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Roger Waters performed Deja Vu on US TV’s The Late Show with Steven Colbert yesterday. The track features on his new album Is This The Life We Really Want? which will be released on 2 June 2017. Watch the video below…
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The once elusive vinyl picture of Prince‘s Purple Rain is finally available to pre-order for those in the UK.
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This ’10-year collectors edition’ of the 2007 Manic Street Preachers album ticks most of the boxes with two CDs packed with content and a DVD with the band’s full Glastonbury performance from the year of release and promo videos. Deluxe 2LP vinyl also features demos. 
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Parlophone continue their David Bowie 40th anniversary seven-inch picture discs, and will next month issue Be My Wife.
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There’s flogging a dead horse, and then there’s resuscitating said dead horse to flog it some more. People, I give you yet another edition of ABBA’s Gold compilation, which most people call ‘ABBA Gold’ (see Wings Wildlife, for similar confusion).
The release in question is a gold double vinyl edition of the 1992 compilation which ‘celebrates’ the 25th anniversary of it’s original release, or maybe the 43rd anniversary of the band winning the Eurovision Song Contest, or possibly the 35th anniversary of their last TV appearance…
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Marillion‘s classic 1985 studio album Misplaced Childhood, which features the hits Kayleigh and Lavender, will be reissued as two deluxe editions in June, including a five-disc set that will feature a lossless 5.1 remix of the album created by producer, musician and surround maestro Steven Wilson!
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SDE can reveal some details around the mastering and vinyl pressing of the recently announced Iggy Pop 40th anniversary vinyl reissues….
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Just when you thought the promotional campaign for the reissue of Paul McCartney‘s Flowers in the Dirt album was over, Macca has just made another demo available for download from his website. This time it’s the track Back On My Feet.
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Nonesuch Records will issue The Natalie Merchant Collection next month, a new ten-CD box set that brings together her eight studio albums along with two bonus discs.
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Peter Gabriel‘s three soundtrack albums Birdy, Passion and Long Walk Home will be issued on audiophile quality 45RPM vinyl pressings in July.
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Beyoncé is to issue a box set of last year’s Lemonade album which she’s calling the ‘How To Make Lemonade Box Set’.
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Matthew Sweet will release a new studio album, Tomorrow Forever, in June.
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A month on from the announcement that Wet Wet Wet‘s 1987 debut, Popped In Souled Out, is to be reissued as a super deluxe edition, the band have now confirmed exactly what the content will be on each of the five discs included in the set.
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Radiohead have remastered their 1997 album OK Computer and will reissue it across three physical formats to mark the 20th anniversary. There will be a super deluxe edition style box set – with all formats including three unreleased tracks and the eight B-sides from the era.
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Midnight Oil‘s forthcoming Overflow Tank box set, which is the 12-disc ‘rarities’ companion to the ‘Full Tank’ set, is available for a very competitive price right now on Amazon France.
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Real Gone Music will issue a limited edition coloured vinyl pressing of Ry Cooder‘s classic soundtrack to Wim Wenders’ 1984 film Paris, Texas.
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Although, bizarrely, there was no mention of a vinyl picture disc edition of the new remaster of Prince‘s Purple Rain album as part of last week’s press release, that does indeed seem to be one of the formats available for fans to purchase.
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Excellent packaging and excellent value for all editions of this new Nick Cave anthology, although pick of the releases in the 3CD+DVD super deluxe.
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Lowest price to date for last year’s super deluxe box set edition of the soundtrack to Nic Roeg’s 1976 film The Man Who Fell To Earth, which of course starred a certain Mr David Bowie.
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