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NEW MUSIC FRIDAY | New releases from Don Fardon, John Miles, Frank Sidebottom and more…

NEW MUSIC FRIDAY | New releases from Don Fardon, John Miles, Frank Sidebottom and more…

NEW MUSIC FRIDAY | New releases from Don Fardon, John Miles, Frank Sidebottom and more…


Happy New Music Friday! Here's everything we've released today...

DON FARDON: I’M ALIVE - THE DON FARDON ANTHOLOGY 1967-1974, 3CD

• 3CD set containing 81 tracks including ‘Indian Reservation’, a UK #3 hit in 1970 and a global million seller.

• Plus his hit 1970 tribute to footballer Georgie Best, ‘Belfast Boy’ and club favourite ‘I’m Alive’, recorded in 1969, that peaked at #12 in the independent singles chart in 2010.

• Featuring numerous tracks previously unreleased on CD including Fardon’s never re- issued debut solo single, ‘It’s Been Nice Lovin’ You’ (1967 version) and B side, ‘I Won’t Be Long’ and the half live / half studio album, Don Fardon & The Gang On Tour In Scandinavia recorded in 1970.

JOHN MILES: THE ALBUMS 1983-93, 3CD BOX SET

• Three-disc 40 track clamshell box set featuring the last trio of studio albums by the late rock legend John Miles.

• The first disc is 1983’s ‘Play On’ album, making its debut on CD. Produced by Gus Dudgeon (known for his work with Elton John) the album features the singles ‘Song For You’ and ‘The Right To Sing’ and now also comes with the addition of two non-LP, non- CD B-sides.

• Disc two is 1985’s ‘Transition’ album, released as the John Miles Band and appearing here on CD for the first time. It features the singles ‘Blinded’ and ‘I Need Your Love’ plus the non-LP non-CD ‘Good So Bad’ among the bonus tracks.

CAN'T SEEM TO COME DOWN - THE AMERICAN SOUNDS OF 1968, VARIOUS ARTISTS 3CD BOX SET

• Follow-up to Grapefruit's hugely popular US 1967 anthology ‘’March Of The Flower Children’.

• Hit singles, cult classics and tracks from 1968's key albums as the American music scene moved on from the Summer of Love.

• While psychedelia had been the dominant musical force in 1967, the scene fragmented the following year.

VARIOUS ARTISTS: INTO THE SIXTIES - TOWARDS A COSMIC MUSIC, 3CD

• Into the Sixties’ is a panorama of the visionary musical forces that inspired The Beatles and such contemporaries as The Pink Floyd and The Mothers of Invention in their explosion of the decade.

• From Ornette Coleman to Coltrane to Cage, from Sun Ra to Stockhausen, from Berio to Varese; musical prophets, spiritual adventurers. 

VARIOUS ARTISTS: ROOTS ROCK REBELS - WHEN PUNK MET REGGAE 1975-1982, 3CD BOX SET

• 54 track 3CD clamshell box focusing on the period of time between 1975-1982 when reggae influenced & inspired punk in the UK.

• Featuring key tracks by The Clash, Burning Spear, Generation X, Culture, Public Image Ltd, Steel Pulse, The Specials, Dennis Brown, Ruts, Madness, Black Uhuru and many more.

• Plus a selection of obscure gems from the likes of 4th Street Orchestra, African Stone, Basement 5, Electric Guitars, Sir Horatio, Talisman, The Pop Group and Black Symbol.

FRANK SIDEBOTTOM: LITTLE BOX OF BOBBINS - FRANK'S FANTASTIC ANTHOLOGY 1985-1993, 3CD

• Featuring well over 100 songs.

• The most detailed and definitive look at the career of cult hero Frank Sidebottom.

• With an introduction by former bandmate Mark Radcliffe and an exclusive interview with Chris (Frank) Sievey's son Stirling.