Marie Pierre Love Affair

• 1. Choose Me (LP mix)
• 2. Can’t Go Through (With Life) (LP mix)
• 3. I Believe
• 4. Somebody Else's Man (LP mix)
• 5. Nothing Gained (From Loving You) (LP mix)
• 6. Humanity
• 7. Rowing (Row Your Boat)
• 8. My Best Friend
• 9. Walk Away
• 10. Over Reacting
• 11. Bonus tracks: Cry (12" mix)
• 12. Choose Me (12" mix)
• 13. Can’t Go Through (With Life) (12" mix)
• 14. Somebody Else's Man (12" mix)
• 15. Nothing Gained (From Loving You) (12" mix)
• 16. Walk Away (12" mix)
• 17. Our Tune (12" mix)

• First expanded re-issue of a seminal lovers rock album.

• Unavailable on CD for 30 years.

• Includes numerous UK reggae chart hits.

By the latter half of the 1970s, lovers rock was in full swing, with the soulful romantically-themed reggae sub-genre attracting the attention of major record companies around the globe.

At the forefront of the UK-fashioned sound was the man widely accredited as its primary creator, Dennis ‘Blackbeard’ Bovell. A musician and songwriter of considerable talent, Dennis initially made his mark on the British music scene with acclaimed reggae group Matumbi, although by the mid-1970s he had also demonstrated his abilities both behind the record decks and at the studio mixing-board, with the consistently high quality of productions attracting the attention Trojan Records, which in 1977 engaged his services, along with those of a talented young up-and- coming singer who Dennis had discovered some months earlier: Marylin Chinn.

A year after signing the duo, Trojan released ‘Walk Away’, the first recording on which Chinn was credited as Marie Pierre. The single swiftly became a major seller in the UK, with its popularity confirming Dennis’s credentials as a gifted producer and establishing Marie as a leading light on the lovers rock scene. In 1979, the high regard in which both were held was re-affirmed with the release of the hugely popular Trojan long-player, ‘Love Affair’.

Now, over 45 years since the release of the album – considered by many to be the finest lovers rock collection to see issue - it finally receives the deluxe treatment, with the original track-listing bolstered by the remainder of the Bovell-Pierre Trojan recordings, along with their initial collaboration, ‘Cry’, and the equally rare ‘Our Tune’, released soon after their departure from the London- based record company.