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The Rolling Stones / Rock and Roll Circus CD, Vinyl, Box Set, Blu-ray, DVD
The Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus is released as a four-disc deluxe box set which features the event on blu-ray (for the first time) bringing fans a new Dolby Atmos mix. There is also be a 3 LP vinyl version, featuring extra tracks not previously broadcast.
The Pixies forthcoming album Beneath The Eyrie is now available via Amazon UK as an exclusive signed CD edition.
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Live 1969 is a brand new Elvis Presley 11CD box set that marks the 50th anniversary of his performances at the International Hotel in Las Vegas.
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With the Originals release now available on CD, SDE spoke to Michael Howe the man responsible for Prince‘s audio archive. Just what exactly does he do and how do they decide what to release? Those and many other questions answered below…
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Rolling Stone magazine in Germany will offer a free Phil Collins seven-inch single with their July issue.
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The 1984 compilation album Now That’s What I Call Music 3 will be issued on CD for the first time next month.
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Sheryl Crow says “all her masters” were destroyed when the Universal Studios archive in Los Angeles burnt down in 2008.
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Steve Hillage has signed 100 photographs to be given away exclusively with his impressive box set Searching For The Spark.
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FRANCE: David Bowie: A New Career In A New Town 13LP vinyl – €130
This equates to £116. Easily the best ever price for the vinyl box featuring some of Bowie’s very best work.
Universal Music’s enormous Queen 18LP vinyl box called Studio Collection was issued back in 2015 and went out of print reasonably quickly, which resulted in some eye-watering prices being demanded via secondary markets. However, there is now good news for fans who missed out, since the box is now back in print.
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B52s / Cosmic Thing deluxe edition CD
The B-52’s album Cosmic Thing is reissued as an expanded two-CD deluxe edition for its 30th anniversary reissue.
The first indications of Sony’s Prefab Sprout reissue campaign are confirmed by an appearance on various Amazon sites of remastered vinyl versions of some of their albums. Continue reading “Prefab Sprout’s reissue campaign confirmed by remastered vinyl listings”
Radiohead‘s Thom Yorke will release his third solo album, Anima in July.
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The Divine Comedy have just scored the highest UK chart position of their career with Office Politics, which entered at number five last week. SDE caught up with DC main man Neil Hannon a few weeks back, to talk about the new album…
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Scottish rock band Big Country’s 1986 album The Seer is being reissued as an expanded 2LP set in July.
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Natasha Khan’s Bat For Lashes return in September, with a fifth studio album, Lost Girls via AWAL Recordings.
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After less than positive feedback from some fans, London Records have acknowledged that problems have “sporadically affected” their recent Blancmange Blanc Tapes 6LP vinyl package and have promised to replace these for any customers impacted by this.
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Prince / Originals CD, Vinyl
The fifteen-track Prince album features 14 previously unreleased recordings that explores the behind-the-scenes role Prince played in other artist’s careers. Basically, it’s his versions of the hits he penned for others. CD out already, but this week sees the releases of the deluxe version of purple vinyl.
The soundtrack to David Hemmings’ (him from Antonioni’s sixties classic ‘Blow-Up’) 1978 film Just A Gigolo will be released on limited edition blue vinyl next month.
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Sheryl Crow releases a new album Threads at the end of August.
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