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Album review: DR JOHN – The Atco Albums Collection
Rhino [Release date 15.09.17] Born Malcolm John Redennack. Dr John is a renowned American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist. Inspired by work with New Orleans R&B and Jazz pianist/singer Professor Longhair, Dr John’s work is often for its New Orleans … Continue reading
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Tagged album, box set, Dr John, jazz, New Orleans, R&B, review, soul, the Atco Albums Collection
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Album review: SAXON – Solid Book Of Rock (Box set)
Edsel/Demon Music Group [Release date 18.08.17] It seems that – exhausting the market for CD expanded or deluxe editions – 2017 might be the “Year of The Box Set” as labels try and find new income streams. We’ll be getting … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Biff Byford, box set, Dogs Of War, Forever Free, heavy metal, heavy rock, Into The Labyrinth, Killing Ground, Lionheart, Metalhead, review, Saxon, Solid Book Of Rock, Sollid Ball Of Rock, The Inner Sanctum, Unleash The Beast
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News: TEN YEARS AFTER – 50th Anniversary Box Set in November 2017
Chrysalis Records release a 50th Anniversary box set in November to coincide with the release of Ten Year’s After’s debut album in 1967. For the first time including albums from both the Deram and Chrysalis eras, between 1967 and 1974, … Continue reading
News: Win BLACK SABBATH Ten Year War Box Set! (Competition starts 4 September 2017)
Here’s your chance to win a copy of the BLACK SABBATH ‘Ten Year War’ box set. For the runner-up, a pair of tickets to attend the one-night only cinema screening of ‘The End of The End’ chronicling the band’s final … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Ward, Black Sabbath, box set, competition, film, Geezer Butler, heavy metal, heavy rock, Ozzy Osbourne, prize, screening, Ten Year War, the End of The End, Tony Iommi, win
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Album review: EMERSON LAKE & PALMER – Fanfare 1970–1997
BMG [Release date 29.09.17] As the world of prog and rock continue to mourn the sad loss of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake, and with Carl Palmer kicking off a tour, we get this mammoth box set that is as overblown … Continue reading
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Tagged album, BMG, box set, Carl Palmer, ELP, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Fanfare 1970-1997, Keith Emerson. Greg Lake, prog, progressive, review, rock
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Album review: COZY POWELL – The Polydor Years
Caroline International [Release date 25.08.17] Drummer extraordinaire Cozy Powell is one of the biggest hitters in the hard rock word, making his name with Jeff Beck, Rainbow, Whitesnake, MSG, Black Sabbath, and Brian May; just before he died in 1998 … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bernie Marsden, box set, Cozy Powell, Don Airey, drummer, ELP, Jack Bruce, MSG, Rainbow, review, Ritchie Blackmore, Solo, The Polydor Years, Whitesnake
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Album review: GRAHAM BONNET – Anthology
David Randall chatted to Graham Bonnet about his career for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio. This special feature was first broadcast on 27 August 2017. (59:20) HNE Recordings/Cherry Red [Release date 28.04.17] Graham Bonnet is enjoying something of a revival … Continue reading
Album review: BLACK SABBATH – The Ten Year War (Box Set)
BMG [Release date 29.09.17] Black Sabbath’s Ozzy-fronted albums have been given a monster remaster and the full luxury box set re-issue treatment. It is quite a piece of work. The package has even had a roadshow of launch events. The … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Bill Ward, Black Sabbath, box set, Geezer Butler, heavy metal, heavy rock, memorabilia, Ozzy Osbourne, review, The Ten Year War, Tony Iommi
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Album review: THE TUBES – The A&M Albums
In Part 1 (above) of a two-part special, Fee Waybill chats about the formative years of The Tubes. (First broadcast on Get Ready to ROCK! Radio, 28 June 2015) Part 2 (above) discusses the band’s progress from the early-1980s to … Continue reading
News: BLACK SABBATH – Ten Year War Box Set (September 2017)
Heavy metal legends release a limited edition vinyl box set on 27 October via BMG. ‘The Ten Year War’ brings together their eight Ozzy-fronted albums, plus many other rarities, all housed within exclusive artwork created by renowned street artist, graphic … Continue reading
Album review: TYGERS OF PAN TANG – The MCA Years
Caroline International [Release date 19.12.16] 5-CD box set Formed in the north east of England in the late-70s, Tygers Of Pan Tang were part of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, and achieved moderate success, including the minor hit … Continue reading
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Tagged album, box set, John Sykes, metal, NWOBHM, reissue, review, Rob Weir, rock, the MCA Years, Tygers Of Pan Tang
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Album review: RICK WAKEMAN & TONY ASHTON – Gas Tank
Gonzo Multimedia [Release date 03.03.17] Where can you hear Rick Wakeman accompanying Rick Parfitt, Alvin Lee and Phil Lynott and – no – it’s not at the Pearly Gates. Back in the early 1980s there was a Channel 4 TV … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Alvin Lee, box set, Channel 4, Chris Farlowe, Eric Burdon, Gas Tank, John Entwistle, Maggie Bell, Phil Lynott, review, Rick Wakeman, series, Tony Ashton, TV
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Singles review: STATUS QUO – The Vinyl Singles Collection 1972-1979
UMC [Release date 10.03.17] The Quo reissue campaign continues with a set of singles covering the years 1972-1979. We’ve already had a corresponding box set featuring that decade’s albums. This is the first of five limited editions covering a decade … Continue reading
News: VANGELIS 13-CD Box Set released via Universal on 3 February – win a copy! (Competition)
Modern music visionary Vangelis has announced the release on 3 February of a new 13-disc box set entitled ‘Delectus,’ featuring a chosen selection of his early discographic work. The mammoth collection will include all of his albums on Vertigo and … Continue reading
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Tagged album, ambient, box set, CD, competition, Delectus, instrumental, Jon Anderson, new age, retrospective, soundtrack, Vangelis
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Album review: HANOI ROCKS – Strange Boys Box
Cleopatra Records [Release date 21.10.16] Vastly underrated yet hugely influential, Finnish legends Hanoi Rocks are said to have sold one million albums back in the Eighties. That is not many when you consider that without them we would not have … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Andy McCoy, box set, Cleopatra Records, glam, Hanoi Rocks, Michael Monroe, review, rock, sleaze, Strange Boys Box
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Album review: TUCKY BUZZARD – The Complete Tucky Buzzard (Box set)
Edsel [Release date 15.07.16] Tucky Buzzard. You might vaguely recall the name if not the music. You could be forgiven in thinking that they were long haired southern rockers. Truth is, they morphed out of UK psychedelic rockers The End, … Continue reading
Album review: URIAH HEEP – The Classic Rock Years (6 Disc Box Set)
In June 2014 David Randall chatted to Bernie Shaw for Get Ready to ROCK! Radio and in this exclusive edit Bernie chats about setlists and his own early involvement with the band. (6:21) The Store For Music [Release date 24.06.16] … Continue reading
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Tagged Acoustically Driven, album, Bernie Shaw, Between Two Worlds, box set, DVD, heavy rock, Ian Anderson, interview, John Lawton, Ken Hensley, Lee Kerslake, live, Live In Sofia, Live In The USA, Mick Box, Phil Lanzon, review, Sailing The Sea Of Light, The Classic Rock Years, The Magician's Birthday Party, Thijs van Leer, Trevor Bolder, Uriah Heep
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Album review: BUDGIE – The MCA Albums 1973-1975
UMC [Release date 03.06.16] This straightforward, budget-priced, three album box set arguably misses out on Budgie’s “finest hour” or two hours if you count the band’s second album ‘Squawk’. One wonders if the first two albums will be reissued in … Continue reading
News: STEVE HACKETT Charisma Years vinyl box set and deluxe editions May 2016
Following the success of ‘Premonitions’, the CD box set releasd in 2015, May 2016 sees the reissue of Steve Hackett’s first six Charisma albums on vinyl. “The Charisma Years (1975-1983)’ features 8LPs & 12″ EP and is due out on … Continue reading
Album review: SAXON – Eagles And Dragons (9-vinyl box set)
Demon Records [Release date 18.03.16] Nine albums, nearly twenty years in timespan, and another chance for recycling under the auspices of 180 gram vinyl. This means you don’t get bonus tracks, just the original albums in original sleeves and inners … Continue reading
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Tagged album, Biff Byford, box set, Dogs Of War, Eagles And Dragons, Forever Free, heavy metal, heavy rock, Into The Labyrinth, Killing Ground, Lionheart, Metalhead, review, Saxon, Solid Ball Of Rock, The Inner Sanctum, Unleash The Beast, Vinyl
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