Merry Christmas 2024
Another year over and a new one just begun (almost)
I’d like to wish every SDE reader a very Merry Christmas!
2024 has perhaps not been a classic, in terms of reissues and box sets, but here at SDE we have certainly been kept busy, with 18 titles in the SDE Surround Series announced in the last 12 months, with the last five yet to ship (Elton John, The Who, the two Simple Minds albums and Bryan Ferry). Your enthusiasm and passion for this series allows us to continue, so thank you to everyone who placed an order in 2024!
There are exciting plans for more exclusive blu-rays in 2025 and while it will be a tall order to match the level of product we’ve brought to the marketplace in 2024, I’ll do my best. I hope we can get to No 50 in the series next year, which would be an amazing achievement in a relatively short period, but let’s wait and see!
Later this week there will be an SDE review of the best box sets of 2024 and there’s the annual SDE Reissue Preview in the new year, but that aside, I’m looking forward to taking a few days off over this festive period and spend some time with the family and reflect on 2024. I’m sure many of you have had to say goodbye to a loved one this year and I’m no different: a close friend of mine died in early October and I heard yesterday that my sister’s father-in-law passed away on Saturday.
On a more positive note, a new year is an opportunity to turn the page and press ‘reset’. This site has been running since March 2011 and so next year will be SDE’s 14th birthday. Regardless of whenever you discovered this site – whether you are a occasional reader, or a regular; whether you leave messages regularly or are more of a ‘lurker’ in the discussion section – I’d like to say a heartfelt thanks for coming on the journey and I look forward to more adventures next year.
Happy Christmas! I wish you a healthy, prosperous and peaceful 2025.
Paul Sinclair
Editor, SDE
1 Tears For Fears / The Tipping Point
2 xPropaganda / The Heart is Strange
3 Gilbert O’Sullivan / Driven
4 Shakespears Sister / Hormonally Yours
5 Brian Eno / ForeverAndEverNoMore
6. Orbital / Optical Delusion
6.5 Various Artists / Concert For George
7 Ten Years After / A Space in Time
8 Bob Dylan / Time Out Of Mind (2022 Remix)
9 Tears For Fears / The Hurting
10 Mike Oldfield / Tubular Bells
11 Suede
12 ABC / The Lexicon of Love
13 Duran Duran / Danse Macabre
13a Duran Duran / Danse Macabre De Luxe
14 Trevor Horn / Echoes – Ancient and Modern
15 Soft Cell / Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
16 Def Leppard / Diamond Star Halos
17 Paul Young / No Parlez
18 Mark Knopfler / One Deep River
19 Wham! / Fantastic
20 Wham! / Make It Big
21 Keane / Hopes and Fears
22 Luther Vandross / Never Too Much
23 Crowded House / Gravity Stairs
24 Ultravox / Lament
25 Tori Amos / Unrepentant Geraldines
26 Bronski Beat / The Age of Consent
27 Thin Lizzy / 1976
28 Tears For Fears / Songs For A Nervous Planet
29 Thompson Twins / Into The Gap
30 The Who / Who’s Next
31 Elton John / Diamonds
32 Simple Minds / New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
33 Simple Minds / Sparkle in the Rain
34 Bryan Ferry / Retrospective
By Paul Sinclair
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