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The Kane Gang were label mates of Prefab Sprout, signed to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne’s successful Kitchenware stable in the early 1980s. Their 1985 debut album The Bad And Lowdown World Of The Kane Gang spawned four top 75 hit singles and reached No. 21 in the UK album charts.
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Another Place And Time, Donna Summer‘s celebrated 1989 collaboration with the Stock Aitken Waterman (SAW) production team is the most generous of the forthcoming reissues with three CDs included within the casebound book packaging. The track listing for this expansive set has just been announced and as expected there is a plethora of remixes.
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We announced this 1981 Rolling Stones set at the end of last month, and this 3LP+DVD package is arguably the pick of the formats, particularly if you take into account that the blu-ray is standard definition (SD) and especially at this great price.
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Next month sees the release of a Suzi Quatro anthology which, incredibly, coincides with the anniversary of the British-based American singer/songwriter’s 50th year in the music business.
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Thompson Twins fan Cindy Rosenblum gives her opinion on the new Remixes & Rarities compilation…
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Corinne Drewery from Swing Out Sister has been in touch to tell SDE about the band’s forthcoming compilation The Essential Swing Out Sister. This is what she had to say:
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Cheapest price yet for the newly announced George Harrison 7CD+DVD Apple Years box.
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Many of you will recall the John Martyn Island Years box set from last year. The 18-disc collection was memorable as much for the scale of the undertaking as for the amazing deals/pricing errors (delete as applicable) that came up on Amazon. At one point this massive set was available for around £30!!
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Oops. Belinda Carlisle fans took to the singer’s facebook page yesterday to point out that there is an error with the new reissue of her 1996 album A Woman & A Man.
I Won’t Say (I’m In Love) – Belinda’s version of the love theme from the 1997 Disney film Hercules – is included as a bonus track on disc two, but when you get to the song it isn’t Belinda’s version at all but instead the Disney Cast version!
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Esoteric Recordings will issue a new four-disc Todd Rundgren box next month, compiling all of the surviving radio and television broadcasts in the BBC archive transmitted in the UK between 1972 and 1982.
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Apple/Universal have today officially confirmed the release of George Harrison‘s The Apple Years 1968-1975 box set.
As expected, this is a seven disc box with a bonus DVD. Wonderwall Music and Living in the Material World both have three bonus tracks, while Dark Horse has two and Extra Texture (Read All About It) comes with a sole bonus offering.
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Next month sees the release of an eight-disc Rory Gallagher live box set.
The late blues rocker has his Irish Tour ’74 double album (originally issued in 1974) expanded massively, with an enormous amount of previously unreleased material across seven CDs including dates in Belfast and Dublin.
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Before the year is out Driven By the Music will release seven classic Donna Summer albums as expanded deluxe CD editions, along with heavyweight vinyl pressings and limited box sets for both CD and vinyl.
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Early nineties dance/pop artist Cathy Dennis‘ first album Move To This will be reissued as a two CD deluxe edition later this month by Universal Music.
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Edsel Records are releasing their Ian Dury albums collection (previously announced on CD) as an 8LP vinyl box set in October.
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The long-awaited reissue of XTC‘s 1979 album Drums And Wires has been announced, and like the Nonsuch deluxe release from 2013, the two-disc sets (CD+Blu-ray and CD+DVD-A) will offer a massive amount of extra audio and visual material, including new 5.1 surround and stereo mixes.
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Vinyl box set collecting all ten Hutchence-era INXS albums on heavyweight vinyl. Comes with a download card for MP3s. 
The RSD 4xLP collection remains desirable, but the two R.E.M. Unplugged shows (1991 and 2001) are now available individually as two 2LP vinyl sets.
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This October Sony will release a box set that brings together the entirety of blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s official studio and live albums.
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Eagle Rock are issuing The Rolling Stones’ 1981 gig from Hampton in Virginia as part of a new ‘From The Vault’ series.
Almost 33 years ago The Stones were touring their Tattoo You album and this particular show (from 18th December) was the first ever music concert to be broadcast as a television pay-per-view event.
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Sony’s expanded reissue of the Elvis That’s The Way It Is album will be released as a deluxe 4LP vinyl edition next month.
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