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Amazon US are offering Paul McCartney‘s superb RAM deluxe box today as part of their Black Friday deals.
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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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Electrified is a two-CD+DVD anthology featuring the work of Yello’s Boris Blank.
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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.
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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The Primitives‘ third studio album Galore will be reissued early next year by Cherry Red as a two-CD deluxe edition.
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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. 
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. 
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 MTV.
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Tears For Fears’ acclaimed Songs From The Big Chair 6-disc box set has dropped in price by almost £10 on Amazon UK.
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Yorkshire guitarist and songwriter Bill Nelson‘s 2002 box set Noise Candy will reissued by Esoteric imprint Cocteau Discs next month.
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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 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…
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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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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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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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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Public Enemy‘s second and third albums will be reissued as a deluxe editions early next month as part of the Def Jam 30th anniversary celebrations.
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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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Rockstar Games in collaboration with Mass Appeal are releasing two deluxe edition soundtrack box sets for their groundbreaking and award winning game Grand Theft Auto V.
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This week sees the release of Aznavour a massive limited edition 60CD box set celebrating the work and career of French singer/songwriter/actor Charles Azavour.
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Deep Purple have announced that their 1976 live album Made in Europe is being remixed and will be released as a deluxe box set in “early 2015”.
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