David Bowie / Who Can I Be Now? [1974-1976] full track listing and details

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New mid-70s Bowie box adheres to ‘Five Years’ template

Parlophone’s follow-up to last year’s David Bowie Five Years box will be called Who Can I Be Now? 1974-1976 and will be issued as 12CD and 13LP vinyl box sets this September…
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In Pictures: Jean-Michel Jarre back on stage in the UK for first time in 5 years

Jean-Michel Jarre returned to the UK stage at the weekend as he performed  at the BlueDot ‘Festival of Discovery’…
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David Bowie / Labyrinth 30th anniversary special editions

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Jim Henson’s 1986 film Labyrinth, which stars David Bowie, is being reissued as a 30th anniversary edition in September and will be available in 4K Ultra HD and is being issued in a number of special editions…
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Out This Week / on 29 July 2016

Simple Minds / New Gold Dream six-disc super deluxe edition box set

Simple Minds / New Gold Dream (six-disc super deluxe edition)

Simple Minds‘ 1982 album gets ‘the full monty’ treatment with a box that delivers virtually everything you could want, including a 5.1 mix of New Gold Dream. Read more


Fleetwood Mac / Mirage (reissue) 

Fleetwood Mac‘s 1982 album is available in two-disc deluxe and five-disc super deluxe edition configurations… Lots of rare tracks including outtakes and rarities, early versions of several album tracks; outtakes for songs that didn’t make it to the album; UPDATE: Rhino have this morning confirmed that this is delayed until September (regardless of what HMV and Amazon say). Read more
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Deal alert / Lou Reed: The Sire Years – Complete Albums Box (10CD)

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If you’ve pre-ordred the forthcoming RCA and Arista Lou Reed box, here’s an opportunity to pick up The Sire Years: Complete Albums Box at an incredible price on Amazon Italy.
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Deal alert: Bob Marley / Complete Island Recordings 12LP metal box

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The normally ridiculously expensive metal ‘collectors edition’ version of Bob Marley and the Wailers‘s Complete Island Recordings 12LP vinyl box is very well priced on Amazon Italy right now.
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David Bowie ‘lost’ album to be included in next box set: Who Can I Be Now?

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The follow-up to Parlophone’s David Bowie box set, Five Years, will be announced next week, but the label have revealed that, exclusive to the new set, which will be called Who Can I Be Now?, will be a previously unreleased complete album…
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Deal alert / Marc Almond Trials of Eyeliner 10CD Anthology box

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Admittedly, it’s early days for this self-compiled 10CD Marc Almond collection which isn’t due for released until October, but Trials of Eyeliner: Anthology 1979-2016 has already dropped in price massively in the UK.
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Greg Lake on why ELP reissues won’t be on heavyweight 180g vinyl

BMG’s Emerson Lake & Palmer reissues are due next week and as well as two-CD deluxe editions, the group’s first three albums, Emerson Lake & Palmer (1970), Tarkus (1971 and Pictures At An Exhibition (1971) are scheduled to be reissued on vinyl. However, these won’t be ‘heavyweight’ 180g pressings and Greg Lake explains why…
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Remixed & Expanded: The Beatles Live At The Hollywood Bowl due in Sep

1977 live album reboot to tie in with Ron Howard doc

Apple Corps Ltd. and Universal Music Group will release an expanded and newly remixed version of The Beatles 1977 live album The Beatles At The Hollywood Bowl this September…
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Deal Alert / David Bowie: Five Years 12CD deluxe box set

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The 12CD version of David Bowie‘s Five Years box set has held firm at a fairly premium price point ever since David’s death in January. However today on Amazon France it’s the cheapest it has ever been….
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Led Zeppelin / The Complete BBC Sessions / super deluxe edition box set

This September Led Zeppelin will release The Complete BBC Sessions, an expanded and remastered version of their 1997 BBC Sessions album which adds a third disc of eight unreleased performances. This new set will be available across a number of formats, including an 8-disc super deluxe edition box set…
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Level 42 / Collected: new 3CD set

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Here’s a weird one. Collected is a new three-CD Level 42 compilation that purports to gather up “the first time” all of the singles from the band in their original single versions released between 1979 and 2013. Sounds great, but at the moment it’s only being issued by Universal Music The Netherlands (go figure), although as you might expect, it’s not too hard to get hold off for fans everywhere else….
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Review / Peter Gabriel: vinyl reissues

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Peter Gabriel‘s 1986 album So is 30 years old this year, but it’s not afforded any kind of deluxe reissue, presumably because Gabriel thinks he got that job done back in 2012. That set, as any longtime SDE reader will be all too aware, was more than a little flawed and it’s still extremely frustrating that all those B-sides, remixes and a 5.1 mix (which apparently exists) have not yet surfaced on a So celebratory release.
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