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Universal Music will issue a 50th anniversary deluxe edition of The Rolling Stones‘ 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request in September .
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Sony’s Legacy Recordings will later this year reissue a 35th Anniversary Collector’s Edition of The Alan Parsons Project‘s 1982 album Eye in the Sky.
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Seven-disc super deluxe edition box set of Def Leppard‘s 1987 album is issued this week. Five CDs and two DVDs offer decent content, although it’s rather expensive. 
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Sony will release a 40th anniversary double picture disc vinyl edition of ELO‘s Out Of The Blue album in September.
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Tori Amos will release her new album Native Invader in September this year.
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Edsel have created what they are calling the ‘definitive pop collection’ of American singer/producer/actress Debbie Gibson, who enjoyed chart success in the late 1980s with a string of self-penned and often self-produced hits, including Only In My Dreams, Shake Your Love and Foolish Beat. We Could Be Together is a 10CD+3DVD collection that includes expanded albums, two discs of remixes/rarities and a host of video content. Fans quick off the mark can secure an exclusive edition that comes with a 12-inch print SIGNED by Debbie Gibson.
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Having issued the four seven-inch vinyl single boxes during 2015/6, Universal Music now effectively present all those A and B sides (and EP tracks) on CD with a new The Who box set: Maximum As & Bs: The Complete Singles.
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Universal Music will in October issue The Jam / 1977, a new 40th anniversary, five-disc box set celebrating the busy debut year of The Jam, when Paul Weller, Rick Buckler Bruce Foxton and delivered two albums and three hit singles.
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In September, Caroline International will reissue as expanded multi-disc deluxe editions of the first three albums by eighties Liverpool band China Crisis. SDE can exclusively bring you the full track listings for these re-releases.
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Sony Legacy will issue a two-disc deluxe edition of Spandau Ballet‘s 1986 album Through The Barricades in September.
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The long awaited Pet Shop Boys reissued deliver multi-disc sets for their ‘non-imperial phase’. Vinyl editions also available (but include no bonus material).
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As the pre-order options for the newly announced David Gilmour Live at Pompeii release slowly feed through, it would be remiss of SDE not to highlight a very competitive price for the deluxe box set edition on Amazon Italy.
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This week: Tears For Fears take SDE’s advice and we explore the mystery of the new The Smiths remaster…
Regular visitors here should already know that together, SDE and its readers have been known to influence and actually affect change in archival product, thanks to pointed observations and often forensic knowledge of artists’ back catalogue. Reissues from the likes of Swing Out Sister, The Blow Monkeys, Bros, Donna Summer and Peter Gabriel have all been ‘improved’ to some degree or another – thanks to this community, and they’re only releases we actually know about!
However, having an impact on a band’s live performance is a new one, but that’s exactly what happened this week, as a tweet by Tears For Fears singer and songwriter Roland Orzabal revealed.
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In July 2016 David Gilmour performed two shows in the amphitheatre in Pompeii making him the only performer to play to an audience in the arena since the time of the gladiators, almost 2,000 years ago. As you might expect, a concert film Live At Pompeii was shot (in 4K, by Gavin Elder) and this is being released theatrically in September (“for one night only”) and more pertinently for SDE readers, the whole thing is being issued across five different formats – including as a 2CD+2x blu-ray deluxe box set – later the same month…
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Warners will issue multi-disc deluxe editions of The Smiths‘ 1986 album The Queen Is Dead on vinyl and CD, in October this year.
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Universal Music Canada have taken to Facebook to acknowledge their ‘errors’ when compiling the sesquicentennial Canada 150 release which is available as a six-CD super deluxe edition.
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Stupendous price on Amazon Germany today for the exquisite Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Lovely Creatures super deluxe edition.
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Parlophone continue their David Bowie 40th anniversary seven-inch picture discs, with this rather striking new edition of the “Heroes” single, scheduled for release in September.
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The Waterboys will release a brand new studio album, Out Of All This Blue, in September. It’s a double album and their first for BMG Records, with whom they recently signed.
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As mentioned back in April, when this was announced, the soundtrack to the Grateful Dead documentary Long Strange Trip is being made available as a limited edition 6LP vinyl package (exclusive to Amazon). It is now available for pre-order.
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