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The Beatles: Revolver album tracks ranked best to worst

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It’s 50 years old TODAY and I think it’s fair to say that over recent years and decades The Beatles‘ seventh studio album Revolver, with its monochrome Klaus Voorman designed cover, has overtaken the colourful and psychedelic Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band as the critics’, and perhaps the fans’, favourite Beatles album.

So let’s examine what is one of the best albums in the world and, for fun, SDE will go through the tracks on Revolver and rank them from best to worst…
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Deal alert / Graham Parker: These Dreams Will Never Sleep box set

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No pushing at the back, as Amazon Germany are on board with a tremendous pre-order price for the forthcoming 7-disc Graham Parker box set, These Dream Will Never Sleep: The Best of Graham Parker 1976-2015…
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Neil Young’s On The Beach finally reissued as standalone vinyl LP

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1974 classic reissued on LP along with Time Fades Away & others

Neil Young‘s celebrated, but often elusive, 1974 album On The Beach will be reissued as an individual vinyl LP in September, along with a few other classics, including Tonight’s the Night, and Zuma.
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Yes / Tales From Topographic Oceans / four-disc expanded edition with 5.1

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3CD+Blu-ray audio offers amazing amount of content

Yes‘ sixth studio album Tales From Topographic Oceans will be reissued at the end of September with new Steven Wilson stereo and 5.1 remixes created from the original multi-track tapes…
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Peter Gabriel / Growing Up: Live blu-ray

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Blu-ray +DVD combo offers almost six hours of content

Peter Gabriel‘s hi-def Growing Up Live concert film will be issued on blu-ray in a double-disc package that also features a wealth of content including additional documentaries and concert films…
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Robert Palmer / Collected 3CD set

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Not your usual lazy Robert Palmer compilation…

Remember that Level 42 Collected compilation we told you about a few weeks back, well, as some of you pointed out, Universal Netherlands are also preparing  a similar three-CD set for that much-missed Yorkshireman Robert Palmer, and it looks surprisingly good…
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Out This Week / on 5 August 2016

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Elvis Presley / Way Down in the Jungle Room

New double-disc set of Elvis‘ final recordings, including newly mixed outtakes. 2LP vinyl version has gone back to 19 August. Read more

Simple Minds / New Gold Dream (blu-ray audio) 

Since last week’s Simple Minds box set features the surround mix on a DVD-V, this blu-ray audio edition is the only place to get a lossless version of the 5.1 mix. Read more
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Saturday Deluxe / 30 July 2016

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Tears For Fears at Newmarket racecourse last night / copyright Raph PH

Shout! Tears For Fears back in the UK

Tears For Fears played live in the UK for the first time in over 10 years last night as they entertained the crowd at Newmarket Racecourse with a hits-packed set…
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Bruce Springsteen / Chapter & Verse

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Companion album to forthcoming biog offers unheard demos

Bruce Springsteen’s forthcoming autobiography (due in September) will be called Born To Run and The Boss has decided to put together a selection of his songs on a companion album called Chapter and Verse.
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Pink Floyd / The Early Years 1965-1972: dream 27-disc box set coming in Nov

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The box set to rule them all – Pink Floyd overdose!

The Early Years 1965 – 1972 is a brand new, mammoth 27-disc Pink Floyd box set that frees over 25 hours of audio and visual material from the band’s archive to deliver a deluxe package that features unreleased tracks, BBC Radio Sessions, remixes, outtakes and alternative versions, live and TV performances and original quad mixes..
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