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I år är det 30 år sedan Roxette gav ut sitt tredje album "Joyride", som följde upp bandets rekordartade globala genombrott med albumet "Look Sharp!" 1989. <br/><br/>Roxette hade på rekordtid förvandlats till ett globalt hitfenomen tack vare de tre USA-ettorna "The Look", "Listen To Your Heart", "It Must Have Been Love" och andra stora hits som "Dressed For Success" och "Dangerous". <br/><br/>"Joyride" var albumet som skulle cementera de smått osannolika framgångarna för Marie Fredriksson och Per Gessle. Vilket den gjorde med besked. Albumet blev inte bara Roxettes mest sålda, titelspåret svischade den 1 maj 1991 upp till den amerikanska hitlistans förstaplats - och gav därmed Roxette deras fjärde USA-etta. Därmed satte gruppen ett rekord som ingen skandinavisk grupp eller artist har lyckats överträffa.

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On the exact day of its Golden Jubilee, STATION TO STATION will be issued as a limited edition 50th anniversary half-speed mastered LP. <br/><br/>The album saw Bowie relocate to Cherokee Studio in Los Angeles and incorporate elements of his 'Plastic Soul' period, coupled with much more experimental elements, which would become more prevalent over his next couple of albums. The first single from the album GOLDEN YEARS, released in November 1975, would give Bowie a top ten single on both sides of the Atlantic. The second single, TVC 15, would, a decade later, be heard and seen by almost 2 billion people when Bowie chose it to open his set at Live Aid.<br/><br/>The sound of STATION TO STATION was partly influenced by Bowie's burgeoning interest in the electronic music and driving rhythms of bands coming out of Germany, such as NEU! and Kraftwerk, most notably on the ten-minute title track, while still embracing dancefloor-friendly grooves in songs such as STAY and GOLDEN YEARS.<br/><br/>Harry Maslin, who had worked with Bowie on some of the tracks on his previous album, YOUNG AMERICANS, was chosen as Bowie's co-producer. They entered the studio in September 1975 with a tight stripped-down band featuring Carlos Alomar & Earl Slick on guitars, George Murray on bass, Dennis Davis on drums, David's Childhood friend Geoffe MacCormack (under the nom de plume Warren Peace) on backing vocals and on loan from Bruce Springsteen's E-Street Band, Roy Bittan on piano and organ. Maslin has since said that the vocals on the standout track WILD IS THE WIND and GOLDEN YEARS were both Bowie's first takes.<br/><br/>Ten days after the album's release, David started the ISOLAR TOUR, which visited over 65 dates in 11 countries and is cited as being hugely influential for its use of banks of fluorescent white light set against black backdrops. At the end of the tour, Bowie started work on Iggy Pop's debut solo album, The Idiot, when the pair and producer Tony Visconti moved to Berlin to mix the record. David settled there, ready to begin his next groundbreaking musical adventure.<br/><br/>This new pressing of STATION TO STATION was cut on a customised late Neumann VMS80 lathe with fully recapped electronics from 192kHz restored masters of the original Record Plant master tapes, with no additional processing on transfer. The half-speed was cut by John Webber at AIR Studios.

Deep Purple stands alongside Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath as part of the Holy Trinity of British hard rock. The list of the band's classic songs is legion, and the influence it's had on successive generations of musicians is both enduring and remarkable. <br/><br/>The three-disc version of A FIRE IN THE SKY dives deep into Purple's past with 40 songs and includes at least one track from every studio album through Now What?!. It also provides the ultimate showcase for the group's various incarnations through the years. To date, more than a dozen musicians have appeared on a Deep Purple album.<br/><br/>Among the set's many highlights are: the title track from 2005's Rapture of the Deep; "King of Dreams" from 1990's Slaves and Masters; "Bad Attitude" from 1987's The House of Blue Light; "You Keep Me Moving" from 1975's Come Taste The Band; and "Hush" from the group's 1968 debut, Shades Of Deep Purple. This expanded version also features Kevin Shirley's 2010 remix of "Dealer," and the 2012 stereo mix for an early version of "The Bird Has Flown."

Originally released in 1985, Marillion's third studio album Misplaced Childhood is a concept album loosely based on Fish's childhood. Featuring the singles Kayleigh, Lavender and Heart of Lothian, the album went to #1 in the UK and was a top 10 for Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Norway. It has since gone platinum in the UK and Germany and gold in Switzerland. 1LP picture disc.

Jethro Tull: Under wraps [Vinyl LP]

Minogue Kylie: Fever [Gatefold / Vinyl LP]