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The next two albums • Six vinyl records in each box this time • A price hike
Depeche Mode continue with their 12-inch vinyl box set reissue campaign with packages around the singles pulled from their third and fourth albums Construction Time Again and Some Great Reward.
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UK: Pink Floyd / Early Years 1969 Dramatis/ation 2CD+DVD+Blu-ray £21.28
Lowest EVER price for this fantastic four-disc set.
Kate Bush has removed the vocal contribution of disgraced Australian entertainer Rolf Harris from the newly remastered edition of 2005 album Aerial.
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A year on from his To The Bone album, Steven Wilson has toured it extensively and has this week issued Home Invasion: Live at the Royal Albert Hall a new concert film, shot at the historic London venue back in March. “There was a lot more smiling, ” he tells editor Paul Sinclair, when SDE caught up with him recently…
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Last year Simply Red played ‘Symphonica In Rosso’ the annual Dutch event which sees artists perform on three nights with a full orchestra. These shows will be celebrated later this month with a new audio-video package.
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The Steven Wilson stereo remix of Jethro Tull‘s 1971 album Aqualung will be reissued as a deluxe vinyl edition at the end of November.
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The Beatles / The White Album reissue CD, Vinyl, Blu-ray
The Beatles‘ 1968 self-titled double album, universally known as the ‘White Album’ is reissued for its 50th anniversary in November across four physical editions, including a seven-disc super deluxe edition. This is gonna be a good one.
Legendary producer Trevor Horn took to the stage last night at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall to perform a two-hour long set that included many classics from his impressive back catalogue – songs he has written and/or produced. It was also an opportunity for Horn to debut tracks from the forthcoming album Trevor Horn Reimagines The Eighties, which is due for release early next year.
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Sony Music will in December issue SPRINGSTEEN ON BROADWAY an album of music and stories from Bruce Springsteen taken from his one-man show in New York City which started in October last year and finishes next month.
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A week prior to the reissue of The Beatles‘ ‘White Album’, Apple Corps and Universal Music have commissioned a fantastic new video for ‘Glass Onion’ which gives fans the opportunity to hear the new 2018 stereo remix and enjoy some rare footage and images of the Fab Four.
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King Crimson 1969-1972 is a limited edition box set that presents the band’s celebrated quartet of studio albums from that period – In The Court Of The Crimson King, In The Wake Of Poseidon, Lizard, and Islands – along with a 2LP set of rarities.
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Although UMe/Capitol already ‘celebrated’ Neil Diamond‘s 50 years in music 18 months ago with a three-disc set called the ’50th anniversary collection’ it seems they haven’t celebrated enough and so will this month offer forward the ’50th Anniversary Collectors Edition’ a six-disc hardcover book deluxe package that features the same artwork, but this time includes six CDs of content, including rarities, demos and 14 previously unreleased tracks.
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Back in July SDE told you about Ricochet: David Bowie 1983 a limited edition art book with photographs by Denis O’Regan taken on Bowie’s Serious Moonlight Tour.
That lavish and highly priced tome (which incorporates four supplementary volumes, a vinyl record and three prints) is still available via the official website, but today sees the release of a smaller, more affordable version by Penguin imprint Particular Books. To mark this occasion SDE publishes in full its interview with Denis O’Regan from earlier on this year where we discussed the book and his time on tour with David Bowie in 1983.
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SDE would like to congratulate Jan Cholvadt who has been selected randomly as the winner of the two Depeche Mode 12-inch vinyl box sets!
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Culture Club‘s new album Life was issued last week, and the band have today made available some signed CDs and vinyl albums for the first time…
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DE: Nazareth / Loud & Proud! The Box Set six-disc super deluxe – €117 (or £104)
This mega-set contains six vinyl LPs, 32 CDs, three seven-inch singles, a hardback book, tour programmes, lyric sheets and more…
SDE has in the past described Universal Music Netherlands’ Collected career summaries as one of the best kept secrets in pop/rock compilations. The triple-CD sets are normally very, very good indeed and while Music On Vinyl’s double vinyl editions can’t quite match the track quantity and depth of their CD cousins, they are still worth picking up, especially in limited edition coloured vinyl guise. Two new titles come to double vinyl later this month, The Allman Brothers Band and the Commodores.
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Joni Mitchell‘s 2014 CD collection Love Has Many Faces comes to vinyl with the news of a luxury limited edition 8LP box set which features the same 53 tracks as the previous package.
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Wrasse Records will later this month issue Full Moon: The Complete Collection a new 24CD box set of English singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke‘s studio and live albums.
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Bob Dylan / More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol 14 CD, Vinyl, Box Set
Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings release the Bob Dylan box set that fans have really been waiting for. More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14 is available as a six-CD set that includes “every surviving take” (including the complete New York sessions) from the 1974 studio recordings made by Bob Dylan which resulted in his 1975 classic Blood On The Tracks. The SDE shop has some stock at a great price.
