• Following the completion of the gruelling yet highly successful eighteen-month ‘This World And Body’ World Tour, Marion started work on their second album. Their manager enlisted the help of Johnny Marr, originally to give his opinion on the material.
• But by the end of one day’s session, Johnny Marr had already become like a sixth member of Marion, and agreed to co-write and produce ‘The Program’.
• This 2 CD deluxe edition features the album, b-sides, and the “Sparkle” EP (issued outside Japan for the first time) plus a previously unreleased track, along with the lyrics and photos from the band’s archive and a booklet note by frontman Jaime Harding.