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A selection of Wham!’s live performances from their historic 1985 trip to China will be released for the first time, on a special live EP in December. 10 Days in China – The Live EP features four songs that all went to number one in the UK and/or the USA with two (‘Wake Me Up...
Classic debut expanded • Good value 5CD and Blu-Ray set The Frank Zappa estate have announced a 60th anniversary super deluxe edition of his debut album with The Mothers Of Invention, Freak Out!. In keeping with the Zappa estate’s recent run of 50th anniversary releases – Waka/Wazoo, Over-Nite Sensation, Apostrophe (‘), One Size Fits All and...
BMG is reissuing Fatboy Slim‘s 1996 debut album Better Living Through Chemistry in October as 30th anniversary edition which is virtually identical to the 20th anniversary 2CD edition. For those who missed out on the 2016 version, its bonus CD rounded up 13 B-sides and unreleased songs. The B-sides are ‘Weekend Bonus Beats’ and ‘Neal...
There are bands who sound like nobody else, there are bands who act like nobody else, and there are bands who just aren’t like anyone else. Very high on that list are the Happy Mondays. They emerged as if from nowhere in the mid-to-late 1980s with a series of songs and records that seemed to...
The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ 2006 album, Stadium Arcadium, is being reissued for its 20th anniversary. The band’s ninth studio album features the singles ‘Dani California’, ‘Tell Me Baby’, ‘Snow (Hey Oh)’, ‘Desecration Smile’, and ‘Hump de Bump’. This anniversary reissue seems like an empty exercise in coloured vinyl, since there’s three different versions of...
Paul McCartney ‘vanilla’ CD reissues For whatever reason, Paul McCartney’s Flowers in the Dirt (1989), Flaming Pie (1997), Red Rose Speedway (1973) and Wild Life (1971) are all being made available as single CD reissues. The gatefold card sleeve packaging makes these mildly interesting. Flowers in the Dirt actually snuck out as a single black...
NOW Music’s Yearbook Vault series continues next month, when the spotlight falls on 1986, and songs that were minor hits, hit-adjacent or, and let’s use the word, flops. For this release, the usual ‘Yearbook’ 4CD option of deluxe hardcover book packaging or more basic card sleeve edition, offers 77 tracks, while a 3LP coloured vinyl...
Next month, Parlophone will release Motörhead On Parole: The Alternative Mixes on vinyl LP. These are the first recordings by the band in 1975-76 featuring Lemmy, Phil Taylor, Larry Wallis and Lucas Fox. These alternative mixes were originally issued on CD as part of the On Parole 3CD+blu-ray box set but get their vinyl debut...
3CD+DVD box set • Stunning SDE exclusive blu-ray • Quick pre-order Roxy Music’s 1973 album, For Your Pleasure will be reissued in November in what represents the first major Roxy reissue campaign since the art-rocker’s eponymous debut was re-released back in 2017. Regarded by many as their masterpiece; you could call it the ‘Godfather II” of studio...
Elastica’s self-titled 1995 debut album is to be reissued by Rough Trade on vinyl and CD in October, adding a disc of B-sides and rarities. The reissue is the first time the album has been available on vinyl in the UK since it was remastered and re-released for Record Store Day in 2017, though Brooklyn...
