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Out This Week / on 29 Jan 2015

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Phil Collins / Take A Look At Me Now (box set)

After a delayed start, Phil Collins‘ reissue campaign is finally underway. Two-CD sets of Face Value and Both sides available separately or in this box (which has space for the forthcoming reissues). Album-only vinyl releases also available. Read more

Mike Oldfield / Discovery 2CD+DVD deluxe edition

Mike Oldfield / Discovery deluxe edition

A great week for Mike Oldfield fans as 1984’s Discovery gets a 2CD+DVD deluxe reissue with bonus tracks and 5.1 surround. The Killing Fields soundtrack is also expanded and there is a new collection called The 1984 Suite.  Read more
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Saturday Deluxe Special / A Life Listening to David Bowie: part 2

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In the second of a special three-part 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, we suggest you start there.
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Deal alert / UK Promotion

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Amazon UK have a special promotion TODAY ONLY that offers visitors £10 off any purchase over £50.

Music fans might want to take advantage and to give you a few ideas, below are a some SDE suggestions that could see you save a significant percentage off the purchase price of recent/forthcoming releases…
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Breathe / This Shining Moment: Recordings 1986 to 1990 vinyl box

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Greenwich Market based boutique gallery store The Flood Gallery, have ventured into the record business and for their debut catalogue release are putting together a vinyl box set featuring short-lived late eighties British pop group Breathe. Read more below and enter our competition to win a copy of this box set…
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Out This Week / on 22 Jan 2016

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Suede / Night Thoughts (new album)

Suede release their second studio album since reforming and their seventh in total. Night Thoughts is issued as this special CD+DVD edition packaged in a deluxe hardcover book. Read more

The Monkees / Classic Album Collection (10CD box)

A Monkees box that collects the band’s nine original studio albums and a tenth bonus disc of singles/rarities.  Read more
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Bruce Springsteen pays tribute to David Bowie at start of River tour

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Bruce Springsteen last night opened his The River tour with a moving tribute to David Bowie, reminding the audience that he “supported our music way, way, way, back in the very, very beginning ” before covering one of his songs, which you can watch below.
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Saturday Deluxe Special: 16 Jan 2016: A life listening to David Bowie

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In the first of a special three-part feature, SDE Editor Paul Sinclair, reflects back to his earliest memories of hearing, buying and listening to the music of David Bowie.

Where do you start with a talent like David Bowie? The fact is, the story will begin in different places for different people. Probably my earliest Bowie memory is when a re-released Space Oddity hit number one in the UK in 1975. I remember seeing that rather red-saturated Mick Rock-directed video (filmed in 1972) of a Ziggy-era David Bowie singing his signature song. I was five at that time…
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