MidnightRider - Thanks for this news! Can you provide a link or something to where you got the news from or where this re-issue can be purchased?
I'm asking because I'm wondering whether this is the 'Innocence' version that various Saxon members have spoken about - apparently less polished and commercial than the previous version, and more something that the band actually wanted released initially.
If this re-issue is not that, I don't see the point of actually re-releasing it before some of the more earlier material.
Regarding the problems of finding 'Nations' - it's weird, isn't it: although it is not the best Saxon album about, I'd have thought the presence of Elton John would've shifted a few more copies and, therefore, more CDs would have been pressed as time went by. Especially as that Elton bloke has had about 10 career revivals since! I bet there are some of old Reginald Dwight's fans out there that are completely oblivious to his contribution on 'Nations', yet I'm sure Saxon could exploit the situation! Ok, 'Party 'Till You Puke' was just filler material, but 'Northern Lady' is a classic, and The Great Gap-Toothed Wig Wearer definately added to it!