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Tell Him: Cherry Red, 7Ts Collect The "Complete Singles" of Glam Band Hello

April 28, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Hello Complete Singles Collection

With its pounding piano, loud guitars, and bubblegum-sticky melody, Hello's 1972 debut single "You Move Me" epitomized the glam side of pop.  Written and produced by Russ Ballard (Argent, America), the Bell label 45 inaugurated a roughly seven-year run for the Tottenham band.  All of Hello's A- and B-sides for Bell, Arista, and Polydor have recently been collected by Cherry Red's 7Ts imprint on The Complete Singles Collection.  This set is a companion to 7Ts' 2016 box set Hello: The

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Hello

Trouble No More: Allman Brothers Band Reissues Deluxe Edition of "Bear's Sonic Journals: Fillmore East, February 1970"

April 27, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Allman Brothers Bears Sonic Journals Fillmore Deluxe

Following the recent release of Down in Texas '71, the Allman Brothers Band Recording Company has turned its attention to another archival release - in this case, a reissue of a past title.  On June 18, the label will team with The Owsley Stanley Foundation for a wide release of the 3-CD Deluxe Edition of Bear's Sonic Journals: Fillmore East , February 1970. This run of concerts from Duane Allman, Gregg Allman, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Jai Johanny Johanson a.k.a. Jaimoe, and Butch Trucks

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Allman Brothers Band

The Weekend Stream: April 24, 2021

April 24, 2021 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Stream

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we've introduced a new Saturday feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Mark Morrison, Return of

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Categories: Features, News, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Bay City Rollers, Mark Morrison, Poco, Rodney Dangerfield, Squeeze

Release Round-Up: Week of April 23

April 23, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

The Who Sell Out

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band (Capitol/UMe) 6CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 6-CD/2-BD John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band: The Ultimate Collection contains everything recorded by John and Yoko during the sessions for John's 1970 Plastic Ono Band LP, totaling 159 tracks on CD and 131 on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Andre Previn, Hasaan Ibn Ali, Imelda May, John Lennon, Peter Frampton, Steve Cropper, The Beach Boys, The Who, Yoko Ono

You Better You Bet: The Who Expand "Face Dances" For Record Store Day

April 22, 2021 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

The Who Face Dances RSD

For Record Store Day 2020, The Who expanded their 1974 rarities collection Odds and Sods for a 2-LP, 25-song deluxe presentation.  This year, the band celebrates 40 years of 1981's Face Dances with another double-disc, expanded presentation.  It's due on Drop 1, June 12, from Geffen Records in a limited edition of 6,500 copies. Face Dances was the first of two Who studio albums recorded with drummer Kenney Jones following the 1978 death of Keith Moon.  While many missed Moon's explosive and

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Record Store Day, The Who

In Memoriam: Jim Steinman (1947-2021)

April 21, 2021 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Jim Steinman Promo Photo

Turn around, bright eyes... Baby, we can talk all night, but that ain't getting us nowhere... You took the words right out of my mouth...Oh, it must have been while you were kissing me! I would do anything for love...but I won't do that. Rock and roll dreams came through time and time again for Jim Steinman (1947-2021).  This singular artist - a composer, lyricist, librettist, producer, musician, singer, and storyteller - merged rock with a powerful theatricality.  His songs for

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Categories: News Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Jim Steinman

I'm So Glad: Cream's "The Goodbye Tour: Live at the Forum 1968" Arrives as 2-LP Set

April 20, 2021 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Cream LiveAtForum1968 sq 1

"Cream was a shambling circus of diverse personalities who happened to find that catalyst together...any one of us could have played unaccompanied for a good length of time. So you put the three of us together in front of an audience willing to dig it limitlessly, we could have gone on forever...And we did...just going for the moon every time we played." That's how Eric Clapton described his time in one of rock's first supergroups. And while Cream released four fine albums during their four

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Cream

Release Round-Up: Week of April 16

April 16, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Mary Wilson Expanded Edition

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Mary Wilson, Mary Wilson: Expanded Edition (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Just days before her sudden passing, Mary Wilson promised that her 1979 Motown solo debut would finally see reissue.  Universal Music and Wilson's estate have made good on that promise with this new digital release. Mary Wilson: Expanded Edition will include the original Mary Wilson album produced by Motown great Hal Davis; three single versions of the album's

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Anais Reno, Anthony Perkins, Blossom Dearie, Cole Quest and the City Pickers, Donna Lewis, Elaine Stritch, Elvis Costello, Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Freda Payne, Jean-Michel Damase, Jethro Tull, John Pizzarelli, Mary Wilson, Paul McCartney, Ricardo Silveira, Rodgers and Hart, Saigon Kick, Tom Petty

Sabotage: Super Deluxe Edition

April 15, 2021 By

Black Sabbath Sabotage

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Rhino.com 4LP/7": Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Rhino.com Rhino is expanding Black Sabbath's 1975 album Sabotage to 4CD and 4LP/7" proportions.  The upcoming Super Deluxe Edition boasts a remastered version of the original album plus a complete live show from Sabbath's 1975 tour.  The vinyl version only includes a bonus 7-inch single of the single edit of "Am I Going Insane (Radio)" b/w "Hole in the Sky,"

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

1975-1978

April 15, 2021 By

Rod Stewart 1975 1978

A new vinyl box set collects remastered versions of Rod Stewart's breakthrough first four Warner Bros. albums - Atlantic Crossing (1975), A Night on the Town (1976), Foot Loose and Fancy Free (1977), and Blondes Have More Fun (1978) - and adds the bonus LP Encores 1975-1978 featuring ten outtakes, five of which have never been released in any format.

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Everybody Cut Loose: Sony's RSD Line-Up Features Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Prince, Miles Davis, Kenny Loggins, More

April 15, 2021 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Bob Dylan Jokerman I and I

After last week's initial announcement, we'll be periodically continuing our look at the releases for the upcoming Record Store Day events on June 12 and July 17.  Today, we're focusing on our friends at Legacy Recordings.  The label has a robust slate for both Drops with many familiar faces including Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Kenny Loggins, Prince, Miles Davis, and the legendary artists and musicians of Philadelphia International Records.  Visit RecordStoreDay.com for a list of participating

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Future, Jamiroquai, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Kenny Loggins, Miles Davis, Pearl Jam, Prince, Rage Against the Machine, Record Store Day, The Clash

Blondes Have More Fun: Rod Stewart's Early American Years Chronicled in Vinyl Box

April 15, 2021 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Rod Stewart 1975 1978

Some guys have all the luck: Rod Stewart is about to see his first four Warner Bros. Records albums collected on a new vinyl box set.  Stewart moved to the Burbank label with 1975's Atlantic Crossing, inaugurating his most commercially successful period.  Atlantic Crossing, A Night on the Town (1976), Foot Loose and Fancy Free (1977), and Blondes Have More Fun (1978) took the Faces co-founder to new heights of superstardom, with each album earning platinum (or multi-platinum) certifications on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Booker T. & The MG's, Rod Stewart

The Man Who Sold The World [Picture Disc]

April 14, 2021 By

David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World Picture Disc

Parlophone reissues David Bowie's The Man Who Sold the World (released 1970 in the U.S. and 1971 in the U.K.) as a 12-inch picture disc with its 1972 reissue artwork and a bonus poster.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

The Width of a Circle

April 14, 2021 By

David Bowie The Width of a Circle

Rhino continues the celebration of the 50th anniversary of David Bowie's 1970 classic The Man Who Sold the World with The Width of a Circle, a new 2-CD "companion" collection of related live tracks and singles (many previously unreleased) including the complete premiere of Bowie's music for the television drama The Looking Glass Murders (Pierrot in Turquoise) and two BBC sets.

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Celebrate the Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac

April 14, 2021 By

Mick Fleetwood and Friends Celebrate Peter Green

2CD/BD/4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada On February 25, 2020 - just before COVID-19 forced the world into lockdown - Mick Fleetwood assembled a starry roster of his famous friends (including Pete Townshend, Christine McVie, John Mayall, Steven Tyler, David Gilmour, Billy Gibbons, Bill Wyman, Noel Gallagher, Neil Finn, and Jeremy

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock

Symptom of the Universe: Black Sabbath Announce 'Sabotage' Box Set

April 14, 2021 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Black Sabbath Sabotage

It's been a big year for fans of Black Sabbath.  In the first few months of 2021, Rhino has already released a box set of the band's 1972 album Vol. 4, followed by 2CD expanded editions of the first two Dio-era albums.  Now, the label has announced another super deluxe box set - this time of 1975's Sabotage.  Due on June 11, it will be available in both 4CD and 4LP/7" editions. While the album's title was inspired by the legal battle raging between Sabbath and its former manager, the album

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God Knows I'm Good: Live Rarities, Singles Collected on Bowie's 'The Width of a Circle'

April 14, 2021 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

David Bowie The Width of a Circle Items

David Bowie's third album The Man Who Sold the World opened with the blistering "The Width of a Circle," an eight-minute blast of rock adrenaline culminating in the narrator's illicit encounter with a supernatural being in the burning pits of Hell.  Bowie had quickly come a long way from the music hall theatricality of his first eponymous LP and the psychedelic folk-rock of his second.  The 1970 LP welcomed guitarist Mick Ronson and drummer Woody Woodmansey, the first appearance on a Bowie album

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Wake Up You Sleepy Head: "Oh! You Pretty Things" Collects 66 Glam Rock Nuggets

April 12, 2021 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Oh You Pretty Things

Oh! You Pretty Things: David Bowie's 1971 song became an anthem for the glam era: "Don't you know you're driving your mothers and fathers insane?  Let me make it plain, you gotta make way for the homo superior..."  Bowie's alien persona - androgynous, dangerous, sexy, and flamboyant - connected with youth and caused a stir among their parents.  The song's title has now been adopted by a new 3-CD box set from Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint.  Alas, "Oh! You Pretty Things" doesn't appear anywhere

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Dana Gillespie, David Bowie, Electric Light Orchestra, Hawkwind, Lou Reed, Mick Ronson, New York Dolls, Roxy Music, Sparks, The Kinks

Release Round-Up: Week of April 9

April 9, 2021 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Peggy Lee Something Wonderful

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Fleetwood Mac, Live: Super Deluxe Edition (Warner/Rhino)  (Rhino.com / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino reissues Fleetwood Mac's 1980 Live - the first live album from the line-up of Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood - as a deluxe 3CD/2LP/7″ box set.  The two CDs and two LPs will both have the remastered original double album.  The third CD will offer 14 previously unreleased

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Books, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Eugene Ormandy, Fleetwood Mac, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Merry Clayton, Peggy Lee, Taylor Swift, Willie Nelson

Roger the Engineer [Box Set]

April 8, 2021 By

Yardbirds Roger the Engineer box

Last Record Store Day Black Friday, Demon Music Group reissued The Yardbirds' Roger the Engineer as a 2-LP Expanded Edition.  Now, the 1966 rock classic is getting even more expanded - this time, as a 2-LP/3-CD/1-7″ single deluxe box set.  Utilizing the original master tapes, the box (announced this morning) features new remastering by Phil Kinrade at Alchemy Mastering at AIR, overseen by original album producer Paul Samwell-Smith.  It contains the original mono and stereo mixes on CD and LP

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Chicago at Carnegie Hall: Complete

April 8, 2021 By

Chicago at Carnegie Hall

For the first time, Rhino brings together all eight of Chicago's concerts between April 5-10, 1971 at New York's Carnegie Hall in one deluxe, 16-CD box set.  The original 4-LP box Chicago at Carnegie Hall was a commercial smash, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard 200.  This set features every note played by the band as newly restored by the band's Lee Loughnane and engineer Tim Jessup.  The box takes the form of a white folio embossed with Chicago's famous logo.  In addition to the 16 CDs, it also

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop

And The Clock Goes Round: Unreleased 1968 Elton John Album to Debut on Record Store Day

April 7, 2021 By Randy Fairman 14 Comments

Elton John Regimental Sgt. Zippo

Amongst all of the many Record Store Day announcements, one of the most exciting has to be Island/Mercury's announcement of an unreleased Elton John album finally seeing the light of day: 1968's Regimental Sgt.  Zippo, due on the June 12, 2021 RSD Drop. One of the best box sets of last year was Elton John's Jewel Box.  Among its 8 CDs were three discs of rarities spanning 1965-1971.  Perhaps the most intriguing tracks included were those intended for an unreleased album entitled Regimental

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Rhino's Record Store Day Slate Features John Prine, Steely Dan, Joni Mitchell, CSNY, Donny Hathaway, Lou Reed, More

April 7, 2021 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

CSNY Deja Vu Alternates

At 1:00 pm EST/10:00 am PST today, the list of Record Store Day's annual offerings was made public.  As was the case in 2020, this year's RSD festivities will take place over more than one day.  The two RSD Drops are scheduled for Saturday, June 12, and Saturday, July 17.  We'll be sharing periodic announcements of various labels' releases, including this look at Rhino's whopping array of over 30 titles from heavy hitters including Black Sabbath, Donny Hathaway, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Aretha Franklin, Black Sabbath, Candi Staton, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Donny Hathaway, Dr. John, Grateful Dead, Hawkwind, John Prine, Joni Mitchell, Me'Shell Ndege'Oecello, Ramones, Record Store Day, Steely Dan, The Cure, The Doors, The Replacements, The Sisters of Mercy, Tom Petty, War

Now More Than Ever: "Chicago at Carnegie Hall" Gets Super-Sized for Its 50th

April 7, 2021 By Joe Marchese 25 Comments

Chicago at Carnegie Hall

Robert Lamm, Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, James Pankow, Lee Loughnane, Walt Parazaider, and Danny Seraphine took the world by storm with 1969's Chicago Transit Authority.  The double album inaugurated a string of twelve successive platinum or multi-platinum LPs for the group over the next decade.  The largest of them all was 1971's Chicago at Carnegie Hall, colloquially referred to as Chicago IV.  Over a whopping eight sides of vinyl, the 4-LP box set presented highlights from the band's six-night,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop Tags: Chicago

Over, Under, Sideways, Down: The Yardbirds' "Roger the Engineer" Goes Super Deluxe from Demon

April 6, 2021 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Yardbirds Roger the Engineer box

Last Record Store Day Black Friday, Demon Music Group reissued The Yardbirds' Roger the Engineer as a 2-LP Expanded Edition.  Now, the 1966 rock classic is getting even more expanded - this time, as a 2-LP/3-CD/1-7" single deluxe box set.  Utilizing the original master tapes, the box (announced this morning) features new remastering by Phil Kinrade at Alchemy Mastering at AIR, overseen by original album producer Paul Samwell-Smith. Despite leaving behind a strong legacy of classic songs, The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Yardbirds

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