Blue Room said:
If you did, they were bootlegs. The only "official" CD single that exists for anything prior to the War singles is the 11 O'Clock Tick Tock Live 12" that contains J Swallow also. Non of the other early singles have been released on CD. I wish they would though. I would love to have a clean CD copy of A Celebration taken from the master tape instead of the vinyl single.
Blue Room, I think you're referring to the Fire CD-single. That single (in an ugly yellow sleeve, IMO) contained the B-side J. Swallow and live versions of 11 O'Clock Tick Tock and The Ocean.
As for A Celebration, it is legally available on CD. It's on the compilation Now 1982 (released in 1999 on the verge of the new millenium). That one is available from
http://www.hmv.co.uk (do a search on the title Now 1982 and you'll get there). Oddly, the web-page of HMV does not list the song (it should be #21, between Golden Brown and A Town Called Malice), but believe me, it's on it. I ordered the album from them and I have it on my copy.
As for the rest of that album, hey, it's 1982. There are some great, nostalgic tracks on it and some awful, nostalgic tracks. If you're old enough to (slightly) remember that year it's a nice compilation. And it has the only known CD-version of A Celebration.
C ya!
Marty (who also wishes the really early singles were re-released on CD)