Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
Signed edition now SOLD OUT but exclusives still available at official Roxy store.
After years of hints, rumours and speculation, Universal Music have announced today that Roxy Music‘s eponymous 1972 debut album will be reissued as 3CD+DVD super deluxe edition in February 2018.
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2001 ‘Further Listening’ sets newly remastered • plus vinyl releases
Pet Shop Boys continue with their ‘Catalogue’ reissue campaign, this time going right back to the beginning and reissuing their first three albums, Please, Actually and Introspective.
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Eighteen months after the last in the series was issued, electronic duo Blank & Jones have announced so80s 11, a double-disc collection of newly remastered rare and forgotten extended mixes from the 1980s.
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Out on this Friday is War Horse: The Story in Concert a music box set that brings to life Michael Morpurgo’s novel as the author himself narrators (alongside Joanna Lumley) with the story set to music by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra.
The collector’s edition boasts some very creative packaging – the set comes in a custom-made military-styled canvas bag, which in turn contains a large format (12-inches square) 76-page case bound book with the full script of the narrated story and original illustrations by award-winning British designer Rae Smith.
Watch the unboxing video below, to get a proper look at how this set works…
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SDE opens up the new four-LP ‘pop-up’ vinyl edition of Full House: The Very Best Of Madness. Watch the unboxing video…
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It hasn’t really been a great year for Donald Fagen. He’s had to endure the death of his musical partner Walter Becker and to make matters worse, now seems engaged in a legal row with Becker’s estate over the ownership of the Steely Dan name. Fans will mourn the loss of Becker of course, but in terms of Fagen’s solo career, this 7LP vinyl edition of Cheap Xmas – which contains all his solo albums plus a rarities disc – is very welcome and cheaper than a used vinyl copy of Kamakriad! 
Continue reading “Out This Week / on 8 December 2017”
Neil Young Archives
Neil Young‘s online digital archive went live yesterday.
In a welcome message, Young first reminds us that listening to music has been one of the the “great joys” of his life, before going on to make his feelings clear about audio quality and what he sees as the failings of the music industry (and Apple in particular) to deliver “top-quality audio recordings”.
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Stunning price today in the UK for the four-disc box set of the soundtrack to Nic Reog’s 1976 film The Man Who Fell To Earth.
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Michael Mertens, who was in the band and composed or co-composed most of the music on Propaganda‘s 1985 album A Secret Wish, has been quick to come out and call the forthcoming reissue ‘pathetic and beyond ridicule’ and has apologised to fans of Propaganda.
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BMG will continue with their ‘art of the album’ reissue campaign with new CD and vinyl editions of Propaganda‘s 1985 album A Secret Wish.
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Amazon Germany is back with it’s 3-for-2 deal on music! I know some of you were disappointed when the last deal ended somewhat prematurely, so thanks to price-matching local competitor Media Markt, SDE readers globally can benefit.
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The Killers completed the first leg of their Wonderful Wonderful world tour last night as they entertained a capacity crowd at London’s O2 Arena with close to 120 minutes of hits and favourites from their five-album back catalogue.
Continue reading “Live review: The Killers at London’s O2”
Echo & The Bunnymen will release a new album, The Stars, The Oceans & The Moon, next year which will feature Bunnymen classics transformed and new songs “with strings & things attached”.
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All the furore over the forced iTunes deployment overshadowed the fact that U2‘s last album Songs of Innocence was really rather good. Songs of Experience is the delayed follow-up of which four physical editions are available, including a deluxe box set.
Continue reading “Out This Week / on 1 December 2017”
Parlophone’s series of 40th-anniversary edition David Bowie seven-inch picture discs continue in January with Beauty and the Beast.
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Continue reading “Dis-Content Provider Rock: Luke Haines talks to SDE about his solo anthology”
Simple Minds will release, Walk Between Words, their 18th studio album in February.
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Universal Music will issue three Beastie Boys albums on vinyl next month, including 2004’s To The 5 Boroughs….
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Deal has now expired.
Just when you thought the Black Friday deals were hard to keep up with, Amazon Germany are repeating what they did back in September, and that is price-matching local competitor Saturn with an outstanding 3-for-2 offer. You can buy three music box sets and get the third (the cheapest) for nothing, regardless of the price-tag. This deal runs until Saturday 24 November.
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