Author: Paul Sinclair

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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Out This Week / on 1 February 2019

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The Cardigans / Vinyl reissues Vinyl

All six of Swedish pop band The Cardigans‘ studio albums have been remastered and are reissued on 180g black vinyl. A special bundle is available on the SDE shop.

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Frank Zappa / Zappa in New York: 40th anniversary 5CD box & 3LP vinyl

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Limited 5CD set in an embossed tin • 3 hours of unreleased performances • newly remastered • Vault audio newly mixed • All-analogue vinyl

This March, Universal Music will issue a five-CD, 40th anniversary deluxe edition of Frank Zappa‘s 1978 live album Zappa in New York.
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Flight of the Conchords / Live in London

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3LP vinyl box or 2CD audio sets

In 2018, ten years after the launch of their brilliant HBO series Flight of the Conchords, ‘musical comedians’ Bret McKenzie and Jermaine Clement staged a special Live in London event, which was again broadcast on HBO (and available for a while on Sky Arts in the UK). In March, this will be released as a 3LP vinyl package and a two-CD set.
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