Briton Nik Kershaw shot to the top of the UK charts with four top 20 hits from his debut album, Human Racing. Despite being lumped in the good looks/no talent musical class, Kershaw went on to record three more albums and, most recently, played guitar on several Elton John releases. One Way Records covers most of the early half of Kershaw's career with their Kershaw reissue, Anthology.
Nik Kershaw only released two albums on MCA in the United States - Human Racing and The Riddle. These album covers serve as the front cover and the inside sleeve for One Way's effort.
"Wouldn't It Be Good", Kershaw's only U.S. hit, still stands the test of time today by being a favorite selection of "80's Flashback" disc jockeys. Other tracks, including the title tracks from both of Kershaw's first two albums, his #2 UK hit "I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me", "Dancing Girls" and "Don Quixote" bring all the power of early 80's synthpop to a wider United States audience.
Flaws? The album does only cover his U.S. releases, and it unexplicably omits "Wide Boy", which was one of his UK commercial hits. Still, the chance to get the now hard-to-find UK Human Racing CD, plus five additional tracks (from The Riddle) at a mid-line price makes the Nik Kershaw Anthology a must-get for any fans of alternative 1980's music.
