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With the band currently nominated as a 2018 inductee in the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame (you can vote here) today comes the news that Sony will release all eight of Eurythmics RCA studio albums next year…
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The super deluxe edition of the Eagles 1977 album is a three disc set consisting of a remastered version of the original album, a live disc and a blu-ray audio with a 5.1 mix of the album. Not cheap. 
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Fleetwood Mac‘s 1975 eponymous album (that features the current line-up) will be reissued as a five-disc super deluxe edition in January next year.
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Following the release of the Rule The World greatest hits, Virgin/EMI have commissioned a contemporary remix of Tears For Fears‘ 1985 hit single Head Over Heels which will debut on streaming services on Friday 17 November.
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The Johnny Cash Unearthed box set was originally issued on CD in 2003, just two months after Cash’s death. Compiled by producer Rick Rubin, this collection contained mostly previously unreleased material recorded during the four albums (a fifth was released posthumously) that Cash had cut with Rubin for his American Recordings label. A new, nine LP vinyl edition of this set is due for release later this month.
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War Horse, the children’s novel, has to date been adapted to film by Steven Spielberg film and enjoyed an acclaimed National Theatre production. Following the successful concert at the Royal Albert Hall last year, it is now being released (by BMG) as War Horse: The Story in Concert and the label have gone to town on a very special Collector’s Edition which takes the War/Horse theme and runs (gallops) with it.
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OMD will in December issue on CD that collects together “all of the B sides, radio edits, extended 12″ mixes and remixes” from The Punishment of Luxury era.
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The recent reissue of the ‘complete’ Donald Fagen Cheap Xmas five-CD box set was very welcome, but much more exciting is the news that a first ever vinyl edition of the same set will be with us before the end of the year.
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Expensive, but desirable new Queen box set that features a remastered edition of their 1977 album, two discs of outtakes including ‘raw sessions’, a DVD with a new documentary and a ‘pure analogue’ cut vinyl.
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Photo: Jake WaltersTFF enthusiast, Paul Sinclair, examines Rule The World
Out today is Rule The World, a new Tears For Fears greatest hits. In this special ‘track-by-track’ feature we will do two things. We’ll offer some insight into all the songs on the compilation and will additionally examine what’s missing. Are there any missteps? Wrong version, wrong choice of song? Read on…
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Today only, Amazon Italy are offering €10 discount on a spend of more than €50 if you use the code GRAZIE1000 when you check out. That’s a decent discount on any music box set around the €50 mark, but of course you don’t have to buy one item, you could buy three vinyl records, for instance that add up to €60 and the discount would apply.
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Rhino will next month issue The Definitive Studio Album Collection, a seven-LP Otis Redding vinyl box set which features the original mono mixes for all the singer’s studio albums.
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Very good promotion right now on Amazon France which gets you three vinyl records for €40 (about £35 or US $46) or five vinyl records for €55 (about £49 or US $64). There’s a decent selection including 2LP sets and some limited coloured pressings. SDE has picked up 12 titles that caught our eye – check out the list below!
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Watch the SDEtv unboxing video of the 3CD+DVD box set edition of The Smiths‘ The Queen Is Dead reissue…
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A new Madness Greatest Hits, Full House: The Very Best Of Madness will be released in a few weeks which includes songs from all of their albums, including last year’s Can’t Touch Us Now.
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The Alison Moyet competition has ended and we’re pleased to announce the winner of the four remastered vinyl albums…
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This December, Van Morrison will release Versatile, his second album in less than three months!
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a-ha‘s MTV Unplugged: Summer Solstice was released a few weeks back and the pick of the formats was the deluxe ‘fanbox’, which includes four discs, a book and various other items of memorabilia. SDE has taken a look at this special edition, which was only officially released in Germany, and created an unboxing video for your viewing pleasure…
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