Holding the Music in Your Hands ®
Fans in America who were dismayed that the newly announced Pretenders box set was not shipping to the US from the official store, will be pleased to hear that they can now place an order for the 22-disc set because it is now available on Amazon UK.
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Day seven of our SDE Christmas Giveaway and today we are giving away the Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Complete Epic Recordings box set. This box contains 12 CDs and features all the albums, the first commercial release for the previously promo-only El Mocambo live set and two discs of rarities.
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7in-83-88 is an R.E.M. seven-inch vinyl box that collects the I.R.S. single releases over 11 vinyl records. It’s a lovely set, but has been over £80 for ages which I know has put many people off buying. Today it has finally had a price reduction on Amazon UK that makes it a more attractive proposition.
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Day six of our SDE Christmas Giveaway and today we are giving away the Rory Gallagher Irish Tour ’74.. box set. This superb 8-disc (7CD+DVD) package was issued earlier in the year and features a wealth of live tracks and previously unreleased material from the icon 1974 tour.
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The eight Pretenders albums released by Warner Bros. in the twenty years between 1979 and 1999 are to be reissued by Edsel Records as deluxe 2CD+DVD digipaks in February next year.
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Day five of our SDE Christmas Giveaway andwe have SIX fantastic not-available-in-the-shops Donna Summer prize bundles to give away. Half-a-dozen winners will be sent all of the following items: Continue reading “Day 5: SDE Christmas Giveaway / Win a Donna Summer prize bundle”
Next month sees the releases of A Light in the Black 1975-1984, a six-disc Rainbow extravaganza that covers the entire Polydor career of the Ritchie Blackmore led British rock band.
This set will feature rare and unheard tracks as well as fan favourites and a DVD features the band in concert at Monsters of Rock in 1980.
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Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark‘s 1984 album Junk Culture gets a belated 30th anniversary reissue next February when it’s released as a two-CD deluxe edition.
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Day four of our SDE Christmas Giveaway. Thanks to our friends at Real World, today we have a fantastic Peter Gabriel deluxe bundle up for grabs. One winner will receive the following items: Continue reading “Day 4: SDE Christmas Giveaway / Win a Peter Gabriel deluxe bundle”
After a busy 2014 with some superb projects with ZTT and Alphaville, Blank & Jones return in the New Year with volume nine of their long running, and now highly regarded, so80s (SoEighties) series. If you are unfamiliar with them, these collect rare, overlooked and often unreleased-on-CD twelve-inch remixes from the 1980s, where possible sourced from the analogue master tapes.
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Bob Dylan will release Shadows in the Night, his 36th studio album, in February 2015.
The ten-track album of standards benefits from a fresh approach, with Dylan and band recording all the tracks as a basic five piece band, live with no overdubs.
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Day three of our SDE Christmas Giveaway and today we are giving away a set close to my heart since I was involved in putting this together. Four CDs and two DVDs make up this comprehensive celebration of Tears For Fears’ Songs From The Big Chair with remixes, B-sides, unreleased material, videos, documentary, 5.1 mix and more!
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We didn’t really like this Rolling Stones 5CD+7″ set much when it was issued back in November 2012, but that was as much to do with the £100 pricing as anything else. At around £25 or $39 it’s easier to look upon it in a kinder light.
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Perfect stocking filler for the ’80s pop fan. All Belinda Carlisle‘s hits on CD and a DVD with all the videos.
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This is the large format Paul Simon super deluxe which was around £80 when it came out a couple of years ago. You get two CDs and two DVDs including the brilliant Under African Skies documentary and this also comes with an 80-page book and lyric pad etc.
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Very good price reduction on Amazon UK for this Daft Punk vinyl box which is due to be released just before Christmas.
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SURPRISE! Day two of our SDE Christmas Giveaway and here’s a great prize we didn’t mention… Our good friends Blank & Jones recently ran into a certain Holly Johnson and got him to signed a few copies of their fabulous s080s presents ZTT compilation. They thought of SDE and kindly sent some over.
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The Japanese Roxy Music SHM-SACD reissues are being worked on as we speak and all the eight albums – Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure, Stranded, Country Life,Siren, Manifesto, Flesh And Blood, and Avalon – will feature a brand new 2014 DSD remaster, using the UK original analog master (see tape box images of Avalon, courtesy of Universal Music Japan)
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