Title: Belle Stars – Picture Disc
Artist: Belle Stars
Label: Demon/Edsel
Product Type: VINYL LP
UPC: 5014797913554
Genre: Rock
Release Date: 2026-06-26
Number of Discs: 1
Additional Details: UNITED KINGDOM – IMPORT, PICTURE DISC VINYL

Limited picture disc vinyl LP pressing. Formed in 1980 from the ashes of 2 Tone’s The Bodysnatchers, seven-piece, all singing, all playing, all female combo The Belle Stars signed to the legendary Stiff Records label in 1981. Between 1982 and 1984 they enjoyed seven UK singles chart entries with the label, while this, their sole studio album reached the Top 20. Off to a roaring start with the monster hit ‘Sign Of The Times’ – a UK No. 3 smash in early 1983 – ‘Belle Stars’ is a heady mix of percussive, post-punk shiny new pop. The album brings together radically updated covers of classic R&B standards – ‘Iko Iko’, (a huge US hit after it was included in the film ‘Rain Main’) ‘The Snake’, ‘Harlem Shuffle’, ‘Mockingbird’, ‘Needle In A Haystack’ – with strong self-penned material, including the aforementioned ‘Sign Of The Times’ and breezy later single ‘Indian Summer’. This new limited edition picture disc – art-directed by the band’s original graphics man Simon Ryan – features the album in full plus the addition of two non-album singles, ‘Sweet Memory’ and ‘The Entertainer’.

Tracks:
1.1 Sign Ofthetimes
1.2 CI Yaya
1.3 The Clapping Song
1.4 Indian Summer
1.5 Harlem Shuffle
1.6 The Reason
1.7 Sweet Memory (Bonus)
1.8 Ikoiko
1.9 Baby I’m Yours
1.10 Mockingbird
1.11 The Snake
1.12 Burning
1.13 Needle Inahaystack
1.14 The Entertainer (Bonus)