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Mike McGear / McGear CD, Vinyl, DVD
McGear, the second album by Mike McGear, is reissued as a three-disc expanded deluxe edition (and on vinyl). This is effectively a Wings album with Mike singing. Brother Paul (or ‘our kid’ as Mike refers to him) co-writes most of the songs, with Denny, Linda et al supporting.
28 years ago today INXS played Wembley Stadium as part of their ‘Summer XS Tour’.
It was captured on film by David Mallet, who used 16 cameras (all 35mm) – including one in a helicopter – to capture the scale of the event and the band at the peak of their powers. It was issued on VHS at the time (and later DVD) along with the Live Baby Live album, although the latter used audio taken from various concerts from the tour.
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Music On Vinyl kick off a Todd Rundgren vinyl reissue campaign with limited coloured vinyl editions of his 1970 solo debut Runt and 1972’s acclaimed Somthing/Anything?
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David Bowie‘s 1969 single ‘Space Oddity’ was issued exactly 50 years ago today. To mark the occasion a special coloured vinyl edition of David Bowie – David’s 1969 album that was later reissued as ‘Space Oddity’ – is being made available only via Paul Smith stores.
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UK: Kate Bush / Remastered Part 1 7CD box set – £25
INSANE price for this Kate Bush CD box set which offers remastered versions of The Kick Inside, Lionheart, Never For Ever, The Dreaming, Hounds of Love, The Sensual World and The Red Shoes! If you want the ‘whole thing’ with the rarities then check out Part 2 below!
Universal Music will issue a nine-CD box set that features expanded editions of English ‘Canterbury scene’ band Caravan‘s albums recorded for the Decca/Deram labels in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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Eighties pop curators Blank & Jones will next month deliver over four-and-a-half hours of rare and sought-after 1980s remixes via two new volumes of their now well established ‘so80s’ compilations. Sets numbered 12 and 13 will be released simultaneously and are both 2CD packages. Fans can look forward to rare versions of tracks from the likes of Wham!, Sade, New Order, Visage, Billy Joel, Sheena Easton, Roxette, The Human League, Prefab Sprout and more.
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Stereolab continue their impressive reissue campaign with 3LP vinyl and 2CD expanded editions of a trio of late 1990s albums, namely Emperor Tomato Ketchup, Dots and Loops and Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night.
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The Doors‘ London Fog 1966 set which was issued in late 2016 as box set will be available as a standalone CD edition from August.
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New Order / ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes..
In June 2017, New Order returned to the stage at Manchester’s Old Granada Studios where Joy Division made their television debut on Tony Wilson’s So It Goes programme in 1978. That concert performance is now released as ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + Liam Gillick: So it goes .. on limited 3LP coloured vinyl or as a two-CD package.
SDE… As Seen On TV
Last week the BBC reached out to me to see if I’d like to appear on the national TV on the BBC One’s ‘News at One’ to talk about Sheryl Crow‘s statement where she said her master tapes had been destroyed in the archive fire at Universal Studios back in 2008. Well, I wasn’t going to say no to that opportunity…
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Frank Zappa‘s 1979 album Orchestral Favorites is re-examined for its 40th anniversary and will be reissued as a double vinyl or expanded 3CD deluxe in August.
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Dave Bascombe talks to SDE about the recording of the album
As engineer, mixer, co-producer or producer, Dave Bascombe has his name on the credits of many fine albums, including those by artists such as Tears For Fears, It’s Immaterial, Danny Wilson, Oleta Adams and Erasure.
In 1987, he worked on Depeche Mode‘s sixth album Music For The Masses as engineer and co-producer. With the recently issued 12″ Singles vinyl box sets of Music For The Masses and Black Celebration, SDE got in touch with Dave to ask him about the recording of the album…
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I always take a keen interest in what Cherry Red do with their occasional ‘Remixes and Rarities’ series, having instigated it back in 2013 with a Paul Young set. This August, the label continue it with a two-CD Billy Ocean compilation.
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Florence + The Machine‘s 2009 debut Lungs is being reissued for its 10th anniversary as a limited edition coloured vinyl edition.
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The Cult‘s 1989 album Sonic Temple is getting the 30th reissue treatment in September with a series of expanded physical sets.
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Watch Julien Temple’s promo film created for the album release
Thirty years ago yesterday, David Bowie‘s rock band ‘project’ Tin Machine entered the UK singles chart with their first single, Under The God. The song peaked in its first week with a lowly chart placing of number 51.
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UK: Kylie Minogue / Step Back In Time Limited2LP mint green vinyl – £18
£7 cheaper than it was the other day!
If you bought the ‘Traveller’s Edition’ or ‘Explorer’s Edition’ of Paul McCartney‘s Egypt Station, you might be forgiven for thinking that you finally have a package that includes all the audio that Macca has officially put out in relation to his 17th studio album. Well that was true until yesterday, when Paul sneaked out into the digital marketplace a new remix of ‘Nothing For Free’!
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Joan As Police Woman is currently on tour in the UK and last week popped in to SDE for a chat. The full interview is coming soon… but in the meantime, here’s video of Joan taking us through her new physical releases – the JOANTHOLOGY three-CD set and the Live at the BBC limited edition coloured vinyl.
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