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Never before heard 1974 live recordings
Parlophone have announced a second David Bowie release for this year’s Record Store Day. It’s an album of unheard recordings of Bowie in concert in late 1974 as he transformed his theatrical Diamond Dogs tour into a soul revue.
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Mega selling Swedish pop group Ace of Base‘s first four studio albums are reissued in a new coloured vinyl box set called All That She Wants: The Classic Albums.
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Neneh Cherry fans who paid up to £45 for the three-CD reissue of the Raw Like Sushi album are unhappy with a mistake on CD 3 that repeats the same track.
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Brooklyn’s Joan As Police Woman follows up her 2009 covers album (called simply, Cover) with Cover Two, another ten-track diversion into the interpretation of other artists’ work.
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SDE unboxes the recent Neneh Cherry Raw Like Sushi three-CD reissue, and asks is this set really worth the £40 price-tag? Watch the unboxing video below…
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Bruce Springsteen / Vinyl reissues Vinyl
Sony’s Legacy Recordings reissue five Bruce Springsteen albums on vinyl. These albums were mostly originally released early in the new millennium and the selection includes the two studio albums The Rising (2002) and Devils & Dust (2005).
Amazon in the USA are today price-matching local competitor Target with an outstanding 3-for-2 offer. You can buy three music box sets and get the third for nothing, regardless of the price-tag, so you could walk away with a FREE The Beatles Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band super deluxe edition, for example.
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SDE unboxes the new Bryan Ferry Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1974 limited edition box set which was issued last week. Watch the unboxing video below…
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UK: Marillion / Script For A Jester’s Tear (4CD+blu-ray) – £23.99
Fantastic pre-order price for this 5-disc extravaganza. Includes new stereo mix, 5.1 mix, live concert and even better all the audio is available in hi-res on the blu-ray audio. American Marillion fans should be aware that this price equates to around $26 + shipping, compared to the $50 price via Amazon US. Effectively half-price!
Chris Heath’s two classic Pet Shop Boys books, Literally (1989) and Pet Shop Boys versus America (1991), are being reprinted in new hardback editions, with a limited number of copies signed by Neil and Chris.
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Universal Music Catalogue are making the super deluxe edition box sets of Tears For Fears‘ first two albums The Hurting and Songs From The Big Chair available again. Additionally, a Songs From The Big Chair vinyl picture disc will be released to mark the 35th anniversary and SDE will publish a special celebratory booklet: How Songs From The Big Chair Ruled the World.
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The Pet Shop Boys‘ 1988 film It Couldn’t Happen Here will be issued on blu-ray and DVD for the first time in June.
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Bangles Gold is a comprehensive three-CD hits collection that not only offers a great bonus disc of remixes, but does so at a ‘no brainer’ price.
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Saint Etienne‘s Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs have compiled a new various artists compilation, The Tears Of Technology, that celebrates a period in the early 1980s when “scruffy synth duos from the provinces broke through and took over British pop.”
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Tears For Fears have made a ‘Classic Albums’ documentary about their second long-player, 1985’s Songs From The Big Chair and the film will be broadcast in the UK this week, on Friday 14 February.
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Demon Music continue their passion for spoken word/comedy vinyl packages with what looks like another lavish presentation, this time of Phillip Pullman‘s His Dark Materials trilogy, as adapted for BBC Radio back in 2003.
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David Gray / White Ladder 20th anniversary CD, Vinyl
David Gray‘s best selling album White Ladder is reissued for its 20th anniversary. 4LP coloured vinyl box and 2CD sets are the order of the day.
In March, Demon Records will issue Hexagonal Phase, a new 3LP coloured vinyl deluxe set that features the last ever BBC Radio series of Douglas Adams’ classic comedy science fiction radio show The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.
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Universal Music will reissue Cat Stevens’ first two albums in vinyl next month, ‘de-mixed’ to enhance the vocals.
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Next month, BMG will release In A Lifetime a new Clannad anthology available across various physical formats.
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