David Bowie‘s reissued Sound + Vision box is out this week. As expected the four CDs reside in a ‘fatbox’ double CD case which comes with an outer card slipcase.
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Pink Floyd / The Endless River deluxe box sets and gatefold vinyl
The Endless River is a new Pink Floyd album created from music recorded in 1993 during The Division Bell sessions.
At the time, David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason had played freely together (at Britannia Row and Astoria studios) for the first time in over 20 years and the unreleased sessions from that time have been revisited, with the band spending the last year recording and upgrading the music to create The Endless River.
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Rory Gallagher / Irish Tour '74 anniversary deluxe box
Sony always seem to hit the spot when it comes to quality packaging for a reasonable price and this Rory Gallagher Irish Tour ’74 40th anniversary deluxe box appears to be no exception.
The expansive 7CD+DVD set is available for between £30-35 and comes packaged in a eight-panel ten-inch wallet and includes a booklet with extensive liner notes. Everything slots in to an outer slipcase
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Jimi Hendrix / The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge soundtrack
Terry Ott examines two recent Hendrix reissues.
GOT MORE ICONIC IMMORTAL HENDRIX, IF YOU WANT IT.
“And if I don’t see you no more more in this world, I’ll meet you on the next one – but don’t be late. Don’t be late.” Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix
Did Johnny Allen Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix have a premonition when he wrote the above lyric? We’ll never know.
But what we do know is that we can ‘see’ or rather hear Jimi again in this world from around the productive period when he made his other-worldly remarks, even one of these two early posthumous Hendrix albums did take 43 years to make it to officially on to CD (Rainbow Bridge) with the other (The Cry Of Love) being long unavailable. It may even be worth the wait, sound wise, seeing as they are newly remastered from the original two track basic stereo master tapes from Electric Ladyland Studios – but more on that later.
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David Bowie / New single details
David Bowie‘s new single, Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime), is receiving the retro packaging treatment ahead of its 17 November release.
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Out This Week / 22 September 2014
George Harrison / The Apple Years 1968-1975 (box set)
A new George Harrison box features six remastered albums (also available separately) and an exclusive DVD. An great looking book is also included with notes from Kevin Howlett. 
David Bowie / Sound + Vision 4CD box
The 2003 ‘reboot’ of David Bowie‘s original 1989 Sound + Vision box added an extra disc to take fans through the ’80s and into the early nineties, and unlike the forthcoming Nothing Has Changed it features a few well chosen Tin Machine tracks (a good thing – really). Eleven years ago the high cost meant upgrading wasn’t a priority, but this new repackage at a crazily cheap price means this is now highly recommended.
The Kinks / Anthology UK Pre-order
The Kinks Anthology 1964-1971 is finally available for pre-order on Amazon UK having been available in the US and Germany for over a week.
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DEAL / Captain Beefheart: vinyl box
With the Sun Zoom Spark Captain Beefheart 4CD set only £20 at the time of writing, it’s only fair that vinyl aficionados had a chance top pick up the 4LP set at a reduced price too and happily Amazon have obliged with a significant price-drop.
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Lisa Stansfield: full track listings
In November Edsel will reissue all of Lisa Stansfield‘s Arista-era albums as deluxe 2CD+DVD sets. In addition, a 33-track three-CD remix anthology will also be released.
Fans can buy all 18-discs together in an exclusive box set The Collection 1989-2003 which is also available from Lisa’s store with an exclusive bonus 12″. So lots of goodies to enjoy. See below for a first look at all the track listings for each album (and the remix set).
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King of Pop meets Queen: Freddie & Michael duet on “Queen Forever”
Three previously unreleased Queen tracks featuring late singer Freddie Mercury will feature on a new Queen album, Queen Forever, which will be released in November on Virgin Records.
The tracks include the much talked about Queen and Michael Jackson number, There Must Be More to Life Than This, a previously unfinished Mercury-Queen track Let Me In Your Heart Again (from The Works sessions), and a ballad version of Mercury’s first solo hit, Love Kills.
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New 12"/80s remix compilations
Universal Music’s TV advertised 12″/80s remix collections have been ongoing for nearly ten years now, and this autumn sees a pair of new compilations.
Since the original set that kicked off this series (in 2005) we’ve had triple CD releases themed around ‘Classics’, ‘Pop’ (with a cheeky Now That’s What I Call Music inspired cover), ‘Alternative’, ‘Love’ and ‘Club Classics’. In October this year we can add ‘Chilled’ and ‘New Wave’ to this growing list.
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FIRST PICTURES / Status Quo Live!
Released last week was this Status Quo Live! box set which pulls together the original 1977 Live! album, Tokyo Quo, a Japan-only release from the same year, and Australia ’74 which provides 13 previously unreleased live performances recorded in Sydney.
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Yes / Relayer CD+Blu-ray reissue
Relayer, the 1974 studio album from British prog rock band Yes, will be reissued in November as a massively expanded CD+Blu-ray set featuring a wealth of bonus material and a 5.1 remix from Steven Wilson.
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DEAL / Captain Beefheart: Sun Zoom Spark 4CD set
The forthcoming Captain Beefheart Sun Zoom Spark 1970-1972 four-CD set has just dropped in price by around a third in the UK.
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Paul McCartney / New 2CD+DVD collector’s edition due next month
Paul McCartney has confirmed that his New album will be reissued as a special three disc collector’s set in October, exactly 12 months on from its original release date.
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Bob Dylan / Before The Flood SACD
While we wait for the ‘Complete’ Bob Dylan and The Band Basement Tapes sessions to be released in November, audiophile specialists Mobile Fidelity will follow up their summer vinyl issue of the same album by preparing a double SACD package of Before The Flood, the 1974 live set from Dylan and The Band.
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Review: Bon Jovi / New Jersey SDE
Graeme Piper reviews the Bon Jovi’s New Jersey reissue.
NO ROCK FAN OF A CERTAIN AGE can have failed to notice the steel horse Bon Jovi rode in on back in 1986 and the über-success of their slick and glossy third album, Slippery When Wet. Giving them the commercial success they craved, they rode high on the crest of the ‘don’t bore us, get to the chorus’ wave, setting the bar exceptionally high for other bands to follow.
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Ian Anderson / “Homo Erraticus” CD+DVD tour editon
Jethro Tull‘s Ian Anderson released Homo Erraticus earlier this year in a number of formats including a 2CD+2DVD deluxe book edition
In case you want to buy it all over again, a new CD+DVD ‘Tour Edition’ is now being issued to coincide with Anderson being on the road in North America. The DVD element features the videos to each album track (as seen at the shows) set to hi-res stereo audio (no 5.1 though).
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DEAL / The Beatles: Mono vinyl box
If your salivating over the highly desirable The Beatles in Mono vinyl box but are finding it hard to justify the expenditure, there is good news because Amazon UK have just had a MASSIVE price drop!
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Beatles remastering team answer your vinyl mono box questions
The Beatles in Mono vinyl box set is finally out and has been getting stunning reviews across the music press.
Abbey Road’s Sean Magee – now a veteran when it comes to Beatles projects – was the mastering engineer for this enterprise and he was joined by industry legend Steve Berkowitz, a man who appears to have done *everything* in the music business – a veritable master-of-all-trades with a lifetime of experience in roles such as producer, music marketeer and A&R man, studio owner and artist manager. Steve worked alongside Sean as mastering supervisor for The Beatles In Mono box set.
A few weeks back SuperDeluxeEdition readers submitted their Mono Box questions in the hope that either Sean and/or Steve would provide an answer. We removed duplicates and collated the best questions and we are delighted to bring you all the answers direct from the remastering team.
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