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Warner Music are delighted to announce the release of a commemorative triple black vinyl album in honour of the 40th Anniversary of IRON MAIDEN's seminal third album, The Number Of The Beast, which was also the first to feature Bruce Dickinson on vocals and was to become the record which catapulted the band to international stardom. Included in the new vinyl package is Beast Over Hammersmith - available now officially for the very first time on vinyl - featuring the live concert from March 1982's now legendary Hammersmith Odeon London show from the Beast On The Road World Tour. Recorded only days before the release of The Number Of The Beast album, its remarkable to think these now classic songs at that time were still brand new, unfamiliar and being heard live by fans for the very first time. A real piece of history in the making.<br/><br/>The package features exclusive liner notes written by Maiden founder and bassist Steve Harris as well as restored and expanded artwork taken from the CD format of Beast Over Hammersmith, previously only available in the Limited Edition Eddie's Archive boxset originally released in 2002. <br/><br/>Steve Harris comments, <br/>"On this vinyl release we get the chance to put Total Eclipse in its rightful spot on the album for the first time. The reason it didn't make it in the first place was that it was all a mad rush when we were finishing the record and we had to get the Run to the Hills single out before the tour and we basically had to pick a B-side and it was between Gangland and Total Eclipse and we just picked the wrong one, really! I think Total Eclipse is a stronger song and the album would have been stronger if it had been on there."

Per Gessle berättar: "Walking on Air" var det första jag skrev till albumet "Pop-Up Dynamo!". 2019 fick jag en förfrågan om att skriva en låt till filmen "Top Gun" och då föddes "Walking on Air". Den gjordes till en speciell scen i filmen där någon dansar på en strand (därav textraden "oh I'm sure you love to dance on the beach"). Filmmänniskorna använde dock inte låten. De kanske inte gillade den lika mycket som jag eller så tog de bort scenen? Jag vet inte. Har inte sett den ännu.<br/> <br/>Jag behöll låten och började skriva mer musik i samma 80- och 90-talsstil som påminde om "Look Sharp!" + "Joyride". Det var så det nya PG Roxette-albumet tog form. Det är Helena Josefsson och Dea Norberg tillsammans som sjunger i refrängerna. Helena är drivande men Dea har dubbat henne. De delar på allt det fantastiska wailandet. Tjejerna har så olika sätt att sjunga, det är därför jag älskar att arbeta med dem. Det är detta sound som finns på hela det nya albumet. Tillsammans skapar de nästan en tredje persona, det är svårt att säga vem som är vem. Lite som Agnetha och Frida i ABBA".

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.

Jethro Tull: Under wraps [Vinyl LP]

Ulf Lundells 15 utsålda konserter på Tyrol i Stockholm är en av de verkligt klassiska konserthändelserna i hans snart 50 åriga karriär. Albumet "Live på Tyrol" släpps nu som dubbelvinyl med utvalda låtar i limiterad upplaga.

Iron Maiden: Rock in Rio [3 Vinyl LP]

Sällskapsjuk är inspelat i Halmstad och som titeln signalerar, består albumet till största delen av duetter med en rad starkt lysande sångare.