NIRVANA – THE SHOW MUST GO ON: THE COMPLETE NIRVANA COLLECTION (BOXSET)
12th September 2025
12-CD BOX SET FROM THE PIONEERS OF BRITISH PSYCHEDELIA – INCLUDES ALL OF THE BAND’S STUDIO ALBUMS NEWLY REMASTERED, 3 BONUS DISCS OF OUTTAKES, DEMOS AND RARITIES + 88-PAGE HARDBACK BOOK
Crafting a visionary sound that moved beyond the confines of the 1960s, British psychedelic band Nirvana’s influence has echoed through the generations and continues to inspire artists to this day. The Show Must Go On: The Complete Collection is a definitive twelve-disc compendium that encompasses the complete studio recordings of Nirvana, all with newly remastered audio, as well as 3 additional discs of rare outtakes, demos, and other unreleased rarities –
DISC 1 – The Story of Simon Simopath (Stereo)
DISC 2 – The Story of Simon Simopath (Mono)
DISC 3 – All of Us (Stereo)
DISC 4 – Dedicated To Markus III
DISC 5 – Local Anaesthetic
DISC 6 – Songs Of Love And Praise
DISC 7 – Orange And Blue
DISC 8 – Me And My Friend
DISC 9 – Secrets
DISC 10 – Bonus Material (1) A collection of rare B-sides, alternate takes, and early versions, including collaborations with Spooky Tooth.
DISC 11 – Bonus Material (2) Demos, instrumentals, and alternate mixes.
DISC 12 – Bonus Material (3) Later-era rarities and unreleased tracks.
As well as the 12 CDs, The Show Must Go On: The Complete Collection also includes a beautiful 88-page hardback book that offers an intimate and detailed exploration of Nirvana’s history, their creative evolution, and their indelible cultural footprint. Within its pages, insightful liner notes from esteemed music journalist Richard Morton Jack are interwoven with exclusive interviews featuring founding members Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Alex Spyropoulos, revealing their personal narratives, inspirations, and experiences crafting music during an era of profound experimentation and change.
The book is further enriched by previously unseen photographs by Gered Mankowitz and archival materials that vividly capture the essence and atmosphere of the band’s creative zenith.
This limited edition, one-time pressing presents the CDs in mini-LP sleeves featuring original artwork, all elegantly contained within a deluxe heavy lift-off lid box.
FULL TRACKLIST
DISC 1 |
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| 1 | Wings Of Love (stereo) | [03:29] |
| 2 | Lonely Boy (stereo) | [02:34] |
| 3 | We Can Help You (stereo) | [02:08] |
| 4 | Satellite Jockey (stereo) | [02:41] |
| 5 | In The Courtyard Of The Stars (stereo) | [02:43] |
| 6 | You Are Just The One (stereo) | [02:17] |
| 7 | Pentecost Hotel (stereo) | [03:15] |
| 8 | I Never Had A Love Like This Before (stereo) | [02:52] |
| 9 | Take This Hand (stereo) | [02:20] |
| 10 | 1999 (stereo) | [02:25] |
DISC 2 |
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| 1 | Wings Of Love (mono) | [03:20] |
| 1 | Lonely Boy (mono) | [02:31] |
| 3 | We Can Help You (mono) | [02:05] |
| 4 | Satellite Jockey (mono) | [02:38] |
| 5 | In The Courtyard Of The Stars (mono) | [02:34] |
| 6 | You Are Just The One (mono) | [02:07] |
| 7 | Pentecost Hotel (mono) | [03:09] |
| 8 | I Never Had A Love Like This Before (mono) | [02:50] |
| 9 | Take This Hand (mono) | [02:17] |
| 10 | 1999 (mono) | [02:09] |
DISC 3 |
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| 1 | Rainbow Chaser | [02:37] |
| 2 | Tiny Goddess | [04:06] |
| 3 | The Touchables (All Of Us) | [03:01] |
| 4 | Melanie Blue | [02:41] |
| 5 | Trapeze | [02:50] |
| 6 | The Show Must Go On | [02:41] |
| 7 | Girl In The Park | [02:42] |
| 8 | Miami Masquerade | [02:48] |
| 9 | Frankie The Great | [02:29] |
| 10 | You Can Try It | [03:18] |
| 11 | Everybody Loves The Clown | [02:02] |
| 12 | St. John`s Wood Affair | [02:20] |
DISC 4 |
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| 1 | The World Is Cold Without You | [03:42] |
| 2 | Excerpt From “The Blind & The Beautiful“ | [02:38] |
| 3 | I Talk To My Room | [03:35] |
| 4 | Christopher Lucifer | [04:04] |
| 5 | Aline Cherie | [03:00] |
| 6 | Tres, Tres Bien | [02:52] |
| 7 | It Happened Two Sundays Ago | [03:07] |
| 8 | Black Flower | [04:30] |
| 9 | Love Suite | [06:00] |
| 10 | Illinois | [03:38] |
DISC 5 |
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| 1 | Modus Operandi (Method Of Work) | [16:09] |
| 2 | Home (Salutation-Construction-Destruction-Re-Construction-Fanfare) | [19:10] |
DISC 6 |
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| 1 | Rainbow Chaser | [02:54] |
| 2 | Please Believe Me | [03:10] |
| 3 | Lord Up Above | [04:12] |
| 4 | She`s Lost It | [05:00] |
| 5 | Nova Sketch | [01:50] |
| 6 | Pentecost Hotel | [03:11] |
| 7 | I Need Your Love Tonight | [03:11] |
| 8 | Will There Be Me | [02:10] |
| 9 | Stadium | [07:10] |
DISC 7 |
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| 1 | Orange And Blue | [03:28] |
| 2 | Lithium | [03:56] |
| 3 | Stone In The Water | [03:46] |
| 4 | As Long As I Can See You | [03:15] |
| 5 | Lost In Space | [03:40] |
| 6 | Busy Man | [02:51] |
| 7 | What Are We Gonna Do Now? | [03:42] |
| 8 | Do You Dream? | [03:08] |
| 9 | My Little Red Book | [03:35] |
| 10 | Allison Smith | [02:14] |
| 11 | The Face At The Window | [03:37] |
| 12 | Our Love Is The Sea | [03:08] |
DISC 8 |
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| 1 | Out Of Nowhere | [02:05] |
| 2 | Friends | [04:20] |
| 3 | Mother England | [03:42] |
| 4 | Everybody Should Fly A Kite | [04:17] |
| 5 | Tomorrow I`ll Make You Smile | [02:05] |
| 6 | Me And My Friend | [03:59] |
| 7 | Jesus Christ Junior | [04:27] |
| 8 | I Think I Want Him Too | [02:33] |
| 9 | 1974 | [02:32] |
| 10 | Watch Out Cassius Clay | [03:14] |
DISC 9 |
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| 1 | Secrets (Intro) | [00:59] |
| 2 | I Don`t Care | [02:59] |
| 3 | Someone Stole My Mona Lisa | [01:49] |
| 4 | Bingo Boy | [02:25] |
| 5 | Living In A Blind Spot | [02:36] |
| 6 | It`s Good To Have A Heart | [02:48] |
| 7 | In The Shadow Of That Old Love Affair | [02:11] |
| 8 | I Want To Touch / The Big Fight | [02:17] |
| 9 | Two Of A Kind | [03:01] |
| 10 | Why Don`t You Like Me | [02:46] |
| 11 | Secrets (Reprise) | [01:04] |
| 12 | What You Do You Are | [02:57] |
| 13 | Freedom Chaser | [03:01] |
DISC 10 |
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| 1 | I Believe In Magic (B-side to Tiny Goddess) | [03:21] |
| 2 | Life Ain`t Easy (Take 3) | [03:14] |
| 3 | Feelin` Shattered (B-side to Pentecost Hotel) | [02:19] |
| 4 | Requiem To John Coltrane (B-side to Wings Of Love) | [04:53] |
| 5 | Flashbulb (B-side to Rainbow Chaser) | [02:12] |
| 6 | Oh! What A Performance (Single Version) | [03:06] |
| 7 | Darling Darlene (B side to Oh! What A Performance) | [02:46] |
| 8 | C Side Of Ocho Rios (B-side to Girl In The Park) | [02:14] |
| 9 | Lonely Boy (Instrumental (Take 8)) | [02:51] |
| 10 | I Never Had A Love Like This Before (Instrumental) | [02:50] |
| 11 | Tiny Goddess (Olympic Studios 21 June 1967) | [03:34] |
| 12 | Goodbye Baby Bunting (Complete Version) | [02:25] |
| 13 | Omnibus (Olympic Studios Original Version with Different Lyrics) | [02:39] |
| 14 | Oscar (Oh! What A Performance) (Long version #1 with Spooky Tooth) | [04:19] |
| 15 | Oscar (Oh! What A Performance) (Long version #2 with Spooky Tooth) | [04:27] |
DISC 11 |
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| 1 | Goodbye Baby Bunting (Demo) | [02:25] |
| 2 | City Of The South (Instrumental) | [02:38] |
| 3 | Trapeze (Demo) | [02:20] |
| 4 | Darling Darlene (Long Version (Take 3)) | [03:27] |
| 5 | Rainbow Chaser (Alternate Version without Phasing Effect) | [02:43] |
| 6 | The Touchables (All Of Us) (Instrumental (Take 23)) | [03:13] |
| 7 | The Show Must Go On (Vocal & Bouzouki Version) | [02:30] |
| 8 | Frankie The Great (Alternative version (Take 6)) | [02:48] |
| 9 | You Can Try It (Alternative version (Take 7)) | [03:17] |
| 10 | Everybody Loves The Clown (Alternative Take 6 with Singers and No Lead Vocal) | [02:12] |
| 11 | The Touchables (All Of Us) (Features Vocals by the Actresses from `The Touchables`) | [02:51] |
| 13 | Black Flower (Alternate Take, Trident Studios 31 March 1968) | [05:24] |
| 14 | Love Suite (Instrumental (Take 1) Trident Studios 19 May 1968) | [06:25] |
| 15 | Melanie Blue (New 2017 Recording) | [02:38] |
DISC 12 |
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| 1 | Taxi | [02:03] |
| 2 | June | [02:36] |
| 3 | We Can Make It Through | [02:26] |
| 4 | Illinois (Take 2) | [03:32] |
| 5 | Love Suite (Take 2 – Instrumental) | [06:04] |
| 6 | The Saddest Day Of My Life | [05:14] |
| 7 | I Wanna Go Home | [03:57] |
| 8 | Out On The Road | [03:11] |
| 9 | Lazy Day Drift | [03:37] |
| 10 | Ad Lib | [04:02] |
| 11 | Please Believe Me | [03:10] |
| 12 | Lord Up Above | [04:12] |
| 13 | She`s Lost It | [05:00] |
| 14 | Nova Sketch | [01:50] |
| 15 | I Need Your Love Tonight | [03:11] |
| 16 | Will There Be Me | [02:10] |
| 17 | Stadium | [07:10] |
| 18 | Everybody Should Fly A Kite (Alt. Version) | [04:17] |
NIRVANA – Songlife
The Vinyl Box Set 1967-1972
6 LP Deluxe Box Set from the Pioneers of British Psychedelia and Prog
The original studio albums 1967-1972
Plus… previously unreleased album Secrets from 1972
52 page 12” x 12” book with extensive liner notes, discography and ephemera
All albums remastered for this release
Stunning never before seen Gered Mankowitz photo session
Individually signed print by Alex Spyropoulos and Patrick Campbell-Lyons
Madfish are proud to unveil: Nirvana ’Songlife’ 1967-72, a 6 LP vinyl Deluxe Box Set housing all 5 of the band’s pioneering studio albums – ‘The Story Of Simon Simopath’, ‘All Of Us’, ‘Dedicated To Markos III aka Black Flower’, ‘Local Anaesthetic’, ‘Songs Of Love And Praise’ – alongside the never before released 1972 LP ‘Secrets’. Nirvana were essentially the duo of Irishman Patrick Campbell-Lyons and Greek Alex Spyropoulos – who, following a chance meeting in London during the summer of 1966, took a long, strange trip together.
It’s the first time the band’s recorded output has ever been collated together on one release and is an engrossing body of work to explore. These albums sit comfortably with some of the other great works of the time – the Zombies, The Kinks and the Pretty Things included. And whilst Nirvana are most famous for their British psychedelic classic ‘Rainbow Chaser’, as the music contained here displays, there was so much more to them than just that celebrated single, for they reached far and wide into the musical stratosphere with a technicolour vision.
Four of the original albums have been remastered from their original ¼ inch tapes and the box itself comes with a 52-page booklet featuring liner notes from renowned author Peter Doggett, interviews with Patrick & Alex from Nirvana, full discography, rare newspaper clippings, previously unseen photos, posters and sleeves, and an exclusive Gered Mankowitz print signed individually by the band. Of key interest to fans will be the ‘Secrets’ album which was only recently unearthed in its entirety, its origins began as a musical score that Nirvana had planned on bringing to London’s Theatres and stages in the early Seventies.
Nirvana’s story remains a wonderful tale of artistic ambition and entwined within it lies a roll call of supporting cast heroes that includes The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Traffic, Chris Blackwell, Salvador Dali, Francoise Hardy, Tony Visconti, and many more.
The enduring beauty of Nirvana is, that over 5 decades since their paths crossed, Patrick and Alex remain good friends to this day with both of them residing in Greece. Says Patrick Campbell-Lyons, “Now, as young elderly men, I can say with pride and joy that our friendship is as strong as it was fifty years ago. We see each other often, here in Athens, and respect each other’s creative space. And once in a while we write and record a new song together. Those moments are special, like our friendship.”
Out now on the Madfish label through Snapper Music.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
THE STORY OF SIMON SIMOPATH
Act 1
Wings Of Love
Lonely Boy
We Can Help You
Satellite Jockey
In The Courtyard Of The Stars
Act II
You Are Just The One
Pentecost Hotel
I Never Had A Love Like This Before
Take This Hand
1999
ALL OF US
SIDE 1
Rainbow Chaser
Tiny Goddess
The Touchables (All Of Us)
Melanie Blue
Trapeze
The Show Must Go On
SIDE 2
Girl In The Park
Miami Masquerade
Frankie The Great
You Can Try It
Everybody Loves The Clown
St. John’s Wood Affair
DEDICATED TO MARKOS III / BLACK FLOWER
SIDE 1
The World Is Cold Without You
Excerpt From “The Blind & The Beautiful”
I Talk To My Room
Christopher Lucifer
Aline Cherie
SIDE 2
Tres, Tres Bien
It Happened Two Sundays Ago
Black Flower
Love Suite
Illinois
LOCAL ANAESTHETIC
SIDE 1
Modus Operandi (Method Of Work)
SIDE 2
Home
– Salutation
– Construction
– Destruction
– Re-Construction
– Fanfare
SONGS OF LOVE AND PRAISE
SIDE 1
Rainbow Chaser
Please Believe Me
Lord Up Above
She’s Lost It
Nova Sketch
SIDE 2
Pentecost Hotel
I Need Your Love Tonight
Will There Be Me
Stadium
SECRETS
SIDE 1
Secrets (Intro)
I Don’t Care
Someone Stole My Mona Lisa
Bingo Boy
Living In A Blind Spot
It’s Good To Have A Heart
In The Shadow Of That Old Love Affair
SIDE 2
I Want To Touch / The Big Fight
Two Of A Kind
Why Don’t You Like Me
Secrets (Reprise)
What You Do You Are
Chaser
