Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
ABBA‘s fourth studio album, 1976’s Arrival, is 40 this year, and so Polar Music (via Universal) are issuing a 45 RPM half-speed mastered double vinyl edition to celebrate, along with some other goodies: a seven-inch box set and some picture discs!
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With last year’s If I Can Dream Elvis release – which saw The King’s vocal performances set to lush Orchestral backing – selling upwards of a million copies in the UK alone, it was surely inevitable that Sony would commission a prompt follow-up. That arrives in December with The Wonder Of You, a similar set recorded with an The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Abbey Road, spanning a variety of musical styles that Elvis embraced, from rock and gospel to country and ballads.
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Edsel are to release Sophisticated Boom Box MMXVI a giant career-spanning 19-disc box set featuring British pop group Dead or Alive.
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Congratulations go to Salvo Music, since their Slade box set from last year – When Slade Rocked The World 1971-1975 – won Special Catalogue Release of the Year at last night’s AIM awards (AIM is the trade body for independent labels)…
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If you’ve just invested in the double gold Star Wars vinyl packages, be prepared to be miffed (or delighted!) by this new stunning-looking double vinyl picture disc of John Williams‘ famous soundtrack…
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REM‘s Out of Time reissue is due in November, but to give to you a taster of the bonus material they have made available the demo version of the fourth and final single from the album, Radio Song. This will feature on the second disc of both the 2CD deluxe and the four-disc box set version and will be included on the 3LP vinyl set. Listen to it below:
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Here’s an opportunity to pick up last year’s George Michael Freedom ’90 12-inch picture disc with a smile-inducing and wallet-pleasing 1980s price-tag.
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Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul, the soul legend’s 1966 album (and the last issued in his lifetime), will be reissued as a two-CD deluxe edition and a double vinyl set next month.
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King Crimson release On (and off) The Road next month, a new 19-disc box set that presents a complete overview of the 1980s incarnation of the band.
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Italian photographer Guido Harari first photographed Kate Bush just after 1982’s The Dreaming was released and went on to take the official promotional shots for both Hounds of Love (1985) and The Sensual World (1989). He was then trusted enough to be invited by Kate to take (largely unseen) ‘reportage’ shots on the set of her 1993 film The Line, The Cross and The Curve. On the eve of the publication of a deluxe book of these photos – called The Kate Inside – and a south London exhibition, SDE spoke to Guido about the experience of photographing Kate Bush over a decade…
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This 2014 Donna Summer ‘Driven By The Music’ vinyl box contains seven albums issued during the 1980s and has dropped to a very low price on Amazon UK in recent days.
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The acclaimed Duane Allman Skydog retrospective was issued across seven CDs back in 2013 and chronicled the guitarist’s career from early garage bands and R&B sessions to The Allman Brothers Band and Derek & The Dominoes. Now a lavish vinyl box set is on the way…
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Yes, the cover is hideous. That aside, this reissue of the 1977 live album (audio has been remixed) is still a highly anticipated Fab Four release, along with Ron Howard’s Eight Days A Week documentary. 
Seven LP vinyl box set of Free‘s studio albums, plus Free Live! All audio has been newly remastered by Andy Pearce.
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Further details have emerged about Oasis‘ Be Here Now box set which is due out next month…
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Deacon Blue return with a new album, Believers, at the end of September and in addition to the usual physical formats, it will be available as a rather appealing deluxe box set.
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Sting will issue 57th & 9th, his first ‘proper’ rock/pop album since 2003’s Sacred Love, this November.
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As previewed in last weekend’s Saturday Deluxe, PiL will reissue their albums Metal Box and Album in October, with both available as four CD and four LP super deluxe edition box sets.
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Next month, Norman Cook alter ego Fatboy Slim‘s debut album, Better Living Through Chemistry, will be reissued exactly 20 years after its original 1996 release.
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Warners will reissue the UK’s best selling album of 1991 and 1992 – Simply Red‘s Stars – on vinyl LP next month.
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Jethro Tull‘s second album, 1969’s Stand Up will be reissued in November as a three-disc set, featuring new Steven Wilson mixes and a wealth of bonus material.
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