As the pre-order options for the newly announced David Gilmour Live at Pompeii release slowly feed through, it would be remiss of SDE not to highlight a very competitive price for the deluxe box set edition on Amazon Italy.
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This week: Tears For Fears take SDE’s advice and we explore the mystery of the new The Smiths remaster…
Regular visitors here should already know that together, SDE and its readers have been known to influence and actually affect change in archival product, thanks to pointed observations and often forensic knowledge of artists’ back catalogue. Reissues from the likes of Swing Out Sister, The Blow Monkeys, Bros, Donna Summer and Peter Gabriel have all been ‘improved’ to some degree or another – thanks to this community, and they’re only releases we actually know about!
However, having an impact on a band’s live performance is a new one, but that’s exactly what happened this week, as a tweet by Tears For Fears singer and songwriter Roland Orzabal revealed.
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In July 2016 David Gilmour performed two shows in the amphitheatre in Pompeii making him the only performer to play to an audience in the arena since the time of the gladiators, almost 2,000 years ago. As you might expect, a concert film Live At Pompeii was shot (in 4K, by Gavin Elder) and this is being released theatrically in September (“for one night only”) and more pertinently for SDE readers, the whole thing is being issued across five different formats – including as a 2CD+2x blu-ray deluxe box set – later the same month…
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Warners will issue multi-disc deluxe editions of The Smiths‘ 1986 album The Queen Is Dead on vinyl and CD, in October this year.
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Universal Music Canada have taken to Facebook to acknowledge their ‘errors’ when compiling the sesquicentennial Canada 150 release which is available as a six-CD super deluxe edition.
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Stupendous price on Amazon Germany today for the exquisite Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Lovely Creatures super deluxe edition.
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Parlophone continue their David Bowie 40th anniversary seven-inch picture discs, with this rather striking new edition of the “Heroes” single, scheduled for release in September.
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The Waterboys will release a brand new studio album, Out Of All This Blue, in September. It’s a double album and their first for BMG Records, with whom they recently signed.
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As mentioned back in April, when this was announced, the soundtrack to the Grateful Dead documentary Long Strange Trip is being made available as a limited edition 6LP vinyl package (exclusive to Amazon). It is now available for pre-order.
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Universal Music will release The Vinyl Singles Collection 1984-1989, another Status Quo vinyl box set, next month.
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Soundtrack label Stylotone have issued a seven-inch vinyl record that features one of the world’s most famous films cues – Bernard Herrmann‘s music to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 horror classic, Psycho.
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Can’t wait for this. The 1985 Marillion classic Misplaced Childhood is expanded with unreleased live concert, B-sides, demos and best of of a 5.1 surround sound mix by Steven Wilson. 4LP vinyl box also available. 
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Some great vinyl deals worth highlighting TODAY on Amazon Italy with box sets and multiple vinyl packages from artists such The Who, Lou Reed, Steve Hackett, David Bowie and George Harrison available with great discounts. Click ‘MORE’ to check out SDE’s guide to some of the best…
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This Saturday: T. Rex, Pet Shop Boys and David Bowie…
One of the more hotly debated releases this week was Demon’s triple vinyl set of T. Rex remixes. These are remixes created by modern-day remixers. Plenty of you were of the opinion that Marc Bolan would be turning in his grave at such treatment, although I’m not so sure myself. Even Tony Visconti said Marc was always trying to make ‘one more for the kids’ so who’s to say he wouldn’t have given the thumbs up to this album if he was still with us, to show the ‘kids’ of today how cool he once was?
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Legendary producer Chris Merrick Hughes made his name working with big name acts such as Adam and the Ants (he produced Kings Of The Wild Frontier, as well as being the drummer!) and Tears For Fears (worked on all three albums issued in the ’80s). In 1994 he issued an electronic/experimental album called Shift and today sees the release of a belated follow-up called Eirenic Life. SDE caught up with Chris a few weeks ago to discuss the new album…
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Demon Music are to mark the 40th anniversary of Marc Bolan’s untimely death with a project that is sure to divide fans of T. Rex. They have commissioned new remixes of classic tracks such as Metal Guru, Telegram Sam and 20th Century Boy for a two-CD set that is also available as a strictly limited 500-only triple coloured vinyl set.
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Rhino will reissue an expanded edition of The Sisters Of Mercy‘s 1992 compilation Some Girls Wander By Mistake as four-record vinyl box set in September.
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Van Morrison will release Roll With The Punches, his 37th studio album, in September.
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Later this month, Cherry Red are to release Justhipper, a two-CD compilation that brings together earlier recordings of James.
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