VA - Pride (Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture) [2CD Set] (2014)

PRIDE is the major new BRIT film, and is the story of a group of gay and lesbian activists who work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984, staring Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Paddy Consadine, Andrew Scott.

The album is music from and inspired by the film and features tracks from the mightiest of 80 artists including Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Pet Shop Boys, New Order and Culture Club to name but a few. The film is life-affirming, funny and poignant and is expected to be a box office hit in 2014.
It’s the summer of 1984 – Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem. The Union seems embarrassed to receive their support.

But the activists are not deterred. They decide to ignore the Union and go direct to the miners. They identify a mining village in deepest Wales and set off in a mini bus to make their donation in person. And so begins the extraordinary story of two seemingly alien communities who form a surprising and ultimately triumphant partnership