Rhino follow up their Chicago box from 2012 next month, with a second volume of studio albums set within clamshell packaging that covers the later years.
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Out This Week / 22 June 2015
The Rolling Stones/ Marquee Club Live in 1971
Review coming soon for this Rolling Stones release. The combo packs have been sensational value with both CD+DVD and LP+DVD configurations averaging about £11. 
The Love Speaks expanded reissue
The Lover Speaks’ (British duo David Freeman and Joseph Hughes) one commercially issued album is remastered and expanded by Cherry Red.
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Deal alert / Rainbow CD singles box
This Rainbow singles box set was issued in February last year and is currently available at the lowest ever price on Amazon UK.
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The Small Faces / The Decca Years
The Decca Years is a new five-CD Small Faces box set scheduled for release later this year.
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Status Quo / The Vinyl Collection 1972-1980 / box set
August 2015 sees the release of The Vinyl Collection 1972-1980 a new vinyl box set collecting the classic era of Status Quo.
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The Sisters of Mercy / First and Last and Always / vinyl box set
Rhino will next month reissue a 4LP vinyl box set of The Sisters of Mercy‘s 1985 debut First and Last and Always.
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Saturday Deluxe / 20 June 2015
Pressure on Duran Duran
Duran Duran‘s new album Paper Gods is due in September and this week we’ve had a look at the artwork. I think it’s fair to say from reading your comments that you’re not overly impressed! Maybe it will get improved/replaced, but if not, then you have to wonder what Warner Bros. are up to. Surely they should have pointed out that it’s simple not good enough, or do major labels feel they no longer have the power to tell acts to up their game?
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Deal alert / Rod Stewart vinyl box
Great price on Amazon UK for last year’s five-LP Rod Stewart vinyl box set.
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America / The Warner Bros. Years 1971-1977 / 8CD box set
Rhino will next month issue The Warner Bros. Years 1971-1977 an eight-CD box set featuring the seven America albums released by the label during the 1970s.
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Iron Maiden / The Book of Souls
Iron Maiden will release The Book Of Souls, their first ever double studio album in September this year.
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Sparks / The Island Years vinyl box set coming in late 2015
Universal Music will issue a The Island Years, a Sparks vinyl box set, later this year.
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Duran Duran / Paper Gods LP cover
Although this artwork “is not final” the above image is expected to be the cover of Duran Duran‘s fourteenth studio album, Paper Gods, which will be released in September.
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Unheard Kate Bush material coming to new compilation?
Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel and Sting will be among the artists who will contribute music to a new compilation album which is being put together as a tribute to the Dalai Lama who turns 80 on 6 July 2015.
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B.B. King & Eric Clapton / Riding With The King / hybrid SACD
Audio Fidelity will reissue B.B. King and Eric Clapton‘s Riding With The King on hybrid SACD at the end of this month.
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Ten Deluxe Editions for a fiver
Please note all prices are correct at the time of writing and are based on the Amazon UK price. If you are ordering outside the EU these prices will actually be cheaper! Have fun.
Deep Purple / Made in Japan 2CD – £2.99
Last year’s excellent reissue of Deep Purple‘s Made in Japan – often cited as one of the best live albums of all time – contains the 2013 remix of the original album on disc one, with all the encores on CD 2.
Kim Wilde / Close 2CD – £2.99
Excellent 2013 reissue for Kim Wilde‘s most successful album comes with a massive 21 bonus tracks including seven-inch mixes, extended versions and B-sides. Another unbelievable deal at just £2.99
Review / Love & Hate: A Compact Introduction to Act
I have a confession to make. I didn’t buy Act’s one and only album Laughter, Tears and Rage at the time (1988). A strange thing to do (or not to do), since I was a big fan of anything ZTT and I did pick up their first single, Snobbery & Decay, in ’cabaret-cassette’ guise. Thinking back, that was probably more to do with keeping my ZTT cassette single collection up-to-date that any massive desire to investigate the new ‘group’ formed by Propaganda’s Claudia Brücken and Scottish musician/songwriter Thomas Leer. As it happens, three out of the four tracks on that tape make an appearance on Love & Hate – A Compact Introduction to Act, a new two-CD set from Salvo/Union Square and ZTT.
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Out This Week / 15 June 2015
Air / The Virgin Suicides (box set / reissue)
Air‘s fine soundtrack to Sofia Coppola’s 1999 film is reissued as a double CD deluxe edition and a lavish box, which features CDs, coloured vinyl and a picture disc.
David Bowie / Hours (vinyl release)
Bowie‘s 1999 album Hours was probably his weakest of that decade but it still has its moments and he did manage to squeeze three UK top 40 hit singles from it. Remarkably, never issued on vinyl – until now.
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David Bowie / Fame picture disc
David Bowie‘s 1975 US number one single Fame was announced a while back as the next 40th anniversary picture disc and can be pre-ordered fairly cheaply at the time of writing.
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Saturday Deluxe / 13 June 2015
Hi folks. It’s the weekend, so time to take your foot off the gas and kick back with ‘Saturday Deluxe’ – the informal feature to round off the week where SDE reflects on the week past and the week yet to come. Or ‘next week’ as we like say in the 21st century.
The Joys of Vinyl Ripping
One of the delights of deluxe reissues is getting all those ‘new-to-CD’ tracks that somehow have escaped being released on the format for decades. These are often obscure remixes from the 1980s (dub mixes, promo-only reworkings) or perhaps a forgotten B-side. If there has never been a deluxe reissue (Sade‘s Diamond Life comes to mind) then to enjoy all those non-album tracks within iTunes or burnt to a CD, you have to do a ‘vinyl rip’ of the songs in question, which means finding away of transferring the vinyl to digital.
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Deal alert / Daft Punk vinyl box
A special limited deal on Amazon France today for last year’s Daft Punk Alive 1997 / 2007 vinyl box set which contains Alive 2007 as a white vinyl 3LP set and a silver vinyl edition of Alive 1997.
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