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Saturday Deluxe / 2 May 2015

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It’s the weekend! For a change of pace this week on Saturday Deluxe, SDE is bringing back a favourite feature… Second Hand News! For the uninitiated, this is a a feature that takes a look under the skin of some charity shop / thrift store purchases. Basically, an excuse to talk about old records! Hope you enjoy and would love to read some comments! 

Second Hand News / May 2015

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Wham! / I’m Your Man 12-inch picture disc (£3.99)

After a ludicrously busy 1984, Wham!‘s world tour – including the famous trip to China – kept them busy during much of 1985 and they only released one single (not counting the Last Christmas reissue). I’m Your Man was that single and it became their third number one. This picture disc (showing a scene from the video) had the same Extended Version / Do It Right (Instrumental) /Acappella track listing as the standard 12-inch. The fairly rare three-track cassette single (still have mine) replaced the instrumental with the short single version – the only format other than the seven-inch vinyl single to feature it.
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Bruce Springsteen / Darkness on the Edge of Town 3CD+3Blu-ray

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Bruce Springsteen‘s incredible six-disc Darkness On The Edge of Town deluxe reissue (from 2010) is available in its three-CD and three-Blu-ray guise over on Amazon Italy at a fantastic price at the moment.
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Who's Afraid of the Art of Noise audiophile vinyl box set

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Classic Album Sundays, those celebrators of the vinyl record listening experience, have teamed up with ZTT Records and will produce an audiophile vinyl box set of the Art of Noise‘s 1984 album Who’s Afraid Of The Art Of Noise.
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Steven Wilson confirms Roxy Music 5.1 will appear on reissue

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Musician, producer and renowned remixer Steven Wilson has launched a Facebook page and Twitter feed to keeps fans informed of various remix projects he is working on and revealed some of what we can expect in the near future with regards to artists like Roxy Music and XTC.
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Lloyd Cole and the Commotions box set / full track listing revealed

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The forthcoming Lloyd Cole and the Commotions box set was exclusively revealed via this blog a few weeks back, but now we can bring you the full track listing of the six-disc set.
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Latest Stones ‘From the Vault’ sets currently offer great value.

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Now seems as good a time as any to get your orders in for The Rolling Stones‘ recently announced ‘From The Vault’ release because these are a bargain at present on the UK Amazon.
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Deal alert / Grace Jones: Disco 4LP

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The highly anticipated Grace Jones Disco set which compiles the albums Fame, Portfolio and Muse – with bonus tracks – is released in a week’s time. The 4LP version is significantly more expensive than the 3CD or blu-ray audio options but you can save almost £20 on the vinyl box by pre-ordering now at Amazon Italy
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Sly and the Family Stone / Live at the Fillmore East 4CD set

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Following on from the double vinyl highlights set issued on Record Store Day this year (we’re giving one away here), Sony Legacy/Epic will issue a four CD edition of Sly and the Family Stone‘s 1968 concerts at the famous Fillmore East venue.
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Out This Week / 27 April 2015

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Blur / The Magic Whip (new album)

Blur return with The Magic Whip, their first studio album in 12 years. No deluxe editions or box sets, but the 2LP vinyl (with download code) looks good. Read more

Emerson Lake & Palmer / Trilogy (2CD+DVD)

ELP‘s 1972 album, Trilogy, is reissued on this three-disc set that includes a brand new 5.1 mix and new stereo mixes. Read more

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Saturday Deluxe / 25 April 2015

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It’s the weekend! SDE is keeping its pyjamas on until lunchtime and is kicking back with some stories and updates from the past week, along with gossip and news from the weeks to come…

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Abbey Road

Trying to get your picture taken on ‘that’ zebra crossing on Abbey Road is pretty hard to do during the day. I saw plenty of irate taxi drivers yesterday ‘beeping’ excited tourists as they held up traffic and tried to get perfect the open-legged gate of the Fab Four from 8 August 1969.
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Act / Love & Hate: A Compact Introduction / new 2CD set

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ZTT Records‘ long running Element series continues with Love & Hate, a double CD introduction to Act, the late eighties’ musical collaboration between Thomas Leer and Claudia Brücken.
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