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September 22, 2021 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

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They may have called themselves The Pretenders, but Chrissie Hynde, James Honeyman-Scott, Pete Farndon, and Martin Chambers were as authentic as they come.  The four-piece rock combo fused American and British styles (Hynde was the American émigré; the other three were British), bringing the swagger of punk to the craft of classic rock.  The Pretenders' hip, seemingly effortless sound was crystallized on the band's first two records (not incidentally, the only two records with the original

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

July 17, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Little Steven, Voice of America [CD/DVD] (Wicked Cool/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Little Steven's sophomore album from 1984, featuring "Voice of America," "Solidarity," "Los Desaparecidos," and "Among the Believers," returns to CD in Bob Ludwig's remaster previously available only on vinyl.  The CD edition gets even sweeter with the addition of the full Live at Rockpalast 1984 concert.  Voice of America was written,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Art Blakey, Bill Kirchen, Bob Dylan, Brian Protheroe, David Sanborn, Earl Scruggs, Jimmy Heath, Little Steven, Marvin Gaye, Melissa Manchester, The Pretenders, Wire Train

November 29, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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​From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you've enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of beloved family and friends. Record Store Day Black Friday is now almost upon us, so we thought we'd spotlight a few particularly exciting releases arriving to your local brick-and-mortar record shop! Here's our round up of RSD BF must-haves!  We're kicking off with Sam's list, and then we'll follow with Randy and Joe's! Aretha Franklin, The Atlantic Singles Collection 1968

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Alex Chilton, Aretha Franklin, Bill Conti, Bruce Springsteen, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cannibal and The Headhunters, Chet Baker, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, John Williams, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed, Patsy Cline, Squeeze, The Monkees, The Pretenders, Todd Rundgren, Tony Joe White, William Shatner

October 21, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - one of the year's biggest! Frank Sinatra, World on a String (Capitol/UMe)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K./ Amazon Canada) Featuring performances spanning 1953 to 1982, this new live collection boasts more than four hours' worth of rare audio and video from the legendary Chairman of the Board - over 90 tracks on CD alone including such Sinatra favorites as "I Get a Kick Out of You," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Witchcraft"

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bette Midler, David Bowie, David Crosby, Donna Fargo, Dr. John, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Valli, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, The Pretenders, Tony Hadley

May 8, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

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Chrissie Hynde, Pete Farndon, James Honeyman Scott and Martin Chambers may have taken the name of The Pretenders, but anybody paying attention soon realized that there was nothing "pretend" about this band - not its brash amalgam of British and American styles (Hynde was a U.S. émigré; the other three were Brits), not its unabashedly punk approach to a classic rock sound, not its effortless, cool swagger.  1979's Pretenders launched the band on a journey that continues to this day.  It's been a

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Chrissie Hynde, The Pretenders

January 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

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Edsel isn’t just playing pretend.  On February 16, 2015, the Demon Music Group label will reissue all eight albums from The Pretenders as originally released by the Warner Bros. family of labels between 1979 and 1999 as deluxe editions.  (Or: that’s to say 8/10, or 4/5, of the entire Pretenders discography!  Only two albums have arrived since 1999, in 2002 and 2008.)  Every one of the eight titles is housed in a digipak, with six of the titles as 2-CD/1-DVD sets and two as 1-CD/1-DVD

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: The Pretenders

October 30, 2013 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

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If you can get over the shock of a good amount of holiday CDs available on the shelves at Target, you'll find a surprise new exclusive: a reissue of the classic 1987 compilation A Very Special Christmas with a brand new DVD about the long-running holiday benefit series. Produced by acclaimed engineer-turned-label impresario Jimmy Iovine, A Very Special Christmas featured the brightest stars in pop music, from Springsteen to Madonna, recording new versions of classic carols (plus one modern

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Categories: News Formats: DVD Tags: Bob Seger, Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Madonna, Run-D.M.C., Stevie Nicks, Sting, The Pointer Sisters, The Pretenders, U2

November 29, 2010 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Start saving your pennies now. In an eye-opening move, audiophile specialty label Mobile Fidelity has announced a massive slate of releases across the CD, SACD and LP formats scheduled for 2011.  Longtime collectors of audiophile masterings may get a thrill at seeing the “Original Master Recording” banner above the works of classic artists ranging from Tony Bennett and Ray Charles to Carole King and James Taylor. While this writer has some quibbles (why no CDs or SACDs for Bennett, Frank

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Categories: News Tags: Billy Joel, Ray Charles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Band, The Pretenders, Tony Bennett

August 10, 2010 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Some of rock’s finest will be receiving the deluxe treatment from audiophile specialist labels Audio Fidelity and Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (MFSL) in the coming months: The Beach Boys, The Band, Gram Parsons, Deep Purple, Foreigner, The Pretenders and Billy Joel. The earliest release in this bunch is also one of the most exciting. The Beach Boys' Today! was released in 1965 and is generally remembered as one of the first albums on which Brian Wilson displayed the sensitive studio wizardry that

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Categories: News Tags: Billy Joel, The Band, The Beach Boys, The Pretenders

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