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Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main St. and Some Girls half-speed mastered
When The Rolling Stones announced standalone half-speed mastered vinyl reissues of some of their albums back in March, a few titles were notable by their absence, such as Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main St. and Some Girls. All three are now available to pre-order individually and will be released alongside the other ten album in June.
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UK: Led Zeppelin / The Songs Remains The Same super deluxe – £67 or $68
Amazon UK is now shipping this to the US. American fans can save $140 on the US price!
6CD box set features albums and a plethora of remixes
Believe it or not, Levi 501 wearing model-turned-popstar Nick Kamen released four albums between 1987 and 1992. All of them are now collected in a new box set, The Complete Collection, along with two discs of ‘remixes & rarities’.
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Zappa Records/UMe will next month issue The Mothers 1970, a four-CD Frank Zappa box set which features 70 unreleased tracks from the short-lived 1970 line-up of the Mothers of Invention.
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GERMANY: David Bowie / Conversation Piece 5CD box set – €68 or £59
Displayed as €84.99 but €17.01 deducted at checkout. Read the SDE review.
New studio album of original songs coming in June
Bob Dylan will release a new album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, in June.
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3CD set • Remastered • Unreleased live show • Vinyl pic disc
The Grateful Dead‘s 1970 album Workingman’s Dead will be reissued as a three-CD deluxe edition in July.
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30th anniversary 11CD+DVD box set
Following the announcement of the coloured vinyl box set, Demon Music will release an Ace of Base 30th anniversary CD box set. The set is called All That She Wants: The Classic Collection and features 11 CDs with all four albums and an unfeasibly large amount of bonus material, as well as a DVD with promo videos.
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Music world mourns the passing of Kraftwerk’s co-founder
After reporting the death of Stranglers keyboard player Dave Greenfield only yesterday, there is more sad news today since Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider has died at 73.
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First time on CD or vinyl • Newly restored
This July, Donna Summer‘s 1983 live concert A Hot Summer Night will be issued on CD for the first time as part of a special CD+DVD deluxe edition, and also gets its vinyl debut on a 2LP coloured vinyl pressing.
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Soundtrack work issued on black vinyl and CD
Rated PG, Peter Gabriel‘s compilation of his music for films, was issued as a vinyl picture disc for Record Store Day last year but will next month be available as a standard black vinyl record and on CD.
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3CD set • Hits and fan favourites • Tremendous value
A new three-CD package, ‘Essential’ offers an overview of the Virgin Records-era of Sheffield synth-pop band The Human League.
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The Stranglers‘ keyboard player Dave Greenfield has died after contracting COVID-19 while being in hospital for an existing heart condition.
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UK: David Bowie / Spying Through A Keyhole 7″ box set – £18
Once £40, the first of last year’s David Bowie demo box sets is now less than half that price.
Five bonus tracks for the deluxe CD edition of On Sunset
The bonus tracks for the deluxe CD edition of Paul Weller‘s new album On Sunset have been confirmed.
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2LP clear vinyl reissue • 2CD deluxe • Chicago gig provides bonus content
The Charlatans‘ second album Between 10th and 11th will be reissued in July as a deluxe two-CD set and a double vinyl pressing.
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Various Artists / Now That's What I Call Music 5 CD
Now That’s What I Call Music 5 is released on CD for the very first time. It’s only £7.99 in the UK which is great value.
The format launched in 2013 and now has only occasional support
SDEtv remembers the blu-ray audio format which for marketing purposes was branded ‘High Fidelity Pure Audio’. This format offered high resolution audio (minimum of 96 kHz / 24 bit), supported lossless 5.1 surround sound and had the capacity to contain an enormous amount of audio and video. For a while, waves of albums were released on this format and album reissue campaigns (Tears For Fears, Grace Jones, Simple Minds etc.) often made a point of include a ‘pure audio’ blu-ray as part of their offering.
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4CD+DVD anthology features studio albums & bonus material
Noise in Your Head is a new five-disc box set that brings together Toyah Willcox‘s three albums as ‘The Humans’ and presents them to a wider audience with a raft of bonus material.
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David Bowie led motion picture soundtrack returns
The soundtrack to Julien Temple’s 1986 film Absolute Beginners, which featured memorable contributions from a number of artists including David Bowie, Ray Davies, The Style Council and Sade, will be reissued in July and will appear on CD in its entirety for the first time.
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