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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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Led Zeppelin IV double vinyl deluxe reissue contains the original remastered LP, plus an LP of companion audio, featuring previously unreleased studio outtakes. It’s a bargain if you shop at Amazon France, being £10 cheaper than the UK price at the time of writing.
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This May, Sony will release a repackaged ‘bookset’ of their 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition of Miles Davis‘ 1970 genre bending classic Bitches Brew.
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The Japanese Tangerine Dream SHM-SACD/CDs are released this week and SDE brings you an exclusive photo gallery of these exquisite packages.
It is the band’s first four albums for Virgin Records that are being reissued, namely, Phaedra (1974), Rubycon (1975), Ricochet (1975) and Stratosfear (1976).
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The Bee Gees box set 1974-1979 is due for release in exactly a month and the above image gives you a better idea of how this five-CD clamshell box set will look.
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Following the recent Pretenders CD/DVD deluxe editions, Edsel are releasing all eight albums together in The Vinyl Collection 1979-1999, a limited edition vinyl boxset and if you’re quick you could get a SIGNED print with it.
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Earlier this month, the long-awaited re-issues of Kylie Minogue’s first four PWL albums were finally reissued. The 2CD+DVD collector’s editions and the box sets (with vinyl picture discs) both featured DVDs packed with promo videos, bonus material and BBC TV footage. Unusually, PWL went to the trouble of getting the video professionally restored by professional restoration service Pup.
Kylie Minogue biographer Nigel Goodall has spoken to video director, editor and restorer Dan Hall about the challenges of the work involved in restoring Kylie…
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Bloodshot, the third studio album US rockers The J. Geils Band, will be reissued on vinyl LP next month – remastered and recreated in the spirit of the original.
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Physical Graffiti, Led Zeppelin‘s sixth studio album is reissued across familiar formats including the pictured top-of-the-range super deluxe edition box set. 
Once of David Bowie‘s very best singles is reissued on its 40th birthday as this limited edition seven-inch vinyl picture disc.
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Unless it’s really important for you to have the latest Led Zeppelin reissue box set on the day of release, it normally pays to wait a while because you are certain to save a few Pounds, Dollars or Euros. For example Physical Graffiti – which is released tomorrow – costs £117 on Amazon UK at the moment. The album before, Houses of the Holy, was a similar price back in October 2014 but can now be purchased for more than £50 less. That’s a whole lotta cash.
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Sony will issue Paul Simon The Ultimate Collection in April, a single disc compilation that will feature both Simon & Garfunkel classics and the best of solo Simon.
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Universal Music are to issue the recent Queen Forever album as a limited edition vinyl box set.
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New image of the forthcoming Farm box set which is set for release early next month.
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Big savings on the Creedence Clearwater Revival Complete Studio Albums box set 7LP vinyl box set if you purchase from Amazon Italy.
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This April Blur will release The Magic Whip, their first studio album in 12 years.
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Kylie Minogue‘s November 2014 gig at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro will be issued as a 2CD+Blu-ray deluxe set in March.
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Van Morrison will release an album of duets next month, with the refreshingly honest subtitle ‘Re-working The Catalogue’.
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Jethro Tull‘s 1975 studio album, Minstrel In The Gallery will be reissued as a four-disc deluxe edition in May.
The 40th Anniversary La Grandé Edition, as it is being called, will be a 2CD+2DVD set that will feature a new stereo and surround sound mix of the album by Steven Wilson along with seven bonus tracks, six of which are previously unreleased.
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A new two-disc Steve Howe career retrospective will be released next month.
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Gaz Coombes has confirmed that Supergrass‘ 1995 debut album I Should Coco will be reissued as a 20th anniversary deluxe edition this year.
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