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After a few delays, this 9LP vinyl box set is released, featuring The Pretenders‘ eight Warners albums issued between 1979 and 1999. A couple, including Viva El Amor!, have never been issued on vinyl before. 
40th double-disc anniversary of Elvis Presley‘s 1975 features an alternative mix of the album sans overdubs plus a bonus disc full of selected live cuts
The Isley Brothers Complete RCA Victor And T-Neck Album Masters box set is due out at the end of August and there is a fantastic saving to be made if you pre-order now via Amazon Italy.
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It was Kate Bush‘s birthday on Thursday. Happy Birthday to her! Unfortunately for fans around the globe, no David Bowie-style birthday product announcement was forthcoming. We are all waiting patiently for last year’s incredible Before The Dawn show to come out on blu-ray, hopefully in some kind of lavish box set. It was filmed for a few nights and the audio for every single show was meticulously recorded. If it was any other artist you could virtually guarantee the product would be ready for Autumn 2015 but hey, it’s Kate. It is quite conceivable that it will NEVER be released if she’s unhappy with some element. Let’s hope that’s not the case.
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As predicted in last week’s SDE newsletter (not signed up? click here), Paul McCartney‘s 1982 solo album Tug of War and 1983 follow up Pipes of Peace will both be reissued in October, with the former being remixed and both albums available in the now familiar multi-disc deluxe ‘book’ editions.
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Excellent price for the 12CD YES Studio Albums box set over on Amazon Italy at the moment.
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Esoteric Recordings’ are set to release a first volume of an ‘Official Bootleg Series’ by German electronic legends Tangerine Dream.
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Britpop favourites The Bluetones see their second album Return to the Last Chance Saloon reissued in September.
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Sony/Legacy will issue Johnny Mathis: The Singles in September, a new four-CD anthology.
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If the lavish and impressive Queen Studio Collection box set is beyond your budget, then don’t forget you do have the option to pick up vinyl editions of all albums individually.
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Cheapest price ever on Amazon UK for last year’s beautifully packaged Eva Cassidy Vinyl Collection box set which contains five 180g vinyl albums along with an exclusive 12-inch vinyl single and a print of an original painting by Eva.
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The first four albums in Anthony Phillips‘ Private Parts & Pieces series are being collected in a new five-CD box which includes a large amount of previously unreleased bonus material.
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Belated nod to this four-CD set collecting the work of those Mod revivalists Secret Affair, who released three albums and enjoyed five top 75 hits between 1979 and 1981 with Time For Action peaking at number 13.
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Peter Gabriel’s first four self-titled albums available are to be made available on half-speed remastered double vinyl in October this year.
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Brooklyn’s The National collaborated with Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson back in 2013 on A Lot of Sorrow, a so called ‘durational performance’ where the band played their song Sorrow (from The High Violet album) live on stage (in NY’s MoMA PS1), repeatedly and continuously for six hours.
A limited edition run 9LP vinyl box set of this performance was available last month from 4AD (not any more) but can now be ordered from Amazon across the globe.
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Above is the confirmed artwork for the forthcoming Steve Hackett box set Premonitions: The Charisma Recordings 1975-1983.
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Roger Waters‘ superb Amused to Death album has just been reissued, but why not take the opportunity to pickup more or less his entire output with the 7CD+DVD ‘The Collection’ box set (issued in 2011) available at a giveaway price at the moment on Amazon France.
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As revealed last month I’ve compiled Tomb of Memories: The CBS Years 1982-1994, a forthcoming four-CD Paul Young collection being released by Sony Music. Although it’s not out for nearly a month, SDE can bring you FIRST PICTURES of this set!
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The final three Led Zeppelin albums are reissued with the usual companion audio discs and expensive – but quality – super deluxe box sets.
The two classic Joy Division compilations Substance and Still are reissued on 180g vinyl this week by Rhino, complete with replica packaging.
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Britpop favourites Ocean Colour Scene followed up Moseley Shoals in 1997 with the number one album Marchin’ Already which contains three top ten hits including Hundred Mile High City.
Last year’s super deluxe is a 3CD+DVD package which contains B-sides, radio sessions, Live at Manchester Apollo on CD and the DVD of Travellers Tunes: Live at Stirling Castle. You also get a book, poster, badges etc. This is normally priced around the £30 mark, but on Amazon Germany at the time of writing it is one third of that price!
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Just as you’ve justified spending over £250 on the Queen vinyl box set Universal Music go and announce another lavish and expensive vinyl box. The Complete Island Recordings is a collection of Bob Marley & the Wailers studio and live albums – so that’s eleven releases and 12 vinyl records.
While you wrestle with whether you ‘need’ this box, a fresh spanner in the decision-making works is that there are TWO versions; a standard ‘rigid board’ box, and a metal box. Both replicate the design of a ‘zippo’ lighter and both contain the same records although with the metal set (known as the Collector’s Edition) you do get an anniversary slip mat and two photos.
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