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Limited deluxe set now unavailable
A week after release, the limited edition blu-ray+DVD of Jack Bond’s 1988 Pet Shop Boys film It Couldn’t Happen Here has completely sold out. Thankfully, another version is coming, albeit a ‘standard’ edition sans deluxe packaging.
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UK: The Police / Every Move You Make 6CD box set – £9.99 £15
Unless you already own it, there is simply no good reason not to buy this box set. It contains all five Police albums – well remastered and presented in gatefold card wallets – a bonus disc (‘Flexible Strategies’) of non-album tracks and a great high quality lift-off lid box (with ribbon, for easy access). Astounding value! You can watch the SDEtv unboxing video if you need any further convincing.
2001 Japan-only remix album • Pressed on green vinyl
Demon Records continue with their Dead Or Alive coloured vinyl reissues with Unbreakable The Fragile Remixes.
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The Rolling Stones / More vinyl reissues Vinyl
The Rolling Stones release standalone half-speed mastered vinyl reissues of 13 of their albums including Exile on Main Street, Some Girls, Sticky Fingers, Black and Blue, Steel Wheels and more.
The Psychedelic Furs will soon return with Made of Rain, their first studio album in almost 30 years, and you can now secure an exclusive signed CD edition.
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Swiss electronic duo Yello will release a new album POINT next month.
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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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3CD set • Hits and fan favourites • Tremendous value
Another week, another ‘Essential’ triple-CD package from Universal budget imprint Spectrum. This time they focus on Level 42.
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Debut album remastered and expanded on CD
Australian rock band Divinyls‘ debut album Desperate has been remastered and expanded with bonus tracks for a CD re-release.
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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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UK: Led Zeppelin / The Song Remains The Same super deluxe – £69
Nine-disc set includes two CDs, four vinyl records and three DVDs!
Reissued to mark Bob Marley’s 75th birthday
The classic Bob Marley & The Wailers’ compilation Legend is being reissued as a limited edition vinyl picture disc in July.
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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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Bob Dylan / Rough and Rowdy Ways CD, Vinyl
Bob Dylan‘s new album, Rough and Rowdy Ways is released on vinyl on Friday.
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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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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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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UK: Depeche Mode / Black Celebration: The 12″ Singles – £45 £72
Delayed vinyl reissue • Includes exclusive art print
Mute/BMG’s vinyl reissue of Goldfrapp‘s Supernature was originally scheduled for May but will now be issued in August.
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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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