This recording includes the highlights of the 1987-88 Japan/Australia Tour of Starlight Express. Recorded at both the Hitokuchizaka Stuido in Tokyo and the Air Studio in London and released in 1987 by EMI Music Group Australia. For some reason, Starlight Sequence and Race Four are combined into one track. Despite being sold with multiple covers (for the Japanese and Australian markets), it is the same recording. This recording was re-released three years later as part of the 1990 Japanese Tour.
This recording is quite hard to find, but a particular favourite, given its remarkably evocative 1980s instrumental sound, and particularly good cast. It is also the only English-language cast recording of the later show that includes Caboose.
Songlist
Side One
Side Two
- Pearl Twirl/Hymn to Victory
- U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D.
- Girls' Rolling Stock
- Wide Smile
- Right Place, Right Time
- Starlight/Race Music
- Only You
- Light at the End of the Tunnel
Credits
- Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Lyrics by Richard Stilgoe
- Production Musical Director: David Caddick
- Musical Director: Phillip Edwards
- Recording Supervised by: Martin Levan
- Recorded by: Martin Levan, Mark Freegard, Takashi Nagal
- Remixed by: Martin Levan and Mark Freegard
- Recording Coordinated by: George Kakizaki and Kyu-ichi Sawazaki
