SMALL FACES ‘ALL OR NOTHING 1965-1968′ DVD

At long last, the definitive official DVD for one of the greatest groups of the sixties (or any other decade for that matter.). Small Faces: All Or Nothing 1965 – 1968 features 23 complete performances filmed from 1965 to 1968 when the band was challenging the Who, Kinks, Stones and Beatles for domination of the charts. The DVD captures every aspect of their short but brilliant career including early Mod/R&B classics such as “What’cha Gonna Do About It”, “Sha La La La Lee” and “All Or Nothing”, timeless rockers like “Tin Soldier” and later psychedelic masterpieces including “Itchycoo Park”, and “Green Circles.” Best of all is the inclusion of eight songs from the band’s LP masterpiece Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake including “Lazy Sunday”, “Song Of A Baker” and the six song Happiness Stan suite. In between the performances original members Ian McLagan, Kenny Jones and Jimmy Winston talk about the songs and tell the band’s history in new interviews filmed exclusively for the DVD. Also interwoven into the story are archival interviews with Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane. This DVD is one of the first four releases in the British Invasion series and is sold individually or as part of the British Invasion Boxset containing Gerry & The Pacemakers: It’s Gonna Be Alright 1963- 1965, Herman’s Hermits: Listen People 1964 – 1969 and Dusty Springfield Once Upon A Time 1964 – 1969.

Reelin’ In The Years Productions, has created some of the best loved and critically praised DVD series on the market today including the Definitive Motown series (Marvin Gaye, Temptations, Smokey Robinson & The Miracles), American Folk Blues Festival series and Jazz Icons series. Now, with Metropolis Studios’ Voyage label, they are proud to give the deluxe treatment to one of the greatest periods ever in music – the British Invasion. Each DVD features archival full-length television performances filmed back when the artists were in their prime and at the height of their careers. Interspersed between the performances, original band members talk about each song and recount special moments in the history of the group. In addition, each performance has been transferred from the original master tape and includes best-possible video and re-mastered audio. Each DVD also includes a 24-page booklet with insightful and informative essays by noted rock historians as well as previously unseen photos and memorabilia.

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JOE BONAMASSA ‘LIVE FROM THE ALBERT HALL’ FEATURING ERIC CLAPTON AND PAUL JONES DUE FOR DVD RELEASE

When Joe Bonamassa took the stage at Royal Albert Hall in May 2009, he fulfilled a dream he’d held since first picking up a guitar as a kid in upstate New York. The sold-out concert—fresh off the release of his album The Ballad Of John Henry—marked Bonamassa’s headlining debut at arguably the most prestigious concert venue in the world. “May 4, 2009 was a day 20 years in the making,” says Bonamassa. “I have never been so honored in my life. It was truly larger than the sum of its parts.”

The two decades he’s referring to began when—at age 12—he first opened for blues icon B.B. King, who said, “this kid’s potential is unbelievable.” King’s words are as fitting today as they were then. Bonamassa averages 200 shows every year, and with each gig, he comes more into his own as a virtuoso and a vocalist. At the Hall, Bonamassa had the added honor of being joined onstage by the legendary Eric Clapton for a blistering version of ‘Further On Up The Road’. The Times of London cited Joe’s “searing excellence and showmanship,” and Planet Rock said, “The sight of two of the world’s best guitarists trading solos was more than a little thrilling.”

This two disc digipack DVD, which also features an exclusive interview with Bonamassa, presents that magical night in full—for posterity, and for all the fans that couldn’t be among the roughly 4,000 concertgoers filling the seats. The twelve-camera high definition, surround sound shoot was produced by Bonamassa’s longtime collaborator Kevin Shirley.

“Joe Bonamassa is a big star amongst his peers,” says Shirley, “garnering awards and magazine covers all around the globe. While he has a devoted audience that’s growing worldwide, his rejection of major label deals in favor of paving his own musical path has left the mainstream largely unfamiliar with his extensive repertoire and skill. Hopefully, this incredible performance—featuring Joe accompanied by an incredible band in addition to a guest appearance by Eric Clapton—will put an end to that. Directed by groundbreaking filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen, this concert experience will become the benchmark for the genre. But pigeonhole Bonamassa at your peril—sure, the blues is the anchor, but this virtuoso refuses to play inside the box. Any box. Enjoy!”

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JIMI HENDRIX ‘LIVE AT WOBURN’ CD

The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At Woburn is the eleventh release in the Dagger Records authorized ‘bootleg’ recording series. Live At Woburn presents a previously unreleased concert recording capturing The Jimi Hendrix Experience in concert at the Woburn Music Festival on July 6, 1968.

The Woburn Music Festival was one of Britain’s first large scale, open-air rock music events. Staged by brothers Richard “Rik” and John Gunnell, who were well respected individuals in the burgeoning London music scene where they were heavily involved in many aspects including band managed, show promoters and club owners. Rik in particular, who owned three fashionable 1960′s London nightspots-the Ram Jam Club, Flamingo, and Bag O’ Nails-presented authentic, first generation American icons like John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding and some of the brightest examples of a swelling wave of emerging British talent such as The Rolling Stones, Jack Bruce and Georgie Fame.

Jimi’s co-managers Chas Chandler and Michael Jeffery-a fellow nightclub entrepreneur-enjoyed a friendship with Gunnell. Gunnell had been an early supporter of The Animals, and extended the same courtesy to Hendrix and The Experience, presenting some of the group’s earliest London engagements.

Jimi’s popularity had grown exponentially since those early days in 1966 and he arrived at the Woburn Festival as its eagerly anticipated headline act. This anticipation was fueled in part by Jimi’s absence from Britain. The Experience had spent much of 1968 touring and recording in America and had not performed live in Britain since December 1967.

Woburn Music Festival featured separate afternoon and evening sets for both Saturday and Sunday. While rhythm & blues was the primary focus with Gunnell drawing heavily from his own talent pool, casting John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Alexis Korner, and Geno Washington together with the more folk influenced Pentangle, Roy Harper, and Tim Rose. The Jimi Hendrix Experience were scheduled to close the Saturday evening show where an enthusiastic crowd some 14,000 strong turned out for the performance.

Axis: Bold As Love was still a top selling album in July 1968 but Jimi had long since moved on to new challenges. To Hendrix, performances such as Woburn were unique, shared experiences and not simply personal appearances intended to help shift units of albums or singles. At Woburn, Jimi skipped songs from Axis: Bold As Love altogether, electing instead to ‘jam’ as he called it-kicking off his set with a spirited “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” [regrettably missed in part by the late start of the recording machine].

The trio followed “Sgt. Pepper” with “Fire,” and despite beset with buzzing, crackles and otherwise unwanted noises throughout their set, The Experience continued to persevere doing their best to surmount the technical problems that hampered an otherwise animated set.

Jimi may have bypassed Axis: Bold As Love, but he did foreshadow his next album at Woburn, stretching out a marvelous “Tax Free,” a contender for Electric Ladyland and a favorite Experience vehicle for improvisation. Hendrix followed up with an extended improvisational rendition of “Red House” before diving into “Foxey Lady.” He also offered his Woburn audience what he called, ‘Ša song that we recorded for our new LP. It’s nothing but a hard rock-it’s called “Voodoo Child (Slight Return)”.

Equipment problems were always an irritant for Jimi and Woburn was no exception. He prefaced “Purple Haze,” the group’s final song, with an apology. “We’re very sorry that we have to play through broken amplifiers,” he explained. “Like I said before, it’s really a hang up. It’s very hard to get our own sound across so we would like to end it and say thank you very much for showing up. We would like to do this last song “Purple Haze.” Jimi kicked off a boisterous feedback opening, buttressed by Mitchell and Redding and complete with tremolo bar swoops, wah-wah pedal shadings and soaring dive bomb styled bursts that transitioned seamlessly into the song’s unmistakable opening notes. At its conclusion, the audience roared with approval. While no microphones were positioned to fully capture the intensity of their reaction, their enthusiasm and calls for more can be easily heard through Jimi and Noel’s stage microphones.

The Experience’s performance at Woburn Music Festival would mark the trio’s last performance in England until the two celebrated concerts in February 1969 at the Royal Albert Hall.

Technical Note:
Like many of the live releases issued as part of the Dagger Records series, The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At Woburn was not professionally recorded using multi-track technology. It was instead drawn from a recording made from the stage soundboard.

As a result, the recording is not without its share of flaws and technical limitations. The recording is raw and occasionally overdriven but it effectively presents all of the voices and instruments onstage. In addition to the aforementioned late start on “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” the ending of “Tax Free” was lost when the tape ran out. Fortunately, the tape spool was rethreaded and recording resumed for the start of “Red House”. It is entirely possible that another song was performed and not recorded but there is no firm evidence to definitively confirm this either way.

As noted, the buzzing, crackling and static not otherwise emanating from Jimi and Noel’s battered amplifiers are part of this historical document. Its flaws notwithstanding, this recording represents the only known documentation of this significant performance. The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live At Woburn, despite its technical imperfections, supplies yet another fascinating piece to the Hendrix puzzle. Enjoy!

TRACK LISTINGS:

1. Introduction (1:07)
2. Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1:11)
3. Fire (4:19)
4. Tax Free (10:11)
5. Red House (11:30)
6. Foxey Lady (4:55)
7. Voodoo Child (Slight Return) (6:38)
8. Purple Haze (8:10)

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JOHN DENVER ‘AROUND THE WORLD LIVE’ DVD

On 12 October 2009, Eagle Rock Entertainment release the John Denver five-disc DVD set “Around The World Live” [Cat No EREDV757]. This superb set features all of John Denver’s best loved songs and biggest hits including: “Rocky Mountain High”, “Annie’s Song”, “Take Me Home, Country Roads”, “Leaving On A Jet Plane”, “Thank God I’m A Country Boy”, “Calypso”, “Matthew”, “Sunshine On My Shoulders”, “Eagle And The Hawk”, “Fly Away”, “How Can I Leave You Again”, “Farwell Andromeda” and many more. Clocking in with nearly ten hours of entertainment this is simply essential for all Denver fans [See over for the full tracklisting].

John Denver is one of the most successful and best loved recording artists of the 20th century. His easy going manner, fine voice, superb songwriting and dedication to environmental issues all combined to build a huge global fanbase that has continued to grow since his untimely death in a plane crash in 1997. This superb 5 disc set is the definitive John Denver DVD release. There are three complete live performances with full band from Australia in 1977, Japan in 1981 and England in 1986. These are complemented by a solo acoustic performance from Japan in 1984 and his performances at Farm Aid from 1985, 1987 & 1990. The final disc has two hour long documentaries made by John Denver, his 1990 Earth Day programme about environmental issues and his 1972 show about the Bighorn sheep of his beloved Rocky Mountains.

John Denver has sold in excess of 40 million records worldwide and won two Grammy Awards, an Emmy Award, three American Music Awards, two Country Music Association Awards and was named Poet Laureate of Colorado as well as being inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame. Boasting deluxe packaging in a fold out digipack within a slipcase and containing a booklet lavishly illustrated with John Denver memorabilia this is a real treat for Denver fans.

TRACKLISTING – JOHN DENVER – AROUND THE WORLD LIVE

Disc One – Thank God I’m A Country Boy – Live In Australia 1977
1. Farewell Andromeda
2. Spirit
3. Fly Away
4. Looking For Space
5. Come And Let Me Look In Your Eyes
6. Baby You Look Good To Me Tonight
7. Druthers
8. I’d Rather Be A Cowboy
9. How Can I Leave You Again
10. Singing Skies And Dancing Waters
11. Love Is Everywhere
12. Pickin’ The Sun Down (Blue Grass & High Sierra)
13. I Want To Live
14. Rocky Mountain High
15. Follow Me
16. Moreton Bay
17. To The Wild Country
18. Grandma’s Feather Bed
19. Back Home Again
20. Matthew
21. Thank God I’m A Country Boy
22. Take Me Home, Country Roads
23. Annie’s Song
24. Eagle And The Hawk
25. Calypso
26. Sunshine On My Shoulders
27. Leaving On A Jet Plane

Bonus Tracks:
1. It’s A Sin To Tell A Lie
2. Thirsty Boots
3. Boy From The Country
4. Like To Deal With The Ladies
5. When I’m 64

Total Running Time: 136 minutes

Disc Two – Rocky Mountain High – Live In Japan 1981
1. Starwood In Aspen
2. Take Me Home, Country Roads
3. Follow Me
4. I’d Rather Be A Cowboy
5. Leaving On A Jet Plane
6. Goodbye Again
7. Rocky Mountain Suite
8. Matthew
9. Fly Away
10. Dancing With The Mountains
11. Back Home Again
12. Thank God I’m A Country Boy
13. Sleepin’ Alone
14. Rocky Mountain High
15. Eagle And The Hawk
16. Annie’s Song
17. Calypso
18. Sunshine On My Shoulders

Bonus Tracks:
1. Mother Nature’s Son
2. How Mountain Girls Can Love
3. Sweet Surrender
4. Johnny B. Goode
5. Memphis
6. Lil Suzie
7. Boy From the Country

Total Running Time: 99 minutes

Disc Three – Country Roads – Live In England 1986
1. Farewell Andromeda
2. Take Me Home, Country Roads
3. Grandma’s Feather Bed
4. Back Home Again
5. Matthew
6. Dreamland Express
7. The Harder They Fall
8. I Can’t Escape
9. Flying For Me
10. What Are We Making Weapons For
11. Sunshine On My Shoulders
12. Eagle And The Hawk
13. Wild Montana Skies
14. Relatively Speaking
15. I’d Rather Be A Cowboy
16. How Can I Leave You Again
17. I’m Sorry
18. Shanghai Breezes
19. Fly Away
20. My Sweet Lady
21. Heart To Heart
22. Rocky Mountain High
23. Annie’s Song
24. Calypso
25. Peace (poem)
26. It’s About Time
27. Perhaps Love

Bonus Tracks:
1. Boy From The Country
2. Claudette
3. Don’t Close Your Eyes Tonight
4. I Remember You
5. Sweet Surrender

Total Running Time: 142 minutes

Disc Four – Solo Acoustic Show – Live In Japan 1984 / Farm Aid
1. Rocky Mountain High
2. Sunshine On My Shoulders
3. Leaving On A Jet Plane
4. Goodbye Again
5. Follow Me
6. Matthew
7. Grandma’s Feather Bed
8. I Want To Live
9. Rhymes & Reasons
10. Eagle And The Hawk
11. The Gold And Beyond
12. Take Me Home, Country Roads
13. Biwako Shuko No Uta
14. Seasons Of The Heart
15. Annie’s Song
16. Calypso
17. It’s About Time
Farm Aid 1985:
1. Take Me Home, Country Roads
2. Back Home Again
3. Thank God I’m A Country Boy
Farm Aid 1987:
1. Take Me Home Country Roads
2. Matthew
3. What Are We Making Weapons For
Farm Aid 1990:
1. Rocky Mountain High
2. Matthew

Total Running Time: 99 minutes

Disc Five – Documentaries
1. The Bighorn (1972)
2. Earth Day Documentary (1990)

Total Running Time: 116 minutes

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STATUS QUO ‘LIVE AT MONTREUX 2009′ DVD AND BLU-RAY

Eagle Rock Entertainment are proud to announce the simultaneous release on 12 October 2009 of Status Quo “Live At Montreux 2009” on Blu-ray [Cat. No. ERBRD5035], DVD [Cat No EREDV756], and Deluxe Edition DVD [Cat. No. EREDV758].

Status Quo’s album “Pictures” (released in November 2008) celebrated 40 years of the band filling the UK charts with hit after hit. The album was an instant success, charting at No.8 and selling over a quarter of a million copies in the UK alone. In July 2009 the Pictures live tour landed at Montreux in Switzerland as part of the world famous festival. The band, led as always by the twin telecasters of Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, deliver a blistering set of hits and classic tracks from across their career including no less than 18 UK Top 20 hits. This Pictures tour setlist has been hailed by many cognoscenti as the bands best ever. Huge screens behind the stage illustrated high points from Quo’s career and the usually reserved Swiss crowd knew they were in for a treat. Exclusive interviews filmed backstage at Montreux with the always entertaining Rossi and Parfitt are included as bonus features on these releases.

The Deluxe Edition of the release includes the full concert and interview footage from Montreux but also boasts the extended version of the new Biography Channel documentary on 40 years of Status Quo, a single CD of highlights from the Montreux performance and a substantial booklet.

TRACKLISTING

1. Caroline
2. The Wanderer
3. Rain
4. Don’t Drive My Car
5. Mean Girl / Softer Ride
6. Beginning Of The End
7. Is There A Better Way
8. Proposing Medley: What You’re Proposing / Down The Dustpipe / Little Lady / Red Sky / Dear John / Big Fat Mama
9. Pictures Of Matchstick Men / Ice In The Sun
10. The Oriental
11. Creepin’ Up
12. In My Chair
13. Living On An Island
14. In The Army Now
15. The Killer
16. Roll Over Lay Down
17. Down Down
18. Whatever You Want
19. Rockin’ All Over The World
20. Junior’s Wailing
21. Rock ‘n’ Roll Music / Bye Bye Johnny

Status Quo are one of Britain’s most cherished and influential bands. With the Montreux show coming hot on the heels of their barnstorming appearance at Glastonbury – which attracted the biggest crowd for an opening act on the main stage in 20 years – this release is live and loud and serves as a timely reminder of what the Quo legacy is built on.

COLOSSEUM RELEASE 4CD BOX ST ‘MORITURI TE SALUTANT’

Active from 1968 to late 1971, Colosseum were arguably the leading exponents of the jazzier end of the British progressive rock spectrum. Assembled by former Graham Bond/John Mayall drummer Jon Hiseman, they achieved significant commercial and critical acclaim with such albums as Those Who Are About To Die Salute You and Daughter Of Time, which showcased an irresistible blend of superior musicianship and a visceral approach to music-making that took them way beyond many of their supposed rivals.

Pieced together with the active assistance of Jon Hiseman, Morituri Te Salutant features extended highlights from Colosseum’s original albums as well as numerous previously-unissued studio and live outtakes, including BBC session material, the aborted late Sixties single ‘Tell Me Now’ and a host of alternative recordings from the tour that was immortalised on what many admirers believe to be the band’s definitive work, Colosseum Live. Lavishly packaged with hitherto unpublished photos and a 10,000 word essay, Morituri Te Salutant is the final word on one of the most individual and iconoclastic British jazz/rock/blues bands to emerge from the musical and cultural revolution of the Sixties.

Track Listing

Disc 1
1. Walking In The Park
2. Mandarin
3. Beware The Ideas Of March
4. Debut
5. The Road She Walked Before
6. Backwater Blues
7. I Can’t Live Without You Studio Outtake
8. In The Heat Of The Night
9. Those About To Die Demo aka “Top Roadie”
10. Tell Me Now
11. The Kettle
12. Elegy
13. The Machine Demands A Sacrifice
14. The Valentyne Suite – January’s Search/ February’s Valentyne/ The Grass Is Always Greener

Disc 2
1. Jumping Off The Sun
2. Rope Ladder To The Moon
3. Bolero
4. The Grass Is Greener
5. Three Score And Ten, Amen
6. Time Lament
7. Take Me Back To Doomsday
8. The Daughter Of Time
9. Theme For An Imaginary Western
10. Bring Out Your Dead Demo Version
11. Downhill And Shadows
12. Jumping Off The Sun
13. The Pirates Dream

Disc 3
1. Rope Ladder To The Moon Live In Brighton
2. Skelington Live In Brighton
3. I Can’t Live Without You Live at Manchester University, March 1971
4. Stormy Monday Blues Live In Bristol
5. The Valentyne Suite – January’s Search/ February’s Valentyne/ The Grass Is Always Greener Live at Manchester University, March 1971

Disc 4
1. Butty’s Blues Live In Boston
2. The Machine Demands A Sacrifice Live In Boston
3. Beware The Ides Of March BBC Radio Session “Top Of The Pops” Feb 1969
4. Walking In The Park BBC Radio Session “Top Of The Pops” Feb. 1969
5. Plenty Hard Luck BBC Radio session “Top Of The Pops” Feb. 1969
6. Arthur’s Moustache BBC Radio Session “Top Gear” Nov. 1969
7. Lost Angeles BBC Radio Session “Top Gear” Nov. 1969
8. Same Old Thing
9. Dark Side Of The Moog
10. Tomorrow’s Blues
11. Those About To Die

Source: Universal

KING CRIMSON 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITIONS

King Crimson 40th Anniversary Editions

Forty years ago this month King Crimson went onstage at Hyde Park London as part of a bill topped by The Rolling Stones. The concert propelled the band from being the “hottest new band in London” to “hottest new band in the UK” overnight.

This status was confirmed when their classic debut album In the Court of the Crimson King achieved a UK Top 5 chart placing upon release in October that year. Such chart success was quickly replicated elsewhere with the record entering the US top 30 and replacing The Beatles’ Abbey Road at the top of the Japanese International Artist chart by the end of the year.

To celebrate 40 years of the Crimson Kings, DGM & Panegyric proudly announce the release of a series of CD/DVD-A editions of the original King Crimson studio albums.

Each CD/DVD-A release features the full original album plus bonus tracks on the CD. Two of the titles – Lizard & In the Court of the Crimson King feature entirely new 2009 stereo album mixes by Steven Wilson & Robert Fripp.

The DVD-A presents each album fully remixed into stunning 5.1 Surround Sound with Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree) in the producer role and King Crimson founder member Robert Fripp as executive producer.

The 5.1 mixes are accessible in full MLP lossless audio on DVD-A players & DTS 5.1 on standard DVD players/DVD Rom drives. Additionally, High Resolution stereo is also accessible on the DVD-A (24/96 DVD-A & 24/48 DVD/DVD Rom).

Selected DVD-A titles in the series will also feature era specific, rarely seen, King Crimson video footage. Each album is presented in a double Digipack, with booklet artwork featuring new sleeve notes by Robert Fripp and King Crimson biographer Sid Smith alongside archive material and photos, enclosed in an outer card slipcase.

The first three titles are set for release this year with further titles to follow throughout 2010:

Red: September 21st 2009
In the Court of the Crimson King: October 12th 2009 (various editions)
Lizard: October 26th 2009

Additional information about individual titles.

Red – (KCSP 7 CD/DVD-A) September 21st release.

CD: Features the original album plus three extra tracks, stunning pre-overdub trio versions of Red & Fallen Angel and the full version of Providence.

DVD-A: Features the original album in Hi-Res Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound editions, with the three additional tracks from the CD plus Journey to the Centre of the Cosmos also available in Hi-Res Stereo. The trio version of Fallen Angel and the full versions of Providence and Journey to the Centre of the Cosmos are also available in 5.1 Surround Sound.

Video footage: Rarely seen footage from French TV from 1974 featuring performances of Larks’ Tongues in Aspic II, The Night Watch, Lament & Starless

In The Court of the Crimson King – October 12th release – Available in three editions.

(KCSP 1 CD/DVD-A edition)

CD: Features entirely new 2009 stereo edition mixed from the original pre mix multi track tapes by Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp, plus bonus tracks including early versions of I Talk to the Wind, the backing track for Epitaph and the session that produce the opening wind effect for 21st Century Schizoid Man.

DVD-A: Features the original album in 5.1 Surround Sound. The 2004 master edition & the 2009 new mix also appear in Hi-Res Stereo, along with several bonus tracks from the original recording sessions.
Video Footage: Newly re-sequenced archive footage of 21st Century Schizoid Man from the legendary Hyde Park concert.

(DGM 5009 2CD edition)

CD1: as per above.

CD2: Features the 2004 master edition plus bonus tracks including the Morgan studios instrumental recording of 21st Century Schizoid Man, the John Peel Top Gear recording of I Talk to the Wind (not previously released on CD) and a transfer of the original single a/b side of The Court of the Crimson King.

(KCCBX 1 4CD/DVD-A Boxed set – Limited edition.)
Full details to be arranged.

Lizard – October 26th release.
(KCSP3 CD/DVD-A edition)

CD: Features entirely new 2009 stereo edition mixed from the original pre mix multi track tapes by Steven Wilson and Robert Fripp plus three bonus tracks: Lady of the Dancing Water (alternate take), Bolero (alternative version originally from Frame by Frame) and a studio run through of Cirkus from the original recording sessions.

DVD-A: Features the original album in 5.1 Surround Sound. The 2004 master edition and the 2009 new album mix also appear in Hi-Res Stereo, along with the three bonus tracks from the CD.

Source: http://www.dgmlive.com/news.htm?entry=2505

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“MORE THAN THIS – THE STORY OF ROXY MUSIC” DVD

Eagle Rock Entertainment is proud to announce the release on DVD of “More Than This – The Story Of Roxy Music” [Cat No EREDV586] on 19 October 2009. Fully endorsed and authorized by all members of Roxy Music, this title includes unique footage of the band in the studio with Brian Eno for the first time since 1973. “More Than This – The Story Of Roxy Music” also contains many classic live performance clips.

Originally broadcast by the BBC in late 2008, the DVD contains nearly half an hour of additional unseen material plus three bonus previously unreleased live tracks and additional interview material.

Roxy Music’s unique blend of avant garde rock music and high style set the tone for the whole glam rock era. They were much imitated but never equaled. This DVD tells the story of Roxy Music through new interviews with band members Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay, Paul Thompson, Brian Eno and Eddie Jobson plus many of their contemporaries. The programme covers their early years, the classic seventies albums, their re-emergence with a much smoother style in the early eighties, the band’s break up and then their hugely successful reunion in the 21st century.

Clocking in with over an hour and a half of entertainment, “More Than This – The Story Of Roxy Music” is an essential document of a truly exceptional act. As a bonus we include previously unavailable live tracks from Dock Rock [filmed London, 22nd July 2006]: ‘Both Ends Burning’, ‘Editions Of You’ and ‘Do The Strand’.

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IAN HUNTER REMASTERED DELUXE EDITION OF ‘YOU’RE NEVER ALONE WITH A SCHIZOPHRENIC’

You’re Never Alone with a Schizophrenic was originally released worldwide in April 1979 on Chrysalis Records and was Ian’s first release with the label. The former Mott the Hoople front man had launched his solo career in 1975.

On 21st September 2009 EMI Records is marking the 30th Anniversary of this amazing album with a deluxe re-mastered package containing the original LP with bonus tracks plus an extra disc featuring unreleased live performances of the period.

CD 1
1. Just Another Night (2009 Digital Remaster)
2. Wild East (2009 Digital Remaster)
3. Cleveland Rocks (2009 Digital Remaster)
4. Ships (2009 Digital Remaster)
5. When The Daylight Comes (2009 Digital Remaster)
6. Life After Death (2009 Digital Remaster)
7. Standin’ In My Light (2009 Digital Remaster)
8. Bastard (2009 Digital Remaster)
9. The Outsider (2009 Digital Remaster)
10. Don’t Let Go (Demo)
11. Ships (Take 1)
12. When The Daylight Comes (Early Version)
13. Just Another Night (Early Version) (aka The Other Side Of Life)
14. Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On

CD 2
1. F.B.I. (Live In Cleveland 18/6/79)
2. Once Bitten Twice Shy (Live In Cleveland 18/6/79)
3. Life After Death (Live In Cleveland 18/6/79)
4. Sons And Daughters (Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79)
5. Laugh At Me (Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79)
6. Just Another Night (Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79)
7. One Of The Boys (Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79)
8. Letter To Brittania From Union Jack (Live In Berkeley 7/7/79)
9. Bastard (Live In Berkeley 7/7/79)
10. All The Way From Memphis (Live In Cleveland 18/6/79)
11. Cleveland Rocks (Live In Cleveland 18/6/79)
12. All The Young Dudes (Live At The Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79)
13. When The Daylight Comes (Live In Cleveland 18/6/79)
14. Sweet Angeline (Live In Cleveland 18/6/79)

Source: EMI

ROD STEWART SESSIONS 1971-1998 4CD BOX SET

Producers Andy Zax and Cheryl Pawelski prowled through a warehouse of Stewart’s tapes to unearth all the dusty gems four discs could hold. Spanning more than 25 years, the collection’s 63 songs, outtakes, and ephemera provide extraordinary insight into the studio work of one of rock’s legendary figures and paint a picture of what might have been. Many of these performances are more stripped-down and intimate than their released counterparts, so the set becomes an illustration and a showcase of Rod’s creative process. Few major artists have allowed such a revealing look behind the scenes.

More than a third of THE ROD STEWART SESSIONS 1971-1998 chronicles the torrent of indelible recordings Stewart unleashed during the ’70s. Fittingly, the set opens with a decidedly rough take of “Maggie May,” the #1 hit from Stewart’s third solo album–Every Picture Tells A Story–that broke him as a solo artist in 1971. Sessions offers alternate versions of well-known hits from that era such as “Sailing,” “Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright),” “You Wear It Well,” and an acoustic version of “You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim).” Alongside those are rarities like the unfinished “Think I’ll Pack My Bags” (which later appeared on Ron Wood’s solo debut rewritten as “Mystifies Me”), an early version of “So Tired” that finds the band working out the arrangement in the studio, and an acoustic version of the B-side “Rosie.” Of special note is the rumored-to-exist but never heard—until now—sequel to “The Killing of Georgie”; “Innocent (The Killing of Georgie Part III)” completes the epic narrative begun on 1976′s A Night On The Town album with a ferociously rocking performance taken from the sessions for the following year’s Foot Loose & Fancy Free. Stewart ended the decade with a hits package that was to include his cover of British pub-rocker Frankie Miller’s “When I’m Away >From You” that has remained unreleased until now.

Sessions touches on six albums Stewart released during the ’80s, including Foolish Behaviour (1980), which was originally intended to be a double album, but was eventually scaled back to a single disc. Along with an early version of the album track “Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight” the collection also features four unreleased tracks presumably destined for the second disc “Time Of My Life,” “TV Mama,” “Stupid,” and Buddy Holly’s “Maybe Baby.” While the multitracks for Tonight I’m Yours (1981) have gone missing, the producers managed to recover an unreleased song called “Thunderbird” from the session’s only surviving mixdown tape. The collection closes out the decade with several tracks from Out Of Order (1988), including a tender reading of “Forever Young” that features Stewart accompanied only by a piano and the improvised in the studio and then abandoned “I Go To Jail For You.”

The final Sessions disc is dedicated to Stewart’s resurgence as an artistic and commercial force in the ’90s. It begins with six songs recorded in the summer of 1992 that were shelved in favor of

Unplugged…And Seated, including a cover of Bob Dylan and The Band’s “This Wheel’s On Fire,” and an all-star remake of the 1969 Python Lee Jackson song (originally also sung by Rod) “In A Broken Dream,” which features Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. Also included is Stewart’s cover of Bobby Womack’s “Looking For A Love,” which was surprisingly left off A Spanner In The Works (1995) and a version of Oasis’ “Rockin’ Chair” that he recorded for When We Were The New Boys (1998).

Although never intended to be shared with the world, the directness and immediacy of the music on THE ROD STEWART SESSIONS 1971-1998 documents an exceptional artist at work over a long period of time, says Zax, the set’s co producer. “Admirers of particular eras of Rod’s career may be surprised to discover, upon listening to this box, that there is far less difference between the Rod of 1971 and the Rod of 1998–and all the years between them–than they had previously believed.”

Tracklisting:

Maggie May (Early Version)
Seems Like A Long Time (Alternate Version)
Italian Girls (Early Version)
You Wear It Well (Early Version)
Lost Paraguayos (Alternate Version)
I’d Rather Go Blind (Alternate Version)
Angel (Alternate Version)
Think I’ll Pack My Bags (Early Version of “Mystifies Me”)
Farewell (Early Version)
Girl From The North Country (Alternate Version)
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man (Alternate Version)
So Tired (Early Version)
This Old Heart Of Mine (Alternate Version)
To Love Somebody (Early Take)
Sailing (Alternate Version)
Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright) (Early Take)
The First Cut Is The Deepest (Alternate Version)
Rosie (Acoustic Version)
Innocent (The Killing Of Georgie Part III)
Hot Legs (Early Take)
You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim) (Acoustic Version)
I Was Only Joking (Early Take)
Scarred & Scared (Early Take)
When I’m Away From You
Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight (Early Version)
Time Of My Life
TV Mama
Maybe Baby
Stupid
Guess I’ll Always Love You (Alternate Version)
The Great Pretender (Acoustic Version)
Thunderbird
Dancing Alone (Alternate Version)
I Wish You Would
Sweet Surrender (Alternate Version)
Show Me
Ghetto Blaster (Early Version)
Satisfied (Alternate Version)
Hard Lesson To Learn (Alternate Version)
Heaven
In My Life (Piano Version)
Love Is A Four Letter Word
Forever Young (Piano Version)
My Heart Can’t Tell You No (Alternate Version)
I Go To Jail For You
A Good Lover Is Hard To Find
Let The Day Begin (Alternate Version)
The Groom’s Still Waiting At The Altar (Alternate Version)
Windy Town (Piano Version)
In A Broken Dream (1992)
This Wheel’s On Fire
I Wanna Stay Home
I’m A King Bee
Looking For A Love
Kiss Her For Me
The Long Journey Home
Now That You’re On Your Own
Dylan’s Day Off
On And On
Rockin’ Chair
Sugar Lips
The Changingman
May You Never

Source: Warner/Rhino

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