Edsel are to issue a new T. Rex deluxe ‘bookset’ pairing expanded versions of 1975’s Bolan’s Zip Gun with 1976’s Futuristic Dragon, across three CDs.
Both albums were produced by Bolan (who by then had parted ways with Tony Visconti) and between them they delivered three top 30 hit singles in the UK, including New York City. Amongst the bonus outtakes on this new deluxe set, seven are said to have been mastered from original first generation tapes supplied by two fans – the first time these tapes have been used.
Mark Paytress has written a new 10,000 word essay for the book and the cover features a rare Terry O’Neill photograph.
This Bolan’s Zip Gun / Futuristic Dragon deluxe edition will be released on 3rd March 2017.
On February 25th, George Harrison would have turned 74 years old. One day earlier, UMe and the estate of the late Beatle will release his entire solo album catalogue in one new vinyl box set.
George Harrison – The Vinyl Collection includes newly-remastered editions of 13 albums, from WonderwallMusic (1968) to the posthumously released Brainwashed (2002). Each album has been remastered at Capitol Studios from the original tapes and pressed onto 180-gram vinyl. The albums are all packaged in replica sleeves, and the entire set comes in one sturdy slipcase.
While all of the LPs will be available individually, the box set will also contain exclusive 12-inch singles of “When We Was Fab” and “Got My Mind Set on You.” The standalone release of the 3-LP All Things Must Pass (including the Apple Jam disc) will be a limited edition.
The titles included are:
Wonderwall Music (1968)
Electronic Sound (1969)
All Things Must Pass (1970)
Living in the Material World (1973)
Dark Horse (1974)
Extra Texture (1975)
Thirty-Three & 1/3 (1976)
George Harrison (1979)
Somewhere in England (1981)
Gone Troppo (1982)
Cloud Nine (1987)
Live in Japan (1992)
Brainwashed (2002)
The box will be joined by a George Harrison Essential III turntable manufactured and designed by Pro-Ject AudioSystems, limited to 2,500 units worldwide; and a reissued, “extended” version of Harrison’s 1980 book I Me Mine.
Units made: 173 Limited-Edition Book, numbered and hand-signed by Mick Jagger, Michael Putland and Nick Kent.
Limited-Edition Tour Litho of 173 pieces, hand-signed by Mick Jagger.
Album: 180-gram Triple-Vinyl Set of the Brussels concert.
Watch: ’70s-era “Tongue & Lips” Watch—Japan Seiko movement and stainless steel face with brass dial.
History: In 1973, the government of France banned the Rolling Stones from entering French territory because of various run-ins with the law most of them occurring during summer of 1971, while the band members were in the South of France, recording one of their masterpieces, Exile on Main St. This was a blow to the Stones’ hordes of French fans, who would be shut out from experiencing the Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band In The World on their 1973 European Tour in support of the newly released Goats Head Soup. That October, the band organized a concert across the Belgian border in Brussels, and a local radio station chartered a bus to transport French fans to the now-historic gig.
All the sights and sounds from this historic show and tour have now been amassed for the first time in The BrusselsAffair, the inaugural release from the Stones Archive. The package features an 180-gram triple-vinyl album and rare photographs from the Brussels show by Claude Gassian, as well a book documenting the entire 1973 European tour, with exclusive photographs from Michael Putland and a newly written text by acclaimed NME scribe Nick Kent.
Contributors: Michael Putland, Nick Kent, Claude Gassian
Cheapest price yet for the recent The Who Track Records seven-inch vinyl box on Amazon UK at present…
This is the third in a series of singles box sets and contains music from the band’s Track Records era – featuring 45s like Pinball Wizard, I Can See For Miles and Won’t Get Fooled Again. The 15 singles are all pressed on heavyweight vinyl with paper sleeves, and are housed in a rigid ‘lid-and-tray’ outer box. This also comes with a 20-page colour booklet with liner notes about each release
A fantastic box set, obviously not a original idea, the music speaks for itself, the format is one of individual choice, but I do love a good 7″ vinyl box set.
The labels, the sound, the total number of singles this box gives you is good value for money, divide the cost between the fifteen singles and it doesn’t seem so bad.
The booklet could of been better, maybe a few more unreleased photos, but it gives you the scope on each 7″,
The only other disapointment is the plain sleeves on the singles, except for the two picture covers, they look so boring, they could of just used a corner stamp with the Track logo….but white plain sleeves make this box set look slightly cheap
The Track Records Single 1967 – 1973 is volume three of a four part set of classic Who singles pressed on heavyweight vinyl with paper sleeves , rarely heard b-sides , 7” sized 20-page colour booklet with liner notes about each release and period memorabilia. The 15 disc set also features classic hits –‘Pictures of Lily’, ‘I Can See For Miles’, Magic Bus’, ‘Pinball Wizard’, ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ and ‘Join Together’….
‘Kings of the Wold Frontier” – Super Deluxe Edition‘ is the most comprehensive edition of this 1980s classic to date, complete with freshly remastered audio and a wealth of unreleased and exclusive content. B sides, previously unreleased studio demos and rough cuts, a previously unreleased live recording and rarities all curated by Adam himself.
There’s also a DVD of promo videos, live performances, the first DVD release of Adam & The Ants Live In Tokyo 1981 in its entirety and a short promotional video ‘Ant Invasion’ a mini documentary of the first Adam & The Ants US tour in 1981.
Perfectly complementing the music is a 36 page 12 x 12” full colour book including detailed liner notes and track annotations by Adam Ant, gold vinyl LP, gold CDs, replica original release Ant Catalogue, fan memorabilia, recreated artwork, poster, photos and much more, all packaged in a super deluxe gold box.
Volume four of a four part set of classic Who singles by labels (Brunswick, Reaction, Track and Polydor), released to coincide with the band’s 50th Anniversary. 15 x 7” singles from the band’s Polydor Records era (1975-2015) – pressed on heavyweight vinyl with card picture sleeves (where applicable) reproducing the period graphics front and back. Includes classic hits –‘Squeeze Box / Who Are You / You Better You Bet / Eminence Front (scheduled for release in the UK where sleeves were printed but never released) / ‘Real Good-Looking Boy’ & ‘Be Lucky’ The single that never was Eminence Front is included here which is a standout song from the circa Kenney Jones era. Ive always preferred Who Are You album version opposed to the single edit. 5:15/I’m One is ok with remixed versions from the original 1973 sessions by Entwistle for the Quadrophenia film soundtrack
1. ‘Listening To You/See Me, Feel Me’ b/w ‘Overture’
2. ‘Squeeze Box’ b/w ‘Success Story’
3. ‘Who Are You’ b/w ‘Had Enough’
4. ‘Long Live Rock’ b/w ‘I’m the Face’, ‘My Wife’ (live)
5. ‘5.15’ b/w ‘I’m One’.
6. ‘You Better You Bet’ b/w ‘The Quiet One’
7. ‘Don’t Let Go The Coat’ b/w ‘You’
8. ‘Athena’ b/w ‘A Man Is A Man’
9. ‘Eminence Front’ b/w ‘It’s Your Turn’ (This single was scheduled for release in the UK. Sleeves were printed but it was never released. It was to have been Who 7.)
10. ‘Twist and Shout’ b/w ‘I Can’t Explain’ (Both live)
11. ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again / Bony Maronie’ (Live at Young Vic)
12. ‘Join Together’ b/w ‘I Can See For Miles’ and ‘Behind Blue Eyes’ (All three tracks live from 1989 US tour)
13. ‘Real Good-Looking Boy’ b/w ‘Old Red Wine’
14. WIRE & GLASS (EP) ‘Sound Round’, Pick Up The Peace’, Endless Wire’, We Got A Hit’, ‘They Made My Dream Come True’, ‘Mirror Door’. Polydor 1702801. Released 24 July 2006
15. ‘Be Lucky’ b/w ‘I Can’t Explain’ (remixed)
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 later solo output.
These Dreams Will Never Sleep: The Best Of Graham Parker 1976-2015 includes 90 tracks across six CDs, a compilation live DVD, a 36-page hardcover book featuring a new interview with Parker and an overview written by Holly A. Hughes, plus a poster and three postcards.
Following their critically-acclaimed debut album Howlin’ Wind, Graham Parker & The Rumour enjoyed some chart success in the late Seventies and early Eighties, peaking with their last album before Parker branched out on his own – The Up Escalator (1980, which, was credited only to Parker on the cover) reached number 11 in the UK and tip-toed into the Top 40 Stateside. The previous album, Squeezing Out Sparks (1979) charted on both sides of the pond), is often held up as Parker’s finest, While his albums since have not had such commercial clout, Graham Parker has enjoyed a long and productive solo career, and he reunited with The Rumour to make Three Chords Good, the first of two new albums together, in 2012.
The first three CDs in this set are anthology discs consisting mainly of studio recordings, plus four solo acoustic demos and four live performances with The Rumour. This is followed a disc of live BBC recordings – at Hammersmith Odeon, 1979, plus a handful of songs for the BBC Sight And Sound in Concert series in 1977 – and, for the first time, a recording Parker’s last-ever gig with The Rumour (and horn section) at London’s Forum which is spread across two CDs.
The 34-track DVD kicks off with a previously unreleased 21-song set, Live at The Brook, Southampton, in 2015 with The Rumour, and a selection of late-Seventies TV performances on Top Of The Pops and the Old Grey Whistle Test completes a substantive audio-visual offering for Parker fans.
These Dreams Will Never Sleep: The Best Of Graham Parker 1976-2015 is released on 30th September 2016.
Universal Music celebrate the 40th Anniversary of punk this summer with Live ’76, a new Sex Pistols box of historic live performances, available on 4LP vinyl or 4CD.
The four concerts of that long, hot summer are released in full and correctly sequenced for the very first time: They are:
4th June – 1976: Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester – Recently voted one of the most important concerts of all time, alongside Woodstock and Live Aid. Although thousands claim to have been at the gig, only a handful of people were actually there… 29th August – 1976: Screen on the Green, Islington – More widely known for its cinema screenings this famous gig called ‘Midnight Special’ was organised by Malcolm Mclaren and saw support from The Clash and the Buzzcocks. 17th September 1976: HM Prison, Chelmsford – In typical McLaren style, this live show took place at Chelmsford Maximum Security Prison. 25th September – 1976: 76 Club, Burton on Trent – Originally made its way around fans as a bootleg.
LP1 4th June – 1976: Lesser Free Trade Hall, Manchester
Did You No Wrong
No Lip
Seventeen
Stepping Stone
New York
Whatcha Gonna Do About It
Submission
Satellite
No Feelings
No Fun
Substitute
Pretty Vacant
Problems
LP2 29th August – 1976: Screen on the Green, Islington
Anarchy in the UK
I Wanna Be Me
Seventeen
New York
No Lip
Stepping Stone
Satellite
Submission
Liar
No Feelings
Substitute
Pretty Vacant
Problems
Did You No Wrong
No Fun
LP3 17th September 1976: HM Prison, Chelmsford
Anarchy in the UK (incomplete)
I Wanna Be Me
Seventeen
New York
No Lip
Stepping Stone
Satellite
Submission
Liar
No Feelings (incomplete)
Substitute
No Fun
Pretty Vacant
Problems
Anarchy in the UK (encore)
Did You Know Wrong
LP4 25th September – 1976: 76 Club, Burton on Trent
Anarchy In The UK
I Wanna Be Me
Seventeen
New York
No Lip
Stepping Stone
Satellite
Submission
Liar
Substitute
No Feelings
No Fun
Pretty Vacant
Problems
This Sex Pistols boxset is quite a package for archivists. It contains four records, showcasing the band at the start of their career, as recorded on tour by their soundman, Dave Goodman. The concerts in question and in full, are the Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall, 4th June 1976 (not their famous first Manchester concert that inspired everyone to do amazing things, but a month later, when they were supported by bands their existence had kick-started, The Buzzcocks and Slaughter & the Dogs), Islington Screen on the Green, 29th August, HM PrisonChelmsford, 17th September, and Burton-on-Trent’s 76 Club, 24th September. It comes with a fanzine-style photocopied A4 16 page black’n’white pamphlet containing contemporary reviews, ads and other cuttings, and a sturdier 12” x 12” 12 page colour booklet featuring more contemporary magazine material, photographs, imagery and track-listings. The vinyl, meanwhile, arrives as four separate albums with individually designed inner sleeves. Such heritage fetishism is not very punk rock, of course, as many will observe, but for those that wish to dig down into the minutiae of this most game-changing of bands, it’s a fascinating document. Some of the recordings are much murkier than others but, notably, the Screen on the Green and Burton-on-Trent concerts have a fierceness that belies their fudgy edges. reissues are all picture discs, but with surprisingly good sound quality.
Tommy, The Who’s defining, breakthrough concept album – a full-blown rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy that launched the band to international superstardom reissued in multi format editions.
Originally released in May 1969, The Who were at a career crossroads, they were known mainly as a singles band but this project launched them as a serious ‘albums band’ and has now sold over 20 million copies as well as regularly turning up in lists of the most influential albums of all time.
It’s all too easy to go, “Yeah, The Who’s Tommy is great, love it.” But just put it into perspective for a moment. This was one man’s imagination, one man’s vision and it was groundbreaking. Add into the mix, Roger, Keith and John, who along with Pete, created what is one of the most amazing records of the rock era. It was released on 23rd May 1969 and every home should have one…
From the opening chords of ‘Overture’ you know you are in for something different. But try imagining what it was like to hear this for the very first time in the last week of May 1969 when The Who released their magnum opus, the much vaunted, Tommy. To add to the sense of wonderment ‘Overture’ features a French Horn, previously the sole preserve of the Beatles in popular music, but here played by The Who’s bass player, John Entwistle.
This was rock music, but not as we knew it. It wasn’t the first extended musical piece in rock, but it was the first to have the audacity to bill itself as an opera. Being a double album it certainly demanded to be taken seriously; to this point there had been few such lengthy albums, even ones that were not a cohesive piece of work. With its triptych of a fold out sleeve that was a lavish presentation of Mike McInnerney’s fabulous painting it all helped to make this an even more auspicious musical work.
A quick check of the album credits showed that all but four of the 24 tracks were written by Pete Townshend. It’s another reason why this monster of a work should command such respect. Few individuals had the ability, or the vision, to create such a complex and such a long piece of work; Pete’s inspiration came from the teachings of the Meher Baba.
Tommy took six months to record, and another two months to mix, while not unheard of even as long ago as 1969, but it was even then very unusual. With layers of Townshend’s acoustic guitar and the numerous overdubs Tommy was for the time a sonically very different album from most everything else. It’s another example of the passage of time fooling us into believing that this was not as significant an album as it was. So much has happened since the release of Tommy that it dulls the collective retrospective – what is now commonplace was then a step outside the accepted, a step into uncharted territory.
‘Pinball Wizard’, ‘Go to the Mirror!’, ‘I’m Free’, ‘Christmas’, and ‘See Me, Feel Me’ all came out as singles, with the first and last becoming hits in both America and the UK. ‘See Me, Feel Me’ was one of the highpoints of The Who’s appearance at Woodstock – has there ever been a better rock vocalist than Roger Daltrey. If The Who doing Tommy at Woodstock doesn’t send shivers down the spine try checking that you are still alive.
Coming after The Who Sell Out in 1967 it marked a complete change in style with Pete Townshend’s lengthy conceptual narrative brought exciting new opportunities to rock music. Tommy was and remains to be an ambitious, complex and controversial work, which was initially banned by the BBC. This new Deluxe and Super Deluxe version of the album comes with a wealth of previously unheard material in the form of 20 demos from Pete Townshend’s archive and also a live performance of Tommy from 1969 taken from tapes that infamously Townshend asked the band’s sound engineer to burn!
18 of the previously unheard and thought to be long lost live tracks are taken from a live show at the Capital Theatre, Ottowa, Canada on October the 15th 1969. Three others, I’m Free, Tommy’s Holiday Camp and We’re Not Gonna Take It were lost due to tape reels being changed during the show so are taken from later shows of the same era.
As discussed at length in Pete Townshend’s autobiography the tapes were all supposed to be destroyed but were kept by long time Who sound man Bob Pridden despite Pete’s instructions.
Super-Deluxe box set:
Disc 1 – The original album (2013 re-master) Digitally remastered in HD
Disc 2 – The demos and out-takes. Features 20 previously unreleased tracks from Pete Townshend’s archive.
Disc 3 – The 5.1 album mix – Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray The complete album remixed in surround sound on new Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray format
Disc 4 – The live ‘bootleg’ album. Features 21 previouslyunreleased tracks from 1969
Hardback 80-page full-colour book featuring rare & unseen period photos, Pete’s hand-written lyrics & notes and fascinating memorabilia.
22,000-word essay by legendary Who aficionado Richard Barnes
Facsimile 20” x 30” Tommy concert poster
Limited edition, housed in a hard-back deluxe slip-case
The fourth instalment in The Who’s singles box set series has been released on 6th May. Tracing the final part in The Who’s singles story to date, from the years 1975 to 2015, it contains 15 7”s pressed on heavyweight vinyl, replete with picture sleeves and replica artwork, collecting the group’s A- and B-side releases on the Polydor label.
If The Who’s creative output up to 1975 hadn’t already made the case (they had, after all, released two groundbreaking rock operas, Tommy and Quadrophenia, along with a slew of classic albums, among them The Who Sell Out, Live At Leeds and Who’s Next), the four-decade period covered in Volume 4: The Polydor Singles 1975-2015 is a clear reminder of the group’s ability to evolve and adapt to any situation they found themselves in. As punk attempted to lay waste to the rock bands that emerged in the 60s, The Who more than held their own with the likes of ‘Who Are You’, issued in 1978. After the tragic death of drummer Keith Moon later that same year, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle recalibrated themselves for the 80s, releasing Face Dances and It’s Hard at the beginning of the decade, flexing their hit-making prowess with the likes of ‘You Better You Bet’.
The group remained sporadically active as a live band across the next two decades, but when John Entwistle passed away in 2002, Townshend and Daltrey found themselves having to yet again roll with the punches and reboot their beloved band. The Wire & Glass EP emerged in 2006, a taster of what would become Endless Wire, The Who’s first studio outing in 24 years. Taking as its inspiration the Townshend novella The Boy Who HeardMusic, Wire & Glass formed the core of the mini-opera that was itself at the heart of Endless Wire. Though new music wasn’t coming as fast as it had in previous decades, the Wire & Glass EP was followed, in 2014, by ‘Be Lucky’, a new song recorded for the group’s anniversary collection The Who Hits 50!.
A fitting celebration of one of the longest-serving bands to have emerged from the 60s,Volume 4: The PolydorSingles 1975-2015 brings the group’s story fully up to date. Though, as ever with The Who, you’d be unwise to count it as a full-stop on their remarkable career.
Scroll down to see the full tracklist, and purchase Volume 4: The Polydor Singles 1975-2015
Disc 1:
‘Listening To You’/‘Se Me, Feel Me’/‘Overture’
Disc 2:
‘Squeeze Box’/‘Success Story’
Disc 3:
‘Who Are You’/‘Had Enough’
Disc 4:
‘Long Live Rock’/‘I’m The Face’/‘My Wife (Live)’
Disc 5:
‘5.15’/‘I’m One’
Disc 6:
‘You Better You Bet’/‘The Quiet One’
Disc 7:
‘Don’t Let Go The Coat’/‘You’
Disc 8:
‘Athena’/‘A Man Is A Man’
Disc 9:
‘Eminence Front’/‘It’s Your Turn’
Disc 10:
‘Twist And Shout (Live)’/‘I Can’t Explain (Live)’
Disc 11:
‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’/‘Bony Maronie (Live)’
Disc 12:
‘Join Together (Live)’/‘I Can See For Miles (Live)’/‘Behind Blue Eyes (Live)’
Disc 13:
‘Real Good-Looking Boy’/‘Old Red Wine’
Disc 14: Wire & Glass EP: ‘Sound Round’/‘Pick Up The Peace’/‘Endless Wire’/‘We Got A Hit’/‘They Made My Dream Come True’/‘Mirror Door’
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The Fat Angel Sings 