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R.E.M.‘s best album is their best reissue to date. The super deluxe edition comes as a 60-page hardcover book and features four discs of content including demos, live material and a brand new Dolby Atmos surround sound mix. 
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The July reissue of Marillion‘s 1985 album Misplaced Childhood was a treat, but there was no opportunity to buy single disc remasters on CD, and in particular, vinyl. This has now been rectified and as promised at the time, in December the remastered album will also be made available on a single vinyl record and a single CD.
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Neil Young will issue, The Visitor, his 39th studio album in December.
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Culture Club Live at Wembley will be issued next month, a three disc set that features their 2016 performance at the famous venue.
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Giles Martin’s 2017 stereo remix of The Beatles‘ 1967 album Sgt. Peppers’ Lonely Hearts Club Band will be issued as a vinyl picture disc in December.
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Apple Corps and Universal Music will issue a new Beatles box set just in time for this Christmas. The Christmas Records is a vinyl box set that features seven coloured vinyl records. Each 45 features the Fab Four’s original festive messages, which were issued every year to the fan club on flexi-disc.
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U2‘s forthcoming album Songs of Experience, will be available as a three-disc box set and a trio of other physical formats.
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Sony’s Legacy Recordings release Voice of Romance: The Columbia Original Album Collection a massive 68-disc Johnny Mathis career-spanning box set in December.
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Later this month Cherry Red will issue We’re Not In Kansas, a five-CD box set that collects Big Country live performances from the 1990s.
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An expanded two-CD edition of Bananarama‘s 1988 compilation, The Greatest Hits Collection, will be released at the end of this month.
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Wet Wet Wet bass player ‘pops in’ to SDE to discuss the band’s debut
Universal Music have recently reissued Wet Wet Wet‘s 1987 debut Popped In Souled Out as a rather impressive five-disc super deluxe edition. SDE recently caught up with bass player Graeme Clark to reminisce about the band’s beginnings, the early success and to ask why Marti Pellow has recently left Wet Wet Wet at what should be a time of celebration…
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This nine-disc deluxe edition of Sony’s latest Bob Dylan bootleg series features 100 previously unreleased live and studio recordings and showcases the music written and performed during the end of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, when he released three albums (his so-called ‘Christian Trilogy’) – Slow Train Coming, Saved and Shot of Love.
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Thirty two years after they last played at London’s Royal Albert Hall and 12 years after their last headline show in the capital, Tears For Fears returned to West London last night to entertain an ecstatic capacity crowd with a 100 minute set that included all the hits and more.
24 hours on from their In Concert performance at the BBC Radio Theatre and with a newly announced 2018 UK and Ireland tour, there is definitely a feeling of momentum right now, especially since the new single I Love You But I’m Lost remains on the ‘A-list’ of BBC Radio 2’s playlist and the Rule The World greatest hits is only a couple of weeks away from release.
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Frankie Goes To Hollywood‘s 1984 debut album Welcome to the Pleasuredome is reissued this week by BMG, on both vinyl LP and CD. These special editions are dubbed ‘art of the album’ and contain new notes. The CD also comes packaged as a casebound book. SDE takes a look at both formats in this unboxing video…
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1967-1974 is a new 10CD box set that celebrates 50 years since the eponymous debut album of British blues/rock band Ten Years After.
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The eight Paul McCartney/Wings albums that are due to be reissued on (coloured) vinyl and CD next month will also be issued in Japan as limited ‘paper sleeve’ vinyl replica CD editions.
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Sony will issue for the first time (in Europe) a vinyl edition of The Jimi Hendrix Experience box set – also known as ‘The Purple Box’ – at the end of this week.
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