Release Round-Up: Lightfoot, Queen, ID4 and More

April 20, 2010 By Mike Duquette — No Comments

Amazon has posted pre-order links for new remasters for folk legend (and non-dead person) Gordon Lightfoot. Wounded Bird will distribute these new releases of the LPs he recorded for Warner/Reprise, from 1970’s Sit Down Young Stranger to 1998’s A Painter Passing Through (pre-order links are missing East of Midnight (1983) – not sure as to why). They’re due June 8.
EMI has set a May 31 release date for Queen’s The Singles Collection Volume 3. This replicates 13 original 7″ singles (sorry dance fans, no 12″ mixes here) from “It’s a Hard Life” (from The Works in 1984) to “Scandal” (from The Miracle (1989)). A fourth and final set is in the works as well.
As previously mentioned, La La Land Records will be releasing a two-disc expansion of David Arnold’s score to Independence Day tomorrow. It’s a 5,000-copy edition, with the first 100 autographed by the composer himself. The label also has another release planned; no details given (usually the label announces a week in advance but since ID4 was leaked months ago they changed things a bit) except that it will be limited to 3,000 copies. This makes it a relatively sizable release, too. Both go on sale tomorrow at 12 p.m. PST.
And if you’ve been living in a cave, check out the discussion over at ICE about the potential remastering and reissuing of the Badfinger catalogue. The tragic power-pop masters may be getting some love on CD over the summer from Rhino, it seems – as always, stay tuned when more info becomes available.

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Mike Duquette (Founder) was fascinated with catalog music ever since he was a teenager. A 2009 graduate of Seton Hall University with a B.A. in journalism, Mike paired his profession with his passion through The Second Disc, one of the first sites to focus on all reissue labels great and small. His passion for reissues turned into a career, having written at and worked for all three major catalogue music labels and contributing to Allmusic, Billboard, Discogs, City Pages and Ultimate Classic Rock. He's penned liner notes for Verve, Chess, Mondo and Soul Music Records.

Born and raised in New Jersey, Mike lives in Astoria, Queens with his wife, a cat named Ravioli, twin daughters and a large yet tasteful collection of music.