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Bad Company / The Swan Song Years 1974-1982 CD
Bad Company celebrate their 45th anniversary with, The Swan Song Years 1974-1982, a new 6CD box set of their albums.
Media coverage this week informed us that ‘UK Cassette Sales Up 94% In First Half Of 2019‘. Yep, amazingly, 35,000 tapes were sold in the first six months of this year, which apparently accounts for 0.2 percent of total album sales in the UK.
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Chrysalis Records will in September issue Soundtrack: 1978-2019 a new Midge Ure anthology that includes solo singles, select Ultravox recordings and previously unreleased material.
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Debbie Harry has written a memoir called ‘Face It’ which is due for release in October.
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The 2001 ‘Best Of’ from Fad Gadget will be issued on vinyl for the first time in September. The double coloured vinyl pressing will be limited to 1000 units.
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Madonna‘s old producer and songwriting partner Patrick Leonard has made available some Like A Prayer demos in an attempt to de-value the activities of the star’s former aid who is trying to sell unreleased recordings at auction.
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The signed Belinda Carlisle Runaway Horses box sets have now sold out, but if you didn’t want one or perhaps didn’t manage to secure one, the consolation prize is Gold, a new two-LP or 3CD Belinda best of also being issued by Demon.
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Kate Bush is showing an uncharacteristic desire to release physical product these days! In May, we had the ‘Cloudbusting‘ 12-inch picture disc and now France’s FNAC retailer seem to confirm that a physical vinyl reissue of Kate’s 1983 French-only single ‘Ne T’Enfuis Pas’ in September.
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Roy Budd / Get Carter 3CD set CD
Roy Budd’s atmospheric soundtrack to Mike Hodges’ 1971 film Get Carter is to be reissued as and expanded three-CD set next month.
Jethro Tull‘s twelfth studio album Stormwatch will be reissued as a six-disc deluxe edition – dubbed the ‘Force 10 Edition’ – in October this year.
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To mark the 25th anniversary of Blur‘s classic Parklife album, Parlophone are issuing Live at the BBC, a special four-track 10-inch vinyl EP.
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Signed copies available again
Wham!‘s Andrew Ridgeley is releasing an autobiography in the autumn called Wham! George Michael & Me: A Memoir and you can pre-order a SIGNED copy.
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A year on from the release of the CD box set, One Little Indian have finally made available a vinyl edition of Black Box Recorder‘s ‘Life Is Unfair’ career summary.
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Belinda Carlisle‘s 1989 album Runaway Horses is to be reissued as a 30th anniversary vinyl box set in August.
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The Jam‘s classic compilation Snap! is being reissued as a double vinyl edition which comes complete with the bonus 7″ single given away with first editions back in 1983.
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The Doors’ fourth studio album, The Soft Parade, will be expanded and reissued as a 50th anniversary 3CD+LP deluxe edition in October.
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Iggy Pop will release a new album called Free in September.
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Moloko‘s 1995 album Do You Like My Tight Sweater? will be reissued as a limited 2LP coloured vinyl pressing in August.
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Joan As Police Woman‘s early albums have been out of print on vinyl for quite some time so next month, the first three are reissued as limited edition coloured vinyl pressings and SDE has some exclusive signed prints to give away.
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It’s ‘Prime Day’ on various Amazon sites around the globe and therefore an opportunity to pick up a bargain on physical music (as well as many other products of course).
Continue reading “Prime Day Deals on Music Box Sets”
