LOS ANGELS (UMe records) - A treasured musical family, a New Wave flashback and a popular mainstream rock group are the latest headliners for new releases from the DVD music video series
'20th Century Masters/The DVD Millenium Collection. The UMe DVD video companion to
20th Century Masters/The DVD Millenium Collection, the most successful single artist series of albums in history (with more than 28 million albums shipped), the series continues on June 8, 2004 with DVDs issued for The Neville Brothers, The Fixx, and Night Ranger.
Each DVD features five popular music videos, many of them making their U.S. DVD debuts, for each individual artist. All are 48k/24-bit digitally remastered - audio and video.
THE BEST OF THE NEVILLE BROTHERS (A&M/UMe) finds the First Family of New Orleans funk - Aaron, Arthur, Charles and Cyril - offering their videos for tracks such as the socially conscious anthem "Sister Rosa" (their heartfelt tribute to civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks) and a cover of Steve Miller's "Fly Like An Eagle" (in its 7" remix of the track on 1992's 'Family Froove').
Also seen are the videos for "Yellow Moon" (which along with "Sister Rosa" appeared on the 1989 album YELLOW MOON) and, spun off from 1990's BROTHER'S KEEPER, "Fearless" and a Neville-ized treatment of Leonard Cohen's "Bird On A Wire."
THE BEST OF THE FIXX (Geffen/UMe) returns viewers to a time when New Wave was new and so was MTV. The Fixx had the haircuts, the suits and the good looks to make the group a music video favorite and as a result the band claimed some of the first hits to enter our lives through the television rather than the radio.
1983's REACH THE BEACH broke the U.K. band in America as its "One Thing Leads To Another" hit #4 pop (its video was a huge MTV hit) and "Saved By Zero" and "The Sign Of Fire" were Top 40. The Fixx returned in 1984 with PHANTOMS, which spawned the Top 20 "Are We Ourselves?" 1986's WALKABOUT featured yet another Top 20, "Secret Separation."
THE BEST OF NIGHT RANGER (Geffen/UMe) celebrates a rock band which harnessed the frenetic drive of heavy metal, hook-laden rockers and melodious, radio-friendly power ballads with a flamboyant visual appeal that made it a staple of the then-embryonic MTV.
Not surprisingly then, "Don't Tell Me You Love Me" from its 1982 debut album DAWN PATROL became a Top 40 hit. The next year, the group earned widespread acclaim with the platinum Top 20 MIDNIGHT MADNESS, which yielded the #5 "Sister Christian," Top 40 "When You Close Your Eyes" and raucous concert closer "(You Can Still) Rock In America."
