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Limited vinyl LP pressing. 2015 release from Mike Peters and The Alarm. Strength [30th Anniversary] has been rearranged and recorded from the ground up by lead singer and songwriter Mike Peters. "I always felt that song for song, word for word, Strength was The Alarm's best album of the 1980's and had layers of hidden qualities that were never truly revealed or properly explored back in those heady 1980's days", says Peters. Re-imagined and informed by experience gained, the songs on Strength [30th Anniversary] have been able to shed skin and live again for new times. "There are a lot of stories on Strength, many of them autobiographical or written from personal experience" continues Peters, "I still see the people I wrote about in the songs and live on the same streets affected by the political landscape documented in the original telling and I felt that they deserved an updating so that they could tell of challenges met and of relationships strengthened by time." To conceive the album for 2015, Mike Peters was aided by the original production notes and lyric book he had first started writing in as far back as 1984 when the band went to New York to work with uber-producer Jimmy Iovine (Credits include John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, U2, Patti Smith etc.). Strength [30th Anniversary] was recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World studios and has been re-examined by Mike Peters from the chords up. "If we had worked with Jimmy Lovine, the album was going to be called Absolute Reality and so I have recorded that as if it was the album's title track and pushed it more towards the style of 'Knife Edge' which was an idea that we discussed with Iovine back in 1984". Strength [30th Anniversary] presents new and old Alarm fans alike an opportunity to embrace a part of the band's history that was special to so many who still support Mike Peters and the group to this very day and who continue to make new discoveries about the timeless qualities of the music.