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Six-CD box set featuring the guitarist & songwriter’s solo work
Guitarist Snowy White‘s solo career is remastered and repackaged in Lucky Star: An Anthology 1983-1994, a new six-CD clamshell box set.
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New book signposts album reissue
Thames & Hudson will later this year publish a book about John Lennon‘s 1970 album Plastic Ono Band.
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This bank holiday weekend I’ll be sorting out my CDs
It’s a bank holiday weekend in the UK, but of course a very different one since most of us will be in ‘lockdown’ at home, doing our bit to help minimise the spread of the COVID19 virus. With so much time at home, I have plans to reorganise my CDs and not feel guilty about it, but I have to admit I’m slightly depressed at how best to organise and display a lifetime’s collection.
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The best Beatles CD box set
In 2009 The Beatles in Mono CD box set was released. This 12CD set combined the remastered mono album mixes with exquisite made-in-Japan mini-LP CD vinyl replica packages. These CDs have never been made available separately. Watch the SDEtv unboxing video…
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The Pet Shop Boys are going ahead with their ‘I Don’t Wanna’ single release in two weeks time and I’m pleased to say that we’ve decided to stock quantities of both CD single and 12-inch variants in the SDE shop.
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The Who Live in Hyde Park will be reissued as a coloured vinyl 3LP pressing, in June.
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Nice box, shame about the content…
SDEtv looks back at the missed opportunity that was Sting‘s 25 Years four-disc box set from 2011. Watch the unboxing video…
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Reissue campaign concludes with the band’s final album
The Blue Nile‘s 2004 album High has been remastered and will be reissued on vinyl and as an expanded 2CD deluxe set in June.
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Supergrass side project The Hotrats (Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey) released a covers album, Turn Ons, in 2010. That album has now been expanded and will be reissued as a 3CD+DVD box set.
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The songwriter’s songwriter has a new album in the pipeline
Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith will release his a new studio album Hermitage in June.
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9LP coloured vinyl set unboxed
SDE takes a look at the new His Dark Materials coloured vinyl box set which features previously broadcast BBC Dramatisations of all three Philip Pullman novels. Watch the unboxing video…
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3CD+DVD deluxe set offers unreleased material and a 5.1 mix
Esoteric Recordings is to reissue English prog rockers Be Bop Deluxe‘s debut album Axe Victim as a four-disc deluxe box set in June.
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Peter Gabriel‘s 1986 album So was reissued in 2012 as a (late in the day) 25th anniversary edition. Fans had waited a long time for this but were left disappointed by the lack of any material associated with the many singles (remixes, B-sides etc.) and non-arrival of the hoped for 5.1 mix. Despite this, the box was thoughtfully designed and certainly looked the part, as this SDEtv unboxing video will demonstrate…
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New album moved back to August
Deep Purple‘s new album Whoosh! will now be released later than planned, in August.
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A very early example of a ‘super deluxe edition’ box set
Wham!‘s 1986 career summary The Final was issued as a 2LP vinyl set, a double cassette package and on a single CD. However there was also a special box set edition, limited to 25,000 units! SDE ‘looks back’ and opens the lid with this SDEtv unboxing video…
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UK: Springsteen / Ties That Bind: River Collection 4CD+2blu-ray – £56
Duran Duran fans could really enjoy 1993 and 1994. We walked around with self-satisfied smiles as non-fans grudgingly said things like “fair play, ‘Ordinary World’ is a pretty good song”. Just to prove it wasn’t a one-off, ‘Come Undone’ was another significant hit (particularly in America). Yes! Duran Duran were successful again; no longer just an ‘eighties’ band. While it would probably be a stretch to say it was ‘cool’ to like DD at this point in time (as Suede, Blur were putting in the ground work for what would become the Britpop era), it wasn’t something shameful that you had to hide – put it that way. Then in 1995 they released the covers album Thank You…
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Farewell, Bill Withers
Sad news this week with the death of Bill Withers on Monday. He was a wonderful singer and songwriter and his 1981 ‘Greatest Hits’ album is up there with the very best ‘best ofs’ ever issued. It really is ten tracks of perfection.
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The rare 2009 Electric Arguments box set unboxed
In 2008 Paul McCartney released a third album with musician/producer Youth as ‘The Fireman’. Electric Arguments broke the mould inasmuch as unlike the previous two albums, it was openly promoted by the record label as being the work of the ex-Beatle. A limited box set edition was available only via McCartney’s website and arrived six months late, in July 2009. SDE now looks back and explores this rather special package with an SDEtv unboxing video…
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Let music help you through…
I hope everyone is keeping well out there. Here’s a third instalment of SDE’s Self-Isolation Playlist; what I’ve been listening to, both familiar albums and maybe music not so familiar…
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