Author: Paul Sinclair

New editions of Chris Heath’s Pet Shop Boys books available in March

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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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Tears For Fears: box sets available again + SDE booklet & vinyl pic disc

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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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Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs present The Tears of Technology

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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 celebrate 35 years of ‘Songs’ with Classic Albums doc

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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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Philip Pullman / His Dark Materials 9LP coloured vinyl box signed by the author

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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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Out This Week / on 14 February 2020

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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.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Hexagonal Phase / 3LP vinyl

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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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This Weeks Reissue and Box Set Deals

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UK: The Kinks / Arthur super deluxe – £51

Originally £77 on release last year, this Kinks 50th anniversary box set offers four CDs featuring 88 tracks including mono and stereo album, singles, B-sides, alternates, remixes and demos. Includes 68-page book and four seven-inch singles.


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Pet Shop Boys / Hotspot: track by track

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The Pet Shop Boys don’t really have much left to prove and could easily see out the rest of their days selling out greatest hits tours. Actually (no pun intended), they are doing just that in 2020, but in the time-honoured tradition of any self-respecting ‘veteran’ pop/rock artist they aren’t going on the road without new material, which presumably keeps things interesting for them and also means they can’t be perceived as an ‘oldies’ act.
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Out This Week / on 7 February 2020

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Bryan Ferry / Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1974

Bryan Ferry / Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1974 CD, Vinyl

BMG issue Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1974 in February a Bryan Ferry live album that was recorded 45 years at the famous London venue. Signed box set edition is available.

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Saturday Deluxe / 1 February 2020

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Pet Shop Boys / Hotspot
Not Topspot for Pet Shop Boys’ Hotspot

“If you sign prints for every cassette, CD and vinyl version of Hotspot on your own site, you’ll be in good shape to secure a number one album”. This, presumably, was the advice given to Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe when it came to marketing the new Pet Shop Boys album Hotspot.
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The Distractions / Nobody’s Perfect / two-CD deluxe reissue and vinyl

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Post-punk/new wave band The Distractions‘ 1980 album Nobody’s Perfect has enjoyed ‘lost classic’ status for a long time and is finally reissued, remastered and expanded with a host of unreleased material.
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