Cherry Pop will release dance/pop group Expose‘s 1987 debut album Exposure as a two-CD deluxe edition in January 2015.
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Day 1: SDE Christmas Giveaway: WIN the R.E.M. REMTV box set
Day 1 of the SDE Christmas Giveaway and the prize on offer is the truly wonderful REMTV six-DVD box set that charts the career of R.E.M. via TV appearances on MTV.
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I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me) remixes finally emerge on CD
The big news for pop fans this week is that tucked away on the second disc of Aretha Franklin’s Aretha reissue are official period remixes of her 1986 duet with George Michael – the transatlantic number one I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me).
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Deal alert / Paul Simon: Complete Albums Collection box set
If you missed out on the great deal before, Paul Simon‘s 15CD box Complete Albums Collection has gone back down again on Amazon UK to a very good price.
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SDE Christmas Giveaway 2014
With just over a week until the big day, we though it’s time for some festive fun. We have a large stocking full of prizes to kick off the SDE Christmas Giveaway 2014!
Starting TODAY we will be giving away something special every day. Prizes include SIGNED Suede CDs, a Peter Gabriel deluxe bundle, a Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair box set, an REMTV DVD set, a Rory Gallagher box, the Manic Street Preachers Holy Bible 20 box, Stevie Ray Vaughan collection, Donna Summer promos, a set of Lisa Stansfield reissues, rare white label pressings and more!
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Out This Week / 15 December 2014
Frank Sinatra / London (box set)
Four disc Frank Sinatra box highlights live performances at famous venues in London over four decades and includes a DVD with a previously unreleased film of a 1962 concert at the Royal Festival Hall. 
George Harrison / The Dark Horse Years 1976-1992
A “limited manufacturing re-run” of the original 2004 George Harrison box set, this eight-disc collection picks up where the Apple Years box left off, compiling the studio albums from 1976 to 1987, including the hit album Cloud Nine. Live in Japan from 1992 is also here along with a DVD. This has just dropped in price significantly on Amazon UK so might be worth grabbing.
Deal alert / Simon & Garfunkel The Complete Albums Collection
The recently released and newly remastered 12CD Simon & Garfunkel Complete Albums Collection has been reduced by 25% on Amazon UK.
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Visage / Fade to Grey Orchestral
We do like a maxi-single here at SDE, and now that they are few and far between it’s always good to highlight a release that might be of interest. The Steve Strange fronted Visage are following up 2013’s comeback Hearts and Knives with a new album Orchestral, due to be released next week. A eight-track CD single of their most celebrated song Fade To Grey has recently been released to give you a feel for the new album.
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Frankie Round Table: “Inside the Pleasuredome” team talk to SDE
It’s November 2014 and SDE has a lunch date with the team that put together the rather special Inside The Pleasuredome Frankie Goes To Hollywood box set.
At the table is Steve Bunyan Marketing Director from Union Square Music whose imprint Salvo have put out many Frankie and ZTT reissues over the last four years; Ian Peel Curator and project manager of said releases; Philip Marshall Designer who has been responsible for the design and re-presentation of the various reissues and Kevin Foakes Designer, DJ and custodian of the artofztt.com website. The efforts of these four men together led to the creation of the 30th anniversary Inside The Pleasuredome box set which was sold and marketed via PledgeMusic. Part one of a fascinating insight to the whole process is below…
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Art of Noise: At The End of a Century
ZTT and Salvo Music will early next year issue At The End of a Century a new Art of Noise collection that includes a ‘producer’s cut’ of 1999’s The Seduction of Claude Debussy as well as a completely unreleased album.
Fans frustrated at Interstellar deluxe soundtrack shenanigans
Having seen Christopher Nolan’s excellent Interstellar on an IMAX screen on Monday (highly recommended) I thought I’d seek out the similarly excellent Hans Zimmer soundtrack. Of course, in this multi-edition age, that proved more complicated and frustrating than I imagined and so thought I’d share my findings…
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Beatles stereo CDs get the Japanese mini-LP CD treatment
Update 11/12/14: Universal Music Japan have issued this video (see below) to celebrate the release of the vinyl replica SHM-CDs
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ELO / Classic Albums Collection
This post is sponsored by Legacy Recordings.
The Classic Albums Collection – which is available for a limited time at a very special price on Amazon UK – is an impressive eleven CD Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) box set that contains all the group’s studio albums released between the 1971 debut The Electric Light Orchestra (known as No Answer in the US) to The Balance of Power issued in 1986. Inbetween come nine further long-players (the Xanadu soundtrack doesn’t feature) including the classic Out of the Blue from 1977.
Rick Wakeman deluxe reissues
Rick Wakeman‘s first two studio albums will be reissued by Universal Music / A&M Records in the new year as two-disc deluxe editions.
The keyboard player and composer’s 1973 debut The Six Wives Of Henry VIII and The Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (1975) will be be re-released as CD+DVD deluxe sets and there will also be new vinyl pressings.
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Deal / Jethro Tull: A Passion Play
Amazing price for this 2CD + 2DVD edition of Jethro Tull‘s 1973 follow-up to Thick As A Brick. This ‘Extended Performance’ edition features a new stereo mix and 5.1 mix of the album proper by Steven Wilson, and the earlier abandoned sessions that the group recorded in Chateau d’Herouville in France, get the same treatment.
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Imogen Heap on Sparks deluxe box
I am at Imogen Heap‘s house. She is making me a cup of tea and we are talking Dualit toasters. This homely scene is rather surreal and hardly typical of modern ‘pop stars’, but then Heap doesn’t bother trying to conform, as becomes apparent during our conversation.
A case in point is her new album Sparks. We are here to discuss the deluxe box set version which is truly amazing [Andy Carne who designed the set has just been nominated for a Grammy for his work on this project], not only in terms of audio and video content, but also in the way that Heap has engaged with and involved her fans in the project.
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Simple Minds / Sparkle in the Rain five disc super deluxe edition box
Simple Minds‘ sixth studio album Sparkle in the Rain will be reissued in March 2015 across a number of formats including a five-disc super deluxe edition box set.
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Out This Week / 8 December 2014
Manic Street Preachers / The Holy Bible 20 (five disc box)
The Manic Street Preachers‘ masterpiece celebrates its 20th birthday with this 4CD+LP set with thankfully not too much overlap with the anniversary set from 2004. Includes the first ever non-picture disc vinyl pressing.
Supertramp / Crime of the Century (various editions)
Reissue of Supertramp‘s 1973 album includes a two-CD deluxe, a Pure Audio blu-ray audio and the three-LP vinyl box set pictured above.
R.E.M./ 7in-83-88
Seven-inch R.E.M. vinyl box set that contains 11 singles all originally released between 1983 and 1988 when the band were signed to their first label, I.R.S. Records.
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Eva Cassidy / Vinyl Collection box
This Eva Cassidy five-LP set contains five albums – including Songbird – pressed onto 180g vinyl along with a bonus twelve-inch vinyl record that is exclusive to this box.
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Extreme / Pornograffitti deluxe
US rock band Extreme‘s 1990 album Pornograffitti – or Extreme II: Pornograffitti (A Funked Up Fairy Tale to give it its full title – will be reissued as a two-CD deluxe edition early next year.
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