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We reported earlier this year Bryan Adams‘ classic 1984 album Reckless was to be reissued this autumn and the details have now emerged and we can now confirm that the album will be reissued across a number of formats including the pictured four-disc super deluxe edition box set.
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The Queen Live at the Rainbow super deluxe edition box set has been incredibly expensive to buy in the UK. The price has only dipped below the £100 price point once, in early July when Amazon went down to £69 for a few days. With the set now released the price has just dropped again by around a third.
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Last Wednesday was the 50th anniversary of The Kinks‘ You Really Got Me hitting the top spot in the UK and with that comes the news that a new five-CD box set will be released in November that will feature a total of 139 tracks, 25 of which are previously unreleased, amongst them alternate takes, session excerpts and backing tracks.
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Canadian journalist Terry Ott reviews the USA blu-ray+CD combo of the recent Queen Live at the Rainbow release exclusively for SuperDeluxeEdition.
“I won’t be a rock star. I will be a legend.” Freddie Mercury
But first, a little back story: By the beginning of 1974, the rock aficionados in The Great White North had begun to hear of this band, this Queen. Yet in most corners, only the most adroit and prescient thought they were more than just another rather obscure Brit glam group among the established English giants like Zeppelin and Bowie who already stood so tall.
In fact, the happy and glorious Queen love would not really arrive in Canada until the first radio station spun Bohemian Rhapsody well into ’75 and then we were collectively longing for the colonial days, such was Queen’s immediate rock glory.
With the Hampton Coliseum Live in 1981 Rolling Stones set still seven weeks away from release, Eagle Vision have already announced the second in their new ‘From The Vault’ series: L.A. Forum Live In 1975.
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After some passionate fan feedback (some via this blog), Driven By The Music – the team behind the Donna Summer reissues – have made some changes to a couple of the releases.
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The Art of McCartney is a new celebration of the music of the ex-Beatle performed by an ‘A-list’ selection of artists, musicians and singers. These include Bob Dylan, Billy Joel, The Cure, Roger Daltrey, Brian Wilson, Alice Cooper, Dr. John, Yusuf (Cat Stevens), Barry Gibb, Jamie Cullum, KISS, Chrissie Hynde and many more.
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Universal will release a Cream vinyl box set in November that brings together all of the British rock supergroup’s studio and live LPs
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Sun Zoom Spark 1970 to 1972, a new four-CD Captain Beefheart box set will be released next month.
The collection brings together Lick My Decals Off, Baby from 1970 and The Spotlight Kid and Clear Spot from 1972. Everything has been newly remastered for the first time.
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Quite a few of you greeted the announcement yesterday of Nothing has Changed, a new David Bowie three-CD hits collection, with the cry of ‘not another one!’. And it’s true enough that The Dame has certainly had his fair share of ‘greatest hits’ sets out over the years. Below, we take a look back at 10 of them, although we’ve left plenty out – believe it or not!
The first ‘proper’ hits collection from the RCA period, assuming you don’t count Best Deluxe, a 2LP Japan-only set from 1973. Golden Years had just been a transatlantic top ten hit and not long before that Fame had hit the top spot in the US, so with Bowie at arguably his commercial peak in America in the 1970s, this was a good time to release Changesonebowie.
Bowie Fact: No place for Life On Mars.
Bonus Bowie Fact: First appearance of John, I’m Only Dancing on an album (early pressing has the rare ‘sax version’).
A budget compilation from K-Tel, which explains why there was no sign of what was then very recent UK mega-hits Ashes To Ashes, or Fashion. Instead, this stops at 1979’s Boys Keep Swinging from Lodger. The ‘sax version’ of John, I’m Only Dancing is back again.
Bowie Fact: Someone took the scissors to Life On Mars, creating a unique edit to help squeeze 16 tracks onto the LP.
Bonus Bowie Fact: Cover is nicked from the Fashion single.
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A great shot (above) of the bounty within the Celebrating Jon Lord box set. As previously reported, the organ player and co-founder of Deep Purple was remembered earlier this year at the Royal Albert Hall with a stellar cast of musicians and friends. Continue reading “Celebrating Jon Lord”
John Carder Bush is a writer, poet and photographer and also happens to be Kate Bush‘s brother. He has taken many great photos of Kate for her sleeve art over the years (the covers of the Hounds Of Love single, Running Up That Hill and Experiment IV come to mind) and back in 1986 he published a book called Cathy which is a collection of photographs by him of his sister Kate as a young girl, with accompanying text.
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Siouxsie & the Banshees’ last four studio albums will be reissued next month, all with bonus tracks.
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Parlophone Label Group will issue Nothing Has Changed, a three-CD David Bowie compilation that really is truly career-spanning, since it starts back in 1964 with Liza Jane and brings the story right up to date with James Murphy’s ‘Hello Steve Reich Mix’ of Love Is Lost from last year. Even better, Nothing Has Changed will feature a brand new song especially recorded for the collection by Tony Visconti.
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Last week we revealed that Universal Music would be releasing a four-CD ‘highlights’ set of last year’s mammoth John Martyn Island Years box set and today we can reveal the track listing.
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US singer/songwriter Martika‘s 1988 self-titled debut album will be reissued next month.
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This stunning set needs no introduction. Finally out this week after much anticipation this Beatles 14LP vinyl box collects all albums mixed into mono. 
Seemingly every format and size of wallet accommodated with Queen: Live at the Rainbow available as super deluxe, vinyl box, 2LP, 2CD, blu-ray and DVD.
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Parlophone Label Group will release a new Spandau Ballet compilation in October.
The Very Best Of Spandau Ballet: The Story will be available as a one-CD edition or a two-disc deluxe set and takes a familiar trip down memory lane, including tracks from all of their studio albums (including 2009’s Once More) and most of the singles.
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18 of composer Henry Mancini‘s most celebrated film soundtracks will be included in a new box set to be released in November.
The Classic Soundtrack Collection is a nine CD set (i.e. two titles per disc) and showcases all of Mancini’s soundtrack albums for the RCA, Epic and Columbia labels, including several of his most iconic scores including Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Pink Panther, and The Party.
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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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