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The Ultimate Collection is a new triple-disc Donna Summer collection that brings together 50 classic tracks from 1968 onwards, including the hits, Macarthur Park, This Time I Know It’s For Real, Love To Love You Baby, She Works Hard For The Money, Dinner With Gershwin, State of Independence and I Feel Love…
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The recent 50th anniversary reissue of The Beach Boys‘ Pet Sounds mono vinyl is a great price right now on Amazon UK.
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Yasmin Evans, or Yazz, scored three top ten hits, including a UK number one, from her debut album Wanted, which is being reissued as a three-CD deluxe edition.
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Leonard Cohen will release his 14th studio album, You Want It Darker, later this month.
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All of Lou Reed‘s solo albums from the 1970s and early ’80s remastered under the “direct personal supervision” of the American rock musician shortly before his death. Large format box includes, 80-page hardbound book, poster + five 8″ x 10″ prints. 
Fifth in the series of the Yes reissues and as with previous album reissues, this boasts Steven Wilson stereo and 5.1 mixes and masses of bonus material. Continue reading “Out This Week / 7 October 2016”
The Rolling Stones in played in Cuba in March this year and the audio and video (directed by Paul Dugdale) will be issued as Havana Moon across a multitude of formats…
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More Pink Floyd vinyl reissues are due in the next few weeks, including The Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, and Wish You Were Here.
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The Grace Jones Warm Leatherette reissue from spring this year is really cheap at the moment in the UK, especially the 4LP vinyl box edition.
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It is of course common practise for record labels to ‘save’ their premium products for the latter part of the year because as well as targeting the music obsessive (that’ll be you and me, then) and feeding their wallet-emptying pastime, the record companies know that friends and family are also on the look out for *that* Christmas gift to bring us joy during the festive period (probably via some unsubtle hints like “wow, have you seen this Lou Reed box, that looks amazing…”). But in the five and a half years SDE has been up and running, I’ve never known a month quite like November 2016, when it comes to reissues and box sets…
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Alison Moyet‘s 1984 album Alf will be reissue as a two-CD deluxe edition in November along with her three other Sony albums.
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Virgin/EMI (Hollywood Records in the US) will issue Queen On Air in November, an archival release that brings together six Queen radio sessions recorded for the BBC between February 1973 and October 1977.
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Simple Minds have recorded an acoustic album of some of their best-known songs, for release in November.
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The Band‘s 1976 Thanksgiving Day concert in Winterland Theatre, San Francisco – where they were joined by an all-star group of musicians including Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Muddy Waters, and Neil Young – was immortalised by director Martin Scorsese’s concert film The Last Waltz. Rhino will release FOUR special 40th anniversary editions in November, including a set that pairs the audio and video for the first time.
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Two years after Kate Bush stunned the world with Before The Dawn, her incredible 22-show run of live concerts in London’s Hammersmith Odeon, comes the announcement (finally) that the full audio (and more!) from the shows is being given an official release as 3CD and 4LP vinyl sets.
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A new David Bowie compilation, Bowie Legacy, will be released in November which includes all the familiar hits, one unreleased track and brings things up-to-date by including two singles from Blackstar.
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Sony are to issue The Mono Collection, a 10LP Kinks vinyl box set that packages the band’s first eight albums in mono and comes complete with a ‘bonus’ double LP…
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The well received 17CD+2xDVD version of Dead Or Alive‘s Sophisticated Boom Box already in the schedules for a late October release, but news reaches SDE of a companion vinyl version of the career-spanning set and like it’s optical ‘brother’, it is available as a limited version, this time with a bonus disc.
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Scottish pop band Hipsway‘s 1986 eponymous debut album is to be reissued in November as a two-CD deluxe edition.
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Sony are to release, The 1966 Live Recordings, a 36-disc Bob Dylan box set that will contain every known recording from his legendary 1966 tour.
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Coldplay‘s 2015 album A Head Full Of Dreams has been remixed for 5.1 surround sound and will be issued as a physical release later this week.
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