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Saturday Deluxe / 14 March 2020

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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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Engineer Dave Bascombe on Tears For Fears’ Songs From The Big Chair

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Photo © Mike Prior

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 Let It Be restoration will be called ‘The Beatles: Get Back’

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Photo by Linda McCartney ©Paul McCartney

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 announces new studio album: The Future Bites

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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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Now That’s What I Call Music 5 to be released as a two-CD set

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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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This Week’s Box Set and Reissue Deals

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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.


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Thirty Years of The Divine Comedy / 24-disc CD box set and vinyl reissues

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Career spanning box with bonus material • SIGNED by Neil Hannon

The Divine Comedy will remaster and reissue all their albums as 2CD deluxe editions and collect them in a special 24-disc CD box set called Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time – Thirty Years of The Divine Comedy.
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Out This Week / on 13 March 2020

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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.

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Depeche Mode / Violator: The 12″ Singles / Limited edition box set

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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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Paul McCartney to reissue his debut solo album for Record Store Day

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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’ Roland Orzabal in the Big Chair: The SDE interview

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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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Out This Week / on 6 March 2020

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The Human League / Octopus reissue

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.

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Def Leppard / Hysteria live releases on blu-ray, DVD, CD and box sets

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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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