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Public Image Limited / The Public Image Is Rotten (Songs From The Heart) CD, Vinyl, DVD
Cute title for this new 40th anniversary Public Image Ltd (PiL) career-spanning box set. It features hits, rarities, radio sessions, live concerts, promos, TV footage and more, and is available as a 5CD+2DVD or 6LP vinyl set.
Misfits: The Mercury Years 1986-1990 is a new four-CD box set featuring eighties British pop band Curiosity Killed The Cat. Two and a half years in the making, this set has been compiled by SDE Editor Paul Sinclair and has been put together with the cooperation of the band. It will be released in September.
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SDE explores Supersonic Years the recent Black Sabbath seven-inch singles box set. Watch the unboxing video…
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UK: Otis Redding / The Definitive Studio Album Collection 7LP – £56
Congratulations to SDE reader Martin Power who was randomly selected as the winner of the Five Star competition. Martin wins a copy of the Luxury: The Definitive Anthology 1984-1991 which is released today.
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Paul Simon will release his 14th studio album, In The Blue Light, in September.
Produced by Simon and the legendary Roy Halee, the album sees the musician and songwriter revisit and rework personal favourites from his own back catalogue.
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Rare and unreleased Tom Petty • 4CD deluxe • 6LP vinyl
An American Treasure is a new box set that features rare and previously unreleased songs from Tom Petty.
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Paul Weller will release a new album, True Meanings in September.
The 14-track album is the 26th solo long-player of his career and is described as incorporating “lush orchestration” that contains a “dreamy, peaceful, pastoral set of songs”.
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Remixes of classic tracks produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards
Dimitri From Paris Presents Le Chic Remix is a new two-CD set featuring reworks of Chic, Sister Sledge and other artists produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards.
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It wasn’t crystal clear when announced, but fans considering the forthcoming The Band Music From Big Pink box set might like to know that the 5.1 surround mix included on the blu-ray audio (which is exclusive to the box) is a BRAND NEW MIX and not simply the old 5.1 mix from the DVD-Audio, re-presented.
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BMG are to release Loud & Proud! a new 39-disc super deluxe edition box set that celebrates 50 years of those hard rocking Scots, Nazareth!
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Two-CD & 2LP vinyl sets
This September, Atlantic and Rhino Records will release The Atlantic Singles Collection 1967-1970, a new Aretha Franklin set that spotlights those three years at Atlantic that produced so many international hit singles.
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New album • 2LP coloured vinyl includes CD • Limited to 500
Eddi Reader will issue a new studio album, Cavalier, in September.
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are issuing a Distant Sky: Live in Copenhagen, a special 12-inch vinyl EP featuring audio from their Copenhagen Royal Arena show from last year.
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The Complete Jan Akkerman is a new 26 CD box set which brings together all the studio albums (and more) of Dutch guitar legend Jan Akkerman, who found international success with the band Focus.
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Setlist of classics (but no Satisfaction) from The Rolling Stones‘ 1999 No Security tour. This Eagle Rock release is available in the usual array of formats, but sadly, coloured vinyl is exclusive to the USA. 
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Today sees the reissue of three of Eurythmics albums on vinyl: 1985’s Be Yourself Tonight, Revenge from 1986 and Savage from ’87. Each album is newly remastered from the original tapes and pressed on 180g vinyl. Furthermore, they all come with a download code for hi-res audio. SDE caught up with Dave Stewart and Annie Lennox and asked them about their output and this new reissue campaign…
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Christine and the Queens will release a new album, Chris, in September.
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Signed collector’s boxed set edition • Standard version widely available
Photographer Denis O’Regan’s pictures of David Bowie taken during 1983’s Serious Moonlight Tour, are collected in a new official book, Ricochet, which is available as both a highly-priced limited art book and a much cheaper edition, to be published by Penguin later this year.
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