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Universal Music have launched a new series of special vinyl releases, including classic titles from The Rolling Stones, Simple Minds and The Police, under the ‘Half Speed Mastering’ banner…
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While contemporaries like Duran Duran and a-ha have long since abandoned the idea of the B-side (arguably even the single), the Pet Shop Boys continue to offer fans non-album tracks with their single releases, with three new songs being issued with The Pop Kids, the first 45 from their new album SUPER.
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In this unboxing video, SDE Editor Paul Sinclair takes a look at Warner Music Japan paper sleeve / mini-LP CD releases of Madonna‘s first four studio albums and the You Can Dance and Immaculate Collection compilations.
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Big price drop today on Amazon UK for the The Beatles 1+ deluxe set which features two blu-rays (with 50 videos) and a CD.
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All the audio within Sony’s forthcoming Elvis Presley box set, The Album Collection, has been confirmed as newly remastered…
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The competition to win the forthcoming Breathe This Shining Moment vinyl box set is over and we have a winner…
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The recently announced Cars Elektra Years 6CD box is now available for pre-order across Europe.
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Betty Boo‘s second album, GRRR! It’s Betty Boo (released in 1992), is to be expanded and reissued as a two-CD deluxe edition next month.
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Cheapest price so far in the UK for this Elvis Presley 60CD RCA Album Collection box set…
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Edsel will next month release The Complete UK Singles Collection, a new 30CD box set featuring the work of Leo Sayer.
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Last week, we heard the sad news of Liverpool-born singer-songwriter Colin Vearncombe’s death in a car accident at the age of just 53. Back in 2013, Vearncombe, aka Black, whose prolific career spanned four decades and is best known for his timeless classic song Wonderful Life, talked to SuperDeluxeEdition editor Paul Sinclair. We publish that interview here for the first time in tribute to a distinctively talented musician…
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Elton John releases his 33rd studio album this week. Wonderful Crazy Night is available on CD, vinyl, expanded deluxe CD and super deluxe box set. 
Erasure are celebrating their 30th anniversary and this week sees the reissue of their first three albums on 180g vinyl.
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Legendary UK broadcaster Terry Wogan has died aged 77. The Irishman hosted the BBC Radio 2 breakfast show for 12 years between 1972 and 1984 and his popular TV chat show Wogan ran for three nights a week between 1985 and 1992.
The popularity of this show meant it was a highly regarded slot for music promotion, and crucially, unlike Top Of The Pops, acts could perform on the show (virtually always lip-synching) before their single had entered the UK top 40. Here, SDE presents you some of our favourite Wogan performances over the years…
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Kylie Minogue‘s four PWL-era albums were reissued about a year ago, but the top-of-the-range collector’s boxes with vinyl LP picture disc, 2CDs and DVDs were always massively overpriced for this writer. Today however, they are available on Amazon UK for about half the previous price.
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Pet Shop Boys are back and in a couple of months will release a new album SUPER. It’s too early to start writing it off, but the song they’e made available, Inner Sanctum, has all the drama of It’s a Sin, without, er, the song. It sounds like they’ve skipped the ‘album version’ and cut straight to the club remix. Or make that dub remix since this song has 17 words which are repeated three times “In the inner sanctum you’re a star, the girls, the guys, they all know who you are”. And that’s it.
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The Vinyl Collection 1972-1980, last year’s Status Quo vinyl box set is a steal at present on Amazon UK at the moment.
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Cherry Red Records are to issue a two-CD deluxe edition of Haircut One Hundred‘s debut Pelican West at the beginning of March.
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Universal Music will issue The Polydor Singles 1975-2015 in May, which is the final set in their four volumes of classic Who singles…
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Fantastic price (on the eve of release) for the Siouxsie and the Banshees Classic Album Selection box set on Amazon UK today.
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The 4LP coloured vinyl box set edition of 2014’s The Art of McCartney which brought together A-list covers of Paul McCartney songs, is available cheaply at the moment over on Amazon Italy.
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