The close of this month sees the release of a 2CD collection highlighting the best and some of the rarest of Desmond Dekker's recordings from the sixties and seventies.

The release, entitled '007 - The Best Of Desmond Dekker' features all of the singer's best-known tracks from the period on disc 1, while the second disc focuses on his rarer work, with 11 of the tracks seeing issue for the first time, and another 4 making their CD debut.

With almost all the material mastered from the long-lost original Jamaican analogue tapes, the sound quality surpasses all previous collections of the singer's work and finally does justice to the music of one of the true greats of Reggae music.

Copies of the release will soon be able to be placed via the Trojan shop, but in the meantime, here's thefull track-listing for the collection:

DISC #1: THE HITS

1. Israelites
2. 0.0.7 (Shanty Town)
3. You Can Get It If You Really Want
4. It Mek (UK mix)
5. Sing A Little Song
6. Pickney Gal (alt. tk,)
7. Intensified '68 (aka Music Like Dirt)
8. Honour Your Mother And Father
9. Licking Stick
10. It Pays*
11. The More You Live (aka Live And Learn)
12. Mother's Young Gal
13. Mother Nature
14. Sabotage
15. The Song We Used To Sing (Where Did It Go)
16. Wiseman
17. Jeserine
18. It Gotta Be So
19. Rude Boy Train
20. Get Up, Edina
21. Beautiful And Dangerous
22. Busted Lad
23. Bongo Gal*
24. Mother Pepper
25. Everybody Join Hands

DISC #2: RARITIES & UNRELEASED GEMS

1. A It Mek (original version)
2. Unity*
3. King Of Ska
4. Rudy Got Soul*
5. Sentimental Reason
6. Problems
7. Personal Possession*
8. First Time For A Long Time
9. Young Generation*
10. Generosity
11. Keep A Cool Head*
12. Get Up Little Suzie
13. Pretty Africa
14. Dancing Time
15. Mount Zion
16. Hanging Tree*
17. Perseverance
18. Sweet Music*
19. Fu Manchu*
20. Mother Long Tongue*
21. Call On Me, Baby
22. Sugar And Spice
23. This Woman
24. Shing A Ling
25. Israelites (live version)

All tracks marked * are previously unreleased versions