Spandau Ballet / Gold: The Best Of compilation to be issued on vinyl

First time on vinyl • 2014 studio tracks added • Hadley snubbed

Spandau Ballet‘s Gold: The Best Of compilation is set to be issued on vinyl for the first time in June.
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Jethro Tull / 50 For 50: three-disc set

Anniversary 3CD compilation • single disc CD and vinyl options

Parlophone will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Jethro Tull with 50 for 50, an Ian Anderson curated ‘best of’ that, as the title suggests, includes 50 songs from the band’s rich back catalogue.
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Paul Waaktaar-Savoy on acoustic a-ha

SDE went backstage last month before a-ha‘s end-of-tour MTV Unplugged Concert at London’s O2 Arena and caught up with Paul Waaktaar-Savoy. The a-ha songwriter and guitarist was in relaxed form as we sat and chatted about the release of the MTV Unplugged: Summer Solstice album and the tour itself. Read the full interview, below:
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Midge Ure / Orchestrated: Limited edition SIGNED clear 2LP vinyl pressing

Midge Ure‘s Orchestrated album features ‘reimagined’ orchestrated versions of Ultravox hits and solo classics. It was issued on CD late last year to a warm reception and is now available on vinyl for the first time, initially exclusively through the official Midge Ure shop as a limited SIGNED clear vinyl pressing!
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12 Great French Vinyl Deals

Head over to Amazon France right now to take advantage of some classic vinyl albums at €9.99 each, which is less than £9 a pop! These include releases from David Bowie, Iggy Pop, The Cure, Rage Against The Machine, NirvanaLeonard Cohen and more! SDE’s pick of the selection can be perused, below…
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Out This Week / on 30 March 2018

Suede / 25th anniversary ‘silver’ edition

Suede’s 1993 debut is reissued as a 4CD+DVD deluxe edition. Nicely packaged with the discs housed in a bookset with archive photos, lyrics and a new intro by frontman Brett Anderson. Read more
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Pink Floyd’s 1995 live album Pulse to be reissued as a deluxe 4LP vinyl box set

Remastered • four-LP box set • UK, DE and IT pre-orders now available

Pink Floyd‘s 1995 live album Pulse will be reissued as a lavish four-LP box set in May.

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Def Leppard ’80s vinyl collection now available in the UK

For reasons unknown, when the forthcoming Def Leppard collection was announced last week, the vinyl box wasn’t available to pre-order in the UK. However, it has now finally come through and this set is now available to British fans.
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Seeing The Unseeable: New Flaming Lips box covers the early years

Rhino are to issue a newly remastered six-CD collection of the early work of American rock band The Flaming Lips in May.

Seeing The Unseeable: The Complete Studio Recordings Of The Flaming Lips 1986-1990 includes the band’s four albums recorded for Restless Records between 1984 and 1990 studio albums and two discs full  of rarities.
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Out This Week / on 23 March 2018

Led Zeppelin / How The West Was Won (reissue)

First time on vinyl for the 2003 Led Zeppelin album which documents the band’s concerts at the Los Angeles Forum and Long Beach Arena on June 25 and 27, 1972. A standalone blu-ray audio with 5.1 mix is available but not found in the super deluxe box, which makes do with a DVD. Read more
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Saturday Deluxe / 17 March 2018

Happy Birthday to SDE

SuperDeluxeEdition was seven years old on Thursday!

I hesitate to call it a ‘journey’, since that’s a bit too ‘X-Factor’, but it’s been a helluva ride, so far. I tweeted the link to my 2012 interview with Stephen Street the other day where he discusses working with Morrissey on Viva Hate (the album was 30 years old) I remember doing that in a lunch break in a busy office where I was freelancing as a graphic designer. Happy days…
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Glenn Frey / Above The Clouds: The Collection / new four-disc package

Deluxe set includes hits, early rarities and ‘deep cuts’

Universal Music will issue Above The Clouds: The Collection, a new four-disc deluxe box set that focuses on the solo career of Glenn Frey.
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