10CD box set of the Virgin Years • 1000 only with SIGNED print • Albums • demos • remixes • Also available 5LP vinyl COLOURED vinyl box set

Synthpop legends Heaven 17‘s Virgin Records recordings are brought together in Play To Win: The Virgin Years, a large format 10CD deluxe set which features all five albums issued in the 1980s, along with over 100 bonus tracks, including demos, B-sides, non-album singles and remixes. It will also be released as a 5LP coloured vinyl box set called Play To Win: The Virgin Albums.

The albums in this new deluxe set are Penthouse and Pavement (1981), The Luxury Gap (1983), How Men Are (1984), Pleasure One (1986) and Teddy Bear, Duke & Psycho (1988). Every album has A-sides and B-sides appended and then there’s a whole disc of demos and four further CDs of remixes!

Paddy McAloon’s 2003 solo album I Trawl The Megahertz is rebranded as a Prefab Sprout album and reissued on CD and – for the first time – on vinyl.

Music On Vinyl reissue Dead Or Alive‘s fourth album Nude, as a limited edition 30th anniversary coloured vinyl pressing. 

  

Remastered • 3CD+DVD+LP package • Includes rarities, remixes & demos

German synthpop band Alphaville‘s 1984 debut album Forever Young will be reissued as a five-disc super deluxe edition in March, for its 35th anniversary.

The singles pulled from this album include the international hit ‘Big in Japan’, the anthemic title track, ‘Sounds Like A Melody’ and ‘The Jet Set’.

The album has been remastered (for the first time, apparently) and this package comes with two additional CDs, one with original single versions, B-sides and remixes and the other with 16 original demos. The fourth disc is a DVD which boasts a documentary and promo videos.

This new super deluxe edition also includes the new remaster on vinyl and comes complete with a 24-page vinyl-sized booklet, created by the art director of the original album in close collaboration with the band and contains a variety of rare and unpublished photos, sleeve notes and various other testimony.

This is being issued by Warner Music/Rhino. A two-CD deluxe edition and single vinyl LP of Forever Young will also be available. All are released on 15 March 2019. The band will also tour this year in Germany to celebrate this anniversary. The super deluxe seems well priced right now in the UK.

Having reunited with Siobhan Fahey for the ‘original line-up tour’ of 2017,  Bananarama revert back to the duo of Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward for new album In Stereo.

The ten-track album is their eleventh studio long-player and includes the ballad ‘On Your Own’ and a collaboration with producer Richard X on ‘Love In Stereo’.

Signed items are available via the Bananarama store although if you can live with unsigned standard black vinyl it is almost half the price of the official shop on Amazon UK at just £12.99!

In Stereo will be released on 19 April 2019.