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Release Round-Up: Week of March 21

March 21, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Vince Guaraldi It's the Easter Beagle Charlie Brown

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Tina Turner, Private Dancer: 40th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone/Rhino) 5CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Pearl LP with art card: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Tina Turner’s smash 1984 “comeback”album Private Dancer – featuring the hits “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” “Better Be Good to Me,” the scintillating title track and more – will be reissued as a 5CD/Blu-ray deluxe box packed with rare…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Climie Fisher, Dave Mason, Mike + the Mechanics, Rush, The Alan Parsons Project, The Stylistics, Tina Turner, Vince Guaraldi

Beggar on a Beach of Gold: Mike + The Mechanics, Now on Craft, Release New Hits Set

February 20, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Mike + The Mechanics Looking Back Living the Years

One of Genesis’ key members, bassist and later guitarist Mike Rutherford, will celebrate the solo side of his career with a new career-spanning compilation. Looking Back – Living the Years is a new 16-track collection culling from nearly every one of Rutherford’s albums with side project Mike + The Mechanics, for which he is the sole consistent member. (Every one of the band’s many vocalists will be represented on the set.) Marking 40 years since the group’s self-titled debut in 1985 – the same year Genesis bandmate Phil Collins’ own solo career attained…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Pop, Rock

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Mike + the Mechanics, Mike Rutherford, Paul Carrack

Release Round-Up: Week of April 5

April 5, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Spying Through a Keyhole: Demos and Unreleased Songs (Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Spying Through a Keyhole: Demos and Unreleased Songs is the new box set with four seven-inch vinyl singles of some of Bowie’s earliest material. It will feature nine rare, monaural recordings, including mostly solo vocal-and-guitar versions of familiar songs (“Space Oddity” in its earliest known version, “London Bye Ta Ta,” “In The Heat Of The Morning”) as well as the heretofore-unknown “Love All Around,” a lyric of which…

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Barry White, David Bowie, Don Felder, Ian Hunter, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Meat Loaf, Mike + the Mechanics, New Order, Reba McEntire, The Searchers, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

Release Round-Up: Weeks of December 21 & 28 and January 4

December 21, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Happy Holidays! While gifts are flowing to friends and loved ones, there’s not much new coming to stores! Here are a few highlights to keep you sated over the next three weeks! John Mellencamp, Other People’s Stuff [LP] (Republic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Other People’s Stuff is a new collection of covers that shows Mellencamp applying his knack for storytelling to ten staples from the American music canon. The material is culled mostly from his own albums, hard-to-find compilations, and documentary soundtracks. Mellencamp also recorded a brand-new version…

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CD, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Diana Ross, John Mellencamp, Marvin Gaye, Mike + the Mechanics, The Classics IV

Seeing Is Believing: Deluxe Edition of Mike + The Mechanics’ “Living Years” Coming Soon to U.S.

January 12, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Way back in the fall of 2013, our very own Mike Duquette reported on the release of Mike + the Mechanics’ The Singles 1985-2014, a two-disc compendium for the band founded by Genesis’ Mike Rutherford. He teased, “This set has been pushed back to January 20, 2014…to better coincide with some more Mike + The Mechanics events in the coming year, including a U.K. tour in the winter of 2014, a forthcoming memoir from Rutherford and a planned reissue of Living Years for its 25th anniversary.” Well, that year-old anniversary reissue of Living Years…

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Mike + the Mechanics, Mike Rutherford