Hot Chocolate: The RAK Singles, 4CD Box Set

• With 12 UK Top 10 singles, 29 Top 40 hits and a combined 280 weeks (over 5 years!) in the UK charts Hot Chocolate are one of THE most successful chart acts of all time

• This 4 CD clam shell box set features every A and B-side they issued on the seminal RAK Records label, all 36 singles

• ‘So You Win Again’ was the band’s sole No.1 single but they scored Top 10 hits with ‘Love Is Life’ (No.6), ‘I Believe In Love’ (No.8), ‘Brother Louie’ (No.7), ‘Emma’ (No.3), ‘A Child’s Prayer’ (No.7), ‘You Sexy Thing’ (No.2), ‘Put Your Love In Me’ (No.10), ‘No Doubt About
It’ (No.2), ‘Girl Crazy’ (No.7), ‘It Started With A Kiss’ (No.5) and ‘What Kinda Boy You’re Lookin’ For Girl’ (No.10)

Hot Chocolate chalked up at least one hit single every year between 1970 and 1984, a rare achievement and they are among the Top 200 most successful UK chart artists of all time.

Unlike many UK ‘pop’ acts of the day they scored chart success in the USA where ‘Emma’ (No.3), ‘Disco Queen’ (No.28), ‘You Sexy Thing’ (No.3), ‘So You Win Again’ (No.31), and ‘Every 1’s A Winner’ (No.6) were all Billboard Top 40 hits.

24 of these singles were also chart entries in Germany while eight of them went Top 20 in Australia, the band scoring hits across most of Europe as well

The booklet comes complete with detailed notes on each single by 1970s expert Phil Hendriks
and is fully illustrated with sleeves from across the globe

Track Listing:

DISC ONE:

1 Love Is Life
2 Pretty Girls
3 You Could’ve Been A Lady
4 Everybody’s Laughing
5 I Believe (In Love) 6 Caveman Billy
7 Mary-Anne
8 Ruth
9 You’ll Always Be A Friend
10 Go Go Girl
11 Brother Louie
12 I Want To Be Free
13 Rumours
14 A Man Needs A Woman
15 Emma
16 Makin’ Music
17 Changing World
18 Bump And Dilly Down

DISC TWO:

1 Cheri Babe
2 Sexy Lady
3 Blue Night
4 You Sexy Thing (B-side version)
5 Disco Queen
6 You’re A Natural High
7 A Child’s Prayer
8 Everything Should Be Funky
9 You Sexy Thing
10 A Warm Smile
11 Don’t Stop It Now
12 Beautiful Lady
13 Man To Man
14 Eyes Of A Growing Child
15 Heaven Is In The Back Seat Of My Cadillac
16 Sex Appeal
17 So You Win Again
18 A Part Of Being With You

DISC THREE:

1 Put Your Love In Me
2 Let Them Be The Judge
3 Every 1’s A Winner
4 Power Of Love
5 I’ll Put You Together Again (from Dear Anyone)
6 West End Of Park Lane
7 Mindless Boogie
8 Don’t Turn It Off
9 Going Through The Motions
10 Stay With Me
11 No Doubt About It
12 Gimme Some Of Your Loving
13 Are You Getting Enough Of What Makes You Happy?
14 I’ve Got You On My Mind
15 Love Me To Sleep
16 The Girl Is A Fox
17 Losing You
18 Children Of Spacemen

DISC FOUR:

1 You’ll Never Be So Wrong
2 Robot Love
3 Girl Crazy
4 Bed Games
5 It Started With A Kiss
6 Emotion Explosion
7 Chances
8 A Night To Remember
9 What Kinda Boy You’re Lookin’ For (Girl)
10 Got To Get Back To Work
11 Tears On The Telephone
12 It’s My Birthday
13 I’m Sorry
14 Love Is A Good Thing
15 I Gave You My Heart (Didn’t I)
16 Jeannie
17 Heartache No. 9
18 One Life