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Out today is the long awaited Prince 1999 reissue. SDE takes a first look at both super deluxe editions (5CD+DVD and 10LP+DVD) via this unboxing video…
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Amazon in Germany are back with a fine 3-for-€25 deal on CD sets including triple CDs, 2CD+DVDs, SACDs and ‘album collection’ 5CD sets. Some great titles here including recent R.E.M. deluxe editions, classic rock titles from the likes of Eric Clapton, The Allman Brothers Band, Paul McCartney, The Moody Blues, Roxy Music and Mike Oldfield, as well as some great pop from Crowded House, Jellyfish, Nik Kershaw.
Here is the main list for physical music, but of course SDE wants to make your life easy and so you can check out our ‘curated’ selection of great titles below!
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As mentioned in last week’s Saturday Deluxe, Wham!‘s Last Christmas is being reissued as a seven-inch white vinyl record.
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In 1989 Rykodisc included a previously unreleased demo of David Bowie‘s ‘Space Oddity’ in their Sound + Vision box. 30 years later that same demo is included on CD again on Conversation Piece, a five-CD music box set that could well be the best Bowie reissue for decades.
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Neneh Cherry‘s debut album Raw Like Sushi is being reissued as multi-disc CD and vinyl sets for its 30th anniversary in January.
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Prince / 1999 box set CD, Vinyl, Box Set
Warner Records reissue Prince‘s fifth studio album 1999 across six different physical formats, including a 5CD+DVD super deluxe and 10LP+DVD set, both of which feature 35 previously unreleased audio tracks.
GERMANY: The Beatles / Abbey Road 3CD+blu-ray – €69 €89
3LP vinyl Abbey Road box set also discounted to €49 and in fact there is a whole page of Beatles deals on Amazon Germany today!
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Pet Shop Boys to call time on CD singles?
Yesterday the Pet Shop Boys announced another single from their forthcoming album, Hotspot. ‘Burning The Heather’ features Bernard Butler on guitar and had already been made available on YouTube etc. but it will be coming out as a ‘proper’ single on 13 December. So far so good, but the unfunny joke in this Christmas cracker is that the ‘single packages,’ as they described them, do not include a CD single.
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Ahead of the Black Friday/RSD picture disc seven-inch, Paul McCartney has made his two unreleased songs available on streaming platforms today.
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An expanded 20th anniversary edition of Eminem‘s The Slim Shady LP will be issued on CD and vinyl in December.
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David Gray‘s best selling album White Ladder will be reissued for its 20th anniversary in February next year
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Music On Vinyl’s Todd Rundgren reissue campaign continues with a limited edition coloured vinyl pressing of 1978’s Hermit of Mink Hollow.
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Seven BBC dramatisations • 15LP coloured vinyl box • Limited to 500
BBC Radio dramatisations of English author Terry Pratchett‘s comic fantasy book series Discworld will be issued as a lavish 15LP vinyl box set called Terry Pratchet’s Vinyl Discworld, later this month.
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GERMANY: Roxy Music 3CD+DVD super deluxe – €69 (about £60)
£125 when first released back in 2017, the Roxy Music super deluxe is now less than half that price over on Amazon Germany. It’s also €60 in Italy.
Late ’80s British indie band Pale Saints see their 1989 debut album The Comforts of Madness expanded and reissued on CD and vinyl formats, in January.
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Following the RSD clear vinyl pressing early this year, Universal Music will make Elton John‘s Live From Moscow concert recording more widely available, with a new black vinyl edition coming in February, along with the CD debut of the performance.
Continue reading “Elton John with Ray Cooper / Live from Moscow, 1979 / 2LP vinyl & 2CD”
The Beatles / The Singles Collection Vinyl
Apple Corps and Universal Music will issue The Singles Collection, a new Beatles box set that gathers all of their seven-inch vinyl single releases together in one box set.
BMG will issue Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1974 in February a Bryan Ferry live album that was recorded 45 years ago at the famous London venue.
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The recently announced Roxymphony CD+DVD deluxe set from Roxy Music legends Andy Mackay and Phil Manzanera will now feature a DVD in the NTSC format, to allow US fans to enjoy the video content on the second disc.
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Chris Murphy managed INXS from 1979-1995 before returning in 2009 with a self-proclaimed desire to re-energise the interest in the group by turning the band into a brand.
2017 saw the acclaimed Kick 30 reissue – featuring a Dolby Atmos surround mix by Giles Martin – hit the shops and this year has seen the release of Mystify: A Musical Journey With Michael Hutchence (a wonderful companion to the Mystify documentary) and a restored version of the Live Baby Live concert film which is receiving a theatrical run in the UK at the moment. The newly remixed soundtrack is out today.
We caught up with the Australian music entrepreneur in the summer to discuss these projects and found a very driven individual and a canny operator and someone candid about what he does and doesn’t like about the music industry. “I’m not here to make money in life, I love doing the things I’m passionate about,” he tells SDE…
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