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Out This Week / 9 March 2015

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Madonna / Rebel Heart (new album)

The Material Girl‘s new album is finally released in a number of variations, including standard CD, deluxe CD and a rather mis-described ‘super deluxe’ 2CD edition. 

Anthony Phillips  / The Geese and the Ghost (3-disc reissue)

Genesis founding member Anthony Phillips sees his 1977 debut remastered and expanded to a 2CD+DVD set with masses of bonus material AND a new 5.1 mix. Read more
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Deal alert / The Who: Vol.1: the Brunswick Singles 1965-1966

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The forthcoming Brunswick Singles box set from The Who contains eight seven inch vinyl singles and is the first in a planned series of four Who limited edition box sets. On Amazon UK this box is currently priced at £66 but if you pre-order from Amazon Germany you can save almost 50% on that price.
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Led Zeppelin / Physical Graffiti / deluxe triple vinyl review

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Led Zeppelin / Physical Graffiti reissue / 3LP deluxe vinyl

Graeme Piper reviews the last Led Zeppelin reissue.

Re-released 40 years to the day of the original on February 24th 1975, Atlantic Records have just issued the latest in their Led Zeppelin remasters series in the form of the band’s sixth album, Physical Graffiti.
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Frank Sinatra / Ultimate Sinatra 4CD deluxe Centennial set

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In celebration of Frank Sinatra’s centennial year, Capitol/Universal Music have created Ultimate Sinatra a new career-spanning collection that brings together recordings made for Columbia, Capitol and Reprise for the first time and offers previously unreleased Sinatra recordings across all formats, the most expansive of which is a four-CD deluxe set.
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Timeline: Trevor Horn's Top 20

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Trevor and SDE Editor Paul Sinclair

Trevor Horn (and band) will play a special gig on Thursday night this week at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire. We are promised an evening full of hit singles in which Trevor has had a hand, and amongst these will almost certainly be tracks from Buggles, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Yes, Grace Jones, t.A.t.U and Seal (in fact Seal is there as a guest vocalist).

Anyway, here at SDE we thought it would be a good time to look back through some of Trevor’s work and achievements and our resident ZTT enthusiast Rob Puricelli (who worryingly admits to having an ‘unhealthy obsession’ with Mr Horn) has put together this splendid interactive Trevor Timeline™ to highlight the some of the Producer’s best sonic gems.

So click below to move inside the wonderful world of Trevor Horn’s career in music. Enjoy!
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Jellyfish / Bellybutton and Spilt Milk deluxe editions reviewed

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US label Omnivore have done a very good job in the last few years of ‘working’ the catalogue of short-lived US rock/pop band Jellyfish.

From the slim pickings of just two studio albums (1990’s Bellybutton and Spilt Milk from 1993) and a brief four year existence, Ominvore have compiled various ‘new’ releases including, in 2012, the Live at Bogarts set and more recently Radio Jellyfish (a collection of largely unreleased radio sessions). A special mention must go to the most satisfying Omnivore set for Jellyfish aficionados, the Stack-A-Tracks two-CD collection which offered up instrumental versions of both albums, which (incredibly) were mixed and created at the time, put onto quarter-inch tape and duly forgotten about!
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Out This Week / 2 March 2015

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The Pretty Things / Bouquets from a Cloudy Sky (box)

Impressive and comprehensive Pretty Things 50th anniversary box with 13 CDs, two DVDs, a ten-inch vinyl record and a 100-page hardcover book. Read more

Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds / Chasing Yesterday

Chasing Yesterday is the second studio album for a post-Oasis Noel Gallagher. This deluxe edition comes with four bonus tracks including a remix of last year’s In the Heat of the Moment single and its B-side Do The Damage. It’s 50% cheaper in the USA!

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Luke Haines releases Raving, a unique album of ‘Outsider Music’

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lhLuke Haines, the former Auteur and Black Box Recorder-er, has put together a new 12-track album of ‘Outsider Music’ called Raving that truly redefines the term ‘limited edition’ when it comes to physical music releases.
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Bad Company and Straight Shooter: 2CD and 2LP deluxe editions

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Bad Company have recently found the original multi-track tapes from their first two albums and in the process discovered previously unreleased tracks, takes, and mixes from those sessions which form the bonus material on brand new deluxe editions.
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