Stunning price on Amazon UK at the moment for the massive 34CD Herbie Hancock Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-1988.
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Author: Paul Sinclair
Alan Parsons to give Sleeve Notes talks at Abbey Road Studio Two
Celebrated Recording Engineer Alan Parsons will be presenting a fascinating ‘talk event’ in Abbey Road’s famous Studio Two later this month.
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Out This Week / on 13 Nov 2015
Neil Young / Blue Note Café (2CD and 4LP)
Blue Note Café captures Neil Young‘s 1988 tour when he was promoting his This Note’s For You album and it includes seven tracks from that record, as well as a number of previously unreleased songs. For once you don’t have to remortgage your house to buy the (4LP) vinyl edition. 
Slade / When Slade Rocked The World (box set)
Fantastic artwork for this celebration of Slade’s early seventies, chart-conquering era. This lavish multi-format box includes vinyl albums, CDs, seven inch singles, hardback book and more.
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Saturday Deluxe / 7 November 2015
Ladies and Gentlemen…. The Beatles!
Universal’s Beatles 1 video collection is finally out. Yay! I’m sure some of you unnecessarily cancelled your Amazon UK orders after the mini-fiasco of last week, but as predicted by yours truly, there was never any issue in the first place. Oh well. But I’ve love to hear what everybody thinks about the new sets.
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Deal alert / Bruce Springsteen: Darkness on the Edge of Town
Brilliant deal for the 3CD+3DVD version of Bruce Springsteen‘s The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story on Amazon Italy today.
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PICTURE: The Allman Brothers Band: Idlewild South super deluxe
Here’s a new image of The Allman Brothers Band‘s Idlewild South super deluxe edition which is due for release in December.
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Queen / Bohemian Rhapsody 12"
Universal Music will release a standalone twelve-inch vinyl of Queen‘s classic 1975 single Bohemian Rhapsody later this month.
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Deal alert / Bob Marley Complete Island Recordings METAL box
There’s no point pretending that this metal ‘collectors edition’ version of Bob Marley and the Wailers‘s Complete Island Recordings 12LP vinyl box is cheap, because it’s not – but if you are in the market for one of these limited edition metal sets then you aren’t going to beat the current price on Amazon Italy.
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The Beatles 1+ blu-ray confusion for Amazon UK pre-orders
Amazon.co.uk have today sent some customers emails advising that the CD+2xblu-ray deluxe edition listing for The Beatles forthcoming 1+ release may “not have been clear”…
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Interview: Bernard Butler on The Sound of McAlmont & Butler
Songwriter, producer and guitarist Bernard Butler talks to SuperDeluxeEdition about his work with David McAlmont and the Sound of McAlmont & Butler album which was released 20 years ago and has been recently reissued as deluxe edition.
SuperDeluxeEdition: In the post-Suede period, did you have a plan? Did you have anything written on the back of an envelope in terms of your goals or what you wanted to do next?
Bernard Butler: No, I didn’t. No. I mean, I wanted to make this record, so that’s all, really. When I started, when I wrote the music for Yes, that became Yes, it was just a piece of music and the idea was to find somebody to sing on it and put out a seven-inch, it was a sort of idealistic vision of putting out a pop seven-inch with no sleeve, no name, and just an A-side and a B-side, like a juke-box kind of seven-inch, and that was it, without a tour or a plan or anything like that. I mean, that was the kind of principle.
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Deal alert / Velvet Underground: White Light / White Heat SDE
Very nice price for The Velvet Underground White Light / White Heat super deluxe edition on Amazon Italy at the moment…
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Out This Week / 6 November 2015
The Beatles / 1 Video Collection (various editions)
27 Beatles number ones with restored promo footage and pristine stereo and 5.1 surround sound remixes. 50 in total if you opt for the deluxe edition.
Bob Dylan / The Cutting Edge Bootleg Series Vol 12
This promises to be an incredible document of Bob Dylan in his prime. So much to enjoy with these unheard outtakes from Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde On Blonde regardless of which edition you opt for.
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Deal alert / Bowie: Five Years CD box
The 12CD version of David Bowie‘s Five Years box is the lowest ever price on Amazon UK at the moment…
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Saturday Deluxe / 31 October 2015
Just tell me that you want me – Fleetwood Mac’s Tusk box
This week’s really big news was that Rhino are to reissue Fleetwood Mac‘s 1979 album Tusk as an 8-disc box set. This is almost three years after Rumours got the same treatment, making Paul McCartney‘s six-months-to-a-year hit rate when it comes to reissues look positively rushed.
Eight discs sounds quite impressive, although a close inspection reveals that four of the discs (CD 1, LP 1 & LP 2 and DVD) simply repeat the same content – the Tusk album, albeit the DVD gives us a 5.1 surround mix.
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Mike Oldfield revisits 1984 with reissues and new rarities set
As revealed by this blog back in March, Mike Oldfield continues with his long-running reissue programme and early next year we will not only see Discovery and The Killing Fields re-released (the former as a deluxe set) but also a new selection of music of that era called The 1984 Suite.
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Deal alert / ABBA singles vinyl box
Tremendous price at the moment for last year’s ABBA The Singles vinyl box set that brings together 40 seven-inch vinyl records to celebrate 40 years since the group burst on the scene with Waterloo at the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest.
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Fleetwood Mac / Tusk / 8-disc super deluxe edition box set
Rhino are to release Fleetwood Mac‘s 1979 album Tusk as a sizeable 8-disc super deluxe edition box set in December that will feature a wealth of unreleased material and a 5.1 surround sound mix of the record.
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Bryan Ferry / Avonmore deluxe set
Bryan Ferry will release a special limited deluxe edition of last year’s Avonmore album this December.
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Deal alert / Bob Marley: The Complete Island Recordings
The recent Bob Marley 12LP vinyl box – The Complete Island Recordings – was very much in the zone of ‘unaffordable’, especially if you were in the market for the metal box ‘collector’s edition’ which costs north of £400 in the UK.
The good news is that if you are willing to forgo the tin box, the mousepad and the extra photos that come with this set (you won’t be missing much, if truth be told) then Amazon Italy are selling the standard box (rigid card) for an extremely competitive price at the moment.
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SDEtv / The Jam: Fire and Skill
In this video unboxing, SDE Editor Paul Sinclair takes a look at the forthcoming The Jam Fire and Skill six-CD box set.
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