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Tears For Fears / The Hurting / Songs From The Big Chair CD, Box Set, DVD
The Hurting and Songs From The Big Chair super deluxe box sets are back in print. Universal Music are also releasing a 35th anniversary vinyl picture disc of Songs… and SDE joins in the fun with a special limited ‘keepsake’ booklet, When Songs From The Big Chair Ruled The World.
Next month Depeche Mode will release Violator: The 12″ Singles, the seventh box set in the ongoing series which will showcases the remixes and B-sides across the four UK singles pulled from their 1990 album.
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McCartney, Paul McCartney‘s solo debut album from 1970 will be reissued as a half-speed mastered vinyl pressing for this year’s Record Store Day.
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Tears For Fears‘ classic 1985 album Songs From The Big Chair is 35 years old. To celebrate, the band filmed a ‘Classic Albums’ documentary (recently broadcast on BBC Four in the UK) and Universal Music are making available again the 30th anniversary box set that was issued back in 2014 (now already sold out on pre-order!).
SDE recently caught up with the band’s primary songwriter and vocalist Roland Orzabal to discuss the album that changed everything for him and Curt Smith…
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JARV IS, the new-ish band featuring Jarvis Cocker, release their debut album Beyond The Pale in July.
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The Human League / Octopus reissue CD, Vinyl
Rhino reissue The Human League‘s 1995 album Octopus across a number of formats, to mark the album’s 25 anniversary.
Rush‘s 1980 album Permanent Waves will be reissued for its 40th anniversary across three physical editions, including a five-disc super deluxe edition.
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Def Leppard go to town with a bevy of live releases on vinyl, CD, Blu-ray and DVD which primarily focus on their December 2018 performance of their mega-selling album Hysteria at London’s O2 Arena.
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Depeche Mode will issue their Spirits In The Forest documentary on blu-ray/DVD next month, packaged with two CDs of the ‘Live Spirits’ soundtrack.
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Cherry Red will issue Sell You Everything 1991-2014, an eight-CD box set featuring albums, singles, rarities and unreleased music from the Buzzcocks in the post-reformation era.
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Paul Weller will release a new album, On Sunset, in June.
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With the super deluxe reissue imminent, SDE spoke to Simple Minds frontman Jim Kerr about the band’s 1989 album Street Fighting Years. “We sort of disappeared up our own arses, to tell you the truth…” he tells SDE editor, Paul Sinclair.
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Tonight Mick Fleetwood will take to the stage in central London with an all-star cast to honour the early years of Fleetwood Mac and its founder, Peter Green. This one-of-a-kind concert will be recorded and film and issued as a special super deluxe edition box set later in the year.
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The Allman Brothers Band: 50th Anniversary Collection / Trouble No More
Universal Music release Trouble No More, a 50th anniversary Allman Brothers Band box set. It’s available as a five-CD package or an extravagant 10LP box set.
“Why did you wait so long?”
I’m being quizzed at the bar at the London Palladium by a stranger just prior to Madonna’s Madame X show. I have just admitted that the last time I saw Madonna play live was in 1987, for her Who’s That Girl tour and this woman (with VIP lanyard around her neck) is wondering why.
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UK: Rush / 2112 2CD+DVD deluxe – £13 £20
2016 deluxe reissue featuring covers on CD 2 (including Steven Wilson doing ‘A Passage to Bangkok’) and a DVD with newly restored video and audio of the Capitol Theatre concert in 1976.
In December, SDE speculated about whether George Michael‘s Symphonica album would be reissued early this year, thanks to some telltale early pre-order listings.
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Only 200 red vinyl • Signed • Guitar and production by Gerry Leonard
Suzanne Vega will release a new album, An Evening of New York Songs and Stories in May.
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Sony Legacy will release Prince‘s 2001 studio album The Rainbow Children and One Nite Alone (from 2002) on CD and vinyl at the end of next month, along with various One Nite Alone live variants.
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Mark Lanegan will release a new album Straight Songs Of Sorrow in May.
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