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February 21, 2025 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Nik Kershaw The MCA Years

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. David Lee Roth, The Warner Recordings 1985-1994 (Warner/Rhino) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Rhino.com Diamond Dave's got a whole new shine, thanks to a new box set from Rhino. David Lee Roth's The Warner Recordings 1985-1994 includes the four LPs (and one EP) the iconoclastic singer released outside of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bill Medley, Carla Olson, David Lee Roth, Dead or Alive, El Coco, Gene Clark, Gloria Hunniford, Melanie, Nik Kershaw, Rufus Wainwright, Souled American

July 26, 2024 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

JD Souther You're Only Lonely

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Loleatta Holloway, We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982) (SoulMusic/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982) presents, on 5 CDs, all of the late, great Loleatta Holloway's albums for Gold Mind and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Cat Stevens, Deborah Cox, Fleetwood Mac, JD Souther, Jeff Harnar, Loleatta Holloway, Melanie, Nik Kershaw, Pete Townshend, Talking Heads, The Police

May 15, 2024 By Mike Duquette 17 Comments

Nik Kershaw The MCA Years

An oft-discussed Nik Kershaw box set has been added to Cherry Red's summer release schedule. The MCA Years, available July 26, offers the most complete look at the British pop/rocker's career in the '80s, offering four remastered studio albums, four discs of B-sides and remixes, two discs of mostly unreleased live material and a DVD of music videos and concert material. The MCA Years comes 40 years on from the release of Kershaw's earliest work for the label. Born into a musical family in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Nik Kershaw

July 30, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover!  This week, we've got long-lost pop from a teenaged star, a crop of country classics, cool West Coast jazz, freestyle hits, and more! Nik Kershaw, B-Sides (iTunes / Amazon) and Extended Versions (iTunes / Amazon) (Island) Island brings two compilations from British singer-songwriter Nik Kershaw to digital

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Abbe Lane, Bertie Higgins, David Clayton-Thomas, Mickey Gilley, Nik Kershaw, Sammy Davis Jr., Sarah Vaughan, The Jets

August 13, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

thank god its friday

Harry Nilsson, Flash Harry (Varese Vintage) Never released in the U.S. or on CD, the wave of Nilssonmania continues with this: Harry's last album, released in 1980, now available on remastered vinyl or CD with several unheard bonus tracks. CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. Nik Kershaw, The Riddle: Remastered Expanded Edition (UMC) Kershaw's second LP, featuring one of the most criminally underrated singles ever in the title track, is reissued as a double-disc set with B-sides,

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Tags: Nik Kershaw, The S.O.S. Band, Vinyl

June 20, 2013 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

the riddle

Following a recent expansion of his beloved (in the U.K.) debut album, Universal Music Group will offer the double-disc treatment to Nik Kershaw's sophomore effort The Riddle this summer, SuperDeluxeEdition reports. The monumental success of 1983's Human Racing, with its singles "Wouldn't It Be Good" and "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" reaching No. 4 and No. 2 on the U.K. charts, respectively, meant a need to produce a great follow-up. Kershaw delivered with The Riddle, thanks to its

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January 11, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

kershaw human racing

A pleasant surprise is coming from Universal's catalogue arm across the pond: an expanded edition of Nik Kershaw's excellent debut album Human Racing. Released in 1984, Human Racing gave the young Bristol-born, Suffolk-raised guitarist a big break after years of jobbing in local bands. Aided by a set of teen magazine-ready good looks and an ear for intricately arranged, vaguely theatrical pop tunes, the second single from Human Racing, the excellent "Wouldn't It Be Good," became a Top 5 smash

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July 13, 2011 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments

live aid

Twenty-six years ago today, on two different continents, the music world came together for a worthy cause: to raise awareness of famine in Ethiopia. Live Aid, a pair of concerts organized by Bob Geldof in London and Philadelphia on July 13, 1985 and broadcasted live on the BBC, ABC and MTV, was seen in person by some 172,000 people and on television by nearly 2 billion across the globe. And, if you can believe it, none of it has ever been released on LP or CD. Granted, it's not entirely

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Categories: News Tags: Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, Led Zeppelin, Madonna, Mick Jagger, Nik Kershaw, Open Forum, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, Queen, Reissue Theory, Run-D.M.C., Sade, Status Quo, Sting, Tears for Fears, The Beach Boys, The Who, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, U2

July 15, 2010 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

It's not hard to see why Nik Kershaw was considered a teen idol in the 1980s, but it is hard to understand why this was the case after listening to his music. The British guitarist released several great albums of atmospheric yet accessible guitar pop-rock, but it seemed a bit heavier than the usual teen idol fare of generations past or future. Kershaw's best-known output don't deal with typical teen fare. His biggest singles, "Wouldn't It Be Good," "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" and "The

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