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Out This Week / on 15 April 2016

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Metallica / Kill ‘Em All & Ride The Lightning box sets

These new reissues of Metallica‘s first two albums are like XTC reissues in Led Zeppelin clothing. Although price-wise these are more expensive than the latter, they offer far better value.  Read more

Phil Collins / No Jacket Required (2CD deluxe)

Phil Collins continues with his reissue series. This week No Jacket Required and Testify are re-released as deluxe editions. Such is the perversity of the track listings of the former that one can only hope some kind of remix compilation is in the planning. Read more
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Saturday Deluxe / 9 April 2016

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David Bowie / Hunky Dory

Is Hunky Dory is the British public’s favourite ‘old’ Bowie album?

There was a fair bit of publicity this week around the UK charts ‘so far’ for 2016. Of course, it almost goes without saying that Adele had the biggest selling album with 25. There must be so many artists who could have had a number one album were it not for the English singer. Perhaps they need to create a separate chart for Adele albums like they did with compilations when Now That’s What I Call Music sets kept hogging the top spot back in the 1980s!
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More Velvet Underground coloured vinyl

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Velvet Underground limited seven-inch (click to enlarge)

To complete SDE’s coverage of those Velvet Underground coloured vinyl seven-inch records (exclusively from retailer FNAC) here are some more photos of the second 45, Head Held High/Train Round The Bend.
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UK fans can save £100 on Metallica Super Deluxe Edition box sets

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The forthcoming Metallica Kill ‘Em All and Ride The Lightning boxes are really desirable, but frustratingly expensive, particularly in the UK. However, if you are clever with your purchasing ‘strategy’, British fans could save around £100 by looking abroad.
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Paul Simon / Stranger to Stranger

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Another day, another music legend announces a new studio album… After Bob Dylan revealed yesterday that he would release Fallen Angels in May, comes the news that Paul Simon will issue Stranger to Stranger, his 13th solo studio album a few weeks later.
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First Pictures / Velvet Underground exclusive coloured seven-inch vinyl

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The Velvet Underground / Sweet Jane/Rock & Roll 7″ / Click to enlarge

As previously announced, French retailer FNAC are issuing two exclusive Velvet Undgerground coloured vinyl singles to tie in with a new VU exhibition in Paris.
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Alan Parsons and Universal prepping new box set of APP debut

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Alan Parsons has confirmed on that Universal Music will, this summer, reissue the Alan Parsons Project debut, Tales of Mystery and Imagination Edgar Allan Poe, as a 40th anniversary multi-disc box set.
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David Bowie / New video for Blackstar’s ‘I Can’t Give Everything Away’

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David Bowie‘s longtime designer Jonathan Barnbrook has created an ‘animated visual’ for I Can’t Give Everything Away, the last song on his last studio album, ★ (Blackstar).
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