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Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection
Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection
	Original 1983 cover art
Compilation album by Visage
Released	November 1983
Genre	Synth-pop
Label	Polydor
Producer	Midge Ure, Visage
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	The Best of Visage (1993 re-release)

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Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection is a 1983 compilation album by the British synth-pop group Visage.

Background

Released as a stop-gap between studio albums whilst the band was experiencing contractual difficulties, the compilation includes all of the Visage singles released up to that point (five of them UK Top 30 hits), the majority taken from their first two albums Visage (1980) and The Anvil (1982), as well as a couple of non-single tracks. The cassette version was released as a Special Dance Mix Cassette, featuring remixes as well as a bonus track, "Der Amboss" (a German-language version of the song "The Anvil").This version was also available on limited vinyl with a red rim around the outer sleeve instead of blue.

In British HMV stores, a limited number of copies of the album and cassette were issued with a free 7" vinyl picture disc of the "Pleasure Boys" single from 1982. The album reached No. 38 on the UK Albums Chart and was certified Gold by the British Phonographic Industry, based on pre-release sales to shops.

The album was re-released a decade later as Fade to Grey – The Best of Visage with a similar cover and tracklisting but with the inclusion of two tracks not featured on the original release: "Love Glove" (Visage's penultimate single), from the album Beat Boy (1984), and the Bassheads/Andy Stevenson remix of "Fade to Grey", which became a minor Top 40 hit again in 1993. The only single not included on this compilation was "Beat Boy", the band's final single from 1984.

In October 2020, the Special Dance Mix version of the album was released for the first time on CD by Rubellan Remasters. The CD features all of the tracks originally included on the original 1983 cassette version (many of them still in their non-stop "hit mix" form) along with several bonus tracks.

Track listing

Standard version

Original 1983 release
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Origin	Length
1.	"Fade to Grey"	Billy Currie Midge Ure Chris Payne	Visage	4:00
2.	"Mind of a Toy"	Steve Strange Ure Currie John McGeoch Rusty Egan Dave Formula	Visage	3:32
3.	"Visage"	Strange Ure Currie McGeoch Egan Formula	Visage	3:53
4.	"We Move" (remix)	Strange Ure Currie McGeoch Egan Formula	B-side to "Mind of a Toy"	3:45
5.	"Tar"	Strange Ure Currie McGeoch Egan Formula Barry Adamson	Visage	3:32
6.	"In the Year 2525"	Rick Evans	Previously unreleased	3:45
7.	"The Anvil" (single remix by John Luongo)	Strange Ure Currie McGeoch Egan Formula	B-side of "Pleasure Boys"	4:26
8.	"Night Train" (album version edit)	Strange Ure Currie McGeoch Egan Formula	The Anvil	3:58
9.	"Pleasure Boys"	Strange Currie McGeoch Egan Formula Steve Barnacle	Non-album single	3:35
10.	"The Damned Don't Cry"	Strange Ure Currie McGeoch Egan Formula	The Anvil	4:02

1993 re-release bonus tracks
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Origin	Length
11.	"Love Glove"	Strange Egan Barnacle	Beat Boy	4:00
12.	"Fade to Grey" (Bassheads 7" edit)	Currie Ure Payne	Previously unreleased	3:22

Special Dance Mix versions

1983 Special Dance Mix Cassette
Side one:

"Fade to Grey" (12" Dance Mix) – 6:20
"Mind of a Toy" (12" Dance Mix) – 5:10
"Visage" (12" Dance Mix) – 5:31
"We Move" (remix) – 3:32
"Tar" – 3.30
"Der Amboss" (edit) – 4:34

Side two:

"In the Year 2525" – 3:42
"The Anvil" (special remix for this album) – 5:01
"Night Train" (special remix for this album) – 6:20
"Pleasure Boys" – 3:33
"Damned Don't Cry" (12" Dance Mix) – 5:40

(Timings are approximate, as the cassette release was produced as a non-stop "hit mix" in which some tracks fade into each other.)

2020 Rubellan Remasters Special Dance Mix CD

"Fade to Grey" – 6:22
"Mind of a Toy" – 5:11
"Visage" – 5:33
"We Move" (Remix) – 3:34
"Tar" – 3:28
"In the Year 2525" – 3:40
"The Anvil" – 4:57
"Night Train" – 6:24
"Pleasure Boys" – 3:27
"The Damned Don't Cry" – 5:37
"Frequency 7" – 3:05
"Night Train" (7" Remix) – 3:42
"Der Amboss" – 4:37
"Pleasure Boys" (Bonus Beats) – 5:50
"Night Train" (Dub Mix) – 5:03

Charts

Chart performance for *Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection*
Chart (1983)	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)^[2]	38

Certifications

Certifications for *Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection*
Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI)^[3]	Gold	100,000^{^}
^{^} Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

^ John Bush. "Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection - Visage : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
^ "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
^ "British album certifications – Visage – Fade to Grey - The Singles Collection". British Phonographic Industry. 20 July 1983. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

[1] John Bush. "Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection - Visage : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". www.allmusic.com. Retrieved 11 October 2012.

[ac_UK2_-2] "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

[United_KingdomVisageFade_to_Grey_-_The_Singles_CollectionalbumCertRef-3] "British album certifications – Visage – Fade to Grey - The Singles Collection". British Phonographic Industry. 20 July 1983. Retrieved 19 November 2021.

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+'''''Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection''''' is a 1983 [[compilation album]] by the British [[synth-pop]] group [[Visage (band)|Visage]].
 ==Background==
-Released as a stop-gap between studio albums whilst the band was experiencing contractual difficulties, the compilation includes all of the Visage singles released up to that point (five of them UK Top 30 hits), the majority taken from their first two albums ''[[Visage (Visage album)|Visage]]'' (1980) and ''[[The Anvil (album)|The Anvil]]'' (1982), as well as a couple of non-single tracks. The cassette version was released as a Special Dance Mix Cassette, featuring remixes of each of the album's tracks as well as a bonus track, "Der Amboss" (a German-language version of the song "The Anvil"). In British [[HMV]] stores, a limited number of copies of the album and cassette were issued with a free 7" vinyl picture disc of the "[[Pleasure Boys]]" single from 1982. The album reached No. 38 on the [[UK Albums Chart]] and was certified Gold, based on pre-release sales to shops.
+Released as a stop-gap between studio albums whilst the band was experiencing contractual difficulties, the compilation includes all of the Visage singles released up to that point (five of them UK Top 30 hits), the majority taken from their first two albums ''[[Visage (Visage album)|Visage]]'' (1980) and ''[[The Anvil (album)|The Anvil]]'' (1982), as well as a couple of non-single tracks. The cassette version was released as a Special Dance Mix Cassette, featuring remixes as well as a bonus track, "Der Amboss" (a German-language version of the song "The Anvil").This version was also available on limited vinyl with a red rim around the outer sleeve instead of blue.
+In British [[HMV]] stores, a limited number of copies of the album and cassette were issued with a free 7" vinyl picture disc of the "[[Pleasure Boys]]" single from 1982. The album reached No. 38 on the [[UK Albums Chart]] and was certified Gold by the [[British Phonographic Industry]], based on pre-release sales to shops.
+The album was re-released a decade later as ''Fade to Grey – The Best of Visage'' with a similar cover and tracklisting but with the inclusion of two tracks not featured on the original release: "[[Love Glove]]" (Visage's penultimate single), from the album ''[[Beat Boy]]'' (1984), and the [[Bassheads]]/Andy Stevenson remix of "[[Fade to Grey (Visage song)|Fade to Grey]]", which became a minor Top 40 hit again in 1993. The only single not included on this compilation was "[[Beat Boy (song)|Beat Boy]]", the band's final single from 1984.
+In October 2020, the Special Dance Mix version of the album was released for the first time on CD by Rubellan Remasters. The CD features all of the tracks originally included on the original 1983 cassette version (many of them still in their non-stop "hit mix" form) along with several bonus tracks.
-The album was re-released a decade later as ''Fade to Grey – The Best of Visage'' with a similar cover and track listing but with the inclusion of two tracks not featured on the original release: "[[Love Glove]]" (Visage's penultimate single), from the album ''[[Beat Boy]]'' (1984), and the [[Bassheads]]/Andy Stevenson remix of "[[Fade to Grey (Visage song)|Fade to Grey]]", which became a minor Top 40 hit again in 1993. The only single not included on this compilation was "[[Beat Boy (song)|Beat Boy]]", the band's final single from 1984.
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-===Special Dance Mix Cassette===
+===Special Dance Mix versions===
+'''1983 Special Dance Mix Cassette'''<br />
-<small>'''Side One:'''</small>
+<small>'''Side one:'''</small>
 #"Fade to Grey" (12" Dance Mix) – 6:20
 #"Mind of a Toy" (12" Dance Mix) – 5:10
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 #"We Move" (remix) – 3:32
 #"Tar" – 3.30
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+#"Der Amboss" (edit) – 4:34
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 <LI>"In the Year 2525" – 3:42</LI>
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 <small>(Timings are approximate, as the cassette release was produced as a non-stop "hit mix" in which some tracks fade into each other.)</small>
+'''2020 Rubellan Remasters Special Dance Mix CD'''
-==Charts and certifications==
+#"Fade to Grey" – 6:22
-{{col-begin}}
+#"Mind of a Toy" – 5:11
-{{col-2}}
+#"Visage" – 5:33
+#"We Move" (Remix) – 3:34
+#"Tar" – 3:28
+#"In the Year 2525" – 3:40
+#"The Anvil" – 4:57
+#"Night Train" – 6:24
+#"Pleasure Boys" – 3:27
+#"The Damned Don't Cry" – 5:37
+#"Frequency 7" – 3:05
+#"Night Train" (7" Remix) – 3:42
+#"Der Amboss" – 4:37
+#"Pleasure Boys" (Bonus Beats) – 5:50
+#"Night Train" (Dub Mix) – 5:03
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+==Charts==
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+{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
+|+ Chart performance for ''Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection''
-!Chart (1983)
-!Peak<br />position
 |-
+! scope="col"| Chart (1983)
-|[[UK Albums Chart]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.officialcharts.com/search/albums/Fade+To+Grey+-+The+Singles+Collection |title=The Official Charts Company - Fade To Grey - The Singles Collection by Visage Search |date=6 May 2013 |publisher=The Official Charts Company }}</ref>
+! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
-|align="center"|38
 |-
+{{album chart|UK2|38|date=19831113|rowheader=true|access-date=19 November 2021}}
 |}
-{{col-2}}
-===Certifications===
+==Certifications==
-{{Certification Table Top}}
+{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for ''Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection''}}
-{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Visage|title=Fade To Grey - The Singles Collection|type=album|award=Gold|relyear=1980|certyear=1983|access-date=4 June 2021}}
+{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|artist=Visage|title=Fade to Grey - The Singles Collection|award=Gold|type=album|relyear=1983|certyear=1983|id=2191-1706-2|date=20 July 1983|access-date=19 November 2021}}
+{{Certification Table Bottom|nosales=true}}
-{{col-end}}
 ==References==
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 [[Category:Albums produced by Midge Ure]]
 [[Category:Polydor Records compilation albums]]
-[[Category:Visage albums]]
+[[Category:Visage (band) albums]]

v t e Visage
Steve Strange Rusty Egan Midge Ure Billy Currie Dave Formula John McGeoch Barry Adamson Gary Barnacle Robin Simon
Studio albums	Visage The Anvil Beat Boy Hearts and Knives Demons to Diamonds
Compilation albums	Visage (EP) Fade to Grey: The Singles Collection Master Series The Damned Don't Cry
Live albums	Orchestral
Singles	"Tar" "Fade to Grey" "Mind of a Toy" "Visage" "The Damned Don't Cry" "Night Train" "Pleasure Boys" "Love Glove" "Beat Boy"
Videos	Visage
Related articles	Visage discography Ultravox Magazine Blitz Kids