Beverley Knight’s The B-Funk Gets the Deluxe Treatment: 30th Anniversary 2CD Edition Announced

​Beverley Knight’s The B-Funk Gets the Deluxe Treatment: 30th Anniversary 2CD Edition Announced

Release date: may 15, 2026​
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Celebrating the 30th anniversary year of UK Queen of Soul Beverley Knight’s auspicious debut 'The B-Funk', this 2CD set presents the full remastered album alongside 18 bonus tracks of rare 12” mixes and previously unreleased versions.

Signed to Dome Records at just 19 years old, the prodigiously talented, gospel-schooled Wolverhampton-born singer began working on her debut album while still at university. The original white label release of her debut single ‘Flavour Of The Old School’ in late 1994 caused an immediate, massive street-level buzz, going on to become a certified UK swing anthem.

Working with street soul studio wizards 2B3, British hip hop pioneers Blak Twang and more, the 1995 release of 'The B-Funk' was heralded by the UK black music press as the arrival of a landmark new voice and “the best British soul album ever” (Echoes), with Beverley later winning the R&B Act Of The Year prize at the 1996 Black Music Awards.
In the decades since, Knight has gone on to work with everyone from Take That to Prince, sell out countless tours and score over a dozen Top 40 hits, progressing from street soul sensation to acclaimed West End musical theatre mainstay. Meanwhile 'The B-Funk' has continued to grow in stature with the R&B cognoscenti: key cut ‘Mutual Feeling’ being recently sampled on Playboi Carti & Kendrick Lamar’s 2025 US smash ‘Backd00r’.

​​• 30th Anniversary deluxe 2CD remaster of UK Soul Queen Beverley Knight’s debut album 'The B-Funk' - featuring British swing anthem ‘Flavour Of The Old School’.

• With 18 bonus tracks of rare 12” mixes including three previously unreleased versions.
• 28 page colour booklet presenting new interviews with Beverley and producers Neville Thomas (2B3) and Victor Redwood-Sawyerr (Blak Twang), track-by-track commentary, discography and unseen vintage photos.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE
The Album
1.  The B-Funk
2.  Moving On Up (On The Right Side)
3.  Mutual Feeling
4.  Flavour Of The Old School
5.  Remedy
6.  Down For The One
7.  Steppin’ On My Shoes
8.  Promise You Forever
9.  It’s Your Time
10.  So Happy
11.  Cast All Your Cares
12.  U’ve Got It
13.  In Time
14.  Goodbye Innocence
Bonus Tracks
15.  Down For The One (Radio Version)
16.  Moving On Up (On The Right Side) (Radio Version)
17.  Goodbye Innocence (Early Version) *
 
DISC TWO
The Mixes
1.  Flavour Of The Old School (Full Flava Remix)
2.  Down For The One (2B3 Retro Mix)
3.  Moving On Up (On The Right Side) (Ethnic Boyz Remix)
4.  Mutual Feeling (D-Lux Remix)
5.  So Happy (Summertime Mix) *
6.  Flavour Of The Old School (Club Remix)
7.  Moving On Up (On The Right Side) (D-Lux Remix)
8.  Mutual Feeling (Feat Blak Twang)
9.  Flavour Of The Old School (2B3 New Flava)
10.  Down For The One (Marcapella Mix) †
11.  So Happy (Quiet Storm Mix) *
12.  Flavour Of The Old School (Hip Hop Mix feat Rapro)
13.  Moving On Up (On The Right Side) (Full Crew/Wayne Lawes Remix)
14.  Mutual Feeling (Minnx Remix)
15.  Flavour Of The Old School (Hoff's Groove Factory Mix)

​*Previously unreleased
† First time on CD