Amazing deal on Amazon Germany at the moment for I’ll Remember, the four disc anthology of Rory Gallagher’s first band Taste that was released in August last year.
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Author: Paul Sinclair
Saturday Deluxe / 19 March 2016
Michael Jackson Estate sells Sony/ATV stake back to Sony
How Paul McCartney must have wished he hadn’t told Michael Jackson about the financial benefits of music publishing. Macca famously missed out on the opportunity to take ownership of the rights to most of the songs he wrote with John Lennon because he failed to come to an arrangement with Yoko Ono in the early 1980s. Without an agreement in place with John Lennon’s widow, Paul, as sensitive as ever to public perception, didn’t want to go ahead on his own for fear of appearing “grabby” and owning John Lennon’s portion of the songs. This was discussed in some detail in Musician magazine back in the early 1990s although there is actually no logic to this, because he could easily have purchased all rights and then sold 50% to Yoko afterwards if he wanted to be ‘fair’.
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Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul
Dexys Midnight Runners, or just “Dexys” as they now like to be called, return in June with an album of interpretations of Irish Songs and other ‘select compositions’…
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Foghat / The Complete Bearsville Albums Collection / 13CD box set
This April, Rhino are to release The Complete Bearsville Albums Collection, a new 13CD box set featuring English rock band Foghat.
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Deal alert / Bob Dylan 1965-1966: The Cutting Edge 6CD box set
GREAT saving to be had on the six-CD deluxe edition of the Bob Dylan The Cutting Edge Bootleg Series Vol 12 set over on Amazon Italy now!
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Sony to issue 16-disc Kris Kristofferson Monument box set
Sony are to release The Complete Monument & Columbia Album Collection, a new Kris Kristofferson box set in June.
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Dave Stewart talks to SDE about a life in music and Eurythmics reissues
Musician, producer, songwriter, entrepreneur and Eurythmic Dave Stewart was in town last week to promote Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This: A Life in Music, his superb new memoir. I sat down with him in his suite in The Hospital Club in London (a place he co-founded with former Microsoft boss Paul Allen) to discuss this memoir and also to raise the subject of Eurythmics back catalogue and reissues in general…
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Grace Jones’ Warm Leatherette gets hotter with extensive deluxe sets
Grace Jones fans have been well served by Universal Music in recent years with an excellent Nightclubbing reissue in 2014 and last year’s Disco box set which brought together Portfolio, Fame, and Muse in one smart package. This trend continues in 2016 with deluxe editions of Jones’ 1980 album Warm Leatherette due in June…
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Rick Wakeman / Journey to the Centre of the Earth super deluxe box set
A new four-disc box set of Rick Wakeman’s legendary live album, Journey to The Centre Of The Earth will be issued in May…
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Bat For Lashes / pre-order SIGNED copy of forthcoming album ‘The Bride’
Bat For Lashes are back in July with their fourth album The Bride, and signed copies are available for pre-order.
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Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris / ‘Trio’ 3CD box set
Rhino will release The Complete Trio Collection, a three-CD box set featuring both ‘Trio’ albums from Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt, and Emmylou Harris and a wealth of bonus material.
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Marvin Gaye vinyl box details confirmed
The details and track listing for the third Marvin Gaye vinyl box set have been confirmed.
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Out This Week / on 18 March 2016
Elvis Presley / The Albums Collection (60CD)
Massive box collects Elvis Presley‘s 57 RCA album’s and adds three discs of rarities. Also comes with a big hardcover book. 
a-ha / Time and Again: The Ultimate a-ha
The band’s spring tour kicked off last week in Russia and this week sees this new a-ha compilation paired with a bonus disc of rare and unreleased remixes.
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SDEtv / The Cars: The Elektra Years 1978-1987 six-CD box set
In this unboxing video, SDE Editor Paul Sinclair takes a look at The Cars Elektra Years 1978-1987 box set which came out on Friday…
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Saturday Deluxe / 12 March 2016
Don’t Ask Me Why: How Eurythmics ended up at Sony
I had a very interesting chat with musician, songwriter, producer and Eurythmic Dave Stewart on Thursday. He was in London to promote his excellent new memoir Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: A Life In Music. We’ll be publishing the interview early next week, but as you might expect, I brought up the topic of reissues. It’s a sensitive subject with Dave taking the ‘I don’t know anyone at Sony’ stance and generally giving the impression that Sony have no interest in the band’s back catalogue. In fact, this tweet from a few weeks back, tells you all you need to know about the state of relations with the major label…
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Lloyd Cole unhappy with new ‘expanded’ Rattlesnakes vinyl LP reissue
A new vinyl edition of Lloyd Cole and the Commotions‘ 1984 debut Rattlesnakes appeared on the market last month and Lloyd isn’t overly happy, telling his fans that “mistakes were made” with the reissue.
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Manic Street Preachers announce Everything Must Go box set
Manic Street Preachers will reissue a 20th anniversary box set of their 1996 album Everything Must Go in May.
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Deal alert: ABBA Studio Albums 8LP box
Great price on Amazon Germany right now for ABBA‘s Studio Albums VINYL box set…
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Pick of Record Store Day releases 2016
a-ha / Hits South America (12-inch vinyl)
Five previously unreleased live tracks: The Blood That Moves The Body (Live), Manhattan Skyline (Live), You Are The One (Live), Stay On these Roads (Live) and Hunting High And Low (Live).
Alanis Morissette / The Demos 1994-98 (coloured vinyl)
Ten Alanis Morissette demos (presumably disc two of the Jagged Little Pill reissue) on translucent spatter vinyl.
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David Bowie’s CHANGESONEBOWIE to be reissued on vinyl and CD
In May it will be 40 years since David Bowie‘s first ever ‘best of’ compilation, CHANGESONEBOWIE was released and to ‘celebrate’ Parlophone are reissuing it on what they are calling ‘random’ vinyl…
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