In July, Sony will issue Boney M. Complete, a new nine-LP vinyl box that brings together all the studio albums from the massively popular band.
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Catalogue: 1985-2012 / Pet Shop Boys reissues with ‘Further Listening’ discs
Three of the long anticipated Pet Shop Boys reissues will finally emerge next month as Parlophone reissue multi-disc ‘Further Listening’ editions of the albums Nightlife, Release and Fundamental. These effectively kick off a year of reissues under the ‘Catalogue: 1985-2012’ banner.
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Deal alert / Bruce Springsteen: Ties That Bind: River Collection 4CD + 2x blu-ray
Superb price for the 4CD+ 2 x blu-ray edition of Bruce Springsteen‘s excellent The Ties That Bind: The River Collection, which was released at the end of 2015.
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Pet Shop Boys / vinyl reissues
As well as the three deluxe ‘Further Listening’ reissues, the Pet Shop Boys will issue 2017 remastered versions of Nightlife, Release and Fundamental on vinyl LP.
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Radiohead’s OK Computer box set is no longer exclusive to the band’s store
Radiohead‘s forthcoming OK Computer box set – which was presumed to be exclusive to the band’s store – is now quite widely available.
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Universal break open Free vinyl box
The albums in last year‘s Free Vinyl Collection box set will be available separately in September.
The box featured the six studio albums issued on Island Records, newly remastered by Andy Pearce. The set also included the 1971 live album Free Live!
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Out This Week / on 16 June 2017
David Bowie / Cracked Actor (Live in Los Angeles) 2CD set
This two-CD edition of the Record Store Day vinyl release of David Bowie‘s Cracked Actor (Live in Los Angeles ’74) is a simply a ‘must have’ purchase for any Bowie fan. Especially since Parlophone have said the vinyl will stay exclusive to RSD.
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Saturday Deluxe / 10 June 2017
Yesterday evening I was fortunate enough to attend an ‘official fan playback’ of Steven Wilson‘s forthcoming album To The Bone.
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Deal alert / David Bowie: Changesonebowie vinyl
Cracking deal this morning for last year’s vinyl reissue of the classic David Bowie Changesonebowie compilation.
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Elvis / A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings / 3CD set
Sony’s Legacy Recordings are to issue Elvis Presley A Boy From Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings, a three-CD deluxe set that includes “every known Elvis Presley Sun Records master and outtake”, radio sessions and other related rarities.
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Anniversary SDE T-shirt now available

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To mark six years of SDE, and the start of summer 2017, we’ve produced a limited quantity of a new SuperDeluxeEdition T-shirt.
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Ramones / Leave Home: four-disc 40th anniversary super deluxe edition
Rhino will issue a super deluxe edition of the Ramones 1977 album Leave Home next month, which, as with last year’s reissue of the band’s self-titled debut, will offer rare and unreleased content across three CDs and a vinyl LP.
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Blancmange / The Blanc Tapes: limited edition 9CD box set with signed print
500 copies only, complete with signed print
The Blanc Tapes is a new Blancmange nine-CD box set that contains expanded three-disc editions of the albums Happy Families, Mange Tout and Believe You Me – all of which contain previously unreleased demos, remixes and BBC sessions.
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Prince / Purple Rain expanded edition
Here’s a new image of the Prince Purple Rain expanded edition which is due out in just over two weeks.
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Def Leppard / Hysteria: seven-disc super deluxe edition box set
This August, Universal Music will release a 30th anniversary reissue of Def Leppard‘s 1987 album Hysteria, across multiple formats, including a seven-disc super deluxe edition box set.
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Sting / 57th & 9th Japan Tour Edition offers Live at the Bataclan on CD

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Sting‘s 2016 album 57th & 9th has just been issued as a special Japan Tour Edition which offers six bonus tracks over and above the standard deluxe edition.
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Frida / Coloured vinyl album reissues
Anni-Frid Synni Lyngstad – Frida from ABBA to you and me – will see three of her solo albums reissued by Universal Music, with a limited run of coloured versions initially available.
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Agnetha Fältskog / Coloured vinyl LPs
As with her ABBA bandmate Frida (see this post), some of Agnetha Fältskog‘s solo albums will be reissued on vinyl, with coloured editions available for a while. Also, Benny and Bjorn’s 1970 long-player, Lycka is also gets a similar treatment…
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Manchester: North Of England / 7CD set
With the world’s gaze currently on Manchester, as the city pulls together following the recent terrorist attack, Cherry Red remind us of the strength and diversity of the independent music scene, by issuing a seven-CD box, with songs originally issued over a 16 year period (1977-1993)
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Bronski Beat / The Age Of Reason
33 years after their debut album, Bronski Beat return, as founding member Steve Bronski teams up with singer Stephen Granville for an expanded reworking of The Age Of Consent.
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