Fan the Flame, Pt. 1 (Invincible Edition)

Fan the Flame (Part 1) is the fifth studio album by the English pop band Dead or Alive, released in 1990. Epic Records released Fan the Flame (Part 1) in Japan only, after its international release was cancelled for an unknown reason. The album remained an exclusive release in Japan until 2016. The album marked a change in the band's musical style with more melancholic lyrics and a different vocal style from Burns. The background vocals on "Total Stranger" were performed by British pop group Londonbeat and the London Community Gospel Choir provided backing vocals for "Unhappy Birthday". A follow-up album, Fan the Flame, also began recording in 1990 but, following the cancelled worldwide release of Part 1, was abandoned until posthumous completion in 2021. Several of the songs from both Part 1 and Part 2 were re-recorded and remixed for the band's following album Nukleopatra. The track "My Love's on the Line" was also recorded for the album and performed live in 1990, but went unreleased. In 2020, the master tape was discovered in Steve Coy's personal collection and the track was released on the Invincible reissue set the following year.

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