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30th anniversary • White vinyl • Original configuration
Dead Or Alive‘s 1990 album Fan The Flame (Part 1) is issued as a standalone vinyl record for the first time in May.
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Britpop era band Marion, see both of their album reissued on coloured vinyl in May with limited numbers available signed by frontman Jaime Harding.
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Amazon recently announced that it will restrict the kinds of products that it will receive at its distribution centres in the U.S., UK and Europe warehouses until at least 5 April this year.
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British 90s band Longpigs‘ first album The Sun Is Often Out is being reissued on vinyl.
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Norah Jones issues a new album, Pick Me Up Off The Floor, in June.
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The Pretenders will release a new album, Hate For Sale, in May.
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Six-track EP coming to vinyl and CD in April
Christine and the Queens will release a new EP, La Vita Nuova, next month.
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Rykodisc’s Sound + Vision box set may have officially kicked off David Bowie‘s reissue campaign in September 1989, but it was the CHANGESBOWIE compilation album and the ‘Fame ’90’ single that preceded it, that caught the eye and ear of the general public and served as a preface the album reissues and the world tour.
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UK: Kate Bush / Remastered Part 1: 7CD box – £28
I paid £60 for this back in late 2018! It’s not perfect (cover art leaves a lot to be desired, and bonus material is ‘saved’ for the Part 2 box) but Kate’s first seven studio albums remastered and repacked (as six-panel digipaks) in a box for less than £30 is great however you choose to look at it.
10-track live set features Oasis cuts
Liam Gallagher will issue an MTV Unplugged album next month, highlighting songs from his first two solo albums along with a handful of Oasis numbers.
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Heaven 17 / Another Big Idea box set CD
Heaven 17 release Another Big Idea (1996-2015), a 9CD or 4LP vinyl box set that follow the band’s work from when they regrouped and returned from a six-year hiatus in 1996 with the album Bigger Than America. Signed copies still available.
The Manic Street Preachers will reissue their second album Gold Against The Soul in June this year.
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Record Store Day delayed as Corona Virus impacts the music industry
This year’s Record Store Day has been pushed back from 18 April to a 20 June as the music industry starts to feel the impact of the Corona virus pandemic. The organisers of RSD pondered how to react to the ever changing situation and in a statement on their website said: “There is no perfect solution. There is no easy answer. We’ve decided that the best of all possible moves is to change the date of Record Store Day this year to Saturday, June 20”.
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Parlophone will issue a special limited edition 12-inch vinyl picture disc of David Bowie‘s Space Oddity album next month.
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Tears For Fears‘ 1985 album Songs From The Big Chair is reissued today as a super deluxe edition box set. As part of SDE’s ongoing TFF coverage we present a brand new interview with the man who engineered that album, Dave Bascombe.
Bascombe was there, in the room, helping to shape the sound of the album and those enormous hits like ‘Shout’ and ‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’. Read on as Dave lets us into a few secrets regarding who played on what and what those sessions were actually like…
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Peter Jackson’s much anticipated reworking of The Beatles‘ 1970 film Let It Be will be released theatrically in September after worldwide distribution rights were secured by Disney.
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Steven Wilson returns with The Future Bites, his sixth studio album, in June.
The nine-track album follows 2017’s To The Bone and is available across a number of physical formats, including coloured vinyl, blu-ray, CD and the traditional deluxe box set (exclusive to Wilson’s online store).
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Classic 1985 compilation on CD for the first time
Now That’s What I Call Music 5 will be reissued next month as a 2CD set as the reissues of the classic compilation series continue.
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UK: Led Zeppelin / The Song Remains The Same super deluxe – £79
This was over £150 when it first came out! This is a nine-disc set featuring the remastered audio on two CDs and four vinyl LPs and a two-DVD set of The Song Remains The Same featuring the full theatrical version of the film plus bonus content including four performance outtakes that were not part of the original. Still not sure? Watch the SDEtv unboxing video.
Fourth single from Hotspot • On vinyl and CD
The Pet Shop Boys will release a fourth single from their Hotspot album next month. ‘I Don’t Wanna’ will be available on CD single and 12-inch vinyl and extra tracks include a new ‘B-side’ and remixes.
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