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”
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Back to the 80s: Various Artists / New Wave Hits blue/red swirl vinyl
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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Out This Week / on 15 June 2018
The Rolling Stones / The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016 (20LP)
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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This Week’s Box Set and Reissue Deals
UK: Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair vinyl LP – £7.99
Rhino soundtrack reissue campaign offers some classics on coloured vinyl
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 call time on the David Bowie ‘Heroes’ replacement programme
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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Prince / Piano & A Microphone 1983
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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Imagine John Yoko: New official John Lennon ‘Imagine’ book announced
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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Radio Heart featuring Gary Numan / 2LP
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: Verdict on the new frontman, Ross William Wild
SDE reports on the first gig with the new frontman
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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Giles Martin to work with INXS as creative lead on future projects
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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ELO / Secret Messages 2LP vinyl
Secret Messages, the Electric Light Orchestra‘s (ELO) 1983 album will be reissued as a double vinyl set in August reinstating a number of ‘missing’ tracks 35 years after Jeff Lynne was forced to omit them in order in order to deliver a single album to the record label.
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Back to the 80s: Madonna / Like A Virgin 180g white vinyl pressing
Update 10 June: New low price in the UK
Although we wait in vain for Warners to deliver any kind of Madonna deluxe reissues, they are certainly keeping the vinyl coming, since a few days after The Immaculate Collection was reissued as a two-LP set, a new listing has appeared on a couple of retail sites for a white vinyl pressing of Like A Virgin.
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Japan half-speed mastered 2LP vinyl reissues coming later in 2018
Gentlemen Take Polaroids (1980) and Tin Drum (1981) – Japan‘s last two albums (as Japan) – will be reissued later this year as Abbey Road Half-Speed mastered 2LP vinyl editions.
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Barenaked Ladies / Stunt deluxe reissue
Barenaked Ladies will reissue their fourth album Stunt, in September, as a special 20th anniversary CD+DVD edition and on vinyl, with both formats including bonus tracks.
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The Magpie Salute / High Water 1
The Magpie Salute is an American rock band formed a couple of years ago by former Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson and they will release their debut studio album High Water 1 in August.
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Peter Murphy / 5 Albums
Five-CD box set • Bauhaus frontman’s first 5 solo albums • Bonus tracks
A new box set of featuring the first five albums of Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy will be issued by Beggars Banquet next month.
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Out This Week / on 8 June 2018
Eric Clapton / Life in 12 Bars (2CD or 4LP vinyl)
Impressive 32-track compilation that includes selections from many of the acts Eric Clapton worked with, including The Yardbirds, John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Cream, The Beatles (!), and Blind Faith. Features five previously unreleased tracks/versions – including a full length I Shot The Sheriff – and a couple of previously unreleased alternative mixes.
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The Alan Parsons Project / Eye in the Sky blu-ray audio with 5.1 surround mix
As promised, the blu-ray audio element of last year’s Alan Parsons Project Eye in the Sky box set is being made available separately.
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