Def Leppard / Hysteria live releases on blu-ray, DVD, CD and box sets


Def Leppard go to town with a bevy of live releases on vinyl, CD, Blu-ray and DVD which primarily focus on their December 2018 performance of their mega-selling album Hysteria at London’s O2 Arena.
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Jim Kerr talks to SDE about Simple Minds’ Street Fighting Years

With the super deluxe reissue imminent, SDE spoke to Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr about the band’s 1989 album Street Fighting Years. “We sort of disappeared up our own arses, to tell you the truth…” he tells SDE editor, Paul Sinclair.
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Mick Fleetwood & Friends celebrate Peter Green & Fleetwood Mac box set

Tonight Mick Fleetwood will take to the stage in central London with an all-star cast to honour the early years of Fleetwood Mac and its founder, Peter Green. This one-of-a-kind concert will be recorded and film and issued as a special super deluxe edition box set later in the year.
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Out This Week / on 28 February 2020

The Allman Brothers Band: 50th Anniversary Collection / Trouble No More

Universal Music release Trouble No More, a 50th anniversary Allman Brothers Band box set. It’s available as a five-CD package or an extravagant 10LP box set.

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Madonna Live at the London Palladium

Why did you wait so long?

I’m being quizzed at the bar at the London Palladium by a stranger just prior to Madonna’s Madame X show. I have just admitted that the last time I saw Madonna play live was in 1987, for her Who’s That Girl tour and this woman (with VIP lanyard around her neck) is wondering why.
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George Michael’s Symphonica vinyl reissue pushed back to later in 2020?

In December, SDE speculated about whether George Michael‘s Symphonica album would be reissued early this year, thanks to some telltale early pre-order listings.
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Prince / The Rainbow Children and One Nite Alone reissues on CD and vinyl


Sony Legacy will release Prince‘s 2001 studio album The Rainbow Children and One Nite Alone (from 2002) on CD and vinyl at the end of next month, along with various One Nite Alone live variants.
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Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs / The Best of Under The Covers 2CD or 2LP

Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs‘ Under The Covers albums were issued between 2006 and 2013 in three volumes and saw the pair reinterpret their favourite songs from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s respectively. They are a hell of a lot of fun and now ‘the best’ of all three are gathered together for a new double-disc collection.
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New David Bowie Record Store Day release announced

Never before heard 1974 live recordings

Parlophone have announced a second David Bowie release for this year’s Record Store Day. It’s an album of unheard recordings of Bowie in concert in late 1974 as he transformed his theatrical Diamond Dogs tour into a soul revue.
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Ace of Base / All That She Wants: The Classic Albums 4LP coloured vinyl box

Mega selling Swedish pop group Ace of Base‘s first four studio albums are reissued in a new coloured vinyl box set called All That She Wants: The Classic Albums.
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Republica reissue is Ready To Go

1996 debut album reissued as a 3CD deluxe

Republica, those Saffron-led post-Britpoppers, with their Loaded magazine yob techno, equally at home either down the rave up or Northampton Roadmenders, are reissuing their 1996 self-titled debut album in a new expanded deluxe edition.
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