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Trevor Horn and Jill Sinclair’s legacy • Plus Perfect Songs catalogue
The world’s largest music company Universal, just got even larger after acquiring the rights to the entire ZTT catalogue, selected rights to music owned by Stiff Records and music publisher Perfect Songs.
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February sees the reboot of the first five albums by Felt, one of Britain’s best post-punk bands, via the Cherry Red label. Boasting the splendid names Crumbling The Antiseptic Beauty, The Splendour Of Fear, The Strange Idols Pattern And Other Short Stories, Ignite The Seven Cannons and The Seventeenth Century, each album is available either on 12-inch vinyl or as a CD plus seven-inch single boxset.
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His final recordings • Two-CD set includes bonus ‘raw’ mixes
The late Rick Parfitt’s first-ever solo album, poignantly entitled Over and Out, is released in March 2018 via earMUSIC, across a number of formats, including a special two-CD collectors’ edition.
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A couple of Ringo Starr’s go-to albums – Ringo (1973) and Goodnight Vienna (1974) – are being reissued worldwide on 180-gram vinyl by Capitol/Universal Music early in the new year.
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The latest in a run of fine Jethro Tull deluxe reissues gallops into view in February – Heavy Horses: New Shoes Edition. Just like the 40th anniversary edition of Songs From The Wood released in May, this one also marks four decades since the original album’s release and is a five-disc bookset.
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Relive Graham Parker’s four decades in the music business with this career-spanning reissue from Universal Music that covers both his years with The Rumour and his solo output.
Continue reading “These Dreams Will Never Sleep: The Best Of Graham Parker 1976-2015”
Track down Stranded In Reality, a mahoosive 30-disc anthology box set celebrating the solo career of British rock legend and Mott the Hoople icon Ian Hunter…
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Gear up for a vintage Gillan vinyl fest with this new release from Demon Records, featuring the band’s five Top 20 albums from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era.
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Seattle supergroup Temple of the Dog mark the 25th anniversary of their one and only album with a super deluxe resissue via UMe.
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Get all the Marc Almond you could ever wish for amassed in one mammoth, career-spanning, ten-CD collection, set for release by Universal Music this October…
Continue reading “Marc Almond / Trials Of Eyeliner / career spanning 10CD super deluxe box”
The enduring and ever-evolving prog rock band King Crimson offer an immersive multimedia overview of their 2015 live performances via the Panegyric label.
Continue reading “King Crimson / Radical Action To Unseat The Hold Of Monkey Mind”
Look out for Keep Me Singing, Van Morrison’s first collection of new songs in four years – and his 36th studio album in all – incoming this September…
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Universal Music Catalogue raid the Motown vaults again for the third in a series of limited edition seven-inch box sets featuring rare and unreleased recordings by various artists, from The Marvelettes to Gladys Knight & The Pips.
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Lose yourself in the beautiful soundscapes of Eluvium (aka American ambient recording artist Matthew Cooper) with the studiously packaged second instalment of Life Through Bombardment, featuring almost all Eluvium recordings since volume one.
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Glam up for Sony Music’s expanded, digitally remastered reissue of Sweet’s 1975 studio/live compilation Strung Up in double LP colour vinyl and 2CD formats.
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Immerse yourself in the remastered high-resolution 192/24 DTS-HD Master Audio sound of Chicago with Quadio, a new nine-disc blu-ray audio box, that delivers stereo and original quadrophonic mixes of their first eight studio albums (1969-76) plus the 1975 greatest hits compilation.
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Get up, get out of your lazy bed for Cherry Red Records’ forthcoming release of the first-ever remastered, expanded edition of continental-Latin-Jazz-pop combo Matt Bianco’s debut album.
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Get outta your dreams and dive into Billy Ocean’s new two-CD compilation of cover versions, greatest hits and a couple of new tracks.
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Incoming: double-LP extended versions of 808:90 (or simply Ninety if you prefer) and Ex:El by Mancunian acid house pioneers 808 State, courtesy of the Music on Vinyl label.
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Get exactly what it says on the box, with this budget-priced reissue of five classic Rick Wakeman studio albums from Universal Music Catalogue.
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