Merry Christmas 2024

I’d like to wish every SDE reader a very Merry Christmas!

2024 has perhaps not been a classic, in terms of reissues and box sets, but here at SDE we have certainly been kept busy, with 18 titles in the SDE Surround Series announced in the last 12 months, with the last five yet to ship (Elton John, The Who, the two Simple Minds albums and Bryan Ferry). Your enthusiasm and passion for this series allows us to continue, so thank you to everyone who placed an order in 2024!

There are exciting plans for more exclusive blu-rays in 2025 and while it will be a tall order to match the level of product we’ve brought to the marketplace in 2024, I’ll do my best. I hope we can get to No 50 in the series next year, which would be an amazing achievement in a relatively short period, but let’s wait and see!

Later this week there will be an SDE review of the best box sets of 2024 and there’s the annual SDE Reissue Preview in the new year, but that aside, I’m looking forward to taking a few days off over this festive period and spend some time with the family and reflect on 2024. I’m sure many of you have had to say goodbye to a loved one this year and I’m no different: a close friend of mine died in early October and I heard yesterday that my sister’s father-in-law passed away on Saturday.

On a more positive note, a new year is an opportunity to turn the page and press ‘reset’. This site has been running since March 2011 and so next year will be SDE’s 14th birthday. Regardless of whenever you discovered this site – whether you are a occasional reader, or a regular; whether you leave messages regularly or are more of a ‘lurker’ in the discussion section – I’d like to say a heartfelt thanks for coming on the journey and I look forward to more adventures next year.

Happy Christmas! I wish you a healthy, prosperous and peaceful 2025.

Paul Sinclair
Editor, SDE