Out This Week / on 31 July 2020

Paul McCartney / Flaming Pie 5CD+2DVD deluxe edition / Archive Collection reissue

Paul McCartney / Flaming Pie CD, Vinyl, Box Set

Paul McCartney continues his long-running archive collection reissue campaign with the re-release of his 1997 album Flaming Pie.


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Fleetwood Mac / 1969 to 1974

8CD box set with bonus tracks • 4LP vinyl package

Rhino will soon issue Fleetwood Mac 1969 to 1974 a new 8CD box set that covers a five-year timeframe and several different band line-ups of the band, from founding members Fleetwood, Green, McVie and Spencer; to later additions like Danny Kirwan, Christine McVie, Dave Walker, Bob Welch, and Bob Weston.
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Mansun / Closed For Business 24CD+DVD anniversary box set

25th anniversary mega-box • 24CD+DVD • Signed by Paul Draper

Kscope will later this year issue Closed For Business an enormous Mansun box set to mark 25 years since the band emerged onto the UK rock/pop scene. The 24CD+DVD collection features an enormous amount of audio/video content and comes with three books, art prints, postcards and a lyric sheet SIGNED by frontman Paul Draper.
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This Week’s Box Set and Reissue Deals

UK: John Lennon-Yoko Ono / Imagine hardcover book – £8.75 £35

Crazy price for this wonderful hardcover book that was issued in late 2018 to coincide with the reissue of John Lennon‘s Imagine. Even though there were more ‘deluxe’ editions, don’t let that put you offer. This is 320 pages of largely unpublished photos and testimony from Yoko and key players who were there.

Paul McCartney offers free download of the original ‘Beautiful Night’

Paul McCartney has released a ‘Beautiful Night EP’ on streaming platforms and today also makes available an early version of his 1997 single as a free download.
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Hear the 1979 version of Prince’s I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

Previously unheard version of the song recorded seven years earlier

One of the many highlights of the bonus material on the forthcoming super deluxe edition box set of Princes Sign O’ The Times album is a 1979 recording of the fourth single ‘I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man’.
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Richard and Linda Thompson / Hard Luck Stories 1972-1982 box set


This September Universal Music will issue Hard Luck Stories 1972 to 1982 a new Richard and Linda Thompson 8CD box set that features remastered versions of all six studio albums and previously unreleased recordings.
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Four classic Peter Gabriel live albums reissued on half-speed mastered vinyl

Plays Live • Live in Athens 1987 • Secret World Live • Growing Up Live

Peter Gabriel is to reissue four classic live albums on vinyl, with each multi-disc package half-speed mastered and coming with a hi-res download card.
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Ace of Base CD box available again

More CD boxes coming in August

Edsel’s Ace of Base All That She Wants: The Classic Collection 11CD+DVD box set has proved incredibly popular and sold out extremely quickly. The good news is and additional number are being manufactured to meet demand and stock is available to pre-order via the SDE shop.
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