Universal Music and Apple Corps will reissue four classic Beatles compilations on vinyl later this month.
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Review: KISS / Love Gun deluxe
Graeme Piper reviews the Love Gun two-CD deluxe reissue from Kiss.
US clown white make-up icons, Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame inductees and larger than life rock titans, KISS, are big business these days. Hitting their 40th Anniversary this year, playing in excess of 2,000 live shows and selling over 100m albums worldwide, they are currently ripping Las Vegas a new one in a month long residency at The Hard Rock Hotel and Casino with their trademark bombastic live show. Not too shabby by any stretch of the studded codpiece.
Continuing to celebrate in style, Universal Music have just issued a Deluxe Edition of their multi-platinum album Love Gun. Originally released in 1977 when, after three years solid touring and recording, KISS had made themselves into larger than life superheroes and become the biggest rock band in America.
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The David Rhodes Band
Guitarist David Rhodes is probably best known as for his association with Peter Gabriel which goes back to the late 1970s. Before that he was in post-punk band Random Hold and over the years he has played guitar for many well known acts including Talk Talk, Roy Orbison and Blancmange.
This year he was part of The KT Fellowship (aka Kate Bush’s live band for her Before The Dawn shows) which was swiftly followed by a tour of Germany to support his most recent album The David Rhodes Band.
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FIRST PICTURES / Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair box set
Out today is the Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair six-disc super deluxe edition box set (along with other formats).
Especially for SDE readers, here is an exclusive photo gallery to give you a feel for this set. Each disc is packaged in a gatefold card wallet and period artwork and logos are present and correct. The box comes with a 28-page replica souvenir tour programme and a 32-page booklet with new interviews with the band and a full guide to the bonus tracks.
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Out This Week / 10 November 2014
Tears For Fears / Songs From The Big Chair (reissue)
The highly anticipated six-disc super deluxe edition of Tears For Fears‘ 10-million selling Songs For The Big Chair ticks all the boxes; b-sides, remixes, live tracks, unreleased versions, radio sessions, videos, full length period documentary, TV Appearances, 5.1 surround mix, 2014 stereo mix and 8,000 words from the band themselves in the booklet. Do deluxe editions get any better? 
Pink Floyd / The Endless River (various formats)
The latest (and last?) Pink Floyd album The Endless River is predominantly an instrumental affair and a tribute to keyboard player Rick Wright who died in 2008. It’s available in many formats and is apparently the most pre-ordered album in Amazon UK’s history.
Bryan Adams / Reckless (4-disc Super Deluxe Edition)
Bryan Adams‘ album from 1984 is packed with classic singles including Summer of ’69 and Run To You. This super deluxe includes seven previously unreleased demos, a BBC In Concert live recording from the era, a DVD with videos AND a blu-ray audio with a 5.1 surround sound mix.
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The Tragically Hip / Fully Completely super deluxe edition
Canadian rockers The Tragically Hip will reissue their 1992 album Fully Completely later this month across a number of formats, including a three-disc super deluxe edition.
The original recordings have been remastered by Bob Ludwig and the reissue includes two previously unreleased tracks from the original recording session, Radio Show and So Hard Done By (original version).
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R.E.M / 7in-83-88 vinyl box set
A new R.E.M. vinyl box will be released in December that set gathers the band’s singles released between 1983 and 1988 when they were signed to their first label, I.R.S. Records.
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DEAL / Supertramp: Crime of the Century 3LP vinyl box set
Universal Music will reissue Supertramp‘s 1974 album Crime of the Century next month, and the top-of-the-range format is the 3LP vinyl box set which adds a previously unreleased concert from London’s Hammersmith Odeon in March 1975 to the remastered version of the album. This set is £56 from Amazon UK but if you’re quick you can secure from Amazon Canada for WAY less than that.
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INXS vinyl reissues delayed
The individual vinyl reissues of the Michael Hutchence era INXS albums have had their release date pushed back.
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Frankie Goes To Hollywood / Inside the Pleasuredome unboxing video
The new Frankie Goes To Hollywood Inside The Pleasuredome box has shipped to fans who ordered (or ‘pledged’) via PledgeMusic.
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Belinda Carlisle / “Access All Areas”
Early next year, Demon Music will release a CD+DVD package that shines a spotlight on an early nineties Belinda Carlisle concert that was originally recorded for broadcast on ITV.
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Natural Born Killers OST: 2LP Vinyl
The soundtrack to Oliver Stone’s controversial 1994 film Natural Born Killers will be reissued as a 180g double vinyl set in mid-December.
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DEAL: Depeche Mode / Live in Berlin
The new images of the Depeche Mode Live in Berlin box set (presented below) also coincide with a GREAT DEAL on Amazon France which is the lowest so far and about HALF as cheap as the current UK price.
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Wilco / Alpha Mike Foxtrot: Rare Tracks 1994-2014 / four disc set
Nonesuch Records are releasing two Wilco collections next month, the most interesting of which is Alpha Mike Foxtrot, a four-CD and four-LP box set of rare studio and live recordings collected from the band’s extensive audio archives. What’s Your 20 is the other release, a 2-CD ‘essential tracks’ package of previously released material
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REVIEW: Rolling Stones / From the Vault: Hampton Coliseum live '81
The Rolling Stones launched Stonesarchive.com about three years ago and in that time the site has been delivering great quality affordable downloads (MP3 and FLAC) of classic ‘Stones performances from across the decades that were previously only available via bootleg recordings. The site has also offered very expensive deluxe box sets via its store such as the Brussels Affair collections that were priced between $750 and $1500 dollars.
What has been lacking is any middle ground. In other words, some affordable physical releases of these gigs for those who aren’t satisfied with just the downloads. For those who want to hold the music in their hands, to coin a phrase.
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Holland-Dozier-Holland / 45s: Rare and Unreleased 7-inch Collection
Harmless Records are following up their Holland-Dozier-Holland: The Complete 45s Collection from earlier this year with a new set featuring the songwriting and production trio. This time Holland-Dozier-Holland: 45s: Rare and Unreleased 7-inch Collection box will be a seven-inch vinyl set full of rarities and remixes including material culled from acetates and test pressings.
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Paul McCartney gives fans another Wings rarity as free download
Paul McCartney is today giving away another Wings rarity less than a week after gifting fans a unique extended version of 1975 single Letting Go.
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Roxy Music box sets coming in 2015
Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera has revealed that the band’s first two albums will be reissued as deluxe box sets next year.
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Chess: Original Recording / remastered deluxe edition
Chess was a 1986 musical notable for being the first major project undertaken by ABBA’s Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (in collaboration with lyricist Tim Rice).
However, around 18 months before the debut of the musical in London’s West End came Chess the concept album which was highly successful, yielding two major hit singles with the UK number one I Know Him So Well (a duet featuring Elaine Page and Barbara Dickson) and One Night In Bangkok (sung by Murray Head) which topped the charts in many countries and peaked at number three in America. The album is now being reissued as a 30th anniversary expanded set.
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DEAL / Joe Satriani: Complete Studio Recordings 15-CD box
Another day, another superb deal with The Complete Studio Recordings of Joe Satriani – a 15-disc box set issued in Spring this year – now available for less than HALF the price it retailed for back in March.
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