Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
SDE reported just last week about the restored deluxe blu-ray version of Nicholas Roeg’s 1976 film The Man Who Fell To Earth – which of course starred David Bowie. Well, the really big news is that Universal Music will release for the first time ever, the original movie soundtrack, and it will also be available as a deluxe box set.
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Four CDs and four 1976 Sex Pistols gigs in this box. Namely, the Lesser Free Trade Hall in Manchester, the ‘Midnight Special’ at Screen on the Green in Islington, Chelmsford Maximum Security Prison and the 76 Club in Burton-on-Trent. 
Madonna‘s excellent 1994 album is reissued on vinyl LP. Features the US mega-hit Take A Bow, plus the Björk-penned title track.
Continue reading “Out This Week / on 19 August 2016”
Another busy week at SDE HQ! On Thursday morning I had a really interesting conversation with Italian photographer Guido Harari, who photographed Kate Bush on a number of occasions between 1982 and 1993…
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 13 August 2016”
Studiocanal will later this year reissue Nicholas Roeg‘s 1976 film The Man Who Fell To Earth, in a special collector’s edition that features a 40th anniversary 4K restoration and other collectible content.
Continue reading “The Man Who Fell To Earth / four-disc limited collector’s edition blu-ray”
Suede’s third album Coming Up will be issued as a five-disc 20th anniversary super deluxe edition next month, with a special coloured double vinyl edition also on offer…
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Easily one of the best archival packages of recent years, the 21-disc Blur 21 box is today the cheapest it has been over on Amazon Germany.
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ABKCO Records will next month release The Rolling Stones in Mono, a 15CD and 16LP box set of all mono studio recordings released by The Rolling Stones.
Continue reading “The Rolling Stones in Mono / 16LP vinyl and 15CD box sets due in September”
Rhino continue to celebrate The Monkees‘ golden anniversary with a pair of career-spanning music collections due later this month…
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Incredible price for this forthcoming Steve Hackett box on Amazon Germany this morning…
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Next month Edsel will release The Complete Cathedral Oceans – all three of John Foxx’s ambient long-players in a highly limited, five-LP book package…
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Weatherbox continue their Thompson Twins vinyl reissues with a double LP set of the best-selling 1984 album Into The Gap.
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Rhino will reissue Atlantic Records’ 1971 Aretha Franklin compilation album Aretha’s Greatest Hits, on vinyl LP in September.
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Neil Young vinyl and ‘value’ don’t normally go together, but this triple LP live set (with The Promise of the Real) is out on Friday and is only £25 at the moment on Amazon UK. The 2CD version came out in June.
John Williams‘ soundtracks to both The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi issued on limited gold vinyl this week.
Continue reading “Out This Week / on 12 August 2016”
Great deal at the moment for the 11CD John Lennon Signature box set over on Amazon Spain.
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With Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin announcements last week, this week was always going to struggle to ‘beat’ that, but there has been some noteworthy activity in the world of box sets and reissues. Read more below with news on Robert Palmer, George Michael, a Sam Brown exclusive, and view great photos of Robert Plant live on stage last night!
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 6 August 2016”
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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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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Placebo celebrate 20 years of music with A Place For Us To Dream, a new retrospective…
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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.
Continue reading “Neil Young’s On The Beach finally reissued as standalone vinyl LP”
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…
Continue reading “Yes / Tales From Topographic Oceans / four-disc expanded edition with 5.1”
