Planet Rock - USA (2020-04)

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Box set of eight 7-inch singles telling

the old lemon squeezer’s solo tale from

the 1980s to the mid-’00s.

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BEST TRACKS: Like I’ve Never Been Gone, Big

Log, Tall Cool One, Calling To You, Tin Pan Alley

Reissues

TRACKS

Burning Down One Side

Like I’ve Never Been

Gone

Big Log

In The Mood

Too Loud

Little By Little

Ship Of Fools

Tall Cool One

Hurting Kind (I’ve Got

My Eyes on You)

Tie Dye On The Highway

Calling To You

29 Palms

Song To The Siren

Morning Dew

Shine It All Around

Tin Pan Alley

Easy lover:

Plant and

Phil Collins

get cosy.