Yello – Flag (Ltd. Re-Issue 2022)

„One Second” comes on black vinyl with the original tracklisting, the bundle comes with a bonus 12” colored vinyl with the tracks „Goldrush I”, „Goldrush II” and „She’s Got A Gun (Live At The Palladium NY)’, taken during a fashion show by fashion icon Azzedine Alaïa.

 The crowning glory of the first re-release part of the YELLO complete work is the re-release of „Flag” from 1988. The duo’s sixth studio album enters the German and Austrian charts in 11th and 12th place (both with awarded gold) and entered the Swiss hit parade at number 3. While tracks like “3 ^rdOf June”, „Blazing Saddles” or „Alhambra” with an almost oriental relaxedness, the Meier/Blank team really gets going again with the mega-hit single „The Race”: The piece shoots up to number 4 in the German hit parade , number 6 in Austria, number 7 in the British charts and number 6 in Switzerland. The album cover, designed by graphic artist Ernst Gamper, already congenially implements the special racing dynamics of the cult piece, before „The Race” is used as a theme and trailer song for various international TV shows; such as the iconic theme tune of the German music show „Formel Eins”, which a whole generation of music fans grew up with.

“There were different versions of ‘The Race’” , Boris Blank looks back. „The two star magicians Marco Tempest and Midi Gottet asked if they could get a piece of music from me for the Wizarding World Championship in New York. Dieter suggested taking the first version of ‘The Race’. At that time still without wind instruments and without engine samples. Later another request came from the producers of ‘Formula One’. So I added a few more parts and made everything a little more dramatic. Only then did we come up with the idea of ​​adding vocals to the track and including it on the album.”

„Flag” comes on black vinyl with the original tracklisting, the bundle comes with a bonus 12” colored vinyl with the tracks „The Race (12″ Mix)” and „Another Race”.

Tracklist: