Simply Frankie Goes To Hollywood

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It comes to something when a compilation which is targeted at, in the words of the label, ‘the casual fan’, is a 190-minute, three-disc extravaganza, full of ‘hits, tracks & remixes’. That is what you will find on Simply Frankie Goes To Hollywood, a new budget priced triple-disc set from Union Square Music.
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Belinda Carlisle / The CD Singles 1986-2014 / 28CD box set

Belinda Carlisle 3D Box

Following last month’s announcement of a 33CD Bananarama singles box, Demon Music have applied a similar template to the work of Belinda Carlisle and are set to issue The CD Singles 1986-2014, a 28CD collection that gathers up the various B-sides and additional mixes that were issued across the different formats of each single released in the US and UK.
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Review / The Rolling Stones: From The Vault Marquee Club 1971

We have ‘American TV’ to thank for the fact that the unofficial last date of The Rolling Stones‘ 1971 UK tour was filmed (on Friday 26 March), with this set at The Marquee Club performed in front of an ‘elite’ audience of just 150 people, said to include Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page.
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Paul Young / Tomb of Memories: The CBS Years 1982-1994 / 4CD set

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Sony Music has collaborated with SuperDeluxeEdition on Tomb of Memories: The CBS Years 1982-1994, a new Paul Young four-CD collection set for release in August.

Compiled by SDE Editor Paul Sinclair (with input from Young), this new collection spans Paul’s entire tenure with CBS/Sony and is awash with rarities, taking in many new-to-CD cuts, demos, previously unreleased alternate mixes of album tracks (and hit singles) along with unheard songs recorded during the sessions for The Secret of Association, Other Voices and The Crossing.
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Out This Week / 29 June 2015

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions / Collected Recordings…

Review of the Lloyd Cole and the Commotions six-disc box due later this week. In the meantime can read an interview with Lloyd. Read more


Tina Turner / Private Dancer 30th Anniversary Edition

Two-disc deluxe edition celebrates Tina Turner‘s career-rejuvenating album. Also reissued on vinyl LP. Read more
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Saturday Deluxe / 27 June 2015

David Bowie / Five Years 1969-1973 vinyl box set

The Bowie Box Debate

The headline news this week was the announcement of Five Years 1969-1973 the first in a series of David Bowie box sets from Parlophone. In general, it’s always quite exciting when a major release of one of your favourite artists is announced, but once the dust had settled opinion was rather divided on the merits of the new set which contains Bowie’s first six RCA studio long-players, two live albums and a new two-disc compilation.
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Steve Hackett: Premonitions: track listing and price drop!

Two pieces of good news for Steve Hackett fans. Premonitions, the forthcoming 14-disc box set has dropped in price significantly on Amazon UK and SDE can also bring you the full confirmed track listing.
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Artifact: The Dawn Of Creation Records 1983-85 / five CD box

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Cherry Red will issue Artifact: The Dawn of Creation Records 1983-1985 in September, a new five-CD box set that charts the early years of the legendary UK independent record label.
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Lloyd Cole on new Commotions box

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In the next seven days Lloyd Cole and the Commotions’ new six-disc box set – Collected Recordings 1983-1989 – will be released. The set collects the three studio albums (Rattlesnakes, Easy Pieces and Mainstream) and provides two bonus audio discs of B-sides and unreleased demos and outtakes. A DVD with TV appearances and videos completes the box set.

SDE caught up with Lloyd Cole last week to discuss the new set. He was actually feeling under the weather, so our chat became an email Q&A which you can read below:
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