Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
The David Bowie 2CD set, originally issued in 2000, makes it on to vinyl for the first time. This is a 4LP box with a lift-off lid and features two tracks not on the CD version. 
Michael Jackson‘s 1979 is reissued with a new Spike Lee documentary on Blu-ray or DVD. Full SDE review of this coming later in the week.
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Lowest ever price for Queen‘s Night at the Odeon – Hammersmith 1975 super deluxe edition on Amazon Germany today.
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Budget label Metro Select are issuing a new Thompson Twins compilation in April.
Hold Me Now: The Very Best of Thompson Twins is a 34-track two-CD set that includes hit singles, some 12-inch mixes and a few album tracks.
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Three months after the release of the first volume, comes Siouxsie and the Banshees Classic Album Selection Volume Two a six-CD box set gathering up the remainder of their studio output from the years 1985 – 1995.
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In the third part of a special feature, SDE Editor Paul Sinclair, reflects back to his earliest memories of hearing, buying and listening to the music of David Bowie. If you haven’t read part one (and two), we suggest you start here.
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Amazing price on Amazon Germany right now for The Beatles in Mono CD box set…
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French music legend Jean-Michel Jarre‘s follow up to last year’s Electronica album is Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise, and it sees him collaborating with some high profile artists, including the Pet Shop Boys, Gary Numan and Primal Scream.
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When Vinyl180 announced their coloured vinyl reissue of the Thompson Twins classic 1983 album Quick Step & Side Kick last year, they at least had the decency to let fans know that they would also being putting out a 2LP black vinyl reissue of the same title in 2016. Details of that edition have now been released…
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US heavy rockers Metallica‘s first two albums, 1983’s Kill ‘Em All and Ride The Lightning (1984), will be reissued as enormous ten and 11-disc box sets (respectively) this coming April…
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With the Michael Jackson Off The Wall reissue imminent, Sony will also reissue that 1979 album, along with the mega-selling follow-ups Thriller and Bad, on vinyl in April.
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British rock group Saxon, one of the so-called ‘New Wave of British Heavy Metal Bands’ to emerge in the late 1970s, will next month issue Eagles and Dragons, a nine-LP vinyl box set of studio albums released between 1991 and 2009.
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Watch the ‘lyric video’ and order the CD single of the Pet Shop Boys new single The Pop Kids…
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Evening Blue is a forthcoming deluxe ‘bookset’ that chronicles and celebrates Traffic co-founder Chris Wood‘s life in music.
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Rhino’s Faces five-CD box from last year, You Can Make Me Dance, Sing, or Anything 1970-1975, is available now for a fantastic price on Amazon UK.
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Following on from the Premonitions box set of last year, Universal Music will soon reissue a three-disc standalone deluxe edition of Steve Hackett‘s 1979 album Spectral Mornings which will include the Steven Wilson 5.1 surround sound mix.
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The 40th Anniversary edition of Jethro Tull‘s 1971 classic Aqualung is being repackaged and repriced, four and a half years after the original reissue.
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You’ll have to wait another month for the big Collector’s Edition which adds two vinyl records and a DVD to the standard deluxe of Come Find Yourself, but the 3CD version of the Fun Lovin’ Criminals debut is more wallet-friendly and is out on Friday.
Universal package together five Dusty Springfield albums (A Girl Called Dusty, Ev’rything’s Coming Up Dusty, Dusty… Definitely, Dusty in Memphis and A Brand New Me) in this good value package.
Erasure have confirmed that as part of the #Erasure30 anniversary celebrations they will be releasing an anthology box set later this year, and they want fans to help select B-sides for inclusion…
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When we reviewed Supergrass‘ three-CD deluxe of 1995’s I Should Coco in late December, we called it an “essential purchase”. Well it’s now even more essential, thanks to a big price drop.
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A fine evening last night in North London in the company of Suede as they played in what was The Town and Country Club in Kentish Town, but is now (unfortunately) called the O2 Forum (having previously been the HMV Forum).
The show was split in two, with the first part devoted to their new album Night Thoughts followed (after a brief interval) by 70 minutes of the audience shaking their bits to the hits.
Continue reading “Saturday Deluxe / 13 Feb 2016”
