Dave Edmunds officially retired from a career in music in July 2017 after 50 years in the business. He began his trail-blazing days in the 1960s with Love Sculpture, soon making a one man effort to drag rock music back to its primal roots with his Christmas 1970 number one single chart smash cover of Smiley Lewis' I Hear You Knocking. He then became a new Phil Spector ‘wall of sound’ via mid-1970s hits such as Baby I Love You and Born To Be With You, moving on to his supergroup Rockpile which he co-fronted with Nick Lowe. After that came is solo career, which included the five albums gathered on this three disc set - Subtle As A Flying Mallet, DE 7th, Information, Riff Raff and I Hear You Rockin'