The Who‘s 2015 June 26th show at London’s Hyde Park will be issued as a four-disc deluxe book set in November, along with other special editions.
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Author: Paul Sinclair
Deal alert / Bob Dylan: Cutting Edge Bootleg Series Vol 12 / 6-disc
Massive saving on the six-CD deluxe edition of the newly announced Bob Dylan The Cutting Edge Bootleg Series Vol 12 set over on Amazon Italy now!
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Lou Reed / The Sire Years: Complete Albums box / 10CD set
Rhino are to release a new Lou Reed CD box set that collects the eight albums released on the Sire label during a period that spanning almost a quarter of a century.
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FIRST PICTURES / Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records 5CD
First pictures of Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records the new five-disc set from Cherry Red that brings together the early years of Alan McGee’s label.
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Deal alert / French promotion
Amazon France 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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Sparks / The Island Years 5LP box
Back in June I alerted you to the fact that a Sparks vinyl box was due to be released this winter. At the time there was a question mark over the bonus LP but now everything has been confirmed.
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Chris Rea / La Passione deluxe
This November Chris Rea will release a four-disc ‘artist’s edition’ of the 1996 soundtrack album to his very personal film project, La Passione.
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Aretha Franklin / The Atlantic Albums Collection / 19CD box set
Rhino will release The Atlantic Albums Collection, a new 19CD Aretha Franklin box set at the end of next month.
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ELO / Alone in the Universe
ELO, or rather “Jeff Lynne’s ELO”, return in November with a new deal inked with Columbia Records and a new album Alone in the Universe.
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Amy Winehouse / 8LP vinyl box
This December, Island Records will release Amy Winehouse The Collection, a new 8LP vinyl box set.
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Eric Clapton / Slowhand at 70: Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Eric Clapton celebrated his 70th birthday this year with a seven-night run at the Royal Albert Hall, and this performance will be issued commercially across a number of formats by Eagle Rock in November.
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Out This Week / on 2 October 2015
Paul McCartney / Tug of War and Pipes of Peace reissues
Five years after Paul McCartney kicked off his Archive Collection reissue series with Band on the Run, he puts out deluxe sets of the widely admired Tug of War and the slightly less admired Pipes of Peace. 
Garbage / debut album box set
Garbage‘s 1995 debut reissued in two separate vinyl packages and a two-CD deluxe. Bizarrely demos and remixes are digital only.
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Saturday Deluxe / 26 Sep 2015
Dylan Dilemma
Be honest, did you ever think a music box set would be released that included “every single note recorded by Bob Dylan in the studio in 1965/1966″? Me neither, but that’s exactly what Sony/Columbia have done with their ‘Collector’s Edition’ of the newly announced Bootleg Series Vol 12, which has the moniker The Cutting Edge. 18CDs isn’t actually that much – we’ve had bigger sets from King Crimson and The Grateful Dead, but I guess it’s quite a lot for such a narrow period of time (two years, 1965-1966).
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John Williams / Star Wars: Ultimate Soundtrack Collection box sets
Early next year, Sony Music Classical will release the original soundtracks of Star Wars Episodes I – VI in new extensive deluxe vinyl and CD box sets.
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SDEtv / Queen: Studio Collection
In this exclusive video, watch SDE Editor Paul Sinclair unwrap the new 18LP Queen Studio Collection vinyl box set, which is released today.
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Bob Dylan / The Cutting Edge 1965-66: The Bootleg Series Vol 12
• 6CD Deluxe / • 2CD & 3LP ‘Best Of’ / • 18CD Collector’s Set
This November, Sony Music are to release The Cutting Edge, Volume 12 of their long running Bob Dylan Bootleg Series which will open up the vaults (in a big way) for the 1965-1966, and the Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, and Blonde On Blonde sessions.
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David Bowie / Space Oddity 40th anniversary picture disc
Just when you thought you couldn’t spend ANY MORE on David Bowie reissues, here is a shot of the forthcoming 40th anniversary seven-inch picture disc of Space Oddity.
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Deal alert / David Bowie: Five Years 1969-1973 / CD box set
Here we go, the first major price-drop (via Amazon Italy) for the much anticipated David Bowie Five Years CD box set, which is due out this Friday.
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a-ha / more deluxe editions due
Rhino continue with their a-ha reissue programme with expanded deluxe editions 1988’s Stay On These Roads, 1990’s East of the Sun West of the Moon and Memorial Beach from 1993, due next month.
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The Velvet Underground / The Complete Matrix Tapes / 4CD set
Polydor/Universal are set to release The Complete Matrix Tapes this November, an extensive 4CD document of The Velvet Underground live in San Francisco in late 1969.
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