New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Universal Music Enterprises) If you are shopping for presents this holiday season, nothing is faster or more convenient than a gift card - or more anonymous. Instead, show your friends and loved ones that you appreciate their musical taste, whether they're fans of rock, prog, country, reggae or vocal pop. Universal
Music Enterprises (UMe) has the perfect gifts for the season, with box sets and collections available in multiple versions to accommodate various budgets and excite both new fans and serious collectors alike. And if you wanted to buy one of these to keep for yourself, we promise we won't tell Santa...
THE BEATLES - 1+ (Deluxe Edition)
After The
Beatles stopped touring, the band increasingly made what could be described as "mini movies." These pioneering promotional films and videos helped to define the way we have come to watch music, not least because The
Beatles approached filming with the same ease and innovative spirit they brought to the recording studio, exploring new creative possibilities with infectious delight. Showcasing the band's filmed work to accompany their 27 No.1 U.K. and U.S. singles, The
Beatles 1 is newly restored and expanded for global release on November 6 by Apple Corps Ltd/UMG.
For the new 1 and 1+ deluxe edition video collections, an 18-person team of technicians and restoration artists undertook painstaking frame-by-frame film cleaning, color-grading, digital enhancement and new edits to show the band in previously unseen standards of clarity and quality; many of the films and videos have never before been commercially released, in whole or in part.
The
Beatles 1+ deluxe edition celebrates the band's career in over 200 minutes through 50 promotional films and videos. This includes the 27 No.1s, with the restored videos, along with a second disc of 23 videos, including alternate versions, as well as rarely seen and newly restored films and videos; all include new stereo and 5.1 surround audio mixes in CD/2DVD and CD/2Blu-ray packages. The
Beatles 1+ is presented in an expanded 124-page illustrated hardcover book with an appreciation of The Beatles' groundbreaking films and videos by music journalist and author Mark
Ellen and extensive, detailed track/video annotation by music historian and author Richard Havers.
JOHN LENNON - LENNON (Vinyl Box Set)
LENNON is the first complete collection of John Lennon's solo studio albums to be released on vinyl. The legendary performer's eight solo studio albums were remastered from his original mixes in 2010 by Yoko Ono and a team of engineers at London's Abbey Road Studios and New York's Avatar Studios, and have been newly cut to vinyl from 96k digital files for this 9-LP boxed collection.
Pressed on heavyweight, 180-gram vinyl, each LP is an authentic reproduction of its U.K. original in its sound and visual presentation. In keeping with the original album artwork, Imagine contains reproductions of its two postcards, poster and inner bag, Some Time In New York City includes reproductions of its original postcard and inner sleeve,
Walls and Bridges includes its sleeve with two fold-over flaps, an eight-page booklet and inner sleeve, and Mind Games,
Double Fantasy and Milk and
Honey also include reproductions of their original inner sleeves.
FRANK SINATRA - Ultimate Sinatra (Deluxe Centennial Edition)
A marvelous portrait of the defining voice of the 20th century, Ultimate Sinatra presents key recordings cut by the Chairman of the Board for Columbia, Capitol and Reprise, together for the first time. From his first studio session on August 31, 1939, Sinatra embarked on a three-year run of nearly 100 big band recordings with the Harry
James and Tommy Dorsey Orchestras, followed by more than 50 years of sessions for Columbia (1943-1952), Capitol (1953-1962; 1993-1994), and his own Reprise label (1960-1988).
Ultimate Sinatra's 4CD deluxe centennial edition boasts 101 tracks, starting with "
All Or Nothing At All" from that first 1939 session and closing with a previously unreleased rehearsal version of "The Surrey With The Fringe On Top," recorded in 1979. The deluxe edition also features an 80-page booklet with a new essay by Sinatra historian and author Charles Pignone, as well as rare photos and quotes from
Frank Sinatra and his children, Nancy, Tina and Frank Jr., as well as
Nelson Riddle, Billy May,
Quincy Jones and others.
JOHNNY CASH - The American Recordings
In the 1990s,
Johnny Cash entered a professional renaissance after signing with Rick Rubin's American Recordings where his label debut launched a fertile, decade-long creative period that saw him record a variety of songs that crossed different genres and spanned nearly a century. On March 24, 2015, Universal
Music Enterprises (UMe) released Johnny Cash's complete American Recordings Vinyl Box Set featuring all six of that label's albums: American Recordings, American Recordings II: Unchained, American Recordings III: Solitary Man, American Recordings IV: The Man Comes Around, American Recordings V: A Hundred Highways and American Recordings VI: Ain't No Grave.
BOB MARLEY - The Complete Island Recordings
Bob Marley's 70th birthday year-long celebration (2015) continues with the release of two new box sets, The Complete Island Recordings and The Complete Island Recordings: Collector's Edition. These two stunning vinyl collection sets feature 11 albums on 180-gram vinyl spanning a decade's worth of
Bob Marley & The Wailers releases on Island Records. The Complete Island Recordings includes 11-LPs packaged in a rigid card box with lift top lid, and wrapped in silver paper that simulates the brushed metal finish of a hinged lighter. The Complete Island Recordings: Collector's Edition includes 11-LPs, a 70th anniversary slip mat and two photos in glassine envelopes, all packaged in a unique metal box set, numbered and lined with velvet and connected to truly emulate a hinged lighter. Both boxes include Bob's 70th Birthday logo and all nine
Bob Marley & The Wailers studio albums recorded for Island Records, featuring some of their most celebrated releases, including "Catch A Fire," their 1973 label debut, and "Rastaman Vibration," their 1976 breakthrough album in the United States, along with two live albums "Live!" and "Babylon By Bus."
THE WHO - Brunswick and Reaction 7" Singles Boxes
The Reaction Singles 1966 is volume two of a four-part set of classic Who singles by labels (Brunswick, Reaction, Track and Polydor) containing five 7" singles from the Reaction label pressed on heavyweight vinyl with paper sleeves (reproducing the period graphics front and back with die-cut center holes).
The singles are housed in a rigid 'lid-and-tray' outer box and features a 7" sized color booklet with liner notes about each release by Who biographer Mark Blake.
'The Brunswick Singles 1965 - 1966' is volume one of a four part set of classic Who singles by labels (Brunswick, Reaction, Track and Polydor). Containing seven 7" singles from the start of the band's career pressed on heavyweight vinyl with paper sleeves (reproducing the period graphics front and back with die-cut center holes), the singles are housed in a rigid 'lid-and-tray' outer box and features a 7" sized color booklet with liner notes about each release by Who biographer Mark Blake.
THE ROLLING STONES - Sticky Fingers Super
Deluxe Edition
'Sticky Fingers,' one of the most revered albums in the storied catalog of the legendary Rolling Stones, is set to enthrall a new generation of admirers. The 1971 classic — which captured the band at the absolute peak of their powers, on timeless tracks such as 'Brown Sugar,' 'Wild Horses,' 'Bitch,' 'Sister Morphine' and 'Dead Flowers.'
As with those expanded releases, millions of Stones devotees will be hugely excited by not only the original album but the generous selection of previously unavailable material contained within the
Deluxe and Super
Deluxe formats. These include the alternative version of the chart-topping single 'Brown Sugar' featuring Eric Clapton; unreleased interpretations of 'Bitch,' 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking' and 'Dead Flowers'; an acoustic take on the anthemic 'Wild Horses', and five tracks recorded live at The Roundhouse in 1971 including 'Honky Tonk Women' and 'Midnight Rambler.' The Super
Deluxe edition will also house 'Get Yer Leeds Lungs Out!' the 13-track audio recording of the Stones' gig in Leeds in March 1971, shortly before their "exile" in France began. The set included versions of the just-completed 'Brown Sugar,' 'Bitch' and 'Dead Flowers,' one of their many authentic forays into country music territory.
RUSH - 2112 Hologram Edition
In celebration of their 40th anniversary, Universal
Music Enterprises (UMe) continues its 12 Months of Rush celebrations with the release of a special vinyl Hologram Edition reissue of the band's epic, landmark release 2112. This special edition will also come with a free download card for the high resolution
Digital Audio version.
Pressed on high fidelity 200gram vinyl, this unique Hologram Edition showcases a custom, hand-drawn hologram of the "Red Star of the Federation" in the album's dead wax runout of side two. To reveal the spinning hologram, fans can use any focused source of light, such as the LED flashlight on a smartphone, directly above the turntable while playing.
