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Genesis / From Genesis to Revelation CD, Vinyl, Blu-ray
From Genesis to Revelation, the 1969 album from Genesis is reissued as a 4CD+blu-ray box set.
Teenage Fanclub follow-up 2023’s Nothing Lasts Forever with their 13th album, Do Not Dare To Dream.
Paul McCartney will release a ‘special edition’ of his number one album, The Boys Of Dungeon Lane, in December.
This new version features new artwork, three new songs (called ‘City Fox’, ‘One Night Stand’ and ‘Chelsea Boots’ and a ‘flip mix’ of the Ringo duet ‘Home to Us’. Irritatingly, what was the iTunes bonus track – ‘First Star of the Night (Demo)’ – isn’t included!
The special edition is available as a 2LP vinyl set and on CD.
The Boys Of Dungeon Lane special edition will be released on 11 December 2026, although it will be available digitally on 9 October. Pre-order links coming.
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The pre-order window for Chapters: The Best Of Midge Ure on SDE exclusive blu-ray closes today.
It includes all his hits, key album tracks and some songs he has been associated through his career. Featuring his UK No.1 single, ‘If I Was’ along with classics like ‘Dear God’, ‘No Regrets‘, ‘The Man Who Sold The World’, ‘After A Fashion’ which he recorded with Japan’s Mick Karn and the sublime duet with Kate Bush, ‘Sister & Brother’ (Kate in Atmos!). For the first time Midge has recorded new studio recordings of Visage’s ‘Fade To Grey‘ and Phil Lynott’s ‘Yellow Pearl’, which he originally co-wrote.
The SDE exclusive blu-ray offers 17 tracks in the following audio streams:
Additionally, the SDE blu-ray features a wealth of video content, include seven promo videos (with optional Midge Ure commentary) and seven BBC TV appearances including performances on Top of the Pops and Wogan. Full tracklistings and details are below.
Chapters: The Best Of Midge Ure is #79 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series and and it will be packaged similarly to previous editions and ships with a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase.
If you haven’t already done so, pre-order it TODAY from the SDE shop using this link or the buttons below. Availability cannot be guaranteed after today. For other formats browse the official store.
Chapters: The Best Of Midge Ure will be released on 13 November 2026 via Chrysalis Records.
79: Chapters: The Best Of Midge Ure
78 The Who / The Who By Numbers
77 Manic Street Preachers / The Holy Bible / The Holy Bible Live
76 Spandau Ballet / Gold: The Best Of
75 George Michael / The Faith Tour
74 Amy Winehouse / Back to Black
73 Tears For Fears / The Seeds Of Love
72 Dire Straits / On Every Street – still available
71 Roxy Music / For Your Pleasure – still available
70 The Family Silver / Electric Blend – still available
69 Suede / Coming Up
68 Simple Minds / Once Upon A Time
67 Tina Turner / Private Dancer
66 Producers / Made in Basing Street
65 Thin Lizzy (1971 debut)
64 Bryan Ferry / Taxi
63 Bryan Ferry / Bête Noire
62 Roxy Music / Flesh + Blood
61 Tori Amos / In Times Of Dragons
60 Heaven 17 / The Luxury Gap
59 Heaven 17 / Penthouse and Pavement
58 Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris / All The Roadrunning
57 The Who / Quadrophenia
56 George Michael / Faith
55 Bryan Ferry / Boys and Girls
54 Thin Lizzy / Nightlife
53 Fine Young Cannibals (FYC) / The Raw & The Cooked
52 Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair
51 Propaganda / A Secret Wish
50 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasuredome
49 Elton John / Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
48 The Who / Who Are You
47 The Human League / Dare
46 Split Enz / ENZyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2
45 Mark Knopfler / Sailing to Philadelphia
44 Matt Deighton / Today Become Forever
43 De La Soul / 3 Feet High and Rising
42 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel / The Best Years of Our Lives
41 Mike Oldfield / Hergest Ridge
40 Claudi Brücken / Night Mirror
39 Elton & Brandi / Who Believes In Angels?
38 Dire Straits / Brothers in Arms
37 INXS / Listen Like Thieves
36 Roxy Music / Avalon
35 Envy of None / Stygian Waves
34 Bryan Ferry / Retrospective
33 Simple Minds / Sparkle in the Rain
32 Simple Minds / New Gold Dream
31 Elton John / Diamonds
30 The Who / Who’s Next
29 Thompson Twins / Into The Gap
28 Tears For Fears / Songs For A Nervous Planet
27 Thin Lizzy / 1976
26 Bronski Beat / The Age of Consent
25 Tori Amos / Unrepentant Geraldines
24 Ultravox / Lament
23 Crowded House / Gravity Stairs
22 Luther Vandross / Never Too Much
21 Keane / Hopes and Fears
20 Wham! / Make It Big
19 Wham! / Fantastic
18 Mark Knopfler / One Deep River
17 Paul Young / No Parlez
16 Def Leppard / Diamond Star Halos
15 Soft Cell / Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
14 Trevor Horn / Echoes – Ancient and Modern
13a Duran Duran / Danse Macabre De Luxe
13 Duran Duran / Danse Macabre
12 ABC / The Lexicon of Love
11 Suede / Suede
10 Mike Oldfield / Tubular Bells
9 Tears For Fears / The Hurting
8 Bob Dylan / Time Out Of Mind (2022 Remix)
7 Ten Years After / A Space in Time
6.5 Various Artists / Concert For George
6. Orbital / Optical Delusion
5 Brian Eno / ForeverAndEverNoMore
4 Shakespears Sister / Hormonally Yours
3 Gilbert O’Sullivan / Driven
2 xPropaganda / The Heart is Strange
1 Tears For Fears / The Tipping Point
Talking Heads’ classic 1979 album Fear Of Music will be in November as part of the ongoing reissue campaign.
Co-produced with Brian Eno, the album features the singles ‘Life During Wartime’, ‘Air’, ‘I Zimbra’ and ‘Cities’.
This 3CD+blu-ray super deluxe edition is in the same large format book edition as Taking Heads ’77 and More Songs About Buildings and Food and expands upon the original album featuring rare studio outtakes and alternate versions as well two previously unreleased in full complete shows from the Fear of Music tour recorded at Berklee Performance Center in Boston, Massachusetts on August 24, 1979 and Capitol Theater in Passaic, New Jersey on November 17, 1979.
The blu-ray disc featuring what is surely a much anticipated Dolby Atmos of the album, as well as a 5.1 mix and a hi-res stereo mix. The blu-ray also includes video content: rare filmed footage of the band performing on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1979.
The entire stereo audio from the first three CDs are available in a 6LP vinyl box set (probably D2C only) but there’s also a 2LP variant which ignores the live stuff and delivers the remastered album and the rarities appended on CD 1 as a separate LP (effectively the first two LPs from the 6LP box). The second record is etched on one side, so supplying one-and-a-half LPs of audio on a 2LP set is rather dubious.
Fear Of Music will be released on 11 November 2026 via Warner Records. The 3CD+blu-ray edition can be pre-ordered from the SDE shop using this link or the button below.
R.E.M.’s 2001 album Reveal will be reissued in November for its 25th anniversary.
The band’s 12th studio album spawned two hits in the UK, including the top 10 single ‘Imitation of Life’ and ‘All the Way to Reno (You’re Gonna Be a Star)’. The band’s commercial fortunes remained in decline in the US where ‘Imitation of Life’ stalled at No 83.
Despite both singles offering demos, alternate versions of album tracks, live cuts and non-album B-sides (‘2JN’, ‘Yellow River’, ‘165 Hillcrest’) none of these are included on any format of the anniversary reissue, with bonus audio content reserved solely for The Black Sessions Revealed, a 2001 concert recorded for Radio France.
The formats are 2CD+blu-ray and 2LP vinyl of The Black Sessions Revealed. The album is also available on vinyl although availability seems limited (at least for now). The official R.E.M. store also has exclusive coloured vinyl versions of both. There is no word on remastering, which suggests the album hasn’t been remastered.
The 2CD+blu-ray edition features the album on CD 1, The Black Sessions Revealed on CD 2 and a blu-ray which includes the album in 5.1 Surround and hi-res stereo. Presumably these are the same mixes that were put out 21 years ago on the CD+DVD-A reissue.
The lack of Dolby Atmos needs to be commented upon. Back in 2017, Automatic For The People was only the second pop/rock album to be released physically in Dolby Atmos (INXS’ Kick being the first). R.E.M. were pioneers of sorts, and looked to be setting the bar for the emerging spatial audio scene. Or so we thought. They quickly abandoned Atmos for the 2019 Monster reissue (despite the stereo version getting a remix) and have not created Atmos Mixes of any of their albums as the subsequent reissues have been chalked off (New Adventures in Hi-Fi, Up and now Reveal).
Ignoring non-album material from singles already marks this reissue out as imperfect, but not bothering to embrace modern immersive audio and just trotting out a 21-year old 5.1 mix (admittedly, a good mix) does not cut the mustard. It’s not the end of the world as we know it, but it’s disappointing.
Reveal will be released on 20 November 2026 via Concord.
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Erasure will release Radio!! Radio!!, their 20th (!) studio album in March next year.
The album hosts “more personal, more reflective songwriting”, with frontman Andy Bell acknowledging that it would be easier, perhaps, for he and Vince Clarke to go on autopilot, 40 years into their career. “It’s a two-person brain, and everything that we’ve gone through comes into it,” he says. “We have a sense of responsibility. We couldn’t ever do something throwaway.”
The album apparently melds the band’s synth-pop palette with acoustic instrumentals such as piano and acoustic guitar, although this is not particularly apparent from Wings Of Love, which you can listen to, above.
The 10-track album is available on CD and sunburst coloured vinyl with vinyl picture disc, cassette editions and CDs with alt artwork on the band’s store (Lexer Music). Rough Trade has red and yellow splatter vinyl limited to 500 units.
Radio!! Radio!! will be released on 12 March 2027, via Mute.
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The Beatles / Rubber Soul CD, Vinyl, Blu-ray
The Beatles’ 1965 album Rubber Soul is reissued across a number formats, including, for the first time for the Fab Four, a standalone blu-ray audio.
In a surprising, but very welcome turn of events, a-ha frontman Morten Harket has announced a new solo album, Human Grace.
This announcement comes 15 months after the news broke that Morten has Parkinson’s Disease. Human Grace will be Harket’s seventh solo album (the last being Brother issued 12 years ago) and his fifth English language long-player.
It has been co-produced by Peter Kvint, who, with Harket, started looking over the material that had been recorded since the last album (but not released). Morten says they were “pleasantly surprised by the quality and coherence of what was waiting to be freed up. It was uplifting. It’s been quite a journey, to be able to land this. For me, and certainly for everyone else working with me under such uncertainty, giving it all they had”.
According to an interview over on a-ha.com, apart from the main body of vocals, everything on the album is all new. Instrumentation and arrangements, even some vocal overdubs, were done between July 2025 and July 2026.
The 10-track album is described by Harket himself as a “celebration of life”, and was created in close collaboration with long-time musical companions and his family – including guest appearances by his daughters, Tomine and Karmen Harket. The first single is ‘Hold Me’ which you can hear, above.
The album is being released by Warner Records Germany and international availability is yet to be confirmed. But there’s a Euro-based artist store offering coloured vinyl, CD and black vinyl and it’s available at the momet, on Amazon in Germany and Spain (and JPC).
Human Grace will be released on 27 November 2026.
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My Chemical Romance’s 2006 album The Black Parade is being reissued, for its 20th anniversary, as this deluxe 2LP vinyl ‘One Step’ Audiophile Edition.
The band’s third album, The Black Parade follows ‘The Patient’ through his reflections on life and his passage into the afterlife, built on the concept that death visits people in the form of their earliest cherished memory.
The 20th Anniversary One Step Audiophile Edition, includes the original album plus a live performance of ‘Someone Out There Loves You’ recorded at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ on October 24, 2007. The original album has been sequenced over four sides of the double LP to maximise audio quality.
Pressed as a double LP on Neotech VR900-D2 180g vinyl (often referred to as ‘super vinyl’ for its lower surface noise/better detail) and cut from the original analog master tapes. Mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering. The One-Step process (which by Dorin Sauerbier at Record Technology, Inc.
The records are housed in a numbered slipcase with a gatefold jacket, new art insert, two printed inner sleeves and RTI rice-paper inners. SDE has a retail exclusive for this special edition in the UK and you can pre-order it from the SDE shop using this link or the button below.
The Black Parade (One Step Edition) 2LP vinyl pressing is released on 23 October 2026 via Warner Records.
One Step Plating Process: This is the process of turning the lacquer into metal, then to make a stamper to press the records. The traditional three-step plating process includes creating a father (negative) and then a mother (positive). Once the mother is created you can make an unlimited number of stampers from it. One-Step plating eliminates two steps in that process, the creation of the father and the mother. That removes two stages of generational loss and by doing so reveals more musical detail and a significant reduction of surface noise on the final record. This process requires multiple lacquers to be created since only one stamper can be used from each lacquer. You can manufacture approximately 500-750 records per stamper. That is essentially where the term One-Step comes from. It is a tedious, challenging and more expensive process.
Limited edition SDE & D2C blu-ray – quick pre-order
U2 will release Carnaval De Luz, their 16th studio album, in November, their first long-player of new material in nine years.
Available on CD, vinyl and as an SDE / D2C exclusive blu-ray audio, the 12-track album was recorded “all over the place” and produced by Jacknife Lee. It explores themes of spirituality, friendship, freedom and endurance in the face of dark, encroaching forces.
We are promised “echoes of the band’s most experimental work” combined with some strict songwriting in the shape of ‘The Greatest Show On Earth’, ‘Glorify’ and ‘Midnight Sunshine’, as well as the 2mins 35second homage to early surf-punk insolence that is ‘Silencio’.
“Roll up, roll up, roll up! Bring your purple socks, your broken hearts, your rose-tinted naivety… oh be amazed in the hall of mirrors. There will be loud guitars, deep bass, some ecstatic rhythms and, yes, some silver tears will make an appearance!”
Bono
Carnaval De Luz sees contributions from Brian Eno (co-writing and synthesizers on ‘Go (Carnaval De Luz)’, ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ and ‘Can’t Stop Us Now’), Martin Garrix (co-writing on ‘Glorify’), Daniel Lanois (playing pedal steel on ‘Torn’); and the late, great Dolly Parton, in what has sadly turned out to be her last recorded vocal performance. She duets with Bono on ‘Torn’, a song co-written by U2, Parton and Johnny McDaid, it’s a tender country song detailing broken family ties that holds wider resonances.
The blu-ray edition offers the album in Dolby Atmos and hi-res stereo. It’s packaged in an amaray case and includes a 16-page booklet featuring lyrics, photography and exclusive album imagery.
Carnaval De Luz will be released on 13 November 2026 via Island. You can pre-order the SDE & D2C exclusive blu-ray from the SDE shop using this link or the button below. For other versions check out widgets.
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Ah, Britpop. A golden age, kicked off in 1994, for British bands and guitar-driven pop music. NOW Yearbook ’94 says “hold my pint” as it delivers 79 tracks of US R&B, Boy Bands, American female singer-songwriters, Oscar winners from Disney musicals, rock legends hitting the charts after a leave of absence, various rappers and Jimmy Nail.
’94 is still a good year but undeniably a mixed bag. It’s the year Kylie was BACK with ‘Confide in Me’, Sting had his first UK top 10 hit with ‘When We Dance’, and Bruce Springsteen returned to the UK top 10 for the first time in nine years with his No 2 single ‘Streets Of Philadelphia’.
Boy bands include Take That, Boyzone, Boyz II Men, East 17 (two tracks including the Christmas No 1 ‘Stay Another Day’) and the first half of CD 2 (the ‘Britpop-y’ section) is the exception rather than the rule, but excellent all the same with tracks from Oasis, Radiohead, The Stone Roses, Suede, Elastica, Primal Scream et al.
Two doses of Elton John from the Lion King soundtrack is probably two too many, but very good to see Crowded House’s ‘Locked Out’, Sophie B. Hawkins’ ‘Right Beside You’ and The Grid’s ‘Swamp Thing’ included here.
If we’re being honest, there’s a fair bit of dross (PJ & Duncan!) and plenty of acts following up their ‘big hits’ with ones that make you think “How does that go, again?” (see Haddaway, D:Ream, M People etc.).
So, whereas 1986 and 1987 Yearbooks were much better than you expected, 1994 is arguably worse. More up and down. It paints a accurate enough picture of the 12 months in question and even if Blur were represented (boo!), it wouldn’t ultimately change the whole picture.
The usual formats on offer: 4CD sets (deluxe hardcover book and card sleeve editions) and the 3LP version, which delivers 44 tracks across six sides of bright blue vinyl.
NOW Yearbook ’94 will be released on 30 October 2026.
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Origins 1971–1978 is a new box set that Tom Petty’s first eight years as a recording artist.
It contains 51 audio newly-mixed audio tracks, including 27 unreleased, live, extended, and previously unheard tracks. There are two versions of this box set – 4CD edition and the 4LP vinyl edition – and they contain the same audio and both come with additional DVD and a blu-ray discs. The content is as follows:
The deluxe set includes four CDs in mini-jackets:
The box set includes the band’s first two albums, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and You’re Gonna Get It! newly mixed by longtime producer and engineer Ryan Ulyate. Both editions feature extended versions of eleven tracks, including ‘American Girl’ and ‘Breakdown.’
The additional discs trace the earliest chapters of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, deep from the family’s vault. A “musical diary” of the band’s Gainesville roots through their cross-country move to Los Angeles and into their first taste of success. This includes No Sleep ‘Til LA (also available as a standalone release) which features 12 tracks of Tom Petty “becoming Tom Petty”, including seven previously unreleased cuts.
Live from the Record Plant 1977 offers a ‘fan favourite’ live broadcast in full for the first time and the DVD of BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test performance in 1978 offers restored audio and HD visuals.
Finally, the Blu-Ray Audio is generous: it delivers all 51 audio tracks in hi-res stereo, Dolby Atmos and 5.1 immersive mixes.
The vinyl box comes with an 88-page fanzine featuring liner notes by David Fricke and Bud Scoppa, track-by-track annotations from the original band and polaroids, postcards, collectibles etc. The CD version has a 46-page fanzine with, presumably similar content.
Origins 1971–1978 and No Slip ‘Til L.A. will be released on 6 November 2026 via UMR.
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Forty Two is a new 2LP vinyl set documenting Level 42’s brit funk instrumental work from 1980-1982.
Level 42 formed as an instrumental group in 1979 when Mark King and brothers Phil and Rowland ‘Boon’ Gould joined Mike Lindup at London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama for weekly jam sessions. United by a shared love of Miles Davis, Billy Cobham, John McLaughlin and Jan Hammer, they channelled their influences into the creation of the inventive jazz-funk fusion instrumentals showcased here.
The deluxe gatefold 2LP vinyl draw from the group’s first three albums and four 12-inch B-sides and is the first time this material has been presented together on vinyl. Presented as a limited edition of 1,000 copies, it has been mastered and engineered at Abbey Road by Geoff Pesche using hi-res 24-bit transfers from the original analogue tapes. As well as mastering the band’s Standing In The Light and World Machine albums, Pesche cut the lacquers for the band’s first ever vinyl release in 1980; this compilation’s curtain raiser, ‘Sandstorm’.
The packaging includes an OBI-strip, matt lamination and printed inner sleeves with the records pressed on black and yellow vinyl. Gilles Peterson, one of Level 42’s earliest fans, provides sleeve notes and there’s new band commentary by Mark King, Wally Badarou, Phil Gould and Mike Lindup.
This new release comes courtesy of Coalface Records a new label formed by Level 42 superfan and archivist Paul Waller and is released with the full cooperation and enthusiasm of the band.
Forty Two is actually released this Friday, on 25 September 2026. It can be ordered via the Coalface Records website.
Joy Division / Eternal (Live) CD, Box Set, DVD
14 CDs of live performance from Joy Division. Also includes two DVDs!
NOW Music continue their 12″ 80s series with a 4CD set offering more extended hits from 1987.
NOW 12″80s: 1987 – Part Two offers further evidence that 1987 was ‘not as bad as you think’ since among the 46 tracks are two Pet Shop Boys extended versions (Dusty ‘collab’, ‘What Have I Done To Deserve This’ and the Christmas No 1, ‘Always On My Mind’), a-ha’s ‘The Living Daylights’, Duran Duran’s ‘Meet El Presidente’ (their first CD single and admittedly a weaker track from Notorious), Eurythmics’ ‘Missonary Man’ and the ‘Three Coins In a Fountain Mix’ Terence Trent D’Arby’s ‘Wishing Well’.
They are all on CD 1, elsewhere you’ll find the extended version of Curiosity Killed The Cat’s excellent ‘Misfit’, the ‘John Potoker Extended Mix’ of Fine Young Cannibals’ ‘Ever Fallen in Love’, ‘The Whole Story’ version of ABC’s ‘The Night You Murdered Love’, the superb ‘Superb, Superb Mix’ of Swing Out Sister’s ‘Twilight World’ (a great mix, but an odd choice, given it’s effectively the album version) and more long mixes from New Order, Simply Red, Wet Wet Wet, Johnny Hates Jazz and Jan Hammer.
NOW 12″80s: 1987 – Part Two is out on 16 October 2026.
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Chrysalis will release a new Midge Ure ‘best of’ in November that features brand new stereo mixes of all the hits and two new recordings of famous songs Midge is associated with. SDE is offering two exclusives: a blu-ray audio and a hand-pressed splatter vinyl (limited to 250 units).
Midge is of course, best known for being the front man of the 1980’s version of Ultravox, his involvement in Visage and Thin Lizzy, not to mention being the co-creator and founder of Band Aid, Live Aid, and ‘Do They Know Its Christmas?’.
Chapters: The Best Of Midge Ure includes all his hits, key album tracks and some songs he has been associated through his career. Featuring his UK No.1 single, ‘If I Was’ along with classics like ‘Dear God’, ‘No Regrets’, ‘The Man Who Sold The World’, ‘After A Fashion’ which he recorded with Japan’s Mick Karn and the sublime duet with Kate Bush, ‘Sister & Brother’ (Kate in Atmos!). For the first time Midge has recorded new studio recordings of Visage’s ‘Fade To Grey‘ and Phil Lynott’s ‘Yellow Pearl’, which he originally co-wrote.
The 3CD deluxe edition features 17 tracks on CD 1, brand new remixes on CD 2 (from the likes of Richard Barbieri, Blank & Jones and Steve Jansen) and a third disc of instrumentals. In 2LP vinyl form you get 15 tracks across the four sides of vinyl and the SDE exclusive blu-ray offers new mixes (by Richard Whittaker) of 17 tracks as follows:
Additionally, the SDE blu-ray features a wealth of video content, include seven promo videos (with optional Midge Ure commentary) and seven BBC TV appearances including performances on Top of the Pops and Wogan. Full tracklistings and details are below.
The 2LP version is available in the ultra-limited SDE splatter (250 units, hand pressed at The Vinyl Factory with OBI and certificate – now SOLD OUT) as well as a standard black version with bonus seven-inch (via the official store).
Chapters: The Best Of Midge Ure is #79 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series and and it will be packaged similarly to previous editions and ships with a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase.
The SDE blu-ray is a TIME LIMITED release. It available to pre-order for two weeks only. The pre-order window closes on 1 October 2026. Availability after that point cannot be guaranteed. Pre-order it from the SDE shop using this link or the buttons below. For other formats browse the official store.
Chapters: The Best Of Midge Ure will be released on 13 November 2026 via Chrysalis Records.
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79: Chapters: The Best Of Midge Ure
78 The Who / The Who By Numbers
77 Manic Street Preachers / The Holy Bible / The Holy Bible Live
76 Spandau Ballet / Gold: The Best Of
75 George Michael / The Faith Tour
74 Amy Winehouse / Back to Black
73 Tears For Fears / The Seeds Of Love
72 Dire Straits / On Every Street – still available
71 Roxy Music / For Your Pleasure – still available
70 The Family Silver / Electric Blend – still available
69 Suede / Coming Up
68 Simple Minds / Once Upon A Time
67 Tina Turner / Private Dancer
66 Producers / Made in Basing Street
65 Thin Lizzy (1971 debut)
64 Bryan Ferry / Taxi
63 Bryan Ferry / Bête Noire
62 Roxy Music / Flesh + Blood
61 Tori Amos / In Times Of Dragons
60 Heaven 17 / The Luxury Gap
59 Heaven 17 / Penthouse and Pavement
58 Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris / All The Roadrunning
57 The Who / Quadrophenia
56 George Michael / Faith
55 Bryan Ferry / Boys and Girls
54 Thin Lizzy / Nightlife
53 Fine Young Cannibals (FYC) / The Raw & The Cooked
52 Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair
51 Propaganda / A Secret Wish
50 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasuredome
49 Elton John / Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
48 The Who / Who Are You
47 The Human League / Dare
46 Split Enz / ENZyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2
45 Mark Knopfler / Sailing to Philadelphia
44 Matt Deighton / Today Become Forever
43 De La Soul / 3 Feet High and Rising
42 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel / The Best Years of Our Lives
41 Mike Oldfield / Hergest Ridge
40 Claudi Brücken / Night Mirror
39 Elton & Brandi / Who Believes In Angels?
38 Dire Straits / Brothers in Arms
37 INXS / Listen Like Thieves
36 Roxy Music / Avalon
35 Envy of None / Stygian Waves
34 Bryan Ferry / Retrospective
33 Simple Minds / Sparkle in the Rain
32 Simple Minds / New Gold Dream
31 Elton John / Diamonds
30 The Who / Who’s Next
29 Thompson Twins / Into The Gap
28 Tears For Fears / Songs For A Nervous Planet
27 Thin Lizzy / 1976
26 Bronski Beat / The Age of Consent
25 Tori Amos / Unrepentant Geraldines
24 Ultravox / Lament
23 Crowded House / Gravity Stairs
22 Luther Vandross / Never Too Much
21 Keane / Hopes and Fears
20 Wham! / Make It Big
19 Wham! / Fantastic
18 Mark Knopfler / One Deep River
17 Paul Young / No Parlez
16 Def Leppard / Diamond Star Halos
15 Soft Cell / Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
14 Trevor Horn / Echoes – Ancient and Modern
13a Duran Duran / Danse Macabre De Luxe
13 Duran Duran / Danse Macabre
12 ABC / The Lexicon of Love
11 Suede / Suede
10 Mike Oldfield / Tubular Bells
9 Tears For Fears / The Hurting
8 Bob Dylan / Time Out Of Mind (2022 Remix)
7 Ten Years After / A Space in Time
6.5 Various Artists / Concert For George
6. Orbital / Optical Delusion
5 Brian Eno / ForeverAndEverNoMore
4 Shakespears Sister / Hormonally Yours
3 Gilbert O’Sullivan / Driven
2 xPropaganda / The Heart is Strange
1 Tears For Fears / The Tipping Point
A new A Flock Of Seagulls greatest hits will be released in November.
Synonymous with the MTV generation and part of the Second British Invasion, the English New Wave band enjoyed success in the Early eighties in both America and around the world with singles such as ‘I Ran (So Far Away)’, ‘Wishing (I Had a Photograph of You)’ and ‘Space Age Love Song’.
The 3CD version of The Best Of A Flock Of Seagulls offers singles on CD 1, BBC Sessions on CD 2 and B-sides and Rarities (including 12-inch mixes) on CD 3.
A 2LP vinyl edition spreads the 15 tracks from CD 1 across two yellow vinyl records. The compilation is also available as a single CD variant.
The Best Of A Flock Of Seagulls will be issued on 20 November 2026 via BMG.
Pre-order from Official Store
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The SDE exclusive blu-rays of Spandau Ballet’s Gold: The Best Of and George Michael’s The Faith Tour both end tonight at midnight.
The former has all the hits in Atmos, 5.1, Stereo and instrumental form as mixed by Steven Wilson, along with a generous selection of 12-inch remixes from the era (stereo only). The latter offers previously unreleased live concert audio from 1988, newly mixed in Atmos, 5.1 and Stereo by George’s longtime engineer Chris Porter and is the only format that offers a seamless uninterrupted listening experience of the full concert, unencumbered by vinyl side breaks or CD disc changes.
Both blu-rays are region-free, these products have the same release date (6 Nov) and can be bought together as a specially priced bundle. George Michael is #75 in the SDE Surround Series and Spandau are #76. Both ship with the collectible SDE slipcases.
Only available via the SDE shop, you can order via this link or the buttons below. Manics and The Who will end this Friday (18 Sep).
Gold: The Best Of and The Faith Tour are released by Parlophone and Sony Music respectively, on 6 November 2026.
78 The Who / The Who By Numbers
77 Manic Street Preachers / The Holy Bible / The Holy Bible Live
76 Spandau Ballet / Gold: The Best Of
75 George Michael / The Faith Tour
74 Amy Winehouse / Back to Black
73 Tears For Fears / The Seeds Of Love
72 Dire Straits / On Every Street – still available
71 Roxy Music / For Your Pleasure – still available
70 The Family Silver / Electric Blend – still available
69 Suede / Coming Up
68 Simple Minds / Once Upon A Time
67 Tina Turner / Private Dancer
66 Producers / Made in Basing Street
65 Thin Lizzy (1971 debut)
64 Bryan Ferry / Taxi
63 Bryan Ferry / Bête Noire
62 Roxy Music / Flesh + Blood
61 Tori Amos / In Times Of Dragons
60 Heaven 17 / The Luxury Gap
59 Heaven 17 / Penthouse and Pavement
58 Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris / All The Roadrunning
57 The Who / Quadrophenia
56 George Michael / Faith
55 Bryan Ferry / Boys and Girls
54 Thin Lizzy / Nightlife
53 Fine Young Cannibals (FYC) / The Raw & The Cooked
52 Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair
51 Propaganda / A Secret Wish
50 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasuredome
49 Elton John / Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
48 The Who / Who Are You
47 The Human League / Dare
46 Split Enz / ENZyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2
45 Mark Knopfler / Sailing to Philadelphia
44 Matt Deighton / Today Become Forever
43 De La Soul / 3 Feet High and Rising
42 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel / The Best Years of Our Lives
41 Mike Oldfield / Hergest Ridge
40 Claudi Brücken / Night Mirror
39 Elton & Brandi / Who Believes In Angels?
38 Dire Straits / Brothers in Arms
37 INXS / Listen Like Thieves
36 Roxy Music / Avalon
35 Envy of None / Stygian Waves
34 Bryan Ferry / Retrospective
33 Simple Minds / Sparkle in the Rain
32 Simple Minds / New Gold Dream
31 Elton John / Diamonds
30 The Who / Who’s Next
29 Thompson Twins / Into The Gap
28 Tears For Fears / Songs For A Nervous Planet
27 Thin Lizzy / 1976
26 Bronski Beat / The Age of Consent
25 Tori Amos / Unrepentant Geraldines
24 Ultravox / Lament
23 Crowded House / Gravity Stairs
22 Luther Vandross / Never Too Much
21 Keane / Hopes and Fears
20 Wham! / Make It Big
19 Wham! / Fantastic
18 Mark Knopfler / One Deep River
17 Paul Young / No Parlez
16 Def Leppard / Diamond Star Halos
15 Soft Cell / Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
14 Trevor Horn / Echoes – Ancient and Modern
13a Duran Duran / Danse Macabre De Luxe
13 Duran Duran / Danse Macabre
12 ABC / The Lexicon of Love
11 Suede / Suede
10 Mike Oldfield / Tubular Bells
9 Tears For Fears / The Hurting
8 Bob Dylan / Time Out Of Mind (2022 Remix)
7 Ten Years After / A Space in Time
6.5 Various Artists / Concert For George
6. Orbital / Optical Delusion
5 Brian Eno / ForeverAndEverNoMore
4 Shakespears Sister / Hormonally Yours
3 Gilbert O’Sullivan / Driven
2 xPropaganda / The Heart is Strange
1 Tears For Fears / The Tipping Point
Seven years after issuing the 14CD box set of the 1975 Live Recordings of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue, Sony return to this infamous tour for the 1976 second leg, with an even bigger box set.
The second leg saw Dylan welcome old friends and collaborators to his troupe. He reunited with Joan Baez to perform a moving set of duets across many dates, including performances of ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ and ‘Railroad Boy’.
Dylan’s band included bassist Rob Stoner, violinist Scarlet Rivera, drummer Howie Wyeth (who had all worked on the Desire album), guitarists Mick Ronson, Steven Soles, David Mansfield and T Bone Burnett.
The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings is a 39CD box set that “captures all professionally recorded shows” from the 1976 second leg, all from original tape sources. The box includes 381 tracks, 371 of which have never been released.
Scroll down for a full tracklisting. The box set includes a booklet with sleeve notes by Mikal Gilmore alongside rare photographs. The Fort Worth Texas show from 16 May 1976 (CDs 32 & 33 in the box set) will also be available as a standalone 3LP vinyl set.
The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1976 Live Recordings will be released by Sony on 6 November 2026.
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The pre-order window for the SDE exclusive blu-ray of Amy Winehouse’s 2006 album Back to Black closes today.
This exclusive format brings together the Dolby Atmos Mix for your immersive listening pleasure, but also offers the digital debut of arguably the best sounding stereo version of the 2006 album, which is Miles Showell’s 2018 remaster. This version was prepared for the half-speed mastered vinyl eight years ago and has never been issued on CD.
Add 17 bonus tracks, including B-sides and unreleased demos, and you have yourself a fantastic physical format, curated by SDE and UMR for the serious listener, who likes ‘holding the music in their hands’.
As ever, this is a limited edition. Produced to meet demand within a two week pre-order window. That window CLOSES TODAY, so place your order now if you want to guarantee yourself a copy of this modern classic on blu-ray.
Back to Black is #74 in the ongoing SDE Surround Series and will be packaged similarly to previous editions (clear amaray case) and ships with a free, collectible SDE Surround Series slipcase.
The pre-order window closes TONIGHT at midnight GMT. Availability after that point cannot be guaranteed. Order exclusively from the SDE shop using this link or the buttons below.
Back to Black is released on 23 October 2026, via UMR/Island.
78 The Who / Who By Numbers
77 Manic Street Preachers / The Holy Bible
76 Spandau Ballet / Gold: The Best Of
75 George Michael / The Faith Tour
74 Amy Winehouse / Back to Black
73 Tears For Fears / The Seeds Of Love
72 Dire Straits / On Every Street – still available
71 Roxy Music / For Your Pleasure – still available
70 The Family Silver / Electric Blend – still available
69 Suede / Coming Up
68 Simple Minds / Once Upon A Time
67 Tina Turner / Private Dancer
66 Producers / Made in Basing Street
65 Thin Lizzy (1971 debut)
64 Bryan Ferry / Taxi
63 Bryan Ferry / Bête Noire
62 Roxy Music / Flesh + Blood
61 Tori Amos / In Times Of Dragons
60 Heaven 17 / The Luxury Gap
59 Heaven 17 / Penthouse and Pavement
58 Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris / All The Roadrunning
57 The Who / Quadrophenia
56 George Michael / Faith
55 Bryan Ferry / Boys and Girls
54 Thin Lizzy / Nightlife
53 Fine Young Cannibals (FYC) / The Raw & The Cooked
52 Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair
51 Propaganda / A Secret Wish
50 Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Welcome to the Pleasuredome
49 Elton John / Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
48 The Who / Who Are You
47 The Human League / Dare
46 Split Enz / ENZyclopedia Volumes 1 & 2
45 Mark Knopfler / Sailing to Philadelphia
44 Matt Deighton / Today Become Forever
43 De La Soul / 3 Feet High and Rising
42 Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel / The Best Years of Our Lives
41 Mike Oldfield / Hergest Ridge
40 Claudi Brücken / Night Mirror
39 Elton & Brandi / Who Believes In Angels?
38 Dire Straits / Brothers in Arms
37 INXS / Listen Like Thieves
36 Roxy Music / Avalon
35 Envy of None / Stygian Waves
34 Bryan Ferry / Retrospective
33 Simple Minds / Sparkle in the Rain
32 Simple Minds / New Gold Dream
31 Elton John / Diamonds
30 The Who / Who’s Next
29 Thompson Twins / Into The Gap
28 Tears For Fears / Songs For A Nervous Planet
27 Thin Lizzy / 1976
26 Bronski Beat / The Age of Consent
25 Tori Amos / Unrepentant Geraldines
24 Ultravox / Lament
23 Crowded House / Gravity Stairs
22 Luther Vandross / Never Too Much
21 Keane / Hopes and Fears
20 Wham! / Make It Big
19 Wham! / Fantastic
18 Mark Knopfler / One Deep River
17 Paul Young / No Parlez
16 Def Leppard / Diamond Star Halos
15 Soft Cell / Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
14 Trevor Horn / Echoes – Ancient and Modern
13a Duran Duran / Danse Macabre De Luxe
13 Duran Duran / Danse Macabre
12 ABC / The Lexicon of Love
11 Suede / Suede
10 Mike Oldfield / Tubular Bells
9 Tears For Fears / The Hurting
8 Bob Dylan / Time Out Of Mind (2022 Remix)
7 Ten Years After / A Space in Time
6.5 Various Artists / Concert For George
6. Orbital / Optical Delusion
5 Brian Eno / ForeverAndEverNoMore
4 Shakespears Sister / Hormonally Yours
3 Gilbert O’Sullivan / Driven
2 xPropaganda / The Heart is Strange
1 Tears For Fears / The Tipping Point
