Outside the trains don't run on time *
He'd send in the army *
It's her factory *

Produced by Andy Gill,
Jon King and Rob Warr
* … Extra tracks
Produced by Gang Of Four
Digitally remastered by Andy Gill and
Jon King at Abbey Road Studios

"Gang of Four is the first rock band I could truly relate to, the first to make me want to go crazy and dance and fuck and feel like I was a part of something really cool. I remember the first time I heard the Entertanment! record, listening to the razor-sharp rhythms, looking at the anti-fat white pig album cover and then busting into a fit of violent spasmic dancing. The little Flea's mind was blown. It completely changed the way I looked at rock music and sent me on my trip as a bass player. Unlike any contemporary rock music I had heard before it was really fucking art... like a big Man Ray photograph jumping up and doing the watusi or something. The electricity and inventiveness of their first few records is something any rock group should grovel to attain, and I hear their influence everywhere. It made me laugh to hear the guy from U2 talk about his guitar influence being old bluesmen. I thought, 'Hey, you dipshit, what about Andy Gill?' I hear their influence on really great bands, too, like Fugazi and Jame's Addiction. Gill's guitar playing on 'Anthrax' is a rare example of non-retro psychedelia and the groove laid down by the Burnham-Gill-Allen-King connection on 'Not Great Men' is the first thing I put on my turntable to show somebody what shaped the sound of the rookie Red Hot Chili Peppers. These limeys rocked my world."

-Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Entertainment! changed my life. It ded for Kurt Cobain, too. When Gang Of Four came to Seattle I drove all the way from Boise, Idaho, to see'em. It was a totally nuts crowd. People still talk about it-it was pure energy. Andy Gill spent the whole gig just whacking his guitar like he was beating a small child or something. Jon King was out of his f***ing mind, his eyes were all rolled back into his head. I used to be in a cover band that played all of Entertainment! We were called Red Set."

-Tad Doyle
TAD

"Entertainment! shredded everything that came before it. The Gang of Four know how to swing. I stole lot from them."

-Michael Stipe
R.E.M.

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