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Judas Priest Debut – Rocka Rolla – To Be Reissued In 50th Anniversary Set.From Judas Priest‘s professional entry into the world of recorded Rock and Roll on through their 19th set issued in 2024, the band has given 50 years of music to a rapt audience. Their first album is Rocka Rolla, a ten-track gem that gave the band little forward momentum upon its debut release for a small label. It wasn’t until their 3rd album, Sin After Sin, released on a major label (Columbia) that music gave the band the audience it needed and quested for. Issued in 1977, Sin After Sin propelled the band into the consciousness of metal enduring to this day. On November 22, Exciter Records (after a deal made with Gull Records), will reissue Rocka Rolla in a newly Remastered and Remixed form, the like that completely satisfies the original members after decrying the original’s lackluster sound. The new reissue will feature only the ten original tracks albeit in both Remastered and Remixed form. The DD version of Rocka Rolla will actually emerge earlier, expected on September 13 (tomorrow/today/now – whenever you read this).

Uriah Heep - Early Sessions And Rare Live Recordings 1969-1971 2-LP. Awesome double album compilation of early tracks from this legendary UK hard prog rock group housed in a beautiful glossy gatefold cover. Includes some early demo tracks from pre-Uriah Heep group Spice.

The Guess Who's most successful LP, reaching number nine in America (and charting for more than a year), has held up well and was as close to a defining album-length statement as the original group ever made. It's easy to forget that until "American Woman," the Guess Who's hits had been confined to softer, ballad-style numbers — that song (which originated as a spontaneous on-stage jam) highlighted by Randy Bachman's highly articulated fuzz-tone guitar, a relentless beat, and Burton Cummings moving into Robert Plant territory on the lead vocal, transformed their image.

BMG celebrates what would have been Jim Croce’s 80th birthday and marks 50 years since his untimely passing with The Definitive Croce, a collection of his unparalleled run of studio albums released in 1972 and 1973 — available as a limited 3LP (180 gram black vinyl) or 3CD set.Disc 1 is the 1972 studio album You Don’t Mess Around with Jim. The album reached #1 and is certified Gold, and features the #1 single “Time In A Bottle,” plus the hits “You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” and “Operator (That’s Not The Way It Feels.”) Disc 2 is the 1973 studio album Life and Times. The album reached the Top 10 and is certified Gold, and features the Gold #1 single “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown,” plus the hit “One Less Set Of Footsteps. Disc 3 is the final Jim Croce studio album I Got A Name, released in 1973. The album reached #2 and is certified Gold, and features the Top 10 Hits “I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song,” and “I Got A Name” plus the Top .

Deluxe CD Box: 2 CDs packaged in a gatefold digisleeve and 1 Blu-ray Disc in a single cardboard sleeve. 72-page hardback book held under removable tray. All packaged in a 8.5" x 8.5" hard cardboard box. Back cover is a cardboard inlay to the shrink-wrap (not affixed to the box). Shrink-wrap front with hype stickers. Exclusive print held within translucent paper bag, embossed with text "1000 Limited Edition Prints / Photograph By Anton Corbijn".

Closer to My Home" is the new 10 -song album from legendary guitarist and singer/songwriter Mark Farner. Bridging past and present, the grit of industry and the calloused hard work of a rural man, "Closer to My Home" champions Farner's multi-faceted artistry. From the rebellious "Anymore" to the endearing "Darlin" and to the defiant "Same Game" Farner's journey as one of rock's statesmen is undeniable. "Façade", "Friends For Forever","Real","Tiny Fingers" and the 55th Anniversary re-record of the ICONIC #1 smash Hit that defined a generation in 1970, "I'M YOUR CAPTAIN (Closer to Home)." This new version burns just as bright, striking the same emotions.

The vinyl collection box set celebrates John Mellencamp's records from 1982-1989. Includes 'American Fool', 'Uh-Huh', 'Scarecrow', 'The Lonesome Jubilee', and 'Big Daddy'. All albums cut from the original analog master tapes on 180 gram vinyl.

There is NO LIGHT at the end of this tunnel! BROWN ACID: The Nineteenth Trip fires ten more savage nails deep into the coffin of ‘60s psychedelic idealism. This series is THE premier top dog journey into the rarest and most wasted early local eruptions of heavy rock, unleashed at a time when harsh reality, human nature and disillusionment drove prevailing underground rock glimpses of a ‘better’ world into ever darker selfabsorbed comedowns. Mind expanding ’60s love energies transform into toxic aggression right before your ears! The great thing is that these moves are totally justified, ‘we are all one’ is cosmically good in theory but ‘get it while you can’ ends up perhaps better advice in the light of human history.

Bruce Springsteen once said he intended to make an album with words like Bob Dylan that sounded like Phil Spector where he sang like Roy Orbison, a nifty summary of many, but not all, of his artistic ambitions and a key to his appeal. Unlike any other singer/songwriters saddled with the appellation of "the new Dylan" in the early '70s, Springsteen never hid how he was raised on '60s AM radio.

On February 7, 1964, The Beatles arrived at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, greeted by scores of screaming, swooning fans who rushed the gate to catch a glimpse of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr as they took their first steps on American soil. Two nights later, on Sunday, February 9, 73 million viewers in the U.S. and millions more in Canada tuned in to CBS to watch The Beatles make their American television debut on ‘The Ed Sullivan Show.’ In what remains one of the world’s top-viewed television events of all time, The Beatles performed five songs on the live broadcast and ‘Beatlemania,’ already in full, feverish bloom in The Beatles’ native U.K., was unleashed with blissful fervor across America and around the world. The British Invasion had begun. The new 13 CD box set THE U.S. ALBUMS commemorates the 50th anniversary of these history-making events, spanning 1964’s MEET THE BEATLES! to 1970’s HEY JUDE.