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Porcupine Tree frontman to release solo album number 2

To say Steven Wilson is a prolific musician is somewhat of an understatement as the singer, guitarist, writer and producer gets ready for solo release number 2 in the form of upcoming studio album 'Grace For Drowning' set for tentative release on September 26th 2011. Since his 2008 debut 'Insurgentes' and the subsequent remix of said album plus 2009's The Incident by his ever-popular-growing Porcupine Tree  as well as touring, ongoing live and studio work with other side-projects No-Man, Bass Communion and Blackfield....and....not to mention remixing classic King Crimson re-issues, doing feature articles for Classic Rock and helping out on production duties for Metal giants Opeth it's been a 'crazy-busy' last few years for the musician and it looks like he has no intention of taking much of a break, not that we're complaining!

It's a wonder really that this 'all-rounder' has found the time to muster up more material and yet the imminent new release is horizon-bound and as with most Wilson efforts, each release promises to just get better and better...

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More at progarchives.com on the upcoming release



Monday's Top Items! Including A Japanese Exported Limited Edition Pet Shop Boys CD, A Depeche Mode Double CD Set, A Gold Disc David Bowie And An Audiophile Metallica Boxset!

PET SHOP BOYS Very Relentless

1993 Japanese export issue of the UK limited edition 18-track 2-CD album pack including bonus 6-track 'Relentless' CD of exclusive dance tracks featuring My Head Is Spinning, Forever In Love, KDX 125, We Came From Outer Space, The Man Who Has Everything & OneThing Leads To Another, each CD is housed in a card picture sleeve within a unique gatefold padded bubble pack which has the complete information/tracklisting sticker and Japanese text sticker.

 

DEPECHE MODE Violator Ninety + One

Scarce 1990 Japanese limited edition 17-track double CD set including Enjoy The Silence 8-track promotional CD - complete with calendar booklet, English & Japanese lyric booklets, Enjoy The Silence insert, custom printed wallet for the promotional disc + printed discography obi-strip! - Superb package!

 

DAVID BOWIE Let's Dance

Rare 1989 Japanese limited edition 8-track GOLD CD album, part of the Eternity Gold series, picture sleeve booklet with English/Japanese lyrics and gold embossed 'Eternity' series logo on the back insert.

 

 

METALLICA Metallica

2008 US limited edition 12-track 4-LP set pressed on 45RPM 180gram AUDIOPHILE QUALITY VINYL, cut at Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios from the original analog masters. Superbly presented in a sealed & stickered deluxebox with lyric sheet and Japanese-style card belly band proclaiming 'Metallica Like You've Never Heard Them Before...'

 

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Saturday's Top Items! Including An Original RARE Dr. Z. On Vertigo Swirl, Trombone Roots Reggae Courtesy Of Rico, All On Board The Gravy Train On Yet Another Scarce Vertigo Swirl And A Limited White Stripes Boxset!

DR. Z 3 Parts To My Soul

Original 1972 Italian issue of the legendary Vertigo 'swirl' label 6-track vinyl LP, housed in the superb Barney Bubbles designed fold-out die-cut picture sleeve. With some reports of official retail sales of just ELEVENcopies in the band's homeland and only seventy copies of the UK pressing known to still exist, it is believed VERY few copies indeed were pressd and sold on the continent. Rare. As. Hen's. Teeth.

 

RICO Man From Wareika

Scarce 1977 UK Island sunrise label 9-track LP. Due to the matt finish of the picture sleeve, there is a little light edge wear with age but nothing serious and the vinyl looks barely played. Lovely roots reggae.

 

GRAVY TRAIN Ballad Of A Peaceful Man

Super rare original 1971 Italian issue 8-track vinyl LP on the Vertigo 'swirl' label. The band's second album and a varied, yet more commercial offering than their debut, housed in a front laminated top-opening single pocket picture sleeve variant. There are a handful of scratches to the laminate by the left edge, but the sleeve otherwise shows only a little shelfwear with all edges intact and clearly legible spine print. The vinyl is immaculate, and excepting the official 'SIAE' copyright stamp on the second side, the labels are unblemished with no spindle wear evident - a fabulous copy of this extremely hard to find issue!

 

WHITE STRIPES Under Great White Northern Lights

2010 UK Deluxe Limited Edition Multi-Format Boxset - In the summer of 2007, The White Stripes embarked on a cross-country Canadian tour to accomplish their goal of performing in every province and territory across the expansive northern nation. This deluxe boxset comprises the 'Under Great White Northern Lights' DVD which documents the band playing to crowds in towns of all sizes across the Great White North - from traditional venues to matinee gigs at unusual locations such as a bowling alley, a boat and even on a city bus - culminating in a momentous 10th Anniversary show at the historic Savoy Theatre in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia; a live CD album featuring 16 songs recorded at various shows throughout the Canadian tour; the 2-LP Heavyweight Vinyl set; the exclusive 'Under Nova Scotian Lights' DVD [directed by Emmett Malloy]; a Bonus 2-track White Vinyl 7" single containing live versions of 'Icky Thump' & 'Wheels On The Bus' [as performed on the City bus]. All housed together in a stunning embossed box [with removable lid] complete with a 208-page hardcover book containing photography shot by Autumn de Wilde of the Canadian tour, and a Silkscreen Print [1 of 6 possible designs] by artist Rob Jones based on photographs by Autumn de Wilde! [for more packaging details - please see the tracklisting section]!

Friday's Top Three! Including An Autographed And Framed Queen Etched 12" Single, Junior Parker's Genius 1970 Funk/Soul Outing And A 'Titantic' Celine Dion Award!

QUEEN Scandal

Superb AUTOGRAPHED cover of the UK etched disc edition of the 'Scandal' 12" single - clearly signed by Freddie, Brian, Roger and John in silver pen, framed and glazed with a wood frame measuring approximately 13½" square. Genuine fully autographed Queen items are hard to come by, however this was purchased from one of the most trusted sources close to the band, the Queen Fan Club, when they moved offices in May 2006.

 

JUNIOR PARKER The Outside Man

Very rare original 1970 US 10-track LP by the funk/soul legend, repackaged a year later under the title Love Ain't Nothin' But A Business Goin'. Includes a stripped down version of 'Tomorrow Never Knows' (later used by The Chemical Brothers as an intro to many of their DJ sets). Picture sleeve with small deletion drill hole. The sleeve shows just the lightest shelfwear & the vinyl is flawless.

 

CELINE DION Titanic

Rare official 1998 UK BPI certified 2 x PLATINUM award issued to commemorate sales in the United Kingdom of more than 600,000 units of the Sony Classical album for the music for the motion picture soundtrack, which includes the Celine Dion track 'My Heart Will Go On'. Features two picture CDs and a copy of the Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet cover artwork, mounted above the authentic, custom engraved dedication plaque. This nicely framed and glazed award measures 16" x 16" - a fantastic looking display item! ** Complete With Certificate Of Authenticity **

 

 

Megadeth gear up for studio album number 'TH1RT3EN'

In an interview this week with Rolling Stone magazine, Dave Mustaine, guitarist and lead singer of thrash legends MEGADETH announced a new record, entitled TH1RT3EN [a nod to it clocking in as the band's '13th' album as well as being Mustaine's birth date] is tentatively due for release in November 2011. The album will be the band's first to feature original bassist Dave Ellefson since 2001's 'The World Needs a Hero' and marks their last obligatory release due for label Roadrunner Records.　

With a recent jaunt at this years Sonisphere festival, a new '25th Anniversary' reissue of their classic 1986 album 'Peace Sells . . . But Who's Buying?' and an upcoming show as part of another eagerly awaited 'Big 4' appearance at the 'Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival' on September 14th it's all systems go for the thrash giants...and long may they continue!

More from the interview at rolling stone here

Thursday's Top Items! Including A Depeche Mode Sampler, A 'Puzzling' Radiohead Item, A German Little Village And A Platinum Perfect Circle!!

DEPECHE MODE Remixes 2: 81-11 Deluxe Edition Sampler

2011 US promotional-only MUTE/REPRISE 10-track CD compilation, limited to only 300 copies pressed, and featuring spotlight tracks from each of the three discs on the deluxe edition of the much-anticipated collection of stellar remixes. Featuring custom front and back inserts, and the exclusive catalogue number PRCD-400204, this newly coveted rarity is fast becoming THE must-have Depeche Mode item among collectors worldwide!

 

RADIOHEAD Hail To The Thief

Rare official 2003 UK promotional only Jigsaw still shrinkwrap sealed, still housed in the original unique 12" brown cardboard box with stenciled 'Radiohead' & 'Hail To The Thief' on the front and picture of the completed jigsaw on the inside lid. A superb item that was produced in limited quantity - a must have for any fan!

 

LITTLE VILLAGE Little Village

Scarce 1992 German only pressed 11-track blue, green & yellow 'steam boat' Reprise label vinyl LP for the debut and only album from the supergroup consisting of Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Jim Keltner and Nick Lowe, housed in a line-up hype stickered glossy picture sleeve. This copy remains in its opened factory shrink with original 'Virgin Chart' store price sticker, beautifully kept from new by one fastidious owner - in MINT condition!

 

A PERFECT CIRCLE Mer De Noms

Official RIAA Certified US PLATINUM Award issued to commemorate American sales in excess of 1,000,000 copies of album, CD and cassette. This nicely framed and glazed award measures 22" x 18" and features a platinum LP decorated with a circular hieroglyph design mounted on a custom artwork background, the authentic custom engraved dedication plaque at the bottom has an artwork miniature overlapping on the left and has the RIAA hologram on the right - all framed in a brown wooden frame which has a golden finish around the outside - stunning item for a classic album!

 

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DEPECHE MODE Remixes 2: 81-11 Deluxe Edition Sampler (2011 US promotional-only MUTE/REPRISE 10-track CD compilation, limited to only 300 copies pressed, and featuring spotlight tracks from each of the three discs on the deluxe edition of the much-anticipated collection of stellar remixes. Featuring custom front and back inserts, and the exclusive catalogue number PRCD-400204, this newly coveted rarity is fast becoming THE must-have DepecheMode item among collectors worldwide!)

Wednesday's Top Items! What A Line-Up; First Issue Bob Dylan, John Coltrane 1962 Mono LP, The Beatles' Red And Blue Vinyl And An Original 1969 Chicago Offering!

BOB DYLAN The Times They Are A-Changin' - First Issue

Original 1964 UK 'rough' label 10-track MONO vinyl LP, front laminated flipback picture sleeve. Both sleeve & vinyl show few signs of age - a wonderful copy!

 

 

JOHN COLTRANE Live At The Village Vanguard

Original 1962 US 3-track mono LP on the orange Impulse label with black rim and 'RVG' stamper in the run-out groove. This famous live date was recorded in November 1961 with Eric Dolphy on bass clarinet, McCoy Tyner piano, bassist Reggie Workman and Elvin Jones on drums. The heavyweight gatefold sleeve is front laminated and pasted internally and shows barely any signs of its age. The vinyl has just the lightest warp but plays through perfectly. A glorious record.

 

THE BEATLES The Beatles 1962-1966 & 1967-1970

1978 US Capitol label 54-track 4-LP set comprising limited edition RED VINYL and BLUE VINYL issues of the classic compilations. Housed in their individual gatefold colour picture sleeves with originallyric inners. A great opportunity to own this complete 2 x double album set.

 

CHICAGO Chicago Transit Authority

Scarce Original 1969 UK smooth orange label 12-track double vinyl LP, gatefold picture sleeve with gold 'stereo' sticker on the reverse. The sleeve is displaying some edge scuffing and light ringwear but is otherwise in excellent shape and the vinyl within looks barely played! A nice copy of an increasingly hard to find album espeically in such great condition!

 

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Tuesday's Top Items! Including A Madonna Slipmat, The Smiths' on 12", Buckingham Nicks Original 1973 Vinyl, Thundering Vibrations With Sir Coxson Sound And A Rare Jean Michel Jarre Tour Book!

MADONNA Music

Scarce 2000 US promotional-only black & white turntable slipmat, produced to promote the 'Music' album, with a nice 'Rodeo' Music logo.

 

 

THE SMITHS William It Was Really Nothing

1987 UK second issue 3-track 12" vinyl single, also including How Soon Is Now? & Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want, Billie Whitelaw image picture sleeve with light blue die cut inner.

 

 

BUCKINGHAM NICKS Buckingham Nicks

Original 1973 US Polydor label 8-track vinyl LP, housed in a pasted gatefold picture sleeve with lyrics printed inside. The sleeve shows just some light shelfwear with no deletion cuts or holes and the vinyl isin near MINT condition - a great copy!

 

 

SIR COXSON SOUND King Of The Dubb Rock

Scarce original 1975 UK 10-track LP on the Safari label, arranged and produced by Lloyd Coxson, who was a founder and father figure of sound systems throughout the UK. Fantastic picture sleeve design. The sleeve shows minimal wear and the vinyl looks barely played. UK dub vibes!

 

JEAN MICHEL JARRE Europe In Concert

Factory sealed 1994 French Le Moniteur 80-page 14" x 10" softback book featuring lots of stunning pictures from Jean Michel's stage shows throughout Europe with French text. Includes 8-page English and Spanish translation insert, in superb dust cover + belly band. This tour book is still in its original, unopened factory shrink and as such is in pristine condition!

Monday's Top Items! Including A Gold George Thorogood Award, Canadian-Only U2 Vinyl, Megadeth Autographed Poster And Fleetwood Mac On Japanese Gold CD!!

GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS Greatest Hits: 30 Years Of Rock

Rare Official RIAA certified GOLD award presented to commemorate sales of more than 500,000 copies of the Delware blues star's EMI/Capitol Records compilation album on compact disc. Featuring a gold LP with picture label above a mounted picture sleeve miniature featuring the original cover art alongside an authentic, RIAA hologram and custom engraved dedication plaque. This award is elaborately displayed featuring a brilliant sunburst and double-bordered retro/worn effect background. Measuring approximately 19" x 23" framed and glazed in a wonderful black frame, with only one or two negligible marks to the frame this striking award is also presented with a fabulous custom black Artist and '30 years of rock' title logo stencil-effect print on the plexiglass - stunning display piece!!

 

U2 In God's Country

Scarce 1987 Canadian-only rainbow rim Island label 3-track 12" vinyl single taken fromt he band's classic album The Joshua Tree co-produced with Brian Eno, also including Bullet The Blue Sky and Running To Stand Still, housedin the original picture sleeve showing just minimal signs of shelfwear but overall in great shape with near mint vinyl.

 

MEGADETH Risk

Scarce 1999 US promotional poster produced to promote the album, featuring a great cartoon style image of four Sphynx cats [layed out like a playing card] with two at the top and two at the bottom in a mirror image, the 'Risk' motif in the middle with the band name across the centre. This has been fully AUTOGRAPHED by Dave Mustaine, Marty Friedman, Dave Ellefson and Jimmy DeGrasso in each corner in black marker pen - professionally framed & glazed, measuring 21" x27" in size framed in black wooden frame.

 

FLEETWOOD MAC Tango In The Night

Rare 1987 Japanese limited edition 12-track 24k gold audiophile CD album, lyric booklet picture sleeve, Japanese insert with family tree + gold-embossed obi-strip.

Former Motörhead guitarist Michael 'Würzel' Burston passes away at 61

The guitarist who played with Lemmy and the boys for 11 years was reported to have died of ventricular fibrillation, caused by heart disease, on 9 July 2011. Tim Butcher, longtime bass technician of leader Lemmy, informed the band that Wurzel had sadly passed away.

Lemmy quoted on contactmusic.com "(He was) more rock and roll than all of us put together" and credits Burston with creating "classic" Motorhead tunes. 1984's No Remorse saw Wurzel's first appearance for the band and Lemmy soon insisted that Würzel add an umlaut to the 'U' in his name, as used in the band name for heavy metal effect! The guitarist would also release 2 solo albums including his 1987 debut 'Bess' in the spirit of the Motorhead sound followed by another in 1998 'Chill Out Or Die - The Ambient Album' cited as improvised avant-garde.

Wurzel had also most recently been working on a new band, Leader of Down, who had announced a soon to be released debut single but he'll undoubtedly be most fondly remembered for his work in providing [and thankfully immortalised in] many of the riffs and a LOT of the rock in the mighty Motorhead!

Hats off to Wurzel!

More at contactmusic.com　

On a lighter note Hollywood actress Kate Hudson and Muse frontman Matthew Bellamy have become parents to a baby boy, let's hope he turns out to be as musical as his father and as rock n roll as Wurzel if his father has the sense to play him a healthy dose of Wurzel and Motorhead!   More at Sky.com

Saturday's Top Items! Including A George Harrison Record Store Day Special, Jimmy Smith Is Definately 'Feline' It, Robbie Williams Is Certified...Gold And John Mayall's Fusion On Vinyl!

JOHN MAYALL Jazz Blues Fusion

Original 1972 red label Polydor UK 7-track vinyl LP recorded live in Boston and New York, housed inside its E.J. Day printed matt picture sleeve which still has the period Boots Nett Price sticker attached showing the original retail price of just £2.25 - a bargain - this remarkable copy has come from the vast collection of its original owner who purchased it brand new. The vinyl is pristine, mint condition!

 

ROBBIE WILLIAMS The Ego Has Landed

Rare Official RIAA Certified US GOLD award issued to commemorate sales in excess of more than 500,000 copies of the CD and Cassette album. This nicely framed and glazed award measures approximately 15" x 15" insize, features a gold CD with RIAA hologram in the centre of the disc and dedication plaque below, both on the right hand side, both mounted on a picture background featuring the album cover picture, framed in a black metal frame with custom printed glaze with 'Robbie Williams' text in white and 'The Ego Has Landed' text in orange - truly stunning item!

 

JIMMY SMITH The Cat

Rare 1964 UK first issue 8-track mono vinyl LP, arranged and conducted by Lalo Schifrin and starring Jimmy Cleveland, Grady Tate, George Duvivier, Kenny Burrell & Thad Jones amongst others, housed in a front laminated flipback picture sleeve with liner notes on the reverse. The sleeve is in fantatstic near 'as new' condition with no obvious laminate lift evident and astonishing very little sign of discouration or age, after 47 years and the vinyl within remains remarkably pristine - a glorious copy, hard to find in such wonderful condition!

 

GEORGE HARRISON All Things Must Pass - 40th Anniversary Edition

2010 US 'Record Store Day' limited edition numbered box set, featuring 23-tracks pressed on 180-gram vinyl in its original 3-LP configuration, originally released on the 27th November 1970 and co-produced by Harrison and Phil Spector. Housed in a 12" x 12" lift-top box packaging with faithfully replicated original monochromic album artwork which is numbered on the back, plus a full colour poster. Newly remastered at Abbey Road Studios from the original analogue master tapes, this deluxe vinyl reissue commemorates the landmark album’s 40th anniversary and was available exclusively at Record Store Day-participating independent music retailers across America. This copy is still factory sealed with the red Apple logo hype sticker on the front and Record Store Day barcode sticker on the back.

Japanese Forthcoming! Including A Duo Of Twisted Sister DVDs, Motley Crue's SHM Greatest Hits, Lesley Gore's Legendary 'Lost' Album And Brand New Albums From Both The Kooks And Lenny Kravitz!

TWISTED SISTER Northstage Theater, Long Island 1982 - Release Date: 20/07/2011

2011 Japanese 15-track Region 2 NTSC DVD featuring an outstanding Live performance in the Glam Metaller's home town just after the release of their debut album 'Under The Blade'. Includes stomping renditions of 'You Can't Stop Rock 'N' Roll', 'Under The Blade' and 'Sin After Sin' as well as Bonus interview footage!

 

TWISTED SISTER New York Steel Benefit Show 2001 - Release Date: 20/07/2011

2011 Japanese 14-track Region 2 NTSC DVD featuring the Glam Metal outfit on fine form at this US Charity concert. Includes superb renditions of 'We're Not Gonna Take It', 'Under The Blade' and 'Burn In Hell' as well as Bonus Interview Footage!

 

MOTLEY CRUE Greatest Hits - Deluxe Edition - Release Date: 24/08/2011

2011 Japanese 19-track SHM-CD album [Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players], featuring the 2011 remaster and including 'Dr. Feelgood', 'Looks That Kill' and the Remix of 'The Animal In Me'. Picture sleeve featuring the original Japanese artwork and obi-strip.

 

THE KOOKS Junk Of The Heart - Release Date: 31/08/2011

2011 Japanese 13-track CD album featuring the highly anticipated third album from the Brighton indie/pop outfit. Expected to be this summer's must-have album, bonus track expected for the Japanese pressing. Picture sleeve and obi-strip.

 

LESLEY GORE Magic Colors - Release Date: 25/07/2011

2011 Japanese 25-track CD featuring the legendary 'lost album' and including 15 bonus tracks recorded between 1967-1969. Most of the titles intended for the 'Magic Colors' LP were recorded in Hollywood with first-call session luminaries such as Hal Blaine, Larry Knechtel, Lyle Ritz, Jim Horn, Al Casey, Jay Migliori, Carol Kaye, Tommy Tedesco and Ray Pohlman, the nucleus of the celebrated Wrecking Crew, as they were known within the business. When its would-be title song was issued as a single, the label carried a line heralding the album, but Mercury nixed its release after the 45's failure to chart. Your chance to own these highly sought-after recordings! Picture sleeve with obi-strip.

 

LENNY KRAVITZ Black And White America - Release Date: 24/08/2011

2011 Japanese 16-track CD album - The 9th longplayer from the multi-instrumentalist singer/songwriter with this outing seeing him delve into a world of funk, originally intended for release prior to 'Baptism'. Includes the singles 'Come On Get It' and 'Stand' as well as a bonus track expected for the Japanese pressing. Picture sleeve + obi-strip.

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Friday's Top Items! Including An Extremely Rare Jimi Hendrix Original, Joss Stone Gold Award, David Bowie Retail Sampler And A US Promotional Iron Maiden! Rock On!

JIMI HENDRIX Axis: Bold As Love

Rare original 1967 UK first issue 13-track MONO vinyl LP with 612003 A1 and B1 matrix numbers, front laminated gatefold picture sleeve, complete with the all important and incredibly rare fold out lyric/poster insert! Read more about this amazing item here!

 

JOSS STONE The Soul Sessions

Genuine and Beautiful RIAA-Certified US GOLD Sales Award, presented to commemorate American sales of Miss Stone’s acclaimed debut album in excess of 500,000 units. Measuring approximately 17" x 21" expertly framed and glazed, this remarkable award features the Soul Sessions CD and GOLD LP above its accompanying custom-engraved RIAA-Hologram dedication plaque. This is the ONLY authentic Joss Stone award we’ve ever seen offered for sale, and certainlystands as both a unique and valuable collectable for one lucky Joss Stone fan!

 

DAVID BOWIE Hours... & Brilliant Minutes Retail Sampler

Superb 1999 Canadian 14-track promotional-only CD, which includes fantastic tracks from Hours and classics from Bowie's extensive back catalogue. Housed in a unique and custom 'classic Bowie album covers' picture sleeve, this rarity has endured as a favorite among both collectors and music enthusiasts, and is rumoured to have been pressed in an extremely limited quantity of 350,half of which were destroyed due to a licensing dispute!

 

IRON MAIDEN The Wicker Man

Rare 2000 US 2-track withdrawn promotional only CD including Radio Version and Radio Edit. The version's featured on this CD both feature lyrics removed from any other version released. Housed in a CD album casewith a custom picture sleeve featuring a great picture of the band, plus tour dates, and a custom back insert!

 

 

 

40 years since the death of The Lizard King

This month marks the 40th anniversary of the death of legendary 'The Doors' frontman Jim Morrison. Counted as part of the '27 Club' phenomenon due to being one of the five famous rock-star's who tragically passed away at the early age of 27 along with Hendrix, Joplin, Cobain and Brian Jones. Though no autopsy was performed, Morrison's death is listed as being due to heart failure on July 3 1971, Paris, France.

A fabulously unique Artist, remembered for his poetic lyricism and wild personality as much as his pioneering vocal style and video direction, Morrison was one of the most dynamic performers in music history. With rock classics like Riders On The Storm and Light My Fire surviving as cornerstones of rock music to this day, plus new 'The Doors' film 'When You're Strange' [narrated by Johnny Depp] being recently released, the singer remains a true icon 4 decades on!

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Mylene Farmer's Scorching Hot New Summer Single 'Lonely Lisa' - In Stock Now!

The latest single release from Mylene's brilliant eighth album 'Bleu Noir' [Grab the previous single here!]. Produced by RedOne, best known for his work with Lady Gaga, and featuring the return of of 'Lisa', an illustrated character who appeared in the music video to Mylene's 'C'est Une Belle Journee'. Set to be this summer's hit single with its rhythmic, electro-sounding and simple but catchy chorus! Available in CD single format [Here], two Remix CD's [1 + 2] and two Remix 12" singles [1 + 2]. We also have a small quantity of complete sets of three CD singles which won't be around for long!    

 

 

Thursday's Top Items! Including A Rare Kate Bush Autograph, Rolling Stones Classic On Vinyl And A Duo Of Rare Limited Edition Oasis CD Boxsets!

ROLLING STONES Exile On Main St

1972 UK 18-track double vinyl LP, internal pocket gatefold picture sleeve with picture inners. The sleeve shows very light edge rubbing, minor discolouration and minmal creasing & the vinyl is in near mint condition with negligible signs of play - a fantastic copy!

 

KATE BUSH Hounds Of Love

Rare original UK AUTOGRAPHED 13" x 9" 3-picture colour print that was originally only available directly from EMI via mail order once you had purchased the album. The stunning print features three 5" x 3½" head & shoulders images of Kate, with white borders and title/artist heading along the top, it has been signed along the bottom edge by Kate in black marker pen. Still in the original frame and glazing, this is a mega collectable item!

 

OASIS Singles - (What's The Story) Morning Glory

Rare original 1996 UK/European-only limited edition 5-CD box set including 16-track 4-CD singles [Wonderwall, Some Might Say, Roll With It & Don't Look Back In Anger] and an exclusive interview CDplus glossy 12-page booklet. Housed in a stickered gold plastic B&H style flip-top box - still sealed from new!

 

OASIS Singles - Definitely Maybe

Rare original 1996 UK-only UK 5-CD box set including 18-track 4-CD singles [Supersonic, Shakermaker, Live Forever & Cigarettes & Alcohol], exclusive interview CD plus 12-page glossy Collectors Booklet. Housed ina stickered silvery grey flip-top box styled like the B&H cigarette box - still sealed sealed from new!

 

 

Wednesday's Top Items! Including A Cure Japanese Rarity, A Scarce Roger Waters' Test Pressing, Audiophile Vinyl Bob Dylan And US Promotional Depeche Mode!

THE CURE The Hanging Garden

Mega rare 1983 Japanese 2-track VAP label 7" vinyl single also including the track 'A Strange Day' on the B-side which was not used on the UK release. Housed in it's original and unique video still picture insert with lyrics to both tracks on the reverse - a stunning mint copy!

 

ROGER WATERS The Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking

Rare 1984 UK pink label vinyl LP test pressing of the 12-track debut solo studio album by the singer, bassist and Pink Floyd founder, featuring guests Eric Clapton & Michael Kamen. With matrixes 'SHVL 2401051 A/B-2U-1-' plus 'SHSP' crossed out and 'TML-M', housed in a die-cut plain black sleeve with superb condition vinyl looking barely if at all played! - Scarce collectable by the Floyd legend!

 

BOB DYLAN Live 1966, The Royal Albert Hall Concert [The Bootleg Series Volume 4]

2006 US exclusive limited edition 15-track 2-LP set pressed on 200gram Quiex Super Vinyl, taken from the original mix down masters & transferred to lacquer on Classic's 'all tube' analog cutting system. One of the most famous bootlegs [erroneously credited as an Albert Hall recording, but was in fact made in Manchester!] now in pristine sound, capturing Dylan in his transition from folk singer torock legend! Picture sleeves complete with 40-page illustrated booklet and outer box.

 

DEPECHE MODE Selections 2

1991 US 16-track promotional-only sampler CD featuring selections from Boxed Set Three including Shake The Disease, Stripped and A Question Of Time [Remix], plus 4 live tracks - People Are People, Black Celebration, Something To Do and More Than A Party, black disc with olympic style interlocking rings logo, custom picture sleeve.

 

Prince, Hop Farm Festival 2011 review

By Tom Horan: read the full review at The Telegraph.

A tangibly happier 53-year-old Prince entertained a crowd of 30,000 at Hop Farm for more than two and a half hours.

There’s always a lovely incongruity to a big international star pitching up somewhere quaintly and quintessentially English. I couldn’t help wondering how Prince had spent the afternoon before his headline performance at this cosy festival outside Tunbridge Wells. A cream tea and a potter around the Pantiles? A tour of some of the local oast-houses? But any concerns that he might consider the booking beneath him evaporated from the opening number of this mesmerising show.

The rumour was that he would play for two and half hours. In the end it was more, but the depth of his back catalogue and the muscular virtuosity of his mostly female band seemed to render the passing of time irrelevant. He delivered the hits from his 1980s heyday in a raw cascade of reminiscence: 1999; Let’s Go Crazy; Kiss; Little Red Corvette. The vocal gymnastics, the nonchalant feats of guitar, the elastic dance moves — he could do so many things so well that you couldn’t stop looking at him....

 

 

Tuesday's Top Three! Including An Uber-Rare Iron Maiden Collector's Set, Depeche Mode Limited Edition Set And Your Very Own Kylie!

IRON MAIDEN Eddie's Archive

2002 First issue UK limited edition collectors set comprised of three 2-CD sets: BBC Archive, Beast Over Hammersmith and Best Of The B-Sides personally selected by the band, presented in a silver embossed metalcasket with blue lining complete with individually numbered Pete Frame family tree on parchment scroll, an Eddie scroll ring plus a Eddie head shot glass. Still housed in original stickered sealed cardboard box - The ULTIMATE Maiden collectable!

 

DEPECHE MODE In Your Room

1994 UK 11-track 3-CD single set including limited edition live CD & limited edition remix CD, with all 3 original sleeves - fold-out cross-shaped digipak picture sleeve plus two additional card wallet picture sleeves,the outer sleeve is showing just minimal evidence of storage with just minor edgwear and otherwise in great shape and the discs and contents remains in 'as new' condition - Great copy!

 

KYLIE MINOGUE Silvanemesis

2004 UK limited edition 11" poseable doll modelled exclusively on the star herself with true likeness due to Kylie’s own head being scanned to create a three dimensional model then used to create the perfect mould - her whole team including stylist, make-up artist, designer and management were involved in the process from start to finish - dressed in a superb outfit as worn on the Fever Tour, presented in die-cut picture boxcomplete with accessories including microphone!

Shock-Rock fans prepare to be 'transformed'

A new 'Rockumentary' on Goth, Industrial and just about all things Shock-Rock superstar Marilyn Manson is in the pipeline and although this sure to be highly anticipated documentary is only at its early planning stages, this week revealed that Transformers trilogy film star and fan Shia LaBeouf is due to be in the Director's chair!

Immediate brief detail is that the film will be based around the making of Manson's yet to be named upcoming 8th studio album - tentatively due for release later this year...

We'll keep an eye out for more news on the film and the new album but in the meantime check out more on 991.com for our own devilish supply of collectable Manson morsels.

read more here at rollingstone.com about Shia's experiences of Manson's lair and pink kimonos!!?