Release Date: 6/28/2024

Reissue of seminal HDH release from Detroit-born vocalist Freda Payne. Released in 1970 on the Motown break-off label Holland-Dozier-Holland - a partnership between former Motown songwriters Eddie and Brian Holland and Lamont Dozier - Band of Gold was a huge commercial success for the label. • Features the classic singles Unhooked Generation and Band of Gold - a single that sold over 2 million copies and became a gold record. • Textbook female vocal soul with a post-Motown sound signature, the most commercially successful and widely recognised album that Freda Payne ever released. • Repressed on 140g GOLD vinyl as part of the Demon Music Group HDH reissue series, with an obi strip and a printed inner, featuring a new liner note from Soul Trilogy author Stewart Cosgrove. • Newly remastered audio from Phil Kinrade at AIR studios. • Reissued for the first time on limited gold vinyl. • Band of Gold - reissued with SOUL by Demon Music Group.