''Greatest Hits (The Abbey Road Session)'' is a live-in-studio album by the rock band
Therapy?. It was released by
Marshall Records
Marshall is a British company that designs and manufactures music amplifiers, speaker cabinets, brands personal headphones and earphones, drums and bongos. The company also owns a record label called Marshall Records. It was founded in Lond ...
on 13 March 2020.
The 12 tracks, all re-recordings of
UK Top 40 singles originally released between 1992 and 1998, were recorded on 8 November 2019 at
Abbey Road Studios
Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI Recording Studios) is a recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London, England. It was established in November 1931 by the Gramophone Company, a predecessor of British music c ...
in London.
The album was released on black vinyl, translucent green vinyl and double CD. While initial pre-order physical copies carried the "Abbey Road" subtitle, following an issue raised by the studio over naming rights, re-pressings and all digital copies were retitled ''Greatest Hits (2020 Versions)''.
The second part of the double CD release, entitled ''Official Bootleg 1990–2020'', features 15 live songs (one to represent each studio album in the band's discography) recorded between 1990 and 2018, compiled from the band's personal archives.
Track listing
Personnel
Therapy?
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Andy Cairns – vocals, guitar
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Michael McKeegan
Michael McKeegan (born 25 March 1971) is a Northern Irish musician best known as the bassist of rock band Therapy?.
Evil Priest
In 1988, McKeegan (bass/vocals), along with his two brothers Ciaran (guitar) and Charlie (drums), formed a Heavy m ...
– bass guitar
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Neil Cooper – drums
Additional musicians
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James Dean Bradfield – guitar, vocals on "Die Laughing"
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Fyfe Ewing
Fyfe Alexander Ewing (born 1 November 1970), is best known as the original drummer and founding member of rock band Therapy?.
Therapy?
In 1989, while playing drums in a punk covers band at a charity gig in Jordanstown, Ewing met Andy Cairns a ...
– drums, vocals (CD 2, tracks 1–4)
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Graham Hopkins – drums (CD 2, tracks 6–8)
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Martin McCarrick
Martin McCarrick (born 29 July 1962) is an English cellist, keyboardist, guitarist and composer. Aside from being a live and recording artist, he is also a teacher and visiting lecturer in music.
Career
His first recording in the pop/rock ar ...
– guitar (CD 2, tracks 6–9)
Production
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Chris Sheldon
Chris Sheldon (born 25 September 1962) is an English record producer, particularly of rock music based in London, England. He has produced or mixed records for the Foo Fighters, Garbage, Big Country, Feeder, Therapy?, Biffy Clyro, Oceansize, Pix ...
– producer, engineer
Artwork
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Nigel Rolfe – artwork
Charts
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Greatest Hits
2020 albums
Therapy? albums
Albums produced by Chris Sheldon