Author: Paul Sinclair

Now That’s What I Call Music 2 to be reissued on CD

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The very first Now That’s What I Call Music compilation, issued in the UK in November 1983, has been reissued a number of times but the second volume, which followed four months after the first in March 84, is to be released on CD for the first time in April.
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SDEtv: UK v Japanese CD packaging, featuring Trevor Horn’s new album

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Is the demise of the CD a self-fulfilling prophecy? Record labels are sometimes guilty of either not issuing new releases on the format (see volume two of Sony’s Bruce Springsteen‘s album collection box set and yesterday’s Marvin Gaye announcement from Universal) or putting out a CD so lacklustre in terms of packaging and presentation, that even the most diehard physical music fan might start questioning their commitment to the format.
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Universal to issue ‘lost’ Marvin Gaye album, ‘You’re The Man’

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A few days before what would have been Marvin Gaye‘s 80th birthday, Universal Music will issue You’re The Man, the album that was supposed to be the follow-up to the classic What’s Going On.
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Watch Tears For Fears perform ‘Memories Fade’ at London’s O2 Arena

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Tears For Fears took to the stage last night at London’s O2 to entertain a capacity crowd with a 90-minute hit-packed set. Watch them perform ‘Memories Fade’ from their 1983 debut The Hurting.
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Van Morrison / The Healing Game / triple-disc deluxe edition

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Sony’s Legacy Recordings will issue a three-disc deluxe edition of Van Morrison‘s 1997 album The Healing Game which features unreleased session tracks, collaborations and live performances.
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Canadian music chain Sunrise Records acquires HMV

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HMV in the UK has been saved from going under. It has been bought by Doug Putman, owner of the Sunrise Records chain in Canada. The businessman actually acquired HMV in Canada a couple of years ago and rebranded them as Sunrise Records, but there are no such plans in the UK.
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Out This Week / on 8 February 2019

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Prince / Musicology, 3121, Planet Earth vinyl reissue Vinyl

The Prince Estate and Sony’s Legacy Recordings reissue three of Prince albums: Musicology, 3121 and Planet Earth. All three are reissued on CD and released for the first time on vinyl. PURPLE vinyl to boot!

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This Week’s Reissue and Box Set Deals

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UK: Rush / A Farewell to Kings super deluxe box set – £99 £152

Massive discount for a massive super deluxe features new cover art and includes three CDs, a blu-ray audio (with a new 5.1 remix by Steven Wilson) and four vinyl LPs. Also comes with ‘stuff’ including a “King’s Ring” with “custom velvet pouch”, neck chain, two lithos, a turntable mat and a replica 1978 tour programme!


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Peter Jackson to revamp The Beatles ‘Let It Be’ film from original footage

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Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson, best known for his Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movies, is collaborating with The Beatles to produce a new film from the 55 hours of footage originally filmed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg for what turned into ‘the intimate bioscopic experience’ that was 1970’s Let It Be motion picture.
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Heaven 17 / Play to Win:The Virgin Years / 10CD deluxe & 5LP vinyl box

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10CD box set of the Virgin Years • Albums • demos • remixes • Also available 5LP vinyl COLOURED vinyl box set

Synthpop legends Heaven 17‘s Virgin Records recordings are brought together in Play To Win: The Virgin Years, a large format 10CD deluxe set which features all five albums issued in the 1980s, along with over 100 bonus tracks, including demos, B-sides, non-album singles and remixes. It will also be released as a 5LP coloured vinyl box set called Play To Win: The Virgin Albums.
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