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Out next month is this three-CD Grateful Dead set from 29 March 1990.
Wake Up To Find Out is the official debut of this Nassau Coliseum show notable because saxophonist Branford Marsalis sat in with the group with stunning results.
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Sony will issue Pure… 80s remixes in September, a does-what-it-says-on-the-tin four-CD gathering of nostalgic 12-inch versions from that classic era of pop.
Don’t expect fancy packaging from this budget collection, but you do get 47 extended remixes for less than £7 – truly outstanding value.
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Congratulations to Tom Blackburne-Maze and “Mike” (surname unknown!) who were randomly selected as the winners of a pair of tickets to Tom Bailey‘s Rewind warm-up gig in Reading this coming Thursday!
We have emailed Tom and Mike to inform them and make arrangements for Thursday. Thanks to everyone who entered and for Tom’s management for providing the tickets.
Two double LPs plus two CDs along with a book and other memorabilia in this lavish Rick Wakeman box. 
Five-CD John Foxx box set that features bonus tracks for each album and a bonus disc with further rarities.
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Released this week, this 10-disc 169 track Nils Lofgren Face The Music anthology was put together by the man himself and each box is signed and numbered.
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Eighties US pop band Cock Robin‘s first two albums are being reissued as expanded deluxe editions by Cherry Red.
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In preparation for his appearance at Rewind on Sunday 17th August and his North American Retro Futura tour (which follows soon after), the Thompson Twins‘ Tom Bailey will be playing an exclusive warm-up show in Reading’s SUB89 venue next Thursday, 14 August.
This is already sold out but SuperDeluxeEdition has TWO PAIRS of tickets to give away to some lucky readers.
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Demon Music’s deluxe editions of the output of British indie rockers The Wedding Present have been long in the planning and are finally due for release in October 2014.
Fans will surely agree it’s been worth the wait since each of the eight albums reissued (including compilations Tommy and Hit Parade and the 6-track EP Mini) will be a offered as very generous 3CD+DVD editions. Each set will include a host of additional material including B-sides, demos, radio sessions and live tracks. The DVDs each have promo videos, TV appearances and more. These are presented in Demon’s favoured casebound book packaging.
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Suzanne Vega’s new Close-Up Series “box set” is out next week and we’ve had an early look (and listen!).
For the uninitiated, since 2008 Vega has been re-recording her back catalogue and creating volumes of ‘themed’ collections. Artistically speaking, this has allowed her to revisit and rework her material (stripping the ‘eighties’ production out of many songs) as well as having the unspoken financial attraction of meaning she owns the master recordings for all these songs.
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Edsel Records will issue an Ian Dury box set this autumn.
The Studio Albums Collection will feature all eight of the singer’s long-players, that is: New Boots and Panties!! (1977), Do It Yourself (1979), Laughter (1980), Lord Upminster (1981), 4,000 Weeks’ Holiday (1984), Apples (1989), The Bus Driver’s Prayer & Other Stories (1992), and Mr. Love Pants (1998).
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Sony/Legacy always do a sterling job with their repackaged ‘booksets’ and this newly reformatted edition of the 2011 Elvis set Young Man with the Big Beat looks to be no exception.
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It appears that The Who‘s 50th anniversary release ambitions lie beyond a simple two-CD Who Hits 50 compilation.
The band are reaching out to fans and collectors to help locate rare and lost recordings from the last five decades. Specifically, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are looking for rare radio and TV performances, home movies from gigs, extraordinary bootleg material, demos, unusual photos and memorabilia.
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Universal Music will issue single disc expanded versions of the 10cc albums Ten Out Of 10 (1981) and Windows in the Jungle (1983) later this month.
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David Bowie’s classic Sound + Vision box is being re-released in September.
The set was originally compiled by Rykodisc in 1989 as a launchpad for their Sound + Vision reissue campaign. That version contained three CDs of material spanning 1969-1980 as well as a now defunct CD-Video that had the promo to Ashes To Ashes and some exclusive live audio.
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Here’s the artwork for Edsel’s forthcoming Belinda Carlisle Complete Studio Album box set.
This will contain all seven albums, namely Belinda, Heaven On Earth, Runaway Horses, Live Your Life Be Free, Real, A Woman And A Man, and Voila.
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Massive 8CD+DVD super deluxe celebration of Elvis Presley‘s 1970 album and documentary That’s The Way It Is.
Two-CD sets released today for Big Country‘s The Seer, Peace In Our Time and No Place Like Home.
SuperDeluxeEdition is delighted to have the opportunity to connect Fab Four fans directly with the engineers responsible for creating the forthcoming The Beatles in Mono vinyl box set.
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Diana Ross‘s albums recorded during the RCA/EMI era (1981-88) have been expanded for reissue later this year.
Soul, funk and disco reissue specialists Funky Town Grooves have remastered (from the original tapes) all six albums from the period in question, and the releases will either take the form of expanded single disc editions (Why Do Falls Fall In Love, Silk Electric, Ross) or two-CD deluxe editions (Swept Away, Eaten Alive, Red Hot Rhythm and Blues).
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Very nice price on this Complete Motown Singles Collection which was the penultimate release in the ambitious series.
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Rhino will release a new Foreigner box set this October.
The Complete Atlantic Studio Albums 1977-1991 will be a clamshell box that will contain the first seven studio albums along with all the bonus material from the 2002 deluxe editions – 80 tracks in total.
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