Sony are to reformat and reissue Primal Scream‘s 1991 album Screamadelica in a compact ‘bookset‘ with most of the content ported from 2011’s anniversary box set.
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Deal alert / Wings at the Speed of Sound deluxe book edition
Paul McCartney‘s Wings at the Speed of Sound deluxe from 2014 – which comes with a lavish hardcover book, photos, lyric sheets, other memorabilia and two CDs and a DVD – is an absolute steal over on Amazon Italy at the moment.
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a-ha / new CD booklets printed
Due to a printing error, some of you may have incorrectly printed booklets in your reissue of a-ha‘s Stay On These Roads. The band have published instructions on how to get a replacement, if this is the case…
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Out This Week / on 20 Nov 2015
The Who / Live In Hyde Park
The Who‘s 50th anniversary celebrations will soon be at an end, but there is still time for them to put out June’s gig in London’s Hyde Park in the usual array of formats. 
Queen / A Night at the Odeon
Queen‘s much bootlegged Hammersmith Odeon concert from 1975 is released as A Night at the Odeon and is available in a myriad of formats including the bells and whistles super deluxe edition box set.
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Roger Waters to sign all super deluxe editions of The Wall
In response, perhaps, to the overwhelmingly negative feedback Roger Waters will now SIGN all 3,000 copies of his ‘monumental special edition’ super deluxe version of his live release of Pink Floyd‘s The Wall.
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Saturday Deluxe / 14 Nov 2015
Just wanted to start this week’s Saturday Deluxe to say that our thoughts are with friends and readers in Paris after the horrifying events of last night. Sending love and solidarity across the Channel to you all x.
Alan Parsons Sleeve Notes event
I attended the Alan Parsons ‘From Mono to Infinity’ sleeve notes talk at Abbey Road yesterday afternoon, and what a fascinating event it was…
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Deal alert / Italy promotion
Amazon Italy 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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Deal alert / Van Morrison: Moondance 4CD+Blu-ray audio
Tonight is a marvellous night for a Moondance five-disc deluxe edition because the Van Morrison classic is going for a song on Amazon Italy at the moment.
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Beatles / 1 gatefold double vinyl with brand new stereo remixes
Out early next month is the double vinyl LP edition of The Beatles‘ 1 compilation featuring the brand new stereo remixes created by Giles Martin.
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Europe / War of Kings / special edition with DVD/Blu-ray
Europe will re-release their 2015 War of Kings album later this month, across a number of formats, featuring video of a complete 2015 live performance.
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The Rolling Stones / From the Vault: The Complete Series 1 box
If you haven’t kept up with The Rolling Stones archive ‘From the Vault’ releases, here’s a chance to catch up, with what Eagle Rock are branding a ‘The Complete Series 1’ DVD box set.
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Deal alert / Aretha Franklin: The Atlantic Albums Collection 19CD
Ridiculously good deal on Amazon Italy this morning for the recently released Aretha Franklin Atlantic Albums Collection box set.
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Badly Drawn Boy / The Hour of Bewilderbeast deluxe reissue
Badly Drawn Boy‘s debut album The Hour Of Bewilderbeast is being reissued by XL Recordings in December, in deluxe CD and LP editions.
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Alanis Morissette / Jagged Little Pill four-CD collector's edition review
Such is the pleasure-giving qualities of music, you can derive just as much satisfaction from the big selling everyone-loves-it mega-album as the secret gem of an record that not many know about.
Alanis Morissette‘s 1995 album Jagged Little Pill falls firmly into the former category, and has since sold an astonishing 33m copies worldwide. Her music was omnipresent in 1995-6. Everyone was buying the singles, everyone had the album and everyone was watching the videos and the performances on TV music shows across the world.
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A-ha competition winner
Congratulations to Nico Pleimling who was the winner of the SDE a-ha competition that we ran last month.
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Cowboy Junkies / Notes Falling Slow
Those Canadian alt country folk-rockers Cowboy Junkies have just released Notes Falling Slow, a four-CD box set that includes re-mastered versions of three ‘noughties’ albums and a fourth disc of unheard songs.
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Deal alert / Herbie Hancock: Complete Columbia Album box set
Stunning price on Amazon UK at the moment for the massive 34CD Herbie Hancock Complete Columbia Album Collection 1972-1988.
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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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