Box Sets From A Very Special Christmas, Buddy Holly, Hendrix, Motown, Rolling
Stones, U2, and Klaus Voormann Plus a Rarity From Nirvana Arrive for the
Holidays
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Historic Jimi Hendrix concerts... a
legendary performance from Nirvana... U2's remastered The Unforgettable
Fire... every recording by Buddy Holly... a new generation of talent on A Very
Special Christmas, every Motown #1 hit... nearly every Rolling Stones album
since 1971... and a collection from famed sideman Klaus Voormann. With new
box sets and albums from UMe, holiday gift-giving has never sounded so good.
A Very Special Christmas:
Selling one million copies in its first year, the premier album, A Very
Special Christmas, released in 1987, and the subsequent albums in the series,
have generated more than $l00 million for Special Olympics, the most ever
raised by a benefit recording series. Set for release on November 23, A Very
Special Christmas - Volume 7 (A&M/UMe), incorporates a new generation of
superstar talent; Colbie Caillat, Carter Twins, Miley Cyrus, Vanessa Hudgens,
Sean Kingston, Leighton Meester, Kellie Pickler, Ashley Tisdale, Carrie
Underwood, as well as many others, add to the latest edition of the acclaimed
album series featuring original recordings of new and traditional Christmas
songs which each artist selected especially for this album.
Buddy Holly:
He had a brief three-year professional recording career, but Buddy Holly left
the music world a vast recorded legacy of 203 tracks--all of them on the
limited edition six-CD Hip-O Select box set Not Fade Away/The Complete Studio
Recordings And More.
The tracks range from his earliest recordings to demos with Bob Montgomery;
from his earliest recordings with The Crickets to his first studio recordings
for Decca in Nashville; from the Coral and Brunswick recordings and hits that
made him famous to his heralded apartment tapes. There are six previously
unreleased tracks plus another 11 previously unreleased in the U.S. All of
the original, locatable undubbed recordings and all 57 overdubbed versions
recorded after the "day the music died" are here. Many are hard-to-find or
make their CD debuts.
Jimi Hendrix:
Two box sets from Dagger Records (Experience Hendrix through Geffen/UMe),
offered exclusively through Amazon.com, are each presented with exclusive
reproductions of Hendrix memorabilia, including a poster, postcard set
replicating classic Hendrix concert posters, set of badges reminiscent of the
era, Hendrix iPod Skin, PikCARD with four guitar picks adorned with Hendrix
artwork from the concert posters and more.
Jimi Hendrix Experience Live 1968 Paris/Ottawa encompasses a pair of concerts,
highlighted by performances of "Purple Haze," "The Wind Cries Mary" and
"Little Wing" from the L'Olympia Theater in Paris and a "Hendrixized" version
of the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" taped at Ottawa's
Capitol Theater later that same year. Jimi Hendrix Experience Paris '67 is a
custom-swirled, colored vinyl album documenting an earlier concert at
L'Olympia and featuring performances of "Stone Free," "Hey Joe," "Wild Thing,"
etc.
Motown:
The 10-CD box set Motown: The Complete No. 1's (Motown/UMe) brings together
every Motown No. 1 hit, from every U.S. and international chart and from every
genre--a staggering 192 tracks--plus 10 bonus tracks whose cover versions were
No. 1, for a total of 202 No. 1 recordings.
Housed in a replica of the original Motown headquarters, "Hitsville U.S.A.,"
Motown: The Complete No. 1's spans generations of musical memories, beginning
with 1961's R&B No. 1 "Shop Around" from The Miracles, and the label's first
Pop No. 1, "Please Mr. Postman" from The Marvelettes. From The Supremes' five
consecutive No. 1's, starting with "Where Did Our Love Go," to The
Temptations' immortal "My Girl," this is the soundtrack to the sixties,
seventies and beyond, concluding with 2000's "Bag Lady" from Erykah Badu.
Heard too are Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Four Tops, Martha & the Vandellas,
Gladys Knight & the Pips, Jackson 5, Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Commodores,
Rick James, Lionel Richie, Boyz II Men, and more.
Nirvana:
One of the most bootlegged concerts in the annals of rock-- Nirvana's August
30, 1992, headlining appearance at the U.K.'s Reading Festival--Nirvana Live
At Reading (DGC/Geffen/UMe) will be issued in a limited edition DVD+CD Deluxe
Edition in November. The footage and audio come in the original multi-track
masters and are presented in 5.1 Surround Sound. Only two of the 25
performances on the DVD have ever been released before.
The concert ranked #1 in Kerrang's "100 Gigs That Shook The World" and
"Nirvana's #1 Greatest Moment" by fans in an NME poll includes nearly the
entire Nevermind tracklist, early performances of then-unrecorded songs ("All
Apologies," "Dumb" and the first performance of "Tourette's") and live
versions of songs later heard on Incesticide. The career-spanning set list
also reaches back to the band's beginnings.
The Rolling Stones:
Thirteen of the 14 Rolling Stones albums since 1971 have been newly remastered
and are available from UMe separately or in a limited edition collectible box
set exclusively through Amazon.com (1972's Exile On Main St. will be
remastered and released in early 2010). Included is a full-color poster of
the band's Sticky Fingers classic promotional image re-created specially for
this package.
The box brings together Sticky Fingers (1971, "Brown Sugar," "Wild Horses");
Goats Head Soup (1973, "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)," "Angie"); It's
Only Rock 'n' Roll (1974, "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)"); Black
And Blue (1976, "Hot Stuff," "Miss You"); Some Girls (1978, "Beast Of Burden,"
"Shattered"); Emotional Rescue (1980, "She's So Cold"); Tattoo You (1981,
"Start Me Up"); Undercover (1983, "Undercover Of The Night"); Dirty Work
(1986, "Harlem Shuffle"); and Steel Wheels (1989, "Rock And A Hard Place")
plus Voodoo Lounge (1994), Bridges To Babylon (1997) and A Bigger Bang (2005).
U2:
U2's fourth album, The Unforgettable Fire, has been remastered for the first
time with direction from U2 guitarist, The Edge, and will be released by
Island/UMe on October 27, 2009. This special edition marks 25 years since the
album's original release in October 1984. Recorded at Slane Castle, Ireland,
The Unforgettable Fire was the first U2 album to be produced by Brian Eno and
Daniel Lanois, and spawned the US top 10 hit - "Pride (In The Name Of Love)."
The limited edition super deluxe box set features bonus audio material,
including two previously unheard tracks from the Slane Castle sessions:
"Yoshino Blossom" and "Disappearing Act" (a track which the band recently
completed), and a DVD including music videos, a documentary and unreleased
live footage from the Amnesty International Conspiracy of Hope Tour in 1986.
Klaus Voormann:
On A Sideman's Journey (UMe), famed musician Klaus Voormann, who played bass
on solo albums for every Beatle as well as for Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman,
Yoko Ono and others, is joined by musical friends in seven studio sessions in
London, Memphis, Hamburg, Los Angeles and Munich. The limited edition
two-disc box set, available exclusively through Amazon.com, includes three
bonus audio tracks, a DVD documentary on the making of the album, a hardbound
book of photos (renowned graphic designer Voormann created the Beatles'
Revolver cover) and more.
Featuring Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Yusuf (aka Cat Stevens), Dr.
John, Bonnie Bramlett, Van Dyke Parks, Albert Lee, and others, A Sideman's
Journey finds Voormann & Friends performing favorites such as "Blue Suede
Shoes," "All Things Must Pass," "Mighty Quinn" and "Just Like A Woman."
SOURCE Universal Music Enterprises
Sujata Murthy, +1-310-865-7812, sujata.murthy@umusic.com, or Rebecca Posford,
+1-310-865-9804, rebecca.posford@umusic.com, both of Universal Music
Enterprises
