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Last chance to order the SDE-exclusive Wham! blu-rays

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By Paul Sinclair

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Thank you for all your enthusiasm for the forthcoming Wham! Fantastic and Make It Big SDE-exclusive blu-ray audios, numbers 19 and 20 in the SDE Surround Series. The pre-order window officially closes today, so this is your last chance to guarantee a copies of these 80s-tastic releases, although we’ll extend it for another couple of days until we reach the weekend!

Both blu-rays are region-free and are only available via the SDE shop and include Dolby Atmos Mixes of the album, 96/24 hi-res stereo mixes and then a bevy of bonus tracks in stereo and Atmos including remixes, B-sides, instrumentals and more!

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’) below. There’s a specially-priced two blu-ray bundle, we ship worldwide and there’s no extra import charges for EU customers (for orders below €150). We’ve recently added India to the list of countries we ship to.

The Fantastic and Make It Big blu-ray audios is a collaboration between Sony Music and SDE and will be released on 22 March 2023. Both 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.

A blu-ray audio is a blu-ray disc with no video content. It is region-free and compatible with ALL blu-ray players. Any stereo content can be played via two speakers or a soundbar, in the normal way, but to enjoy the surround sound/spatial audio element such as 5.1 mixes and Dolby Atmos Mixes you will need to connect to an appropriate amplifier/receiver with speaker set-up or a Atmos/5.1 certified soundbar

Tracklisting

Fantastic Wham! / SDE-exclusive blu-ray audio

    • Dolby Atmos & 96/24 Stereo
      1. Bad Boys
      2. A Ray of Sunshine
      3. Love Machine
      4. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?)
      5. A Ray of Sunshine (Instrumental Remix)
      6. Love Machine (Instrumental Remix)
      7. Club Tropicana
      8. Nothing Looks The Same in the Light
      9. Come On
      10. Young Guns (Go For It!)
      11. Nothing Looks The Same in the Light (Instrumental Remix)
      Bonus tracks in Dolby Atmos & Stereo
      1. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) – single version 3.32
      2. Young Guns (Go For It) – single version 3.43
      3. Young Guns (Go For It) UK 12” mix 5.11
      4. Blue (Armed With Love) 3.56
       Bonus tracks in Stereo-only
      1. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) [Club Mix] 4.20
      2. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) [Social Mix] 6.45
      3. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) [Unsocial Mix] 6.38
      4. Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do?) [Special Club Remix] 3.05
      5. Young Guns (For For It) – Special US 12” Remix 6.53
      6. Going For It 4.39
      7. Bad Boys (12” Extended Club Mix) 4.58
      8. Bad Boys (instrumental) 3.21
      9. Club Tropicana (instrumental) 3.31
      10. Club Fantastic Megamix 3.57

Tracklisting

Make It Big Wham! / SDE-exclusive blu-ray audio

    • Dolby Atmos & 96/24 Stereo
      1. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go 3.51
      2. Everything She Wants 5.03
      3. Heartbeat 4.44
      4. Like A Baby 4.15
      5. Freedom 5.02
      6. If You Were There 3.39
      7. Credit Card Baby 5.10
      8. Careless Whisper 6.32
      Bonus tracks in Dolby Atmos & Stereo
      1. Careless Whisper (Single Version) 5.03
      2. Freedom (version from The Final) 5.20
      3. Last Christmas 4.26
      4. Everything She Wants (Remix edit) 5.30
      5. Freedom (Long Version) 7.09
      6. Last Christmas (Pudding Mix) 6.45
      7. Everything She Wants (Remix) 6.30
      8. I’m Your Man 4.07
      9. The Edge of Heaven 4.37
      10. Battlestations 5.31
      11. Where Did Your Heart Go? 5.50
       Bonus tracks in Stereo-only
      1. A Ray of Sunshine (specially recorded for ‘The Tube’)
      2. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (instrumental) 4.02
      3. Freedom (instrumental) 5.10
      4. Last Christmas (Pudding Mix Edit) 4.47
      5. I’m Your Man (Extended Stimulation)
      6. Do It Right (Instrumental)
      7. I’m Your Man (Acappella)
      8. Blue (Recorded Live in China)
      9. I’m Your Man (version from Music From The Edge Of Heaven version)
      10. Wham! Rap ’86

The SDE Surround Series so far is:

#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 Arists: 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

#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

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  1. Received my two copies. Impatient (with new treasures this is normal for me) thrown directly into the player. System to normal volume… at first I thought I had bad hearing. Maybe a cold… Then I turned up my system… see (hear) there ! :WHAM! – Don’t be angry. But it was a bit of a disappointment for me at first. I had expected more power and dynamics (Wham on Blu Ray in 96/24). Sounds a bit to me (just my opinion)… “restrained”. Rather quiet in contrast to other BR audio releases I know of. The spatiality of the music is 1A. Of course, you have to keep in mind that it is not a current recording. Perhaps the Masters are no different. Maybe it was the recording studio, the recording manager, the sound engineer… who knows… Nevertheless, I am very happy.

  5. Hello Paul,
    Do you know if there were any specific original analogue tapes used for both the new stereo and 5.1 mix of the WHAM! Make It Big Blu-ray Audio release?
    If not, then was a recent remaster used for the stereo/5.1 mix?
    Thank you.
    -Geovanny

  6. I think that THOMPSON TWINS:QUICK STEP & SIDE KICK and THOMPSON TWINS:INTO THE GAP absolutely deserves/needs a blu-ray audio release!
    Imagine how big and beautiful those two albums would sound in 5.1!
    I would love to see it happen one day!

  7. Yet another broken promise that once the preorder window closed on these, they would no longer be available. And with that, the release date has now been pushed back by over a month, to accommodate late buyers.

    This has happened with just about every SDE exclusive bluray release. The only one to actually sell out, if my memory serves me correctly, is Mark Knopfler. Or is it just a matter of time till more of these become available?

    1. There’s no broken promise because we do normally point out that when the pre-order window closes it’s the last chance to be guaranteed a copy.

      Let’s be sensible, if we get 2345 pre-orders for something we are going to round it up for manufacturing. In that example, we’d probably make 2500. People also cancel orders as well which means stock becomes available. Do you expect us to BURN available stock rather than give people who would like to buy it the opportunity to do so? Also, for your information there’s loads of titles that are out of stock including The Tipping Point, xPropaganda, Gilbert O’Sullivan, Orbital, Ten Years After, The Hurting, Tubular Bells, Duran Duran etc. And ones that aren’t will be soon because the quantities left are small.

      The whole point of implementing the pre-order window idea was as a result of people saying that just having ‘x’ quantity and selling out in 2 days wasn’t very fan-friendly. So that’s why it exists, but there will normally be small quantities of stock available around release date, although not always (there wasn’t for Duran Duran, for example). Also, the quantity is locked after the pre-order window ends, so if the item does become available again it’s not because we’ve made any more, it’s just because there’s some more available for the reasons described above.

      So the ‘Last Chance’ emails are what they say, a last chance to guarantee purchase of an item.

      BTW The release has gone back because the approvals process that Sony has to go through with George Michael Entertainment and Andrew Ridgeley has taken much longer than anticipated. Simple as that. I wish they were being shipped this week!

      1. Hey Paul thanks again for another stunning release
        What’s really good about SDE is artists now realise where the fans lurk and I think it does carry weight

        I’m a bit behind and glad the window was widened and perhaps add * subject to change to appease those that don’t get the commercials behind it

        Keep doing what you do and whatever maximises the success as I imagine the logistics are different from my days working at Warner in the 90s, and there’s less upfront costs than they used to be !

      2. I didn’t receive any email after the premiere was postponed to April. And it’s not just me. Is it a big problem to change the date on the website?

    2. Let’s be happy that SDE is sticking its neck out to realize these kinds of special releases. This requires a major risk from a business perspective, and the SDE team takes that risk (for us). These releases are only possible because the SDE team takes care of us as 5.1 / Dolby Atmos enthusiasts.
      Let’s make the world a little more beautiful by thinking about each other.

    1. The two blu-rays combined feature EVERYTHING on the 10CD box set in stereo and more (Careless Whisper, the missing UK 12″ of Young Guns, the 12″ of Bad Boys, Ray of Sunshine live from The Tube, The US 12″ of I’m Your Man, the Pudding Mix Edit of Last Christmas, Blue Live in China, plus of course the two albums in hi-res stereo and Atmos. I’m rather proud of what we’ve managed to pull together!!

  9. Ordered at the last possible moment, haha. Wanted to add the ‘Echoes from the Edge of Heaven’ vinyl, but that one was sold out. I’ll survive.

  11. I know this is a weird one – and slightly off topic,

    The Brian ENO Blu-Ray. Was it sealed like all of the other ones? ALL of my SDE Blu-Rays came with a plastic wrap with a rip strip. I am trying to pick up the couple I missed and Eno is one of those. Was it sealed or were they all open? I have someone telling me they arrived without the seal, which seems odd as it would be the only one to be like that.

    1. I hope not, as I don’t want the SDE Surround Series to focus on the most commercial, and IMO, uninteresting music over the decades, though I appreciate that everyone has different tastes and have not bought all the SDE Bl-rays. I am actually quite shocked at the outpouring of enthusiasm for these releases as I do not recall any of my friends at school or Uni liking Wham! I have listened to the albums in Atmos on Apple Music and listened in stereo and they just don’t appeal to me. I feel impatient to get to something I actually enjoy. So they are a definite NO for me. I’ll be patient for what comes next as I await my Def Leppard and Paul Young Blu-rays. I’d be all over any more TFF in Atmos.

      Long live the SDE Surround Series.

      1. Those Wham records have aged really well particularly the debut .. not sure I would have called myself a Wham fan as a callow youth but I now recognise ‘Fantastic’ is up there with ‘Dare’, ‘Lexicon of Love’, ’Rio’ etc in terms of 80s pop perfection. Their profile is high after the fabulous Netflix doc and George Michael fans arent exactly spoiled for choice with SDE releases so it’s no surprise this one has such a warm reception.

        There are lots of other big commercial acts in the series (Paul Young, TFF and Def Leppard are hardly leftfield obscurities) but also everything from Eno to Orbital and Gilbert O’Sullivan. I suspect it’ll continue to be surprising whatever comes next and it’ll be as much about serendipity, what labels are willing to do and what Paul thinks he can get behind, as it is commercial sales

        1. I have to say, I am very pleasantly surprised at what Paul has managed to negotiate for release. If you read up over at stevehoffman.com on the trials of boutique labels such as Rubellan Remasters or Intervention Records to license titles from the majors, it becomes all the more impressive.

          It really is a very eclectic selection – and thankfully no stinkers as yet!! ;D

          1. FYI, it’s “forums.stevehoffman.tv”.

            Rubellan Remasters is a terrific label! Their Oingo Boingo CD reissues are near-perfect.

          2. Thanks @psukomyko, I stand corrected re the Hoffman website link :)

            I don’t doubt the Oingo Boingo CDs are well done – just not my taste, personally. TBH, none of the Rubellan titles thus far have ticked my fancy – though I wish them well.

  17. After debating for a week, where the thought process went something like this:
    I loved Wham! as a teenager…do I really expect to listen to Wham! in spatial audio in my old(er) age.
    Wait. George Michael was a brilliant singer, and definitely doesn’t get enough credit as a great songwriter. These are good songs, and most of them still hold up very well. Plus, there’s all this stuff I actually haven’t heard!
    Ultimately, yes, Paul’s hard work and dedication to this project, the quality of the work, and getting the finished product in spatial audio, made it easier for me to pull the trigger on yet another SDE exclusive. Thanks Paul, looking forward to these!

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