In celebration of the 30th anniversary of his third solo album, Skunkworks, Bruce Dickinson has unveiled newly remixed Dolby Atmos versions of both Skunkworks and his 1990 debut Tattooed Millionaire, available now via BMG Rights Management. The releases follow last year’s reworked More Balls to Picasso and the Atmos mix of The Mandrake Project, with Brendan Duffey once again handling the new mixes. Originally released in 1996 and produced by Jack Endino, Skunkworks marked a departure from Dickinson’s work with Iron Maiden, focusing on alternative and grunge influences mixed with progressive psychedelia. Both albums are available at this location.
Bruce Dickinson comments on the Dolby Atoms versions.
On Skunkworks:
“It will blow your socks off. It’s a record of which I’m immensely proud. In fact, as the years go by I grow more and more proud of everything that happened on that record. In many ways, it was a bit advanced for its time because we were bringing in all kinds of influences that other people in metal were scared of. It’s very emotional and quite dark in places.”
Dickinson adds on Tattooed Millionaire:
“Tattooed Millionaire’ was kinda the solo album that wasn’t. We had two weeks to write it so myself and Janick Gers just had fun and wrote it round his house. Chris Tsangarides did a great job on the production and now with modern technology we can beef it all up and make it BIG in Atmos world! The album sonically sounds really good.”
Track List:
Skunkworks
01) Space Race
02) Back from the Edge
03) Inertia
04) Faith
05) Solar Confinement
06) Dreamstate
07) I Will Not Accept the Truth
08) Inside the Machine
09) Headswitch
10) Meltdown
11) Octavia
12) Innerspace
13) Strange Death in Paradise
Tattooed Millionaire
01) Son of a Gun
02) Tattooed Millionaire
03) Born in ’58
04) Hell on Wheels
05) Gypsy Road
06) Dive! Dive! Dive!
07) All the Young Dudes
08) Lickin’ the Gun
09) Zulu Lulu
10) No Lies
