‘EXTRAORDINARY’ JOHN WETTON BOX SET ON THE WAY
Written by Malcolm Dome on June 12, 2019
A box set celebrating the late John Wetton is currently being compiled.
To be titled ‘An Extraordinary Life’, this is being put together by his family, friends and management. This will feature all six of his solo albums remastered and with bonus tracks plus artwork selected by Wetton himself towards the end of his life. And some of these will be expanded to two discs. The albums are ‘Caught In The Crossfire’, ‘Battlelines’, ‘Arkangel’, ‘Sinister’, ‘Rock Of Faith’ and ‘Raised In Captivity’.
There will also be high resolution video tributes from some of Wetton’s friends and a hard back coffee table book written by Nick Shilton.
It’s expected that the box set will be completed later in the year, and is to be initially available through Burning Shed, before being made more widely available.
To whet (or Wet?!) your appetite, here’s a previously unheard performance from Asia in rehearsal on June 12, 1981:
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