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Thomas Dolby
The Golden Age Of Wireless

Album UK 1982 on Venice In Peril Records label
Electronic (Synth-pop)

This is the first version of the LP, released in early 1982 in the UK. Issued with a custom printed inner sleeve that contains lyrics and credits. Later pressings differ from this one in a variety of ways, but most notably: First US issue (but second issue overall; on Harvest): Drops The Wreck Of The Fairchild, but adds Urges and Leipzig which were taken from an early single. Replaces the full-length Airwaves found here with a 7" version, and includes a different version of Radio Silence. A later US version then dropped Urges and Leipzig and instead added She Blinded Me With Science and One Of Our Submarines. Still later pressings switch off between the long and short versions of She Blinded... and Airwaves, and the rock (long) vs. synth (short) versions of Radio Silence. This full-length version of The Wreck Of The Fairchild found here is unique to this pressing, which continues the radio frequency tones directly into Airwaves without a break. The version found on the b-side of the Airwaves 7" single fades early making it about 5 seconds shorter.

Musicians

	Thomas Dolby voc, p, *1958 GB backing vocals, piano, producer, synthesizer, synthesizer, wave computer, written by, album by, lyrics by, music by, vocals, monks, percussion, electronic, kalimba
	Mark Heyward-Chaplin b, bass
	Justin Hildreth dr, drums, percussion, backwards
	Kevin Armstrong voc, g, *1958 GB guitar
	BilBo , lacquer cut by
	Dave Birch , GB guitar, vocals, monks
	Bruce Woolley voc, *1953 GB vocals, monks
	Andy Partridge voc, g, *1953 GB harmonica
	Simon Lloyd key, sax, flute, brass, leadline
	John Marsh , vocals, shipping forecast
	Guido Orlando , other, chilean translations, distress, grace
	Daniel Miller perc, *1951 GB mixed by, synthesizer
	Lene Lovich voc, sax, *1949 US vocals, operatics
	Les Chappell , vocals, operatics

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