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Part 2 of the SDE filmed interview with Martyn Ware & Glenn Gregory
Here is the second and final part (part one is here) of the interview as Heaven 17‘s Glenn Gregory and Martyn Ware visit SDE HQ and recline on the sofa to discuss topics such as why they never played live in the early days, dealing with commercial decline and the Virgin years in general…
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Alphaville / Forever Young super deluxe CD, Vinyl, Box Set, DVD
German synthpop band Alphaville‘s 1984 debut album Forever Young is reissued as a five-disc super deluxe edition, for its 35th anniversary.
UK: Paul Weller / Other Aspects 2CD+DVD – £9.99
Superb price for this recent 2CD+DVD live performance, with band and orchestra
Your first gig is something of a coming-of-age-event and so is taking your child to his or her first gig as a parent. But for it to ‘count’ I’d say that the child has to really want to go and it needs to be their idea. For example, I took my eldest daughter to see a-ha at the Royal Albert Hall in 2009, when she was only seven years old and, to be honest, it was more about her keeping me company (my wife wasn’t interested) than any desire on her part to see ‘Hunting High and Low’ played in its entirety with a full orchestra! As a result she spent the first half enquiring when we were going to get the chocolate ice cream I had promised her in the interval and the second half asking ‘when are we going to go home?’
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Out today is this special coloured vinyl edition of Bernard Herrmann‘s Taxi Driver soundtrack. Checkout this unboxing video which not only shows off the vinyl record but also, as a bonus feature, takes a look at the original Taxi Driver press pack that Columbia Pictures created when the film was released.
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UK punk/pop legend Toyah Willcox will release a two-CD deluxe edition of her 2008 album In The Court of the Crimson Queen in April.
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Universal will issue a 3LP coloured vinyl edition of The Moody Blues Live at the BBC in April.
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At the end of the month, Edsel will issue Songs, a 12CD box set that brings together Michael Nesmith solo albums issued under two different labels.
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Lloyd Cole will release his a new studio album, Guesswork, in the summer.
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BMG will issue an 94-04: The 7″ Singles Box Set, an Ash vinyl collection compiling seven-inch singles issued between 1994 and 2004.
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The National will release a new album I Am Easy To Find in May.
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Foals new album Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost Part 1 is being offered as a limited edition signed vinyl LP in the UK.
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1996 album • First time on vinyl • 180g coloured pressing
Tim Booth and Angelo Badalamenti‘s collaboration Booth and the Bad Angel is released on vinyl for the first time in May.
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Deal still on. Post updated & refreshed on 7 March.
Clean up, with some superb vinyl deals right now over in France with many great albums available discounted by €10, creating some amazing deals!
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In an entertaining unboxing video impressionist and comedian Jon Culshaw (and ‘friend’ behind him) gets to grips with the new Doctor Who vinyl box set, The Dalek’s Master Plan.
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Kate Bush / The Other Sides CD
Kate Bush issues her four-disc remix/B-side compilation The Other Sides as a standalone 4CD set. It’s not perfect, but is highly recommended if you want to dig deeper into Kate’s studio output.
Prodigy singer Keith Flint has died aged 49. He was found dead at his home in Essex this morning. There are no further details at this time.
It’s that time of year again. Next month music fans will congregate in queues, early in the morning, outside of independent record shops, with their dog-eared lists in hand, hoping to secure one of the many special releases that are created for Record Store Day. Other fans may stay at home and wander in to town later in the day to ‘see what’s left’, while some will do the early shift, only to rush home after making their purchases to get ’em up on eBay as quickly as possible! Hey, nobody said it was perfect, but this year’s selection looks the best in quite a while, so enjoy SDE’s preview of RSD ’19; our pick of the best of the special releases….
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Geffen/Universal will release Nirvana’s Live at the Paramount on vinyl for the first time in April.
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In March, Edsel are issuing The Rocket Years a new Kiki Dee five-CD deluxe set that covers her years with Elton John’s Rocket Records label.
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