Author: Paul Sinclair

Roger Joseph Manning Jr. on new band The Lickerish Quartet

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Photo: Jay Gilbert

“What excites me and motivates me is the record collection I grew up with as a young boy and a young man”

You might recognise Roger Joseph Manning Jr. these days as the man behind a stack of keyboards when on stage with Beck, but he was once half of the creative force behind Jellyfish, the early 90s American outfit with a rather silly name, but a deadly serious passion for beautifully crafted classic rock (or what is sometimes called ‘power pop’).
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Roger Waters / US + THEM tour film comes to physical formats

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2CD, 3LP vinyl, blu-ray and DVD

Roger Waters‘ US + THEM concert film, which chronicles his 2017-2018 world tour, will be issued on CD, vinyl, blu-ray and DVD in October.
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Manic Street Preachers / Gold Against The Soul reissue reviewed

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A grudging reissue rather goes through the motions 

Despite the swagger of the Manic Street Preachers 1992 debut Generation Terrorists and singles like ‘You Love Us’ and ‘Slash and Burn’, I only really switched on to the band with the brilliant ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’ near the end of that campaign. I was therefore keenly anticipating the follow-up and didn’t have to wait very long as the Dave Eringa-produced Gold Against The Soul arrived about 18 months after the first album and delivered three great singles in ‘From Despair To Where’, ‘La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)’ and ‘Roses in the Hospital’ (as well as the ‘Life Becoming A Landslide’ EP).
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Saturday Deluxe / 13 June 2020

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Peter Jackson ‘Get Back’ film delayed 

Disney have announced that the ‘new’ version of The Beatles‘ Let It Be film, called The Beatles: Get Back will now come out a year late, in August 2021, having been originally slated for theatrical release in September 2020. As you might expect, the reasons are related to the current COVID-19 pandemic.
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Paul McCartney / Flaming Pie reissue

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5CD+2DVD deluxe •  Flaming expensive • Half-speed mastered 2LP • Triple vinyl deluxe • Collector’s edition exclusive to Macca-channels

Paul McCartney continues his long-running archive collection reissue campaign with the re-release of his 1997 album Flaming Pie.
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SDE-exclusive: McCartney: 10 Years of Archive Reissues – A4 booklet

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Limited numbered edition • SDE exclusive • Signed by editor Paul Sinclair

SDE brings together almost a decade of Paul McCartney reissue reviews and analysis in a new limited edition ‘keepsake’ booklet McCartney: 10 Years of Archive Reissues.
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The Rolling Stones / Japanese SHM-CD ‘From the Vault’ live releases

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Two CD sets of LA Forum in 1975 and Hampton Coliseum in 1981

Two Rolling Stones ‘From The Vault’ releases originally released in 2014 will be issued on the SHM-CD format in Japan next month and are presented in vinyl replica ‘paper sleeve’ packaging.
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