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This April, Rhino is to release VI Decades Live: This Is What We Do, a five-disc Chicago live anthology consisting of previously unreleased concert recordings.
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Superb price right now for The Who‘s Polydor Singles 1975-2015 seven-inch box set.
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Very interesting release from Mondo. This is a double vinyl edition of John Williams‘ iconic score to Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film Jaws, however the original vinyl release back in the day was actually a re-recording, whereas this 2LP set presents the entire Oscar-winning score as composed and recorded for the actual film. Album co-producer Mike Matessino restored, edited and mixed the music from the original studio elements for the best possible quality, approved by the composer himself. This is on vinyl for the first time.
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Duran Duran‘s The Wedding Album (technically, called Duran Duran of course) is 25 years old today. SDE would love to be telling you about an all-singing, all-dancing anniversary super deluxe edition, but… there isn’t one. As we know, Duran Duran don’t really like to release records anymore, whether new albums, reissues, singles, 12-inch remixes…etc. Touring is their thing. Putting aside the odd Record Store Day special, they’ve issued just one physical album in the last seven years, no reissues and no physical singles. That’s bordering on perverse.
But anyway, back to The Wedding Album. To fully appreciate the success of that record and the singles (Ordinary World in particular) you need to understand just how bad things were for the band beforehand and the depths from which they had to drag themselves up. I refer The Wedding Album’s predecessor, Liberty.
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Best Buy ditch CDs
Bad news for our friend and humble servant, the CD. Best Buy in America has announced that it will stop selling them from July this year.
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Rhino will issue expanded editions of The Cars‘ Shake It Up and Heartbeat City next month, with both featuring rare and unreleased bonus material.
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Legacy Recordings and RCA Records will release Elvis Presley: The Searcher (The Original Soundtrack) in April.
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Love‘s classic 1967 album Forever Changes will be reissued as a large-format, six-disc 50th anniversary super deluxe edition in April.
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Multi-instrumentalist Andy Mackay who plays oboe and sax for Roxy Music talks to SDE about the early days of the band, living with Bryan Ferry and recording the 1972 debut album that was reissued just last week as a 45th anniversary super deluxe edition box set. “I don’t think we were ready” he tells SDE Editor, Paul Sinclair….
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Best price to date right now on Black Sabbath‘s mega box set from 2017, The Ten Year War.
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Suffice To Say: The Complete Yachts Collection is a new three-CD box set featuring the output of Liverpool new wave/power pop band Yachts, who were signed to Stiff Record in 1977.
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English rock band Porcupine Tree was formed by Steven Wilson back in 1987 and to date they have released ten studio albums. The concert film Arriving Somewhere was made when 2005’s Deadwing album was toured and then released on DVD the following year. That same film is now issued on CD and blu-ray for the first time, in a special three-disc package.
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British rock band Wishbone Ash see their output celebrated with The Vintage Years 1970-1991 a gargantuan and ‘strictly limited’ 30 CD box set.
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Ramones, Leave Home and Rocket to Russia are reissued on standalone vinyl. Rocket to Russia is the album proper and not the tracking mix from the box! 
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A new Damned seven-inch vinyl box set, The Stiff Singles 1976-1977, will be issued in March.
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Esoteric will next month issue The Studio Recordings 1979-1987 an eight-disc box set collecting the work of classical rock ‘supergroup’ Sky.
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Box sets will always struggle be perceived as greater than the sum of their parts, argues SDE editor Paul Sinclair.
A rainy January in London turns into a rainy February, and the Roxy Music box set is out. The super deluxe edition price of £130 has sparked great debate on SDE about music box sets and what represents good value. I have been mulling this over myself and after a rather protracted twitter debate yesterday (see this thread) I have come to the conclusion that the record labels are in trouble, because generally speaking, the target market for physical box sets considers them a value proposition and not an item of luxury.
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The Roxy Music four-disc super deluxe edition has been reduced in price dramatically on Amazon in the US.
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Music On Vinyl will issue a double vinyl deluxe edition of the Art of Noise‘s 1986 album In Visible Silence that includes bonus tracks and is available on limited edition blue vinyl.
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Out today is the super deluxe edition of Roxy Music‘s 1972 debut album and if you missed out back in December, there is a small number of the limited edition box set which come with a poster/print SIGNED by Bryan Ferry available right now! This is a 500-only limited edition and these are currently available via the official Roxy Music Store.
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