 2207
Credits
Guitars - Charles Burchill
Basses - Derek Forbes
Drums - Brian McGee
Keyboards - Michael MacNeil
Voice - Jim Kerr
"Next" chorus - Ken Lockie, Jacqui

Lyrics - J Kerr
Music - Simple Minds

Producer - Steve Hillage
Engineer (at Farmyard Studios) - Hugh Jones
Engineer (at Regents Park Studios) - Alan Jakoby
Design & Direction - M Garrat - Assorted iMaGes
Polaroid Photography - Sheila Rock
(Cars supplied by - Auto iMaGes)
Live Sound - Billy Worton; Douglas Cowan
Management - Bruce Findlay; Robert White
Special thanks to - Brian McGee, Peter Gabriel, Gail Coulson, Ross, David Henderson, Ian, Rusty Egan, Brutganz Sisters
Additional Information
As a thank-you to fans, Sons And Fascination was sold shrink-rapped with copies of Sister Feelings Call for the price of one album. There's nothing special about the packaging or presentation of this 'double album' offering - the two were just shrink-rapped together. A sticker was stuck on the sleeve of Sons And Fascination - this is shown on the picture to the left of the title - and this identifies the release as the limited edition double.

(UK Collectors should also look out for two inserts : the first titled "The New Album by Simple Minds" featured information about the album, discography and tour dates. The second, which is titled "Simple Minds Information Sheet" featued details about the official merchandise.)

In Australia, the two were sold as a numbered limited edition, with Sister Feelings Call carrying a limited edition stamp and number.

After a month, the albums were separated with Sons And Fascination selling at full price and Sister Feelings Call selling at a budget price.

The original cassette contains all the tracks from both Sons And Fascination and Sister Feelings Call. After the success of Once Upon A Time, Virgin issued a budget cassette of Sister Feelings Call. No separate Sons And Fascination cassette has ever been produced.

Also released in 1986 was the CD version of the album. Unfortunately, there was no space for the double album set on the CD, so Virgin left two tracks off (namely Sound In 70 Cities and League Of Nations). Both of these tracks finally appeared on CD in 1990 on Theme 3 : Love Song.