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Universal will issue a seven-CD Fairport Convention box set in July that features ‘key album tracks’, non-album singles, radio sessions and previously unreleased live recordings from all of the classic line-ups
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Sony’s Legacy Recordings is to release A Love So Beautiful, a new Roy Orbison compilation that sets the American singer-songwriter’s vocals to London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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Sony’s Legacy Recordings will issue The Concert In Hyde Park next month Paul Simon‘s 2012 concert performed at London’s Hard Rock Calling festival.
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U2 have another go at reissuing The Joshua Tree. This 30th anniversary set includes the album played live at Madison Square Garden, a discs of remixes and B-sides/rarities. Both CD and vinyl sets come with big hardcover book and Anton Corbijn prints. 
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It has just been announced that Gregg Allman has died at the age of 69.
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Fantastic deals – today only – as Amazon Germany price-matches a local competitor. Grab in demand box sets from The Beatles, Paul McCartney, U2, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd and more at the best prices you will have seen to date. The Sgt. Pepper super deluxe is £70! Peter Gabriel vinyl under £10, and you can save almost £40 on the Flowers in the Dirt box. Read on for twenty great deals…
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UK retailer Sainsbury’s are will be stocking three new limited edition coloured vinyl records from today. Artists include Kylie Minogue, T.Rex and Ian Dury….
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This July, Universal will issue Before During After – The Story of 10cc, a new 10cc four-CD box set curated with input from the band to “detail each and every chapter of their musical story”. The box features the band together and apart and therefore features work from artists like Paul McCartney, the Art of Noise, Wax and Godley and Creme.
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Excellent price on Amazon Germany right now for the Pink Floyd Early Years three-disc set 1971: Reverber/ation.
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In this unboxing video, SDE Editor Paul Sinclair shows you around the brand new, 50th anniversary super deluxe edition box set of The Beatles‘ legendary 1967 album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band…
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The soundtrack to Tony Scott’s brilliant 1993 film True Romance is being issued on vinyl for the first time and will be available as part of a deluxe box set but also separately in limited quantities.
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OMD will release a new album, The Punishment Of Luxury, in September.
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Capitol/Universal will next month issue 1967 Sunshine Tomorrow a new two-CD Beach Boys rarities set that pulls together a slew of previously unreleased material.
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Apple Corps and Universal kindly supplied SDE with super deluxe edition of The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band a week or so before release date. There’s a lot of content in the six-disc box set, but we couldn’t resist heading first to the 5.1 mix – created by Giles Martin and Sam Okell. Martin had already promised an audience at Abbey Road that the Pepper 5.1 would be “much more immersive” than any of his surround work on the ‘number ones’ video package. So let’s examine the mix, track-by-track…
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King Crimson continue their popular ‘Tour Boxes’ with the 2017 Elements Tour Box, a double-disc package which you could only get hold of (until now) if you’d attended any of their tour dates this year in Canada, Mexico or the USA.
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It doesn’t get much better than a six-disc super deluxe edition box set of The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper. Lenticular cover, EMI-style tape box, newly remixed stereo, surround sound 5.1 mix, two discs of sessions, the original mono mix, archive documentary and a weighty hardcover book, with some fascinating notes and stunning images.
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When the reissue was first announced, SDE followed with interest readers’ advice on how to get hold of the ‘indies-only’ blue vinyl edition of the forthcoming 3LP vinyl reissue of Radiohead‘s OK Computer.
There was some gnashing of teeth as certain retailers over-promised – taking and then cancelling many orders. But if you missed out we have good news: Germany’s JPC are now taking pre-orders.
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Last night saw Sheryl Crow entertain a London crowd at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. It was SDE’s third gig in three nights. I might need to slow things down. I’m getting too old for this malarkey…
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The blu-ray edition of Steven Wilson‘s forthcoming album, To The Bone, is now available for pre-order.
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SDE takes a look at the recent Pink Floyd Early Years 1965-1972 individual volumes and last year’s box set…with this unboxing video.
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