Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
Kylie‘s four PWL studio albums are issued today by Cherry Red which each release being available across a number of editions, including the pricey super deluxe box. 
More Nick Cave vinyl re-releases this week including 1992’s Henry’s Dream and the Murder Ballads album (featuring the Kylie duet Where The Wild Roses Grow).
This superb Henry Mancini box set was released late last year and is a wonderful collection of film music with 18 soundtracks across nine CDs, including classics such as The Pink Panther (and Return Of…), Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Party and Charade.
The box set has dropped in price by over 40% on Amazon UK in the last few days and is currently incredible value – it has never been cheaper.
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The Pet Shop Boys‘ Neil Tennant yesterday confirmed that a PSB “reissues project” is in the works.
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The Value of Entertainment is a new CD+DVD reissue from ZTT / Union Square Music that requires a little bit of explanation. In part it is an (almost) first-time-on-CD reissue of the 1985 compilation IQ6 Sampled (Japan got in there first, last year) and at the same time it’s an (almost) first-time-on DVD reissue of the old VHS The Value Of Entertainment which was a visual summary of series of concerts held at London’s Ambassadors Theatre in 1985. A ZTT ‘showcase’ if you will.
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2 Tone Records/Warners Catalogue will release special editions of the three Specials / Special AKA albums released in the 1980s.
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Twenty years after the first edition was published, author Carl Magnus Palm is planning a comprehensively revised and expanded version of his ABBA Complete Recording Sessions book.
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The Lilac Time will release a new album, No Sad Songs in April.
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Edsel’s recently announced T. Rex Seven-inch Singles Box was previously only available to European fans via the official store but as of today is orderable from further afield because it’s now listed on Amazon UK.
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Tori Amos‘ first two solo albums, Little Earthquakes and Under The Pink will be reissued as two-CD deluxe editions in April.
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Sony are putting out a trio of Wham! releases in one tidy Original Album Classics package next month.
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Wow.. just how low can the price of this Nilsson box set go? The universally acclaimed 17CD RCA Albums retrospective is the cheapest price ever on Amazon UK at the time of writing.
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In April Universal Music will release Marvin Gaye‘s first seven studio albums in a new vinyl box set titled 1961-1965.
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Rhino will issue Bees Gees 1974-1979 next month, a new five-CD box set that includes four of the Bee Gee‘s studio albums from that era, along with a selection of songs from the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack, plus B-sides and outtakes.
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Universal Music are to remanufacture the bonus disc of OMD’s Junk Culture deluxe reissue (out today) after fans alerted the band and the label to a number of errors that had slipped through.
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The final stock of Domino Record’s lavish 8-disc Go Betweens box is dwindling fast. It’s already over £200 in the UK, so Amazon Canada might be the last chance to grab this with a sensible price tag.
Dylan‘s 36th studio album sees him ‘uncover’ a selection of standards with his five-piece band and a live-in-the-studio, no overdubs ethos.
The 1984 OMD album which features the hits Locomotion, Talking Loud and Clear and Tesla Girls gets the two-CD deluxe treatment. Early reports suggest numerous errors on this set, so proceed with caution.
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Grab the splendid Bruce Springsteen Complete Albums Collection VINYL box set for less than £100 thanks to today’s deal alert.
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This March, Universal Music will issue The Complete Studio Albums, an 8LP vinyl box set that brings together every one of Roxy Music‘s studio albums on 180gm vinyl.
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Like Blondie last year, Texas have re-recorded their old hits for Texas 25, a compilation album celebrating – you guessed it – a quarter of a century of the band making music.
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A new T. Rex vinyl box set will be released in March that contains 26 seven-inch singles.
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The Who are releasing a new seven-inch vinyl box set in April. The Brunswick Singles Box contains seven seven-inch singles and is the first of four limited edition box sets covering the four labels that band released music through. Reaction, Track and Polydor box sets are promised for 2015/16.
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