Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
Jeff Fura, the Senior Director of Product Development at Universal Music Enterprises, is the producer of the Guns N’ Roses Appetite For Destruction ‘Locked N’ Loaded’ mega-box. In this official unboxing video he takes fans through the $1000 box set piece-by-piece, revealing all the details and what actually looks like very impressive content within the wooden cabinet.
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Sixties Mod band The Action‘s Complete Recordings (1964-1968) will be released as a new four-CD set in October.
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In September, Rhino will issue a 50th anniversary deluxe edition of The Doors‘ third album Waiting For The Sun.
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5CDs • 23 previously unreleased tracks • ‘Complete’ Creation recordings
A three-CD deluxe edition of The House of Love‘s debut album was reissued back in 2012 but now Cherry Red go two better by issuing a five-disc 30th anniversary set.
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The half-speed mastered vinyl editions of Japan‘s Gentlemen Take Polaroids and Tin Drum (that SDE told you about earlier this month) are now available to pre-order.
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Massive reissue campaign for the 1987 Guns N’ Roses album, although you’ll need to part with a fair bit of cash to enjoy the super deluxe and remortgage the house for the Locked N’ Loaded edition which comes in a wooden cabinet! 
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Live 1962 – 1966: Rare Performances From The Copyright Collections, the new Bob Dylan two-CD set SDE told you about on Tuesday, is now finally available to pre-order in the UK.
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SDE verdict on the two new Macca songs
For a song off an album that has a self-styled ‘travelogue’ vibe, there is irony in the fact that the main failing of the otherwise perky Come On To Me is that it doesn’t go anywhere. Macca seems to have lapsed into laziness and convinced himself that the song doesn’t need a middle eight, when really it does. It commits the cardinal sin of the pop song and becomes a bit boring towards the end.
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Sony will release Planet Jarre in September, a 50th anniversary Jean Michel Jarre anthology that will be available in three physical formats, including a super deluxe edition box set.
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FR: The Rolling Stones / Studio Albums Vinyl box – £279 or €319
Save £100 on the UK price for this recent 20LP vinyl box (with half-speed mastered vinyl and hi-res download code) by buying from France.
Led Zeppelin‘s soundtrack to their concert film The Song Remains The Same has been remastered and will be reissued across multiple formats in September.
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In an interview with DIY Magazine about his new album Egypt Station (published yesterday), Paul McCartney confirmed what was rumoured to be happening – a 50th anniversary reissue of The Beatles’ ‘White Album’.
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Paul McCartney‘s new album is titled Egypt Station and will be issued in September.
His 17th studio solo long-player has been produced by Greg Kurstin (except for one Ryan Tedder track) and contains 14 songs, including the ‘double A-side single’ combo of I Don’t Know and Come on to Me. A physical release of this ‘single’ hasn’t been confirmed and isn’t looking particularly likely.
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A new 6LP vinyl box of the Grateful Dead‘s complete Portland Memorial Coliseum show from 19 May 1974 will be issued in September.
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The original 1983 Now That’s What I Call Music compilation – forever after referred to as ‘NOW 1’ – is being reissued on double vinyl and double CD in July.
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Very good price right now on the 7LP vinyl super deluxe of U2‘s The Joshua Tree…
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The Psychedelic Furs are to reissue all seven of their studio albums on 180g vinyl at the end of July.
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To tie in with Bob Dylan‘s upcoming 2018 tour of Australia, Sony are issuing a new double-CD compilation called Live 1962 – 1966: Rare Performances From The Copyright Collections.
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As Neil Finn once sang… now we’re getting somewhere! For the last week, Paul McCartney has been posting rather annoying ‘tease’ images on his instagram and twitter accounts, which appear to be to do with his long-awaited new album. Today at 5pm (BST) the apparent title was made clear. Macca’s new album will (almost certainly) be called Egypt Station!
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