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Rick Wakeman / Journey to the Centre of the Earth reissue

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Rick Wakeman’s Journey To The Centre Of The Earth is being reissued across a number of formats to celebrate its 40th anniversary.

The keyboard virtuoso had been attempting to revive this best selling work – which won him an Ivor Novello Award back in the day – for a long time, but with the original conductor’s score apparently lost, that looked like an impossibility. However, back in 2008 the original score was recovered (and repaired), and with the help of the Jules Verne Symphony Orchestra and Choir and British actor Peter Egan, Wakeman recorded a new version of Journey To The Centre Of The Earth at Abbey Road Studios.
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The Who / Quadrophenia Live in London super deluxe available in UK

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After a two-week delay Quadrophenia Live in London, the new super deluxe edition box set from The Who, is now available to buy in the UK.

The limited five-disc collectors’ edition includes a blu-ray and DVD of the 2013 concert film (both in 5.1 Surround Sound audio) ; a two-CD soundtrack of the show; and a 5.1 surround sound mix of the entire 1973 Quadrophenia studio album on a blu-ray audio disc.
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Suede / The CD Albums Box Set

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Edsel Records will issue a Suede CD Albums Box Set next month.

The eight-CD collection will gather all of the band’s six studio albums (Suede, Dog Man Star, Coming Up, Head Music, A New Morning, Bloodsports) as well as the classic B-side compilation Sci-Fi Lullabies (across two discs).
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The Auteurs / Cowboy, Murder Park and Bootboys issued as 2CD deluxe

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Having put out deluxe editions of The Auteurs‘ debut and the Baader Meinhof album earlier this year, 3 Loop Music will reissue the remaining Auteurs albums in June.

Now I’m A Cowboy (1994), After Murder Park (1996) and How I Learned To Love The Bootboys (1999) will all come with bonus discs featuring previously unreleased tracks, B-sides, radio sessions and live material.
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#RSD14: Pick up Record Store Day vinyl online at reasonable prices

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Record Store Day is a great idea we think, but let’s be honest there are many of us who simply cannot get to a record shop on the day itself for any number of reasons, whether they be to do with health issues, geographical location, or family/work commitments.

If you were frustrated not to be able to go along in person on the day, then don’t feel that you have to pay extortionate amounts on eBay to get hold of the item you were after. There is a surprising amount of stock available via Amazon at fairly reasonable prices. Check out our list below of some of the most popular items that are still available to purchase now. With the odd exception (mainly seven-inch box sets) everything is between £10 and £20. Of course, prices may change or items may go out of stock so you may need to move quickly if you have your eye of one of these!

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Stranglers Peaches (7″ coloured vinyl)

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Art of Noise / Live at the End of a Century (12″ pic disc)

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Allman Brothers Band Selections from Play All Night (2 x 180g Vinyl)

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Jethro Tull / A Passion Play: An Extended Performance deluxe set

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Jethro Tull’s 1973 album A Passion Play will be reissued as a four-disc anniversary deluxe set in June.

The 1973 follow-up to Thick As A Brick has been given a new stereo mix by Steven Wilson, as well as being mixed for 5.1 surround sound. Not only that, the earlier abandoned sessions that the band recorded in  Chateau d’Herouville in France, get the same treatment – new stereo mixes and 5.1 surround mixes!
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Out This Week / 28 April 2014

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Grace Jones / "Nightclubbing" 2CD deluxe edition

Grace Jones / Nightclubbing reissue

The much anticipated reissue of Grace Jones‘ 1981 album is out today on two-CD, double LP and blu-ray audio. Read more

Damon Albarn / Everyday Robots

Damon Albarn  / Everyday Robots 

New album from the ex-Blur frontman available as CD+DVD deluxe or heavyweight double vinyl. Read more

RUSH / ReDISCovered vinyl box

Rush ReDISCovered vinyl box set

Get the scales out because this edition of the Rush 1974 debut is on 200g vinyl and comes in a deluxe box with publicity photos, a Rush ‘Family Tree’ poster and download card. Word on the street is that these are basically sold out, so get it while you can. Read more
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Grace Jones / Nightclubbing reissue physical formats on show

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Grace Jones / Nightclubbing reissues (Click to enlarge)

Out tomorrow is Universal Music’s reissue of Grace Jones‘ 1981 album Nightclubbing.

As pictured, the four physical formats include single CD remaster, two-CD deluxe, a two-LP ‘Back To Black’ vinyl edition and Continue reading “Grace Jones / Nightclubbing reissue physical formats on show”

The Blow Monkeys / “She Was Only A Grocer’s Daughter” deluxe edition

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Cherry Red’s two-CD deluxe edition of The Blow Monkeys’ 1987 album She Was Only A Grocer’s Daughter is now available for pre-order.

The album is best known for the hit It Doesn’t Have To Be This Way, although Out With Her and (Celebrate) The Day After You are also well remembered, despite their modest chart placings at the time.
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Peter Gabriel: Previously unheard “Sledgehammer” remix on CD

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Don’t know whether to laugh or cry over this one….

Remember I told you about the three-CD Extended 80s compilation earlier this week? I think we were all quite excited that John ‘Tokes’ Potoker’s ‘Dance Mix’ of Peter Gabriel‘s Sledgehammer was finally getting a mainstream CD release. Well, SDE reader Daneil Hunt got in touch via Facebook to point out that if you take a listen to the iTunes preview it is clear that this mix is NOT the actual Dance Mix from the original remix twelve-inch (PGS113) but it appears to be a previously unreleased remix that no one has ever heard!!
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WIN one of five #RSD releases / Day 5: The Pink Panther vinyl LP

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Day five, the final day of our Record Store Day competition.

Today we are giving away a copy of the 50th Anniversary edition of Henry Mancini’s glorious The Pink Panther soundtrack, pressed onto – you guessed it – PINK vinyl! Read on, to find out how to enter the competition…
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The Doors / Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine / two-CD edition

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Hot on the heels of the double orange vinyl Record Store Day limited edition comes the news that Rhino will give a full retail release to a two-CD version of The Doors classic 1972 compilation Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine.
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DEAL ALERT / John Martyn: The Island Years 18-disc box

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This John Martyn Island Years box set contains 17 CDs featuring the 12 key studio albums (recorded for Island between 1967 and 1987) with previously unreleased mixes, outtakes, unheard songs and two complete, previously unreleased live solo concerts from 1972 and 1977 and the complete demos for The Apprentice, the last album Martyn delivered to Island. Add to that a DVD with loads of TV performances, a large hardback book and you have an amazing set.
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WIN one of five #RSD releases / Day 4: Stranglers seven-inch single

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Day four of our Record Store Day competition.

Today: The Stranglers’s Peaches seven-inch single, pressed on green vinyl and backed with original B-side Go Buddy Go. Read on, to find out how to enter the competition…
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#RSD14 / Art of Noise: Live at the End of a Century picture disc

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Never got around to showing this video last week before Record Store Day… so belatedly, here is what the Art Of Noise Live at the End of a Century 12-inch picture disc looks like. Featured on the record are three live tracks from the 1999 Coachella Festival (namely Out of this World, Born On A Sunday and Moments in Love). For the purposes of this video we have used a small segment of the Radio One Moments in Love live session (as featured on the Who’s Afraid deluxe from 2011).

Perhaps surprisingly, you can buy this picture disc relatively cheaply from Amazon.

Blondie / I Want to Drag You Around

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Taken from the new album Ghosts Of Download, I Want To Drag You Around is the rather beguiling new single from Blondie.

Ghosts Of Download is of course featured as part of the new Blondie 4(0) Ever three-disc set that we’ve been keeping you up-to-date with. It will be released on 19 May 2014.

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