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To mark Roger Waters‘ Us and Them Tour, Sony are issuing a special numbered and limited green vinyl edition of Is This The Life We Really Want? – one of SDE’s favourite album of 2017.
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English singer-songwriter and guitarist Anna Calvi will issue her third album, Hunter, in August.
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Parlophone will issue This Is Morrissey, a new single-disc Morrissey compilation in July.
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‘Things’ are happening in the Paul McCartney camp right now that suggest some kind of announcement – likely to be news of the release of Macca’s 17th solo studio album – is imminent.
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As Nick Mason prepares to take his new band (Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets) on the road, a new pithily titled box set, Unattended Luggage, brings together his three solo albums, which were all originally issued in the 1980s.
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A frontman announcing the recent death of a loved one isn’t the most conventional way to open a concert, but that’s the unfortunate situation forced upon a bereaved Matt Johnson last week as he kicked off a series of The The concerts in London last week with a date at the Royal Albert Hall.
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a-ha‘s stunning debut album Hunting High and Low will be reissued on a clear vinyl pressing.
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The Time‘s third album Ice Cream Castle will be reissued on ‘Neapolitan’ coloured vinyl in July.
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Yes‘ big selling 90125 album will be reissued on ‘tri-coloured’ vinyl in July. Continue reading “Back to the 80s: Yes / 90125 tri-colour (pink, yellow, blue) vinyl LP”
Rhino have created a new compilation of New Wave Hits for their Back to the 80s vinyl reissue campaign and this 10-track compilation will be pressed on blue/red ‘swirl’ vinyl.
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Mammoth Rolling Stones set which includes every studio album from 1971’s Sticky Fingers to 2016’s Blue & Lonesome as half-speed mastered pressings. Also comes with a card for ‘HD digital redemption’. 
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UK: Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair vinyl LP – £7.99
Rhino are about to kick off a summer vinyl soundtrack campaign with many classic and cult film soundtracks issued on 140g vinyl, some of them in desirable coloured vinyl pressings.
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Parlophone will no longer replace copies of David Bowie‘s 1977 album Heroes, which suffer from the ‘loss of energy’ issue on the title track, that are included in the A New Career In A New Town box set.
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The Prince Estate in partnership with Warner Bros. Records has today announced the release of Piano & A Microphone 1983 a brand new Prince album that features previously unreleased home studio cassette recording of Prince at his piano captured in 1983.
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A new book about the making of John Lennon‘s 1971 album Imagine – personally compiled and curated by Yoko Ono – will be released in October. Imagine John Yoko is billed as the ‘definitive inside story’ of the making of the album, which is told in ‘revelatory’ detail.
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Gary Numan‘s contribution to Radio Heart (a pop project by brothers Hugh and David Nicholson) resulted in a number of singles in the late 1980s including Radio Heart, London Times and All Across The Nation. A new double album package of this era brings together the album that was released and alternative mixes and b-sides (some of which are solo Gary Numan songs!)
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Spandau Ballet unveiled their new singer, Ross William Wild, last night with a sweaty, intimate 70 minute hit-packed set at London’s Subterania.
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Following the successful reissue of INXS‘ Kick album last year – a 3CD+blu-ray set that features a Giles Martin (& Sam Okell) Dolby Atmos Mix – Universal Music Group have announced that the renowned producer and son of ‘fifth Beatle’ George Martin has been named as ‘Executive Music Director’ across a variety of future ‘ground-breaking’ projects.
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