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Roger Waters‘ new album Is This The Life We Really Want? is due in early June and is now available to pre-order and you can also preview a full track from it, below…
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SDE previews Record Store Day 2017 with this video exploration of selected releases. Today, three picture discs: Small Faces’ Itchycoo Park 10-inch, The Buggles‘ Video Killed The Radio Star 12-inch picture disc, and the Art of Noise‘s Moments in Love 10-inch shaped picture disc! Watch the video below…
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San Francisco alt-rockers Third Eye Blind will celebrate the 20-year anniversary of their eponymous debut in June with 2CD and 3LP deluxe editions of the 1997 album.
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Grab this great deal on Universal’s vinyl reissue of Paul Weller‘s classic 1995 album Stanley Road which has up until now been priced extortionately!
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Olé Olé Olé is a documentary by Paul Dugdale which follows The Rolling Stones on their 2016 tour through Latin America and as they try to stage their first ever concert in Havana, Cuba (which itself was issued as Havana Moon last year).
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SDE previews Record Store Day 2017 with this video exploration of selected releases. Today Diana Ross‘ Diana – The Chic Organisation Ltd. Mix (coloured vinyl), Nilsson Schmilsson (also coloured vinyl) and Brett Anderson‘s Live at Koko 2011 on – you guessed it – coloured vinyl. Watch the video below…
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Cherry Red will issue a two-CD deluxe edition of Haircut One Hundred‘s 1984 album Paint and Paint, next month.
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Incredible deal right now on Amazon US for the 3LP coloured vinyl box set edition of Metallica‘s 2016 album Hardwired… to Self-Destruct.
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The black vinyl version of David Bowie‘s No Plan EP is issued this week. Fans who ordered the limited edition white vinyl version from the official store need to wait another month before they get their hands on that edition. 
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MEGA- price in the UK this morning for the The Beatles 1+ deluxe set which features two blu-rays (with 50 videos) and a CD (with newly remixed stereo audio).
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Alan Price‘s post Animals solo career, backed by his own band The Alan Price Set, is remembered with Twice The Price, a ‘Complete Decca Recordings’ three-CD set.
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Long Strange Trip, the forthcoming documentary on the Grateful Dead will get a brief theatrical release in the USA in May before being made available exclusively to Amazon Prime Video in June. While that sounds really interesting, there’s going to be a soundtrack which will mix studio and live recordings, with several unreleased performances.
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Mute will release Can: The Singles in June, a new collection of the German experimental rock band’s single releases
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In response to overwhelming demand, SDE has produced a limited run of special ‘keepsake’ printed editions of the acclaimed ‘In Their Own Words: The Producer’s on Paul McCartney’s Flowers in the Dirt‘ feature, that was first published on 22 March on this blog.
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Fleetwood Mac legends Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie are to release their first ever album as a duo, in June.
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Apple Corps and Universal Music last night hosted a preview event for a hundred or so journalists from around the world in which Giles Martin discussed his work on the anniversary reissue of The Beatles‘ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band and the new stereo remix of the album was played in full. SDE was there…
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Apart from that Burberry box set, this is the first time on vinyl for Elton John‘s well-regarded 2001 album.
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Jethro Tull‘s excellent deluxe reissues continue with a 40th anniversary five-disc edition of 1977’s Songs From The Wood due to be released next month.
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SDE is sad to report that guitarist, songwriter and producer Alan Griffiths has died aged just 57.
In his younger days Alan formed Bristol bands Apartment and The Escape and in the 1990s would go on to work with Roland Orzabal on two Tears For Fears albums, Elemental from 1993 and 1995’s Raoul and the Kings of Spain (he also played guitar on the Songs From The Big Chair tour).
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Here’s a new image of the 10-inch vinyl box set edition of Paul Weller‘s forthcoming album A Kind Revolution…
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