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Paul Young / The Crossing: SDE-exclusive signed coloured vinyl

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Paul Young is signing these exclusively for SDE. Coloured vinyl pressing limited to 1000 units. Quick pre-order link.

Paul Young’s 1993 album,The Crossing, is being reissued for its 30th anniversary and SDE can exclusively offer a limited number of copies signed by Paul Young himself.

Originally released in October 1993, The Crossing was Young’s fifth and final album for Columbia Records. Produced largely by Don Was and featuring top musicians such as Billy Preston, The Memphis Horns, Jeff Porcaro and his older mucker Pino Palladino, the album is regarded by fans and critics as one of Paul Young’s very best solo works.

The album includes Young’s last top 20 UK hit, the excellent ‘Now I Know What Made Otis Blue’ but it’s much more than a one-trick pony and features a slickly produced series of songs including ‘Hope in a Hopeless World’, ‘The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter’ and ‘Half A Step Away’.

When interviewed for this 30th Anniversary release, Paul Young said: “If you were to ask me the albums I most enjoyed making they would be the first and the last for Columbia Records; No Parlez and The Crossing.

On The Crossing, it was the caliber of the musicians that I worked with and I was working with my musical heroes, some of which I’d admired since I was a teenager. The sessions were so relaxed and all the people in the studio were such lovely people to work with, I will remember it forever.”

This vinyl reissue of The Crossing comes in a gatefold sleeve is is pressed on 180g turquoise vinyl. A new interview with Paul Young features inside the gatefold and it comes with an insert with lyrics. The front cover of each record will be personally signed by Paul Young at SDE HQ.

It’s available to order exclusively via the SDE shop where you can also get yourself a copy of SDE’s exclusive keepsake 24-page booklet on Paul Young’s second album, The Secret of Association. Published last year, this features new interviews with Paul Young and Laurie Latham, along with features, a discography and images of memorabilia. For the very first time we can offer these SIGNED by Paul Young!

The Crossing is released by 7a Records and the SDE signed exclusive coloured vinyl will ship a week earlier than the official release on 9 June 2023 (along with any booklet orders).

Pre-order by going direct to the SDE shop using this link or via the buy buttons (with ‘pre-order on them) below.

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Tracklisting

The Crossing Paul Young / Coloured vinyl LP

    • SIDE A
      1. Hope In A Hopeless World 4:20
      2. Now I Know What Made Otis Blue 4:00
      3. Bring Me Home 4:04
      4. The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter 4:21
      5. Won’t Look Back 5:24
      6. Only Game In Town 4:21
      SIDE B
      1. Love Has No Pride 3:46
      2. Down In Chinatown 5:36
      3. Half A Step Away 5:01
      4. Follow On 4:10
      5. It Will Be You 4:41

Donna Summer / Another Place and Time reissue

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Donna Summer’s acclaimed 1989 studio album Another Place and Time will be reissued in June.

The album was produced by Stock Aitken Waterman and features the transatlantic top 10 single ‘This Time I Know It’s For Real’ and ‘I Don’t Wanna Get Hurt’ (which also reached the top 10 in the UK). Three further singles were issued.

A stunning looking ‘Zoetrope’ vinyl picture disc is amongst the formats (click image to enlarge)

There are three physical formats for this new reissue campaign:

  • A 2CD edition in deluxe seven-inch packaging (much like the newly announced Suede reissue)
  • A half-speed mastered black vinyl LP with OBI-strip and four-page insert
  • A Zoetrope vinyl picture disc that incorporates elements from the ‘This Time I Know It’s For Real’ promo video and which gives a continuous dancing effect (viewed via your smartphone with a third party stroboscope app).

This 2CD set offers two previously unreleased re-edits, as well as a brand new remix of ‘In Another Place
And Time’, produced by legendary PWL Mixmaster, Pete Hammond, alongside a selection of seven-inch versions,
extended mixes and two further new re-edits. It includes an eight-page booklet with lyrics and personal recollections of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken and Pete Waterman.

Another Place and Time will be reissued on 7 July 2023 via Driven By The Music.

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Half-speed mastered black vinyl with OBI-strip and four-page booklet (click image to enlarge)

Tracklisting

Another Place and Time Donna Summer /

    • CD 1
      1. I Don’t Wanna Get Hurt
      2. When Love Takes Over You
      3. This Time I Know It’s for Real
      4. The Only One
      5. In Another Place and Time
      6. Sentimental
      7. Whatever Your Heart Desires
      8. Breakaway
      9. If It Makes You Feel Good
      10. Love’s About to Change My Heart
    • CD 2
      1. In Another Place and Time [Pete Hammond Remix]
      2. This Time I Know It’s for Real [7″ Mix]
      3. I Don’t Wanna Get Hurt [7″ Remix]
      4. Love’s About to Change My Heart [PWL 7″ Mix]
      5. Breakaway [Power Radio Mix]
      6. When Love Takes Over You [Dave Ford 7″]
      7. This Time I Know It’s for Real [Extended Remix]
      8. Love’s About to Change My Heart [Extended Remix]
      9. I Don’t Wanna Get Hurt [Phil Harding 12″ Version]
      10. Breakaway [Remix – Full Version]
      11. Love’s About to Change My Heart [Clivillés & Cole 12″ Mix]
      12. This Time I Know It’s for Real [Euphoric Club Mix]
      13. When Love Takes Over You [Club Takeover Mix]

Duran Duran / Live at O2 London

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Back in 2021, I was lucky enough to see Duran Duran perform two ‘homecoming’ gigs in Birmingham a month or so before the release of Future Past, the band’s well received 15th studio album. Those gigs delivered a few tracks from the new record, a light sprinkling of deep cuts and hits – lots of them! 20 months on, and the group are touring the UK and playing much bigger crowds, but fundamentally not much has changed.

The muggy, sweaty environment the O2 Institute Birmingham (which has a capacity of just 2000) was replaced by the glitz and glamour afforded by the larger platform of London’s 20,000 capacity O2, which boasted some excellent projected visuals on angled screens (initially on stage with the band, before being hoisted high into the air).

Frontman Simon Le Bon looked great, echoing the ‘sailorboy’ look of his younger self back in the New Romantic days, with a sparkly silver jacket, white trousers and a blue and white stripy T-shirt, while Nick Rhodes, set back stage right in an elevated position, was equally dapper. Roger Taylor was hidden away behind a mountain of drums and cymbals while John Taylor stood to Simon’s right and guitarist Dom Brown was on the left. As in Birmingham, there were two female backing singers.

One of the highlights of the evening was the amount of songs played from Duran Duran, the band’s 1981 debut album; five tracks in total (more than any of their other albums). Granted, they almost always play ‘Girls On Film’ and ‘Planet Earth’ but early ‘flop’ single ‘Careless Memories’ rocked surprisingly hard and got the crowd on their feet while album track ‘Friends Of Mine’ hasn’t been worn down by familiarity. The early songs sound particularly good because of their more stripped-back sound, although starting the show with the relatively low-key ‘Night Boat’ perhaps illustrates the perils of going off-piste too much, because I thought it received a somewhat muted response.

But the evening was primarily about entertainment and that meant giving the capacity crowd what they’d mostly come to hear: hit singles. Duran Duran made no attempt to pretend that they’ve had a long and consistent career: 14 of the 20 songs performed were released between 1981 and 1986. They played three tracks from Future Past (‘Invisible’, ‘Anniversary’ and ‘Give It All Up’), two from 1993’s ‘The Wedding Album’ (‘Ordinary World’ and ‘Come Undone’) and their usual cover of ‘White Lines’, which still remains a ludicrous idea on paper, but always goes down very well! To put it another way, they played nothing from EIGHT ALBUMS released between 1988 and 2020, which is mildly surprising considering that BMG have been reissuing many of those records in recent times, such as the 2004 reunion album Astronaut (which features two hit singles in ‘(Reach Up For The) Sunrise’ and ‘What Happens Tomorrow’).

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There’s still too much backing track/sequencer stuff going on for my liking, with songs like ‘A View To A Kill’ and ‘The Reflex’ being required on stage to sound EXACTLY like their studio counterparts. Apart from Simon’s excellent vocals, Duran Duran have a curiously ‘un-live’ sound. The show would probably benefit from an acoustic-type break in proceedings where they turn off all the computers come to the front of the stage and show us they can actually play (which we know they can).

Like many bands whose glory days were 30 or 40 years ago, Duran Duran are effectively boxed into a corner where if they want to sell out big arenas and make good money, they need to play a greatest hits shows. That rewards the casual fans who heard the hits on the radio but likely disappoints the diehards who would prefer a deeper dive into the albums for tracks like ‘A Matter Of Feeling’, ‘The Edge Of America’, ‘My Antarctica’ or ‘Still Breathing’. I mean, why not start the show with a rousing ‘Big Thing’? I think that would sound great! Sometimes the act of regularly playing songs turns them into well-received classics, even if they were not a big hit at the time (Tears For Fears’ ‘Break It Down Again’ is a good example of this).

Nick smiles from behind his keyboard rig at last night’s show (photo: Paul Sinclair)

To be fair, last night, they did play the Rio album track ‘Last Chance On The Stairway’ so that was was a nod in the right direction, but you can only play so many songs in one hour and 45 minutes and they’ve enjoyed so many hit singles. If they wanted advice from SDE (which I’m sure they don’t) I’d say they should give ‘A View To A Kill’, ‘Wild Boys’ and ‘White Lines’ a rest. I’m actually very surprised that the band haven’t thought of playing Duran Duran (from 1981) and Rio in full, back-to-back. That would still include loads of hits but deliver all the great album tracks from those first two records.

Setlist quibbles to one side, Duran Duran undoubtedly delivered an evening of fun, entertainment and nostalgia. Just in case it was not ‘eighties’ enough for the audience, when the band played ‘Save A Prayer’ in the encore, it was accompanied by filmed visuals of a slow motion dove flapping its wings with feathers flying all over the shop. I’d have expected nothing less.

Duran Duran play the O2 London again tonight and dates in the UK follow afterwards. The America tour starts on 27 May. Tour dates.

Tracklisting

Live O2 London – 1 May 2023. Duran Duran /

    • O2 setlist 1/5/23
      1. Night Boat
      2. Wild Boys
      3. Hungry Like The Wolf
      4. Invisible
      5. A View to a Kill
      6. Notorious
      7. Give it all Up
      8. Last Chance On The Stairway
      9. Is there something I should know?
      10. Friends of Mine
      11. Careless Memories
      12. Ordinary World
      13. Anniversary
      14. Planet Earth
      15. White Lines
      16. The Reflex
      17. Girls on Film
      Encore
      1. Come Undone
      2. Save a Prayer
      3. Rio

Out This Week / on 5 May 2023

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Debbie Harry / KooKoo Vinyl

The delayed Debbie Harry deluxe reissue features two half-speed mastered vinyl records pressing on 180g crystal clear vinyl and comes with a special lenticular sleeve and an art print.

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Paul Young / Behind The Lens (new studio album)

New Paul Young studio album that features tracks from through the years that, for whatever reason, were never commercially released. SDE has heard it and was rather impressed!

Olivia Newton-John / Just The Two Of Us: The Duets Collection – Volume One

Volume One of a planned two-volume series, this features 17 Olivia Newton-John duets, with artists such as Dolly Parton, Cliff Richard, John Travolta, Barry Gibb, Richard Marx, Mariah Carey and many more.

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Saturday Deluxe / 29 April 2023

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HMV returns to Oxford Street

Music retailer HMV have announced they are returning to London’s Oxford Street later this year, after a period where they no presence at all in central London, barring the shop in the Westfield in Shepherd’s Bush.

The retailer returns to 363 Oxford Street, the location where the HMV brand (owned at the time by The Gramophone Company) started back in 1921. That original store was eventually overshadowed when HMV moved east across Regent Street and opened what was then claimed to be the larger record shop on the planet at 150-154 Oxford Street, in 1986 (that site had been a Woolworths between 1932 and 1977).

For 14 years, between 1986 to 2000, there were two very large HMV shops in Oxford Street but 363 shut its doors in 2000 and the flagship store (150-154) closed in January 2014 after the administrators were brought in the year before and HMV was bought out for an estimated £50 million in by Hilco (in April 2013). A a bullish move at the time, Hilco re-opened as HMV at 363 Oxford Street, but survived only for six years.

HMV went into administration again, in late December 2018 and in February 2019 Canadian Retailer Sunrise Records, headed by founder Doug Putman, acquired the ailing music retail chain and then promptly shut 363 Oxford Street!

The new shop at will feature an updated HMV logo and will debut a new ‘HMV Shop’ concept which will then be rolling out to existing stores (of which there are 120 in the UK) and to 24 new sites across the UK and Europe.

I think all physical music fans in London and the South East of England will be pleased with this news and wish HMV well, but you have to wonder what the medium to longterm future is for the chain. We’ve been here before, after all. But, if nothing else it will be good to be rid of that horrendous ‘American Candy’ store that currently occupies the site.

Last chance to order the Suede blu-ray

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“The 5.1 and Atmos Mixes sound amazing” – Mat Osman •  Quick pre-order link

Thank you for all your enthusiasm for the Suede blu-ray audio, which is No 11 in the SDE Surround Series. The pre-order window closes tomorrow although we’ll extend it by a day so you have one last weekend to secure your copy!

The Blu-ray Audio is a global exclusive for SDE and not available via any other retailer. It features two new immersive spatial audio mixes of Suede (Dolby Atmos and 5.1) as well as a new stereo mix and the original 1993 mix in hi-res audio. Details:

  • 2023 Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos Mix
  • 2023 Steven Wilson 5.1 Surround Mix (96/24)
  • 2023 Steven Wilson Stereo Mix (96/24)
  • 1993 Definitive Original Stereo Mix (96/24)

Additionally the disc also includes the following remastered/restored HD videos, the first time these are available commercially:

  • The Drowners
  • Metal Mickey
  • Animal Nitrate
  • So Young
  • The Drowners (US Version)

Suede’s bass player Mat Osman went to Steven Wilson’s home studio to hear the spatial audio mixes earlier this week and he said “they are sounding amazing”.

Don’t miss out! Place your pre-order by either heading off to the SDE shop using this link, or alternatively use the buy button (‘add to cart’). We ship worldwide. Some of the other 30th anniversary formats are also available, although ‘The Drowners’ 7″ picture disc is now sold out!

The Suede blu-ray audio is a collaboration between Demon Music and SDE and will be released on 7 July 2023. Your blu-ray will ship with a free collectors’ edition SDE Surround Series slipcase!

TECHNICAL NOTES: This blu-ray audio requires a blu-ray player. Decoding the Dolby Atmos mix requires a Dolby Atmos-certified soundbar or a Dolby Atmos-compatible AV Receiver/Amp. The Dolby Atmos mix will ‘fold down’ to 5.1 or stereo if a Dolby Atmos decoder is not detected.
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Tracklisting

Suede Suede /

    • Blu-ray
      Audio
      1. Suede – 2023 Steven Wilson Dolby Atmos Mix
      2. Suede – 2023 Steven Wilson 5.1 Surround Mix (96/24)
      3. Suede – 2023 Steven Wilson Stereo Mix (96/24)
      4. Suede – 1993 Definitive Original Stereo Mix (96/24)
      Remastered/Restored HD Videos
      1. The Drowners
      2. Metal Mickey
      3. Animal Nitrate
      4. So Young
      5. The Drowners (US Version)

Madonna / Finally Enough Love: The Rainbow Edition

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Madonna’s Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones was issued on a number of formats last year, but it was the 6LP red & black vinyl edition that proved extremely popular; so much so that it went out of print in around three days!

It was a classic case of he (or she) who hesitates… However, fans have been given a second chance, since a second edition of the 6LP vinyl version will be released in June and this time it’s it’s subtitled ‘The Rainbow Edition’ because as you can see from the image above, it’s pressed on multi-coloured vinyl.

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As with the previous edition this features all 50 tracks – almost 220 minutes of remixes by top producers and DJs, including Shep Pettibone, William Orbit, Avicii and more.

If you think £130 is a little steep for this collection, it’s certainly much cheaper than trying to source the original because the median price on Discogs for the 2022 edition is almost £300!

Finally Enough Love: The Rainbow Edition will be available as a 6LP set on 23 June 2023 via Rhino.

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LP 1

A1 Holiday (7″ Version) 4:20
A2 Like A Virgin (7″ Version) 3:39
A3 Material Girl (7″ Version) 4:01
A4 Into The Groove (You Can Dance Remix Edit) 4:47

B1 Open Your Heart (Video Version) 4:28
B2 Physical Attraction (You Can Dance Remix Edit) 3:45
B3 Everybody (You Can Dance Remix Edit) 4:34
B4 Like A Prayer (7″ Remix/Edit) 5:43

LP 2

C1 Express Yourself (Remix/Edit) 5:02
C2 Keep It Together (Alternate Single Remix) 4:55
C3 Vogue (Single Version) 4:21
C4 Justify My Love (Orbit Edit) 4:33

D1 Erotica (Underground Club Mix) 4:54
D2 Deeper And Deeper (David’s Radio Edit) 4:04
D3 Fever (Radio Edit) 5:09
D4 Secret (Junior’s Luscious Single Mix) 4:15

LP 3

E1 Bedtime Story (Junior’s Single Mix) 4:55
E2 Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (Miami Mix Edit) 4:30
E3 Frozen (Extended Club Mix Edit) 4:38
E4 Ray Of Light (Sasha Ultra Violet Mix Edit) 5:07

F1 Nothing Really Matters (Club 69 Radio Mix) 3:45
F2 Beautiful Stranger (Calderone Radio Mix) 4:05
F3 American Pie (Richard “Humpty” Vission Radio Mix) 4:27
F4 Music (Deep Dish Dot Com Radio Edit) 4:14

LP 4

G1 Don’t Tell Me (Thunderpuss Video Remix) 3:44
G2 What It Feels Like For A Girl (Above & Beyond Club Radio Edit) 3.44
G3 Impressive Instant (Peter Rauhofer’s Universal Radio Mixshow Mix) 5:33
G4 Die Another Day (Deepsky Radio Edit) 4:08

H1 American Life (Felix Da Housecat’s Devin Dazzle Edit) 3:22
H2 Hollywood (Calderone & Quayle Edit) 4:02
H3 Me Against The Music (Peter Rauhofer Radio Mix) 3:44
H4 Nothing Fails (Tracy Young’s Underground Radio Edit) 4:32
H5 Love Profusion (Ralphi Rosario House Vocal Edit) 3:58

LP 5

I1 Hung Up (SDP Extended Vocal Edit) 4:59
I2 Madonna– Sorry (PSB Maxi Mix Edit) 4:33
I3 Madonna– Get Together (Jacques Lu Cont Vocal Edit) 4:23
I4 Madonna– Jump (Axwell Remix Edit) 4:45

J1 4 Minutes (Bob Sinclar Space Funk Edit) 3:24
J2 Give It 2 Me (Eddie Amador Club 5 Edit) 4:56
J3 Celebration (Benny Benassi Remix Edit) 3:59
J4 Give Me All Your Luvin’ (Party Rock Remix) 4:02
J5 Madonna– Girl Gone Wild (Avicii’s UMF Mix) 5:15

LP 6

K1 Turn Up The Radio (Offer Nissim Remix Edit) 4:56
K2 Living For Love (Offer Nissim Promo Mix) 5:53
K3 Madonna– Ghosttown (Dirty Pop Intro Remix) 5:21
K4 Bitch I’m Madonna (Sander Kleinenberg Video Edit) 3:22

L1 Medellín (Offer Nissim Madame X In The Sphinx Mix) 5:29
L2 I Rise (Tracy Young’s Pride Intro Radio Remix) 3:52
L3 Crave (Tracy Young Dangerous Remix) 4:47
L4 Madonna– I Don’t Search I Find (Honey Dijon Radio Mix) 5:22

Wham! / The Singles: Echoes From The Edge of Heaven

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The Singles: Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven is a new Wham! release which marks the pop band’s 40th anniversary. It collects all ten singles that Wham! released in the UK (‘Careless Whisper’, as a George Michael single is not included) and will be available across five physical formats, some of which offer B-sides and remixes. The audio has all been newly remastered from the original tapes.

The most lavish and expensive edition is the seven-inch single box set. This limited edition features replicas of all ten singles in a special carry case and includes a hardcover book with notes on each single and a cassette of bonus mixes. It also includes a metal key ring, postcards and a numbered certificate of authenticity. The box actually has 12 vinyl singles in it since The Edge Of Heaven is comprised of two seven-inch singles (as per the original) and there’s a bonus 45: Interviews: Fan club gift from Wham!

The seven-inch box set edition of Wham! The Singles: Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven (click image to enlarge)

A 10CD box set version also has all ten singles but expands the A and B-side offering to add remixes. So for example, with the ‘Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?)’ CD, you get six versions of Wham!’s debut single and for 1985’s ‘I’m Your Man’ you get four variants. Some singles simply didn’t have any remixes, so ‘Wake Me Up Before You Go Go’ features just the single and the instrumental version.

A single CD edition features all 10 A-sides but six bonus tracks at the end (a few remixes plus ‘Where Did Your Heart Go?’ and ‘Battlestations’) and a 2LP vinyl does the same but finds room for nine bonus tracks. The 2LP set is available on black vinyl, a limited indie-only 2LP blue vinyl and an amazon-exclusive 2LP green vinyl.

The 10CD box set edition (click image to enlarge)

This new release coincides with a new documentary, called WHAM! which is a feature length documentary directed by Chris Smith and producers John Battsek and Simon Halfon. The filmmakers have been given “unprecedented access to both George and Andrew’s personal archive” including remarkable and never-before-seen footage, alongside rare, candid and previously unheard interviews.

The documentary airs on Netflix from 5 July 2023 while Wham! The Singles: Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven will be released on 7 July 2023. The SDE shop had a limited allocation of the 10CD box and the 2LP blue vinyl but has now sold out.

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Wham! The Singles: Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven

The Singles: Echoes From The Edge Of Heaven Wham! /

    • 7″ Single 1
      1. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)
      2. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do) [Club Mix]
      7″ Single 2
      1. Young Guns (Go For It)
      2. Going For It!
      7″ Single 3
      1. Bad Boys
      2. Bad Boys (Instrumental)
      7″ Single 4
      1. Club Tropicana
      2. Blue (Armed With Love)
      7″ Single 5
      1. Club Fantastic Megamix
      2. A Ray Of Sunshine (Instrumental Mix)
      7″ Single 6
      1. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
      2. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (Instrumental)
      7″ Single 7
      1. Freedom
      2. Freedom (Instrumental)
      7″ Single 8
      1. Last Christmas
      2. Everything She Wants
      7″ Single 9
      1. I’m Your Man
      2. Do It Right (Instrumental)
      7″ Single 10
      1. Edge of Heaven
      2. Wham! Rap ’86
      7″ Single 11
      1. Battlestations
      2. Where Did Your Heart Go?
      7″ Single 12
      1. Interviews – fan club gift from Wham

Now Millennium ’00 – ’01

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Now That’s What I Call Music are launching a new generation of Yearbook releases under the ‘Millennium’ banner.

The first volume is Now Millennium ’00-’01 which celebrates the eclectic mix of new and old music that ‘pop’ delivered in the Noughties including from acts such as U2, REM, Coldplay, All Saints, Spice Girls, Robbie Williams, LeAnn Rimes, Manics, Oasis, Kylie, Britney Spears, Steps, Dido, Atomic Kitten and many more!

4CD deluxe hardcover book edition

The physical offerings are similar to the Yearbooks. The 4CD set is offered in hardcover book deluxe edition and standard card sleeve version, both with 83 tracks. The former includes a 28-page booklet with original singles artwork and quiz etc.

A 2LP edition offers 30 tracks in total and is pressed on white and red coloured vinyl. NOW Millennium 2000 – 2001 will be released on 2 June 2023.

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Tracklisting

Now Millennium ’00-’01 Various Artists /

    • CD 1: 2000
      1. U2 – Beautiful Day
      2. Coldplay – Yellow
      3. R.E.M. – The Great Beyond
      4. Sting – Desert Rose
      5. All Saints – Pure Shores
      6. Andreas Johnson – Glorious
      7. Bon Jovi – It’s My Life
      8. LeAnn Rimes – Can’t Fight The Moonlight
      9. Robbie Williams – Rock DJ
      10. Craig David – 7 Days
      11. Spice Girls – Holler
      12. P!NK – There You Go
      13. Mary Mary – Shackles (Praise You)
      14. Kelis – Caught Out There
      15. Anastacia – I’m Outta Love
      16. Toploader – Dancing In The Moonlight
      17. Bloodhound Gang – The Bad Touch
      18. blink-182 – All The Small Things
      19. Manic Street Preachers – The Masses Against The Classes
      20. Oasis – Go Let It Out
    • CD 2:
      1. Britney Spears – Oops!…I Did It Again
      2. S Club 7 – Reach
      3. *NSYNC – Bye Bye Bye
      4. A1 – Take On Me
      5. Aqua – Cartoon Heroes
      6. The Corrs – Breathless
      7. Melanie C & Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes – Never Be The Same Again
      8. LEN – Steal My Sunshine
      9. Bomfunk MC’s – Freestyler
      10. William Orbit – Barber’s Adagio For Strings (Ferry Corsten Remix)
      11. Delerium, Sarah McLachlan – Silence
      12. Aurora, Naimee Coleman – Ordinary World
      13. Ricky Martin – She Bangs
      14. Kylie Minogue – Spinning Around
      15. Steps – Stomp
      16. Madison Avenue – Don’t Call Me Baby
      17. Black Legend – You See The Trouble With Me (We’ll Be In Trouble Vocal Video Edit)
      18. Modjo – Lady (Hear Me Tonight)
      19. Sonique – It Feels So Good
      20. Gabrielle – Rise
      21. Sade – By Your Side
    • CD 3: 2001
      1. Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head
      2. S Club 7 – Don’t Stop Movin’
      3. Britney Spears – I’m A Slave 4 U
      4. Missy Elliott – Get Ur Freak On
      5. Eve & Gwen Stefani – Let Me Blow Ya Mind
      6. Mary J. Blige – Family Affair
      7. Usher – U Remind Me
      8. Shaggy & Ricardo Ducent – It Wasn’t Me
      9. Wyclef Jean – Perfect Gentleman
      10. Mya – Case Of The Ex (Whatcha Gonna Do)
      11. So Solid Crew – 21 Seconds
      12. Faithless – We Come 1
      13. Rui Da Silva feat. Cassandra – Touch Me
      14. Roger Sanchez – Another Chance
      15. Alcazar – Crying At The Discoteque
      16. Sophie Ellis-Bextor – Take Me Home (A Girl Like Me)
      17. Cher – The Music’s No Good Without You
      18. Jamiroquai – Little L
      19. Texas – Inner Smile
      20. Nelly Furtado – I’m Like A Bird
      21. Train – Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)
    • CD 4: 2001
      1. Elton John – I Want Love
      2. Robbie Williams – Eternity
      3. Dido – Thank You
      4. Stereophonics – Handbags And Gladrags
      5. Radiohead – Pyramid Song
      6. Travis – Sing
      7. The Dandy Warhols – Bohemian Like You
      8. Feeder – Buck Roger
      9. Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag
      10. Crazy Town – Butterfly
      11. New Order – Crystal
      12. Daniel Bedingfield – Gotta Get Thru This
      13. Five – Let’s Dance
      14. Blue – All Rise
      15. O-Town – Liquid Dreams
      16. Samantha Mumba – Always Come Back To Your Love (With Rap)
      17. Steps – Chain Reaction
      18. Westlife – Uptown Girl
      19. Ronan Keating – Lovin’ Each Day
      20. Hear’Say – Pure & Simple
      21. Atomic Kitten – Whole Again

Alice Cooper / Schools Out & Killer deluxe reissues

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Alice Cooper’s 1972 album School’s Out will be reissued in June alongside the album issued before it, 1971’s Killer.

Both feature newly remastered sound and are available as expanded 3LP vinyl editions and 2CD deluxe sets with the audio content being the same across both.

Schools Out offers a previously unreleased live concert from Miami in May 1972 and a handful of ‘studio extras’ including unreleased alternates and demos. The 3LP edition features a pop-up school desk and panties – just like the original (but these ones are non-flammable, apparently!) and sleeve notes from Bill Holdship.

The packaging is pants… 3LP vinyl edition with “pop-up school desk and panties” [click image to enlarge]

The Killer reissue also includes an unreleased concert, this time from Mar Y Sol Pop Festival in Puerto Rico from April 1972. Like School’s Out this edition also contains some studio extras, in the shape of alternate versions of three songs from Killer.

Schools Out and Killer are reissued on 9 June 2023 via Rhino.

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Alice Cooper / Schools Out deluxe reissue

School’s Out Alice Cooper /

    • LP 1: School’s Out (remastered)
      Side A
      1. School’s Out [3:30]
      2. Luney Tune [3:40]
      3. Gutter Cat Vs. The Jets [4:39]
      4. Street Fight [0:53]
      5. Blue Turk [5:31]
      Side B
      1. My Stars [5:49]
      2. Public Animal #9 [3:52]
      3. Alma Mater [4:25]
      4. Grande Finale [4:26]
    • LP 2: Live in Miami, FL May 27, 1972 (Previously Unissued)
      Side C
      1. Public Animal #9/Be My lover [5:32]
      2. You Drive Me Nervous [2:22]
      3. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [4:02]
      4. I’m Eighteen [5:52]
      Side D
      1. Halo Of Flies [10:12]
      2. Dead Babies [6:17]
      3. Killer [7:38]
    • LP 3:
      Side E – Live in Miami, FL (continued)
      1. Long Way To Go [5:16]
      2. School’s Out [8:28]
      3. Is It My Body? [8:02]
      Side F – Studio Extras
      1. School’s Out (Single Version) [3:32]
      2. Gutter Cat (Single Version) [3:49]
      3. Alma Mater (Alternate Version) [4:10]  (Previously Unissued)
      4. Elected (Early Demo Take) [4:18] (Previously Unissued)

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Killer Alice Cooper /

    • LP 1: Killler (remastered 2023)
      Side A
      1. Under My Wheels [2:52] 
      2. Be My Lover   [3:19] 
      3. Halo Of Flies  [8:21] 
      4. Desperado [3:30] 
      Side B
      1. You Drive Me Nervous  [2:26]
      2. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah [3:37]
      3. Dead Babies [5:45]
      4. Killer [7:03]
    • LP 2: Live at Mar Y Sol Pop Festival, Puerto Rico, April 2, 1972 (Previously Unissued)
      Side C
      1. Public Animal #9/Be My lover    [5:24]                 2.           
      2. You Drive Me Nervous  [2:25]
      3. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah  [4:17]
      4. I’m Eighteen       (5:27)
      Side D
      1. Halo Of Flies       [9:55] 
      2. Is It My Body?   [7:39] 
    • LP 3
      Side E
      Live at Mar Y Sol Pop Festival, continued
      1. Dead Babies       [5:51] 
      2.  Killer      [8:57] 
      3. Long Way To Go [9:50] (Bruce)
      Side F –
      Live at Mar Y Sol Pop Festival, 
      1. Under My Wheels [5:54] (Bruce/Dunaway/Ezrin)
      Studio Extras
      1. You Drive Me Nervous (Alternate Version)  [2:18] 
      2. Under My Wheels (Alternate Version)   [2:33]
      3. Dead Babies (Alternate Version) [5:39]

Paul McCartney issues a Dolby Atmos Mix of Red Rose Speedway

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Paul McCartney and Wings’ 1973 album Red Rose Speedway has been mixed for Dolby Atmos and made available on streaming. This coincides with the album’s 50th anniversary and the physical release of the half-speed mastered vinyl for Record Store Day.

Officially the second Wings album (albeit ‘Paul McCartney & Wings’), Red Rose Speedway didn’t garner the critical acclaim McCartney might have hoped for (that would come with the next album, Band on the Run), but it did do very well commercially, with the single ‘My Love’ reaching the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in America. The album followed suit, reaching number one on the album charts in the US.

Red Rose Speedway was reissued in 2018, over a year after INXS released the first Dolby Atmos Mix of a studio album physically via the Kick 30 package (closely followed by R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People). It’s the first Wings album to be given the Atmos treatment, although Paul’s three McCartney solo albums (I, II & III) were also issued in Dolby Atmos, again streaming-only.

You can find the Dolby Atmos Mix of Red Rose Speedway on Apple Music by searching for the “2018 Remaster”. It’s not clear who has remixed it, but it is likely to be Giles Martin and Steve Orchard who did the McCartney albums.

Little Feat / Sailin’ Shoes and Dixie Chicken deluxe editions

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2CD and 3LP deluxe sets of both albums

Little Feat’s second and third albums, Sailin’ Shoes and Dixie Chicken, will be reissued as expanded deluxe editions in June.

Both records (Sailin’ Shoes was issued in 1972 while Dixie Chicken followed in ’73) have been remastered and recut to vinyl and the expanded 2CD and 3LP editions offer previously unreleased studio outtakes and demos, and complete unreleased live shows (same content on vinyl and CD).

Sailin’ Shoes includes the classic and much covered ‘Willin”, as well as the title track which Robert Palmer recorded for his debut album Sneaking Sally Through The Alley. In fact, so smitten was Palmer with Little Feat as musicians, that they became his backing band on a few tracks on his second solo album, 1975’s Pressure Drop. Dixie Chicken features songs such as ‘Two Trains’, ‘Fat Man in the Bathtub’ and of course the brilliant title track.

These 2CD and 3LP deluxe editions of Sailin’ Shoes and Dixie Chicken will be released on 23 June 2023, via Rhino.

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Little Feat / Sailin' Shoes

Sailin’ Shoes Little Feat / 2CD deluxe

    • CD 1: Sailin’ Shoes (2023 Remaster)

      Little Feat / Sailing Shoes 2CD deluxe edition

      1. EASY TO SLIP (2023 REMASTER) [3:19]
      2. COLD, COLD COLD (2023 REMASTER) [3:58]
      3. TROUBLE (2023 REMASTER) [2:15]
      4. TRIPE FACE BOOGIE (2023 REMASTER) [3:14]
      5. WILLIN’ (2023 REMASTER) [2:54]
      6. A APOLITICAL BLUES (2023 REMASTER) [3:25]
      7. SAILIN’ SHOES (2023 REMASTER) [2:49]
      8. TEENAGE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (2023 REMASTER) [2:10]
      9. GOT NO SHADOW (2023 REMASTER) [5:05]
      10. CAT FEVER (2023 REMASTER) [4:35]
      11. TEXAS ROSE CAFE (2023 REMASTER) [3:43]
    • CD 2: Hotcakes, Outtakes, Rarities & Thank You! I’ll Eat It Here: Live at the Palladium, Los Angeles, CA 8/28/71
      1. SAILIN’ SHOES (DEMO)* [2:57]
      2. EASY TO FALL (EASY TO SLIP) [DEMO FOR DOOBIE BROS.] [2:41]
      3. TEXAS ROSE CAFÉ (DEMO FOR DOOBIE BROS.) [3:24]
      4. COLD, COLD, COLD (ALTERNATE VERSION)* [4:17]
      5. ROTO/TONE [4:07]
      6. A APOLITICAL BLUES (ALTERNATE VERSION)* [3:46]
      7. BOOGIE – TRIPE FACE BOOGIE [3:58]
      8. TROUBLE (ALTERNATE VERSION)* [2:23]
      9. DORIVILLE [2:44]
      10. WILLIN’ (ALTERNATE VERSION)* [3:00]
      11. EASY TO SLIP (MONO SINGLE VERSION) [3:22]
      12. TRIPE FACE BOOGIE (LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM, LOS ANGELES, CA 8/28/71)* [4:30]
      13. HAMBURGER MIDNIGHT (LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM, LOS ANGELES, CA 8/28/71)* [3:41]
      14. CAT FEVER (LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM, LOS ANGELES, CA 8/28/71)*[5:19]
      15. WILLIN’ (LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM, LOS ANGELES, CA 8/28/71)* [4:06]
      16. STRAWBERRY FLATS (LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM, LOS ANGELES, CA 8/28/71)* [3:11]
      17. GOT NO SHADOW (LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM, LOS ANGELES, CA 8/28/71)* [5:08]
      18. TEXAS ROSE CAFÉ (LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM, LOS ANGELES, CA 8/28/71)* [4:05]
      19. SNAKES ON EVERYTHING (LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM, LOS ANGELES, CA 8/28/71)* [4:18]
      20. HOT ROD (ELDORADO SLIM) [LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM, LOS ANGELES, CA 8/28/71]* [5:08]
      21. TEENAGE NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (LIVE AT THE PALLADIUM, LOS ANGELES, CA 8/28/71)* [3:01]
      *Previously Unreleased

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Dixie Chicken Little Feat / 2CD deluxe

    • CD 1: Dixie Chicken (2023 remaster)

      Little Feat / Dixie Chicken 2CD deluxe edition

      1. DIXIE CHICKEN (2023 REMASTER) [3:55]
      2. TWO TRAINS (2023 REMASTER) [3:06]
      3. ROLL UM EASY (2023 REMASTER) [2:30]
      4. ON YOUR WAY DOWN (2023 REMASTER) [5:31]
      5. KISS IT OFF (2023 REMASTER) [2:56]
      6. FOOL YOURSELF (2023 REMASTER) [3:10]
      7. WALKIN’ ALL NIGHT (2023 REMASTER) [3:35]
      8. FAT MAN IN THE BATHTUB (2023 REMASTER) [4:29]
      9. JULIETTE (2023 REMASTER) [3:20]
      10. LAFAYETTE RAILROAD (2023 REMASTER) [3:40]
    • CD 2: Hotcakes, Outtakes, Rarities & Icepick Eldorado: Live at Paul’s Mall, Boston, MA 4/1/73
      1. TWO TRAINS (DEMO) [3:19]
      2. FAT MAN IN THE BATHTUB (DEMO) [3:56]
      3. WALKIN’ ALL NIGHT (ALTERNATE VERSION)* [3:40]
      4. ROLL UM EASY (ALTERNATE VERSION)* [2:36]
      5. ON YOUR WAY DOWN (ALTERNATE VERSION)* [5:57]
      6. ELDORADO SLIM [4:42]
      7. JULIETTE (ALTERNATE VERSION)* [3:34]
      8. HI ROLLER (ACE IN THE HOLE) [3:27]
      9. DIXIE CHICKEN (ALTERNATE VERSION)* [4:06]
      10. TWO TRAINS (LIVE AT PAUL’S MALL, BOSTON, MA 4/1/73)* [3:23]
      11. GOT NO SHADOW (LIVE AT PAUL’S MALL, BOSTON, MA 4/1/73)* [6:35]
      12. ON YOUR WAY DOWN (LIVE AT PAUL’S MALL, BOSTON, MA 4/1/73)* [6:26]
      13. WALKIN’ ALL NIGHT (LIVE AT PAUL’S MALL, BOSTON, MA 4/1/73)*[3:34]
      14. FAT MAN IN THE BATHTUB (LIVE AT PAUL’S MALL, BOSTON, MA 4/1/73)* [5:31]
      15. WILLIN’ (LIVE AT PAUL’S MALL, BOSTON, MA 4/1/73)* [4:31]
      16. A APOLITICAL BLUES (LIVE AT PAUL’S MALL, BOSTON, MA 4/1/73)* [3:33]

The RAH Band / Clouds Across The Moon: The RAH Band Story Vol 2

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Clouds Across The Moon: The RAH Band Story Volume Two is a forthcoming 5CD box set that covers the period 1985-1998. It’s the follow-up to the Messages From The Stars (Volume One) box from late last year which featured music from 1977-1984.

The new set contains expanded versions of the albums Mystery (1985), Something About The Music (1987) and the previously unreleased World Keeps Turning.

Mystery is notable for delivering the UK top 10 hit ‘Clouds Across The Moon’. The final two CDs in the box set offer a selection of remixes and rarities. There’s a whopping 75 tracks in total.

Clouds Across The Moon: The RAH Band Story Volume Two will be released on 19 May 2023, via Cherry Red.

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The RAH Band / Clouds Across The Moon: The RAH Band Story Volume Two

Clouds Across The Moon: The RAH Band Story Volume Two The RAH Band /

    • CD 1: Mystery
      1. Clouds Across The Moon
      2. Night Wind
      3. Sorry Doesn’t Make It Anymore
      4. Float
      5. Mystery Boy
      6. Are You Satisfied? (Funka Nova)
      7. Shadow Of Your Love
      8. Out On The Edge
      Bonus Tracks:
      1. Clouds Across The Moon (7” Single Mix)*
      2. Night Wind (7” Single Remix)*
      3. Sorry Doesn't Make It Anymore (7” Single Remix)*
      4. Mystery Boy (7” Single Mix)**
      5. Are You Satisfied? (7” Single Mix)*
      6. Clouds Across The Moon (Solar Horizon Mix)*
      7. Clouds Across The Moon (Lunar Mix)*
      * Previously unreleased on CD
      ** Previously unreleased
    • CD 2: Something About The Music
      1. Run 4 The Sun
      2. Something About The Music
      3. Take Some Thyme
      4. Nothing In This World**
      5. A Womans Life*
      6. Adventures Of E.Man**
      7. Life After Love*
      8. Jammin’ On The Byte
      9. Across The Bay
      10. Road Of No Return**
      Bonus Tracks:
      1. Run 4 The Sun (7” Single Mix)*
      2. Life After Love (7” Single Mix)*
      3. Adventures Of E.Man (7” Single Mix)
      4. Run 4 The Sun (Alternative 12” Single Mix)**
      5. Jammin’ On The Byte (7” Single Mix)*
      * Previously unreleased on CD
      ** Previously unreleased
    • CD 3: World Keeps Turning (The Previously Unreleased Album)
      1. Turn My Love Around**
      2. Living For The Nitelife*
      3. Chained To The Rhythm**
      4. World Keeps Turning**
      5. Beyond The Sun
      6. Could You Be The One?*
      7. Looks Like I’m In Love Again*
      8. Follow Your Lucky Star**
      9. If I Ever**
      10. Let Your Love Shine**
      Bonus Tracks:
      1. Turn Around (La Vuelta Mix)**
      2. World Keeps Turning (Cosmos Mix)**
      3. Could You Be The One (Luv Akshun Mix)**
      4. Hungry 4 Your Love (Orkestronic Mix)**
      5. Let Your Love Shine (Gospel Stomp Mix)**
      * Previously unreleased on CD
      ** Previously unreleased
    • CD 4: Remixes & Rarities Part One
      1. Night Wind (12” Remix)**
      2. Are You Satisfied? (12” Instrumental Mix)*
      3. Sorry Doesn’t Make It Anymore (12” Single Mix)*
      4. What’ll Become Of The Children (12” Single Mix)
      5. Float (12” Remix)**
      6. The Crunch ’85 (7” Single Mix)*
      7. What’ll Become Of The Children (7” Single Mix)*
      8. The Crunch ’85 (12” Single Mix)*
        9. Shadow Of Your Love (7” Single Mix)**
        10. The Crunch ’85 (Jazz Mix)*
        11. Sweet Forbidden (7” Single Mix)*
        12. Perfect Stranger (7” Single Mix)*
        13. Sweet Forbidden (12” Single Mix)*
        14. Perfect Stranger (12” Single Mix)*
      * Previously unreleased on CD
      ** Previously unreleased
    • CD 5: Remixes & Rarities Part Two
      1. Time Keeps Tearing Us Apart (12” Single Mix)
      2. Nice Easy Money (7” Single Mix)*
      3. Every Little Drop (Demo featuring Liz Hewson)**
      4. Time Keeps Tearing Us Apart (7” Single Mix)*
      5. Nice Easy Money (12” Single Mix)*
      6. Close To Home (Demo featuring Liz Hewson)**
      7. Silverbird (7” Single Mix)*
      8. I Feel Like Love Tonight (Original Club Mix)*
      9. Big Love Turnaround (Extended Mix)**
      10. This Is My Time (Alternative Mix)**
      11. It’s The Rhythm (Extended Mix)**
      12. Hungry 4 Your Love (Vocal Remix)**
      13. Life After Love (Remix)**
      14. Nothing In This World (Duet Version)**
      15. Believe In The Miracle (SNCL Club Mix)**
      16. I Wanna Thank You (WKD Club Mix)**
      * Previously unreleased on CD
      ** Previously unreleased

Frankie Goes To Hollywood to reunite for Eurovision Song Contest

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Liverpool band and 1984 chart-hoggers Frankie Goes To Hollywood will do something that most of their fans presumed would never happen, and that is get back together and perform on stage.

The five original members – Holly Johnson (vocals), Paul Rutherford (backing vocals), Mark O’Toole (bass), Brian ‘Nasher’ Nash (guitar), and Peter ‘Ped’ Gill (drums) – will reunite for their first performance in front of an audience since their last gig in Bordeaux, way back in late February 1987, some 36 years ago.

The occasion is the Eurovision Song Contest which is being held in Liverpool this year. Frankie will perform at the National Lottery’s ‘Big Eurovision Welcome’ outside St George’s Hall in Liverpool on 7 May (the contest itself will take place Saturday 13 May). The show is designed to “celebrate Liverpool’s incredible musicality” and will feature performances from other bands with a connection to the city including Atomic Kitten, The Real Thing and The Lightning Seeds.

Frankie’s first three singles (‘Relax’, ‘Two Tribes’ and ‘The Power of Love’) famously went to number one in the UK in 1984 but their fourth single ‘Welcome to the Pleasure Dome’ was kept off the top spot in April 1985 by Phil Collins and Phil Bailey’s ‘Easy Lover’. The band had one further top ten single in the UK, in September 1986 and six months later the band were all but over.

In late 2017, Universal Music bought ZTT and they are currently working on Frankie archival projects. So far we’ve had reissues of both studio albums, the Bang greatest hits, a 3CD Essential compilation and a Record Store Day 12-inch single.

Whether this surprise Eurovision event proves to be a one-off or the start of a new era for the band, remains to be seen.

Out This Week / on 28 April 2023

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Various Artists / Now Yearbook '78 CD, Vinyl

The Now That’s What I Call Music team move their focus back on to the late 1970s with a NOW Yearbook ’78, the ninth in the ongoing series that now spans from 1978 to 1986. 4CD deluxe and 3LP coloured vinyl are the pick of the formats.

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Roger Waters / The Lockdown Sessions

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Roger Waters will issue a new mini-album called The Lockdown Sessions, in June.

These are re-recordings of old songs, three are from Pink Floyd’s The Wall, two are from the last Floyd album with Roger Waters, 1983’s The Final Cut and one track (‘The Bravery of Being Out of Range’) is from Waters’ 1992 solo album Amused to Death.

‘Comfortably Numb 2022’ is the last song on The Lockdown Sessions and is an exception to the ‘lockdown’ rule, since this was recorded during Waters’ This Is Not A Drill North American tour last year.


Even though ‘Lockdown Sessions’ suggests stripped-back solo acoustic performances, that isn’t actually the case. These recordings were produced by Roger Waters and Gus Seyffert and have a full complement of musicians contributing. The performers were: Roger Waters – Vocals, Guitar and Piano; Gus Seyffert – Bass, Cellos and Vocals; Joey Waronker – Drums and Percussion; Dave Kilminster – Guitar and Rhythm Guitar; Jonathan Wilson – Guitar and Vocals; Jon Carin – Keyboards and Vocals, Lucius (Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig) – Vocals; Bo Koster – Hammond (on all tracks except “Mother”) and Ian Ritchie – Saxophone (“Two Suns In The Sunset”).

Waters commented: “Our Us and Them Tour lasted three years…At every gig we did an encore after the main show closed with Comfortably Numb…the encore was always Mother…I can’t remember why I decided to start doing other songs?…Anyway, at some point after the end of the tour…I started thinking, “It could make an interesting album, all those encores”…“The Encores”. ”Yeah, has a nice ring to it!” Then…I’m in England doing the Ginger Baker tribute gig one Tuesday night at the Hammersmith Odeon with Eric Clapton and…the following Saturday marching from The Australian Embassy to Parliament Square to make a speech in support of Julian Assange, when bugger me, Covid…Schlummmm! For me it was Friday March 13th 2020. Lockdown! So much for the “Encores” project. Unless… We’ve tacked C. Numb on the end of the collection, as an appropriate exclamation point in closing this circle of love.”

Videos have been made for the songs which were produced and directed by Sean Evans. Roger’s This Is Not A Drill is currently on tour in Europe, and we know he has more recordings in the bag waiting to be released, namely his reworking of Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon.

The Lockdown Sessions are released on CD and vinyl on 7 June, via Colubmia/Sony Music.

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The Lockdown Sessions Roger Waters /

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      1. Mother
      2. Two Suns In The Sunset
      3. Vera
      4. The Gunner’s Dream
      5. The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range
      6. Comfortably Numb 2022

Record Store Day 2023 / SDE Video Preview No 3

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Record Store Day in 2023 is this coming Saturday, 22 April. As usual there’s a wide array of product available and so let SDEtv be your guide as in the third and final video preview, as we look at some of the albums/artists from the 1990s era and beyond. 1970s preview • 1980s preview.

Enya / A Box of Dreams 6LP vinyl box

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Enya’s 1997 CD collection, A Box of Dreams, will be reissued on vinyl for the first time in June.

Originally a 3CD companion to Enya’s greatest hits at the time (Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya), A Box of Dreams contained 46 tracks, spanning a decade from her 1987 debut album Enya to the 1997 best of (‘Only If…’ and ‘Paint The Sky With Stars’ were new tracks and both feature in A Box of Dreams).

A Box of Dreams is being released on vinyl for the first time (click image to enlarge)

The box had three thematically arranged CDs which are now three thematically arranged 2LP vinyl sets! Oceans contains the upbeat numbers (including ‘Orinoco Flow’) Clouds is a collection of piano instrumentals and Stars features choral and meditative ballads. All 46 tracks remain.

The 6LP box set features sleeve notes from Roma and Nicky Ryan, including a series of short poems by Roma Ryan. and has been manufactured using 100 percent recycled board and vinyl.

A Box of Dreams is being released on 23 June 2023 via Rhino.

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Enya / A Box Full of Dreams 6LP vinyl box

A Box Full Of Dreams Enya /

    • LP 1: Oceans
      Side A
      1. Orinoco Flow
      2. Caribbean Blue
      3. Book of Days
      4. Anywhere Is
      Side B
      1. Only If…
      2. The Celts
      3. Cursum Perficio
      4. I Want Tomorrow
    • LP 2: Oceans
      Side A
      1. China Roses
      2. Storms in Africa
      3. Pax Deorum
      Side B
      1. The Longships
      2. Ebudae
      3. On My Way Home
      4. Boadicea
    • LP 3: Clouds
      Side A
      1. Watermark
      2. Portrait (Out of the Blue)
      3. Miss Clare Remembers
      4. Shepherd Moons
      Side B
      1. March of the Celts
      2. Lothlórien
      3. From Where I Am
      4. Afer Ventus
    • LP 4: Clouds
      Side A
      1. Oriel Window
      2. River
      3. Tea-House Moon
      4. Willows on the Water
      Side B
      1. Morning Glory
      2. No Holly for Miss Quinn
      3. The Memory of Trees
    • LP 5: Stars
      Side A
      1. Evening Falls
      2. Paint the Sky with Stars
      3. Angeles
      4. Athair Ar Neamh
      Side B
      1. La Soñadora
      2. Aldebaran
      3. Deireadh an Tuath
      4. Eclipse
      5. Exile
    • LP 6: Stars
      Side A
      1. On Your Shore’
      2. Evacuee’
      3. Marble Halls’
      4. Hope Has a Place’
      Side B
      1. The Sun in the Stream
      2. Na Laetha Geal M’óige
      3. Smaoinim

Falco / Live Forever: The Complete Show – Berlin 1986

Posted on by Paul Sinclair

Austrian superstar Falco played in Berlin in 1986 as part of his Emotional World tour. That concert is now issued in full for the first time, with a number of previously unreleased tracks.

Emotional was Falco’s fourth studio album and the second produced by Bolland and Bolland with whom with he had enjoyed the global success of his previous record, Falco 3, and its international hit single ‘Rock Me Amadeus’.

Live Forever: The Complete Show – Berlin 1986 is a 2CD set.

Newly found tapes featured six tracks performed in Berlin from the Emotional album as well as three others, so nine out of 22 tracks are previously unreleased. The audio has all been newly mixed and mastered and this set comes with new sleeve notes courtesy of Michael Rager. There’s no vinyl edition, it’s just 2CD and digital!

Live Forever: The Complete Show – Berlin 1986 will be released on 9 June 2023, via Warner Music Germany.

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Tracklisting

Live Forever: The Complete Show – Berlin Falco / 2CD set

    • CD 1
      1. Kamikaze Kappa *
      2. The Sound Of Musik
      3. The Star Of Moon And Sun *
      4. Junge Roemer
      5. Männer Des Westens – Any Kind Of Land *
      6. Cowboyz And Indianz *
      7. Auf Der Flucht
      8. The Kiss Of Kathleen Turner *
      9. Jeanny
      10. Crime Time *
      11. Les Nouveaux Riches *
      *Previously unreleased
    • CD 2
      1. Interlude*
      2. Hoch Wie Nie
      3. Munich Girls *
      4. Emotional
      5. Coming Home (Jeanny Part 2, Ein Jahr Danach)
      6. Der Kommissar
      7. Vienna Calling
      8. Ganz Wien
      9. Helden Von Heute
      10. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue
      11. Rock Me Amadeus
      *Previously unreleased