Black Friday Deal / Monty Python's Total Rubbish vinyl and CD boxes

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If you’re looking for something completely different to spend your money on for Black Friday, how about this 10-disc Monty Python box set which is going live on Amazon UK very soon indeed.
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Deal alert: Paul Simon: Complete Albums Collection 15CD box set


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Paul Simon‘s Complete Albums Collection is a 15CD box set that focuses on the singer-songwriter’s solo career. It includes every studio long-player along with live albums Live Rhymin’ (1974) and Paul Simon’s Concert in the Park (1991). This box set is now available for a limited time on Amazon UK at a very special price.

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Watch Tears For Fears play an intimate concert for select fans

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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of  Songs From The Big Chair Tears For Fears convened in historic LA Studio The Village to perform some of their biggest hits for an intimate audience of 50 super-fans. Watch the performance below and enjoy the chat in between songs with Roland and Curt on relaxed form.
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Black Friday Deal / Elvis: That's The Way It Is / 10-disc box set

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Technically this is a ‘Cyber Monday’ deal since it’s on Amazon Germany, but at 2.15pm today GMT/UTC (or 3.15 pm local time in Germany) the superb Elvis That’s The Way It Is 10-disc box set will be discounted. The price on doesn’t change until the the right time so ensure you ‘refresh’ the page if necessary.

How to buy Neil Young's Official Release Series 5-8 vinyl box

Officially Neil Young‘s Official Release Series Discs 5-8 vinyl box set is a November 2014 Black Friday US Record Store day release, delayed from April’s RSD, but if you know where to look you can search out a copy online in Europe.
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Out This Week / 24 November 2014

The Velvet Underground six-disc super deluxe

The third Velvet Underground album gets the 45th Anniversary treatment with six CDs providing a comprehensive overview of the band’s first album without John Cale. Read more


Jethro Tull  / Warchild (4-disc box set)

This is a 40th anniversary ‘Theatre Edition’ of Jethro Tull‘s 1974 album. The limited edition 2CD+2DVD set includes a 5.1 remix by Steven Wilson and a wealth of additional material, much of it previously unreleased.  Read more


R.E.M. / REMTV (6-DVD box)

Incredible amount of content in this six-DVD R.E.M. box including both Unpluggeds, numerous live concerts and very good new documentary R.E.M. by MTVRead more
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EXCLUSIVE: Steve Thompson solves mystery of “A View to A Kill” remix

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A few days ago we posted about a previously unreleased remix of Duran Duran‘s A View To A Kill that has recently surfaced and since then there has been much debate over both the authenticity of the remix and who was responsible for the work involved. We are delighted to inform all you 1980’s pop fans out there that legendary producer and remixer Steve Thompson has been in touch with SDE and ‘filled in the blanks’,  putting the speculation to bed once and for all.
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Black Friday Record Store Day guide

Black Friday unofficially kicks off the Christmas shopping season next week and as well as lots of online promotions from Amazon and the like, in the USA there will be a spate of special Record Story Day releases which will be available from independent record shops.

Below we take a look at the pick of the releases…

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The Beatles / Long Tall Sally (7″ EP)

The Fab Four‘s 1964 UK EP release and the first to feature all new material. Like the recent vinyl mono box this is an all analogue mastered affair.
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Deal alert / The Who: Tommy box

The Who‘s Tommy super deluxe edition box set was released almost exactly a year ago and it is highly recommended thanks to the inclusion of 20 Pete Townshend demos, a high res 5.1 blu-ray audio and ‘live bootleg’ performance of the album from October 1969. In addition you get an 80-page hardcover book with a 20,000 word essay from Richard Barnes. This has averaged around £70 over the last 12 months but you can now pick it up for much less than that.
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WIN! a Jimmy Somerville “Dance & Desire: Rarities & Videos” 3-disc set

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We have two copies of Edsel’s brand new Jimmy Somerville compilation, Dance & Desire: Rarities and Videos to give away to SDE readers!
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A 12-inch mix of Duran Duran’s “A View To A Kill” emerges

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Duran Duran‘s 1985 Bond theme A View To A Kill was famously never remixed for its single release and as a consequence a twelve-inch vinyl edition was never commercially issued. However, a few days ago an apparently official period remix – never released – has surfaced which you can hear below.
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Deal alert / Sparks: Music For Amnesiacs deluxe box set

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Sparks’ deluxe four-CD box set Music For Amnesiacs was issued in October 2013 and for a while was exclusive to Universal’s online store. Now is available via Amazon UK at the lowest price we’re seen.
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