Author: Paul Sinclair

Guy Pratt plays Madonna’s Like A Prayer

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The musician recalls working with Madge and gives a masterclass

Guy Pratt has had a prolific career as a session bass player contributing to recordings made by Pink Floyd, Bryan Ferry, Tears For Fears, The Dream Academy, Echo and The Bunnymen and many more. While in self-isolation at home in Brighton, he has started a YouTube channel and is posting ‘Lockdown Lick’ videos where he shows how he played the bass line of a specific song and tells a few stories to go along with it. These are really entertaining – even for non-musos – so check out episode two as he recalls his time playing on Madonna‘s Like A Prayer album…
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SDEtv looks back / David Bowie: Station to Station ‘ultimate fan experience’ box

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Watch the unboxing video of the 2010 box set

For a change of pace, SDE looks back at a classic box set from the past. Here we feature EMI’s 2010 box set of David Bowie‘s 1976 album Station to Station. Long out-of-print, this set is a nine-disc, 5CD+DVD+3LP package. Watch the unboxing video to explore the contents…
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Split Enz / Coloured vinyl reissues

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Newly remastered from the original tapes • 180g Coloured vinyl

New Zealand new wave band Split Enz‘ second and third albums, Mental Notes and Dizrythmia, have been newly remastered and will be reissued as coloured vinyl pressings in May.
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Rolling Stones reissue half-speed mastered vinyl editions of ten albums

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Selection of albums get the half-speed mastered vinyl treatment

The Rolling Stones will reissue ten of their albums as standalone half-speed mastered pressings in May.
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SDE’s Self Isolation Playlist #1

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Let music help you through…

First and foremost, best wishes go out to the SDE community around the globe right now. Stay indoors and stay safe, please. In these troubled times, stuck at home, it’s an opportunity to let the pleasure and the power of music shine some light into what are becoming, at best, very routine days.

I’m trying to make an effort to listen to albums that I may have been guilty of not playing very much, or maybe even at all. CDs or vinyl records that have been satisfyingly slotted into the shelving or storage system and then semi-forgotten about, for whatever reason.
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Johnny Cash / The Complete Mercury Albums 1986-1991 box set

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Mercury albums remastered in 7CD or 7LP box set

Johnny Cash‘s five year tenure on Mercury Records in the late 1980s is marked by Johnny Cash: The Complete Mercury Studio Albums (1986-1991) a forthcoming box set available on CD and vinyl.
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Prince / His Majesty’s Pop Life: The Purple Mix Club to be issued on CD

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First time on CD • Japan-only • ‘Paper Sleeve’ vinyl replica packaging

The 1985 Prince compilation His Majesty’s Pop Life: The Purple Mix Club is to be issued on CD for the first time.
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Out This Week / on 27 March 2020

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Donna Summer / Encore 33CD box set CD

This new comprehensive 33CD box set, Encore, brings together remastered versions all of Donna Summer‘s 17 studio albums and offer eight bonus discs of rarities and non-album material.

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