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Neil Young‘s A Letter Home got ‘mixed’ reviews when it was released in May last year which made it very hard to justify spending over £100 on this 11-disc box set. Now you only have to spend a fraction of that thanks to this great deal on Amazon UK.
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Toto will issue their first studio album for over nine years in March, with the release of Toto XIV.
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All of John Lennon‘s solo studio albums were released in Japan just before Christmas on the hi-res SHM-SACD format (as well as ‘red book’ compatible SHM-CD and ‘platinum’ SHM-CD editions).
SDE brings you an extensive photo gallery of all the SACDs in their mini-LP CD / ‘paper sleeve’ glory. The first thing to point out is that these do not come in an outer games console type box like The Police‘s Zenyatta Mondatta release we looked at here. This means that in terms of packaging, all three editions of these new Lennon are effectively the same. But oh, what packaging!
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This King Crimson 2014 live set is available in hi-res on the CD+DVD-Audio version. For vinyl lovers there is a 200g gatefold record to enjoy. 
Macca‘s first twelve-inch single in 21 years offers five versions of the song written for the video game Destiny.
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Unbelievable DEAL for Universal Music’s ReDISCovered vinyl box set of RUSH‘s debut album on Amazon UK at the moment.
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Blank & Jones have today confirmed the track listing to volume 9 of their so80s remix series.
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Led Zeppelin‘s sixth studio album, 1975’s Physical Graffiti will be reissued next month exactly 40 years after the original release. It will be available in the now familiar deluxe vinyl and deluxe CD configurations as well as a super deluxe edition box set.
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Madonna‘s thirteenth studio album Rebel Heart will be released in March and is now available to pre-order.
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This eleven-CD John Lennon Signature box set is over £30 cheaper than the UK price if you shop at Amazon France.
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Parlophone Label Group are releasing a new Dr. Feelgood compilation next month that compiles material from the classic Mk I line-up of the Canvey Island band.
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The details around Universal’s UB40 reissues have finally emerged with both 1981’s Present Arms and Labour of Love from 1983 being released as three-CD deluxe editions.
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Texas are due to release their celebratory Texas 25 album next month and the photo above gives you an idea of what the box set will look like.
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Columbia/Legacy Recordings will reissue an expanded 30th anniversary edition of Judas Priest‘s 1984 album Defenders of the Faith in March.
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US one-disc Adam Ant best of originally issued a few years back. This 14-track selection contains reasonably standard hits fair although does include the rare ‘Splashdown’ 12-inch mix of 1984’s Apollo 9.
Sony-issued single disc Jean-Michel Jarre reissues with remastered audio and updated artwork. Rendez-Vous, Chronology and Revolutions also reissued.
The Polydor albums of Canadian rocker Pat Travers are collected in a new four-disc box set due for release next month.
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The classic Velvet Underground & Nico album from 1967 received a six-disc super deluxe edition back in 2012 that featured a wealth of unreleased material including band rehearsals and a Nov ’66 live concert. This deluxe package which comes as an 88-page hardcover book is available now at a superb price via Amazon UK.
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Ring Ring / Deluxe Edition CD+DVD
Amazingly ABBA’s first album (originally issued under the Björn, Benny & Agnetha Frida moniker) wasn’t issued in the UK until 1992. This 40th anniversary edition issued in autumn 2013 includes quite a few interesting early versions of songs from embryonic versions of the band including the 1970 recording There’s A Little Man, featuring Agnetha on backing vocals (her first contribution to a recording written and produced by Björn and Benny) and Man vill ju leva lite dessemellan, a 1972 hit single for Frida featuring backing vocals by her fellow ABBA members. The DVD is perhaps a little thin and comes with the now obligatory (and boring) ‘International Sleeve Gallery’ but still worth picking up for less than £7.
Waterloo / Deluxe Edition CD+DVD
Released earlier this year to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band winning the Eurovision Song Contest, the CD element of this Waterloo deluxe has lots of familiar foreign language versions as bonus tracks, but unlike Ring Ring boasts a really good DVD packed full of clips and interviews including the iconic Eurovision performance. Again this is a no-brainer for under £7.
January 2015 sees the release of Live At The Orpheum, a new King Crimson live album that comprises performances from the band’s 2014 US tour.
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Cleopatra Records are reissuing a limited edition version of Chrome Box, a vinyl set featuring the work of California art rockers Chrome.
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