Author: Paul Sinclair

Crossroads Revisited: Selections from the Crossroads Guitar Festivals

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

crossroads2

Rhino will, in July, issue a three-CD set gathers nearly four hours of live music from the Eric Clapton-founded Crossroads Guitar Festival.
Continue reading “Crossroads Revisited: Selections from the Crossroads Guitar Festivals”

ABC / Lexicon of Love II vinyl pre-order at a decent price

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

ABC / The Lexicon of Love II - follow-up to Lexicon of Love

ABC fans may have noticed that until now, to get a the new Lexicon of Love II album on vinyl you have had to be willing to spend £30 on a signed vinyl edition or £100 on the box set (both via the official store). That has just changed with a great value standard vinyl edition just listed on Amazon UK.
Continue reading “ABC / Lexicon of Love II vinyl pre-order at a decent price”

Coming Soon: It’s Immaterial / Life’s Hard And Then You Die 2CD deluxe

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

ItysImmaterial_Sleeve

Caroline International will issue an SDE-curated 2CD deluxe edition of It’s Immaterial‘s 1986 debut album Life’s Hard And Then You Die, this summer.
Continue reading “Coming Soon: It’s Immaterial / Life’s Hard And Then You Die 2CD deluxe”

Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing vinyl box

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

unnamed (4)

Having reissued  first two albums: First And Last And Always (1985) and Floodland (1987) as vinyl box sets last year, The Sisters of Mercy continue with their extended 30th anniversary celebrations and will reissue a new set (due out this summer) centered on the group’s third 1990 studio album, Vision Thing.
Continue reading “Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing vinyl box”

Out This Week / on 27 May 2016

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

marvingaye_vol3

Marvin Gaye / Volume Three 1971-1981 (vinyl box set)

Fantastic music in this Marvin Gaye 8LP vinyl box including the albums What’s Going On, Trouble Man, Let’s Get It On and many more. Read more

ABC / The Lexicon of Love II - follow-up to Lexicon of Love

ABC / The Lexicon of Love II  (new album)

ABC return with a follow-up to their acclaimed 1982 album The Lexicon of Love. Anne Dudley is back for string arrangements but no Trevor Horn this time. Read more
Continue reading “Out This Week / on 27 May 2016”

Happy Birthday to Paul & Linda McCartney’s RAM

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

ramon

Paul and Linda McCartney‘s 1971 album RAM is 45 years old today (in the UK). To mark the occasion here’s a look at the rare promo video for Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey which was (remarkably) a US number one single at the time…
Continue reading “Happy Birthday to Paul & Linda McCartney’s RAM”

Saturday Deluxe / 21 May 2016

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Born to Boogie – Tony Visconti in London to remember Marc Bolan

Legendary record producer, Tony Visconti was in London last night to attend a theatrical screening of Born to Boogie, the 1972 Marc Bolan/T. Rex concert film which will be issued on blu-ray for the first time next month.
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 21 May 2016”

Deal alert / Queen: A Night At The Odeon Japan SHM super deluxe box

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

night_queen

Very good price indeed for the Japanese import ‘SHM’ version of the Queen A Night at the Odeon: Hammersmith ’75  super deluxe edition box set on Amazon UK at the moment…
Continue reading “Deal alert / Queen: A Night At The Odeon Japan SHM super deluxe box”

SDEtv / Manic Street Preachers: Everything Must Go 20 unboxing

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

The Manic Street Preachers‘ 1996 album Everything Must Go is 20 years old today! No better time to take a look at Sony’s new 20th anniversary super deluxe edition box set of the album (out today), via this unboxing video.
Continue reading “SDEtv / Manic Street Preachers: Everything Must Go 20 unboxing”