Whether you are an audiophile or blessed with a tin-ear, here’s an array of some pretty sweet gifts that would fill your life with a bit of rhythm.
A mobile speaker inspired by the old school ghettoblasters of the 1980s. Made from Cardboard and flat packed as a DIY kit featuring German engineered audio technology which delivers powerful sound to your smartphone, iPhone, iPod, Android phone or Windows phone. Assembly is easy, glue-free, tool-free and takes only a couple of minutes, the Berlin Boombox is made from the best available corrugated cardboard. It features a strong carrying handle and a beautiful aluminum knob for power and volume control. A real eye-catcher, the Berlin Boombox brings together the classic boombox style with today’s audio technology.
Crosley Cruiser Red Portable Turntable With Built-In Speakers
Beautiful new Crosley Cruiser portable turntable. Red case with chrome accents and cream colored handle. Very retro style fully functional piece. The upgraded black inner felt lining resists dirt marks that standard white lining on other models will show. This portable turntable was introduced in the late 1950s and provided music lovers with a sense of independence, allowing them to easily cart their record player from one place to another. The popularity of this unit was due in no small part to its portability, but also to its suitcase styled finishing touches. The Crosley Cruiser Portable Turntable is designed to reflect the styling of yesteryear. This fan favorite is a 3-speed belt-driven turntable that plays 33 1/3, 45 and 78 RPM records. The Cruiser includes modern conveniences such as dynamic full range stereo speakers, headphone jack and RCA outputs.
Take all-occasion glassware on a retro rewind with these colorful mixtape glasses. The blank tape allows partygoers to write their names or favorite power ballad on the cassette using the included wax pencil, giving you a personalized playlist and a great way to keep track of drinks. Comes as a set of six.
Combine 50 years of classic rock heritage with a spacious drinks refrigerator and you end up with the chilling rock n’ roll obelisk known as the Marshall Fridge.
Masterfully crafted from authentic Marshall Amp parts and emblazoned with the Father of Loud, Jim Marshall’s seal of approval; it is undoubtedly the perfect addition to any green room, studio or man-cavern. Behind its familiar and lifelike amplifier exterior lies a remarkably roomy refrigerator, complete with adjustable glass shelves and a freezer compartment for you know; spirits, ice trays, chewed-off bat’s heads etc.
Grabbing a beer from this fridge is no longer just a case of going through the motions – it’s a rock and roll event. The spotlight’s on you, it’s all happening in slow motion, a deafening celestial power-chord rings out, the door creaks open and a cool mist pours out revealing row after row of dripping ice-cold refreshment at your fingertips. It’s time to get amped.
The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat (3CD – 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
The Velvet Underground’s White Light/White Heat is one of the most confrontational and inspirational second albums ever made by a rock band. Recorded in a matter of days at the end of the summer of 1967, a season in which everything seemed possible in rock and much of it happened at now-mythic speed, White Light/White Heat is an album that reeks of the gritty NY street life and could only have been made in New York, by one band. And that group is the classic-quartet lineup of The Velvet Underground – singer-guitarist Lou Reed; bassist-organist and viola player John Cale; guitarist-bassist Sterling Morrison; and drummer Maureen Tucker.
The Velvet Underground – White Light/White Heat 45th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition, is a three-disc, 30-track set featuring both the original stereo and mono releases, completely remastered, with bonus tracks including alternate versions, unreleased outtakes, John Cale’s last studio sessions with the band, and the official release of their complete show at The Gymnasium in New York recorded on April 30, 1967, which includes five previously unreleased performances culled from John Cale’s personal copy. The Super Deluxe Edition includes four newly prepared remixes, including the earliest known, previously unreleased version of ‘Beginning To See The Light,’ and previously unreleased versions of ‘The Gift (vocal version)’ and ‘The Gift (instrumental version).’ Exclusive to this limited Super Deluxe Edition is a 56 page hard bound book with rare photos, memorabilia and David Fricke Essay/interview with John Cale and Lou Reed from 2013. The 45th anniversary editions were developed in conjunction with Lou Reed and John Cale.
The Beatles – Live At The BBC: The Collection
In 1994, The Beatles’ Live at the BBC was released to worldwide acclaim – hitting number one in the U.K. and number three in the U.S. and selling more than five million copies within six weeks. Now comes a new companion to The Beatles’ first BBC collection, On Air Live at the BBC Volume 2. On Air‘s 63 tracks, none of which overlaps with The Beatles’ first BBC release, include 37 previously unreleased performances and 23 previously unreleased recordings of in-studio banter and conversation between the band’s members and their BBC radio hosts.
In the studios of the British Broadcasting Corporation, The Beatles performed music for a variety of radio shows. Live At The BBC and On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 presents the sound of The Beatles seizing their moment to play for the nation. Thrilled to hear these exciting recordings again, Paul McCartney said, ‘There’s a lot of energy and spirit. We are going for it, not holding back at all, trying to put in the best performance of our lifetimes.’
Between March 1962 and June 1965, no fewer than 275 unique musical performances by The Beatles were broadcast by the BBC in the U.K. The group played songs on 39 radio shows in 1963 alone. Ringo Starr said in 1994, ‘You tend to forget that we were a working band. It’s that mono sound. There were usually no overdubs. We were in at the count-in and that was it. I get excited listening to them.’ On their busiest BBC day, 16 July 1963, The Beatles recorded 18 songs for three editions of their Pop Go The Beatles series in fewer than seven hours.
Packaging Slipcase includes: The Beatles Live at The BBC – 2 CDs packaged in soft pack, 56 songs (plus 13 intros) recorded live by the Beatles in the BBC studios between 1962 and 1965, 48 page booklet. / The Beatles on Air-Live at The BBC Volume 2 – 2 CDs packaged in soft pack, 63 tracks total, 37 unreleased performances, 23 tracks of in-studio banter, 48 page booklet with rare photos and an introduction by Paul McCartney, Compiled and researched by producers Kevin Howlett and Mike Heatley.
Sly & The Family Stone – Higher [Box set]
2013 four CD set. All through the brilliant highs and the murky lows of the late ’60s and early ’70s, Sly & The Family Stone had the globe dancing to the music. The creativity of the mixed-race, mixed-gender, and mixed-genre band shines in this new 77-track box set. This incredible collection showcases the classic hits not just in stereo format, but in the good ol’ mono mixes which went missing long ago with the transistor radio, and in unheard early versions, and concert performances. Also included are gems from Sly Stewarts’ pre-Family Stone period, studio outtakes, and potent instrumentals from this archetype of jam bands. With 17 previously unreleased tracks, it’s a lot more music than you knew was there all remastered to hit the pinnacle of sound. This powerful music is accompanied by a stunningly colorful and evocatively detailed 104-page, 10-inch book of rare photographs, posters, picture sleeves, recording documents, vintage ads, and other memorabilia, along with extensive liner notes by Jeff Kaliss (author of Sly’s only authorized biography), track-by-track annotations, and a detailed timeline of Sly and The Family’s life and career.
The Beach Boys – Made In California [Box set]
The Beach Boys have opened their archives for a new career-spanning, six-CD collection titled Made In California, capping the legendary band’s 50th Anniversary celebrations. Made In California features more than seven and a half hours of music, including more than 60 previously unreleased tracks. The deluxe set is presented in a high school annual-inspired hardbound book with personal recollections from the band’s members, replicated classic artwork and memorabilia, photos from the band’s archive, and handwritten yearbook-style inscriptions from Beach Boys Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, and David Marks.
Made In California chronologically charts the 50-year career of America’s Band, from their earliest demos to their most recent recordings. With huge hits and rare gems including never-before-released original songs, home demos, alternate takes and mixes, and live concert, television and radio performances, the set showcases the breadth and diversity of The Beach Boys’ recorded catalog and illustrates the band’s unique and evocative West Coast story. From ‘Surfin’ Safari’ to ‘God Only Knows,’ ‘Wouldn’t It Be Nice’ and ‘Good Vibrations’ to ‘Kokomo,’ The Beach Boys’ canon boasts a masterful versatility that is unparalleled in American popular music.
Made In California‘s memorabilia includes Brian Wilson’s 1959 high school essay titled ‘My Philosophy,’ which is reproduced in the collection’s book in its original handwritten form (the original is currently on display in The GRAMMY Museum’s yearlong Beach Boys exhibit celebrating the band’s 50-year career).
Made In California‘s previously unreleased and long sought-after recordings include ‘Goin’ To The Beach,’ ‘California Feelin’,’ ‘Soul Searchin’,’ ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feeling,’ and ‘You’re Still A Mystery,’ among others. The set also debuts 17 unreleased live recordings, including ‘Runaway’ (1965), ‘Friends’ and ‘Little Bird’ (1968), ‘Wild Honey’ (1972), ‘It’s About Time’ (1973), ‘Wonderful’ and ‘Vegetables’ from The Beach Boys’ legendary 1993 acoustic tour, and a 1995 rendition of ‘Sail On, Sailor’ featuring a soulful lead vocal by the late Carl Wilson. The greatly missed talents of Carl and Dennis Wilson are also celebrated with rare and previously unreleased recordings including Dennis’ ‘(Wouldn’t It Be Nice To) Live Again,’ ‘Barnyard Blues’ and ‘My Love Lives On,’ Carl’s lead vocals on ‘Da Doo Ron Ron’ and ‘Soul Searchin’,’ and Carl’s shared lead with Bruce and Brian on ‘California Feelin’.’
The set also features a special ‘From The Vaults’ disc of rarities selected by the band and the producers with longtime Beach Boys fans in mind. Among the disc’s highlights are a cappella mixes of standout vocal recordings for songs including ‘This Whole World’ and ‘Slip On Through,’ alternate versions of ‘Don’t Worry Baby’ and other Beach Boys classics, session highlights and instrumental tracks, plus newly-discovered BBC Radio live recordings from 1964 of ‘Wendy,’ ‘When I Grow Up (To Be A Man),’ and ‘Hushabye.’
The Clash – 5 Album Studio Set [Box set]
5 Album Studio Set collects the band’s first 5 seminal albums The Clash, Give ‘Em Enough Rope, London Calling (2CD), Sandinista! (3CD) and Combat Rock, all remastered by The Clash with award-winning engineer Tim Young, and presents them together in a boxset designed by the band.
It’s hard to think of a band before or since that have exerted such universal influence on the musical landscape. The 1970s punk movement gave birth to some important bands, but none were more important than The Clash. Here were a band who pushed and broke musical boundaries, while fusing musical experimentation with a socio-political conscience.
From their eponymously-titled debut album in 1977, the band incorporated elements of reggae, rap, jazz, dance, rockabilly and ska in their music. Their passionate, political agenda continues to inspire new fans and musicians alike. Indeed, the issues The Clash tackled are as relevant today as they were in the late ’70s/early ’80s. Dubbed “the only band that matters” in their heyday, the same could be said almost 40 years later!
The Clash’s self-titled debut was the first major punk record to be released in the UK. It was later released in the US on July 23rd 1979. Iconic artwork, alongside themes of Britain’s disaffected youth, unemployment, drugs, rioting and oppressive policing acted as a blueprint for the burgeoning punk genre. The album’s cover version of Junior Murvin’s “Police & Thieves” established an early connection between punk and militant reggae music.
1978’s Give ‘Em Enough Rope was produced by Blue Oyster Cult’s mentor Sandy Pearlman and was the band’s first LP to feature drummer Topper Headon. Voted ‘Album of the Year’ by Sounds (UK), Rolling Stone (US) and Time Magazine (US) the record explores themes of Third World conflict, European terrorism and London inner-city desolation.
Originally released as a double LP in the UK in 1979, London Calling was recorded with maverick producer Guy Stevens. Voted by Rolling Stone as best album of the 1980’s, London Calling presented the group’s rapidly evolving sound in the aftermath of punk, reflecting their love of reggae, soul, rockabilly, funk, rhythm & blues, as well as channeling their recent experiences touring America. The US release came a month later, on January 10th 1980.
Controversially released on three vinyl discs in 1980, Sandinista! shows the group on a creative roll, adding dub, rap and jazz to an already diverse musical palette. Taking its name from Nicaragua’s left-wing rebel force, the album tackles subjects including US foreign policy, Vietnam, and Cold War tensions. Recorded in Jamaica, London and most significantly New York, where the growing hip-hop scene inspired The Clash to write the first ever UK rap record, “The Magnificent Seven.” Voted album of the year by the Village Voice.
Originally conceived as a double album, 1982’s Combat Rock was edited down to a single together with legendary producer Glyn Johns. Recorded in New York, this album soaked up the atmosphere of the city’s vibrant hip-hop and graffiti art scenes, mixing funk, rock, hip-hop and reggae. Combat Rock featured a cameo from beat poet Allen Ginsberg and paid homage to the Scorsese film Taxi Driver. This record was the last to feature the classic Strummer-Jones-Simonon-Headon line-up.
The Who – Tommy (Super Deluxe Edition)
The Who’s defining, breakthrough concept album – a full-blown rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy that launched the band to international superstardom, written almost entirely by Pete Townshend is now available as a new Limited Edition Super Deluxe version that that includes 4 audio discs, an 80 page hardback book and a poster.The audio features the original album re-mastered along with a wealth of previously unheard material in the form of 20 demos from Pete Townshend’s archive and also a full live performance of Tommy from 1969 taken from tapes that infamously Townshend asked the band’s sound engineer to burn. 18 of the previously unheard and thought to be long lost live tracks are taken from a live show at the Capital Theatre, Ottowa, Canada on October the 15th 1969. Three others, ‘I’m Free,’ ‘Tommy’s Holiday Camp,’ and ‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ were lost due to tape reels being changed during the show so are taken from later shows of the same era. As discussed at length in Pete Townshend’s autobiography the tapes were all supposed to be destroyed but were kept by long time Who sound man Bob Pridden despite Pete’s instructions.
The Super Deluxe box also features a 5.1 mix featuring the complete album remixed in surround sound on new Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray format.
The hardback 80-page full-colour book features rare period photos, memorabilia, a 20,000-word essay by legendary Who aficionado Richard Barnes and a rare facsimile Tommy poster housed in a hard-back deluxe slip-case.
(Disc 1) The original album digitally re-matsered in HD.
(Disc 2) The demos and out-takes. Features 25 tracks (20 previously-unreleased) from Pete Townshend’s archive. Tracks 1-23 – Pete Townshend original demos.
All previously unreleased except 2, 11 and 12 – released in 2003.
Track 24 – The Who studio demo/out-take.
Track 25 – The Who studio recording. (NOTE: This version was previously only available on ‘The House That Track Built’ vinyl sampler).
(Disc 3) The 5.1 album mix – Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray.
(Disc 4) The live ‘bootleg’ album – Features 21 previously-unreleased tracks from various live shows from 1969.
Released!: The Human Rights Concerts 1986-1998 DVD Collection
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization Amnesty International presented the legendary Human Rights Concerts between 1986 and 1998 to raise consciousness and funds for the worldwide struggle for human rights. Now they are “RELEASED!”
6 DVDs packed with historic live concert performances and extra features!
1986: A Conspiracy of Hope
5 hours including over 50 songs by U2, The Police, Peter Gabriel, Bryan Adams, Joni Mitchell, Miles Davis, Jackson Browne, Joan Baez & Aaron Neville, Joan Armatrading, Lou Reed and more!1988: Human Rights Now!
3 hours including 19 songs by Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Sting, Peter Gabriel, Youssou N Dour, Tracy Chapman and more!1990: An Embrace of Hope
71 minutes including 10 songs by Sting, Sinead O’Connor, Jackson Browne, Peter Gabriel, Wynton Marsalis, and more!1998: The Struggle Continues…
2 1/2 hours including 28 songs by Radiohead, Bruce Springsteen, Jimmy Page & Robert Plant, Alanis Morissette, Peter Gabriel with Youssou N’Dour, Tracy Chapman and more!Other performers include:
Bob Geldof, Third World, The Hooters, Peter, Paul & Mary, Steven Van Zandt, Ruben Blades, Howard Jones, The Neville Brothers, Inti-Illimani, New Kids On The Block, Asian Dub Foundation, Kassav’, Shania Twain, Carlos Santana and Fela Kuti.Companion material includes:
- 32 individual segments (totaling 4¾ hours) of companion content
- In-depth documentary about the concert series featuring new interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Bono, Peter Gabriel, Pete Townshend and more
- Exclusive new 20-minute interview with Bruce Springsteen
- Exclusive new 20-minute interview with Sting
- Peter Gabriel’s home movies of 1986 tour – including backstage scenes and legendary late-night all-star jam!
- Interviews and Amnesty testimonials featuring major music & movie stars
- Additional stage and studio performances for Amnesty (1979-2012) by Bono, Jeff Beck, David Byrne, Coldplay, Green Day, Mumford & Sons, Ozzy Osbourne, Joe Perry, Damien Rice, Seal, Pete Seeger, Sting & The Secret Police, Pete Townshend, John Williams and Evan Rachel Wood
The Animals-The Mickie Most Years & More [Box set]
They were right among the first rank of British Invasion bands, with 11 American chart hits in their first two years of existence. They were responsible for some of the most enduring recordings of their era, songs like “The House of the Rising Sun” (which famously caused Bob Dylan to jump out of his car seat when he first heard it on the radio) and “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood.” And their lead singer, Eric Burdon, had (and still has) one of the most distinctive voices in all of rock ‘n’ roll. Yet, unlike their famous peers, the Animals have never had a box set devoted to their work…till now, 50 years after their first release!
The Mickie Most Years and More offers for the first time ever on CD the group’s first four American albums (all of which charted, the first three produced by Mickie Most) The Animals, The Animals on Tour, Animal Tracks and Animalization in their original mono versions, all newly remastered by Adam Ayan at Gateway Mastering from the original tapes. And each album features a bevy of bonus tracks, 16 in all, including their first release ever, the I Just Wanna Make Love to You EP that came out on the Graphic Sound label in 1963 (later reissued by Decca in 1965 as In the Beginning There Was Early Animals), four tracks previously unreleased in the U.S., three single versions (including “We Gotta Get Out of This Place” and “It’s My Life”), four alternate versions (three in stereo) of such tracks as “Talkin’ ‘Bout You” and “Don’t Bring Me Down,” and one U.K.-only track (“Roadrunner).”
Liner notes to each album are by Rolling Stone‘s David Fricke and, to sweeten the pot even more, we’re including an Animals T-shirt (100% cotton; size extra large) exclusive to this set. No collection of British Invasion and, for that matter, ’60s rock and roll is complete without these records…this collection brings it on home. Brought to you by ABKCO Music and Records and Real Gone Music!
Nirvana – In Utero (3CD+DVD Super Deluxe Edition)
To say that Nirvana’s third and ultimately final studio album In Utero was 1993’s most polarizing record would be the understatement of a decade. The unadorned sonic rawness of Steve Albini’s recording laid bare every primal nuance of the most confrontational yet vulnerable material Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl would ever record. And with its 1991 predecessor Nevermind having sold some 30 million copies, singlehandedly returning honest rock ‘n’ roll to the top of the pop charts, In Utero was essentially the first record Nirvana would make with any expectations from the public. So from the opening quasi-shamble melodics of ‘Serve The Servants’ through the bittersweet closing strains of ‘All Apologies,’ In Utero was the sound of the most incredible yet conflicted rock ‘n’ roll band of the era at the peak of its powers coming to terms with a generational spokes-band mantle they’d never seen coming-and ultimately surmounting these struggles to make the record they needed to make. As Rolling Stone‘s David Fricke said in his review at the time, ‘In Utero is a lot of things-brilliant, corrosive, enraged and thoughtful, most of them all at once. But more than anything, it’s a triumph of the will.’
This 20th Anniversary 3CD/1DVD Super Deluxe Edition of the unwitting swansong of the single most influential band of the 1990s features more than 70 remastered, remixed, rare and unreleased recordings, including B-sides, compilation tracks, never-before-heard demos and live material featuring the final touring lineup of Cobain, Novoselic, Grohl, and Pat Smear. This box set also includes a DVD of the complete ‘Live and Loud’ show from Seattle’s Pier 48 on December 13, 1993 plus never-before-released bonus material.
Elvis Presley – Elvis At Stax: Deluxe Edition (3CD)
Elvis At Stax: Deluxe Edition chronicles the 40th Anniversary of Elvis’ historic hometown studio sessions of July and December 1973.
Deluxe 3-CD Box Set marks the first gathering of 28 masters and 27 outtakes in one comprehensive package.
The last major studio sessions in the career of Elvis Presley have finally been gathered together for the first time in one comprehensive package, as Elvis At Stax: Deluxe Edition. The deluxe 3-CD box set, a 40th anniversary chronicle of a dozen nights that Presley spent at Stax Recording Studios in his hometown of Memphis in July and December 1973.
Elvis At Stax: Deluxe Edition bristles with energy and dynamism. The proof is in the six consecutive singles that the Stax sessions produced, all of which skirted the Top 40 from 1973 to 1975. In effect, they rivaled some of the hottest streaks that Presley had charted a decade earlier.
The Stax singles still resonate today:
“Raised On Rock” b/w “For Ol’ Time Sake” (Hot 100 #41, country #42);
“I’ve Got A Thing About You Baby” b/w “Take Good Care Of Her” (Hot 100 #39, country #4);
“Promised Land” b/w “It’s Midnight” (Hot 100 #14, country #9);
“If You Talk In Your Sleep” b/w “Help Me” (Hot 100 #17, country #6);
“My Boy” b/w Thinking About You (Hot 100 #20, country #14); and
“Mr. Songman” (B-side of “T-R-O-U-B-L-E,” Hot 100 #35, country #11).
Harry Nilsson – The RCA Albums Collection [Box set, Limited Edition]
The profound musical gifts of Harry Nilsson, an artist whose fans ranged from all four Beatles to the Monkees, Randy Newman, Keith Moon, Jimmy Webb, and dozens more, are on full display in The RCA Albums Collection.
The RCA Albums Collection will be a must-have for Nilsson devotees, and a seductive lure for those whose awareness is limited to his Grammy Award®-winning versions of Badfinger’s “Without You” (#1) and Fred Neil’s “Everybody s Talkin'” (a #6 hit from the soundtrack to Midnight Cowboy, 1969). Then there are the notable covers of his own songs by Three Dog Night (“One”), the Monkees (“Cuddly Toy”), the Yardbirds (“Ten Little Indians”), and Blood, Sweat & Tears (“Without Her”). Others will recall the duo of hits that appeared alongside “Without You” on 1971’s Nilsson Schmilsson album, “Coconut” (#8) and “Jump Into The Fire.” Finally, the playful “Me And My Arrow” (from the soundtrack of his animated film The Point!) and “Girlfriend” (theme of the early ’70s sitcom The Courtship Of Eddie’s Father) have their own coterie of admirers.
The RCA Albums Collection presents the definitive 14 albums in Nilsson’s RCA Records U.S. discography, from his 1967 debut Pandemonium Shadow Show (among whose high points are his takes on the Beatles’ “You Can’t Do That” and “She’s Leaving Home”) to his final album for the label in 1977, Knnillssonn. Bonus material on those albums add up to 65 tracks, of which 26 are previously unreleased. Adding to the box set’s historical provenance are three newly-compiled CDs, Nilsson Sessions 1967-1968, Nilsson Sessions 1968-1971, and Nilsson Sessions 1971-1974, containing a total of 58 tracks, exactly half of which (29 tracks) are previously unreleased.
Paul McCartney & Wings – Wings Over America [Deluxe Edition] [Box set]
Wings Over America is the monumental live album by Paul McCartney and Wings, originally released in December of 1976. Recorded throughout the band’s Wings Over America U.S. tour dates earlier that Spring, the album reached #1 in the US in early 1977. Containing almost two full hours of music, Wings Over America offers a stunning rendition of Maybe I m Amazed, plus Wings classics such as Live and Let Die, My Love, & Let Em In. McCartney also included some Beatles classics into the set list, including Yesterday, The Long and Winding Road and more for the first time since the Beatles had broken up six years earlier.
The original 28-track album on 2 discs, remastered at Abbey Road Studios.
8 previously unreleased bonus audio tracks recorded live at the Cow Palace in San Francisco.
Bonus DVD featuring the 75 minute TV special Wings Over The World and a brand new short film charting the tour route in photographs.
All set within a numbered hardbound slipcase containing:
- 112-page book written by David Fricke, featuring new interviews and extensive tour photography
- Exclusive 60-page photographic journal of Linda s images chronicling life on the road
- 136-page replica tour book with itineraries, tour program, memorabilia, and lyrics plus 3 (10 x8 ) prints
- 80-page book of drawings by artist Humphrey Ocean
- 24bit 96kHz high resolution audio versions of all 36 songs on the remastered album & bonus audio tracks, accessed via a download code inserted on a card within the deluxe edition package
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours Deluxe Edition (4XCD, DVD, LP) [Box set]
Fleetwood Mac, one of rock s most enduring, beloved and successful bands, circulate another round of Rumours with expanded and deluxe versions of the album in celebration of its 35th anniversary. Rumours made the band one of the most iconic bands of the 1970s and garnered wide critical praise, earned the Grammy® for Album of the Year, and has now sold more than 40 million copies worldwide since its 1977 debut.
Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks recorded Rumours against a backdrop personal turmoil, chronicling their raw emotions in songs like “Go Your Own Way, ” “Gold Dust Woman” and “Dreams, ” the latter becoming the band s first number one smash.
The deluxe edition includes the original album and the b-side “Silver Springs, ” a dozen unreleased live recordings from the group s 77 world tour, an entire disc filled with unreleased takes from the album s recording sessions, an additional disc of outtakes, a DVD that features The Rosebud Film, a 1977 documentary about the album, and the album on vinyl.
The disc of 12 unreleased live recordings from the band s 1977 Rumours tour features performances from concerts in Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Nashville and Columbia, S.C. The songs include album tracks like “The Chain, ” “Oh Daddy” and “Songbird” as well as “World Turning” and “Rhiannon, ” two tracks from the group s 1975 eponymous release.
Producers also have compiled a selection of 16 unreleased recordings from the album s sessions including early takes of “Go Your Own Way, ” “I Don t Want To Know” and the popular b-side “Silver Springs. ” There are also several demo recordings, including one for the outtake “Planets of the Universe, ” plus an instrumental version of “Never Going Back Again. “
The deluxe edition of Rumours also features the 18-track compilation of session outtakes originally released in the 2004 reissue of the album, the original album on 140-gram vinyl, and a DVD with “The Rosebud Film. ” This 1977 documentary by Michael Collins includes interviews, rehearsal footage and live performances of “World Turning, ” “Rhiannon, ” “Say You Love Me, ” “Go Your Own Way, ” “You Make Loving Fun” and “I m So Afraid.”
