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CLASSIC POP M ARCH 2019 ISSUE 50 9 772050 664327 PRICE £5.99 UP NEW CD BOX SETS FROM EDSEL SIMPLE MINDS REJUVENATION O’RIORDAN’S MEMORY 7 CD + DVD WILL ALWAYS LINGER 12"x12" book set includes Friends and family of the late Dolores twenty-five bonus tracks. O’Riordan believe the forthcoming posthumous Also available as a 6LP Cranberries album is the best way of coloured vinyl version. celebrating her memory. The world was on tour. “Dolores was so energised by the Culture Club shocked when the Irish vocalist passed away prospect of making this record and to getting on 15 January 2018 and, a year to the day, back out on the road to play the songs live,” just say no the band issued details of their eighth and fi nal recalls bandmate Noel Hogan. Aussie politician Clive Palmer album, In The End. The band shared fi rst single, All Over Now, has been threatened with “I can’t think of a more fi tting way to which gave some comfort to those close to legal action by Culture Club’s commemorate the fi rst anniversary of Dolores’ the singer. Dolores’ mother added: “I miss her manager for using Karma passing and to celebrate her life than to awfully, as does the entire family. She was PLAY TO WIN Chameleon in a new mobile announce to the world the release of her very excited about this new album and was phone game. The high-profi le fi nal album with the band,” said Dolores’ really looking forward to its release. I have The•Virgin•Years businessman changed the mother, Eileen. no doubt that she is happy now and would be 10 CD set which includes pop classic’s lyrics to “Palmer Produced by Stephen Street, work started on delighted with today’s announcement.” over a hundred bonus tracks. Chameleon” to promote his the album in May 2017 while the band were In The End will be released on 26 April. Amazon Exclusive Edition United Australia Party ahead of comes with a limited edition elections Down Under in March. signed print. Culture Club and Boy George’s Also available as a manager, Paul Kemsley, hit 5LP coloured back: “Boy George’s song vinyl version. would never be used to endorse © Mary Wycherley any political campaign. I’m horrifi ed at the treatment of one ANOTHER PLACE AND TIME – 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION of the biggest-selling songs of 3CD SET INCLUDES 35 TRACKS AND MIXES. all time. It should never be used Available To Order Now Also available as a 19-track 2LP coloured vinyl version. as part of a political agenda.” For more information, visit www.demonmusicgroup.co.uk AVAILABLE TO ORDER NOW

ON SALE NOW From Tesco, Eason’s, Bryan and WHSmith + independent Ed buddy up newsagents Bryan Adams is the latest high- Time is right for Duffy profi le star benefi tting from Ed tephen Duffy has a busy 2019 ahead of him. His band The Lilac Time Sheeran’s magic touch. The pair issues a new album, Return To Us, later this year, as well as the re-release joined forces to write the title track to the Canadian’s new of his 1998 solo album, I Love My Friends and a Lilac Time 1999-2019 album, Shine A Light, which is compilation. Despite all his success, Duffy has been at odds with the music out on 1 March. Adams, whose S business over the years, but he’s fi nally content making music in Cornwall. UK tour kicked off in Belfast on “I tried to stop but these songs keep happening. I repaired a mandolin recently and 25 February, said: “I met Ed in wrote six songs while I was fi xing it,” he told Cornwall Live. “The music industry is FREE! Dublin. One day I sent him a a completely different beast these days. It’s more of a pet. If you released a dance EXCLUSIVE chorus I had for a song idea RECORD record in the 80s it would probably sell 15,000 copies on the fi rst day of release.” STORE DAY I had called Shine A Light and It’s fair to say he doesn’t value much contemporary music. “Now there are all the 2O19 GUIDE asked him if he was interested talent shows and courses teaching students about the music industry – but there’s no in collaborating on it.” money and no industry. We’re left with music for M&S adverts with boys singing in Adams calls the new 12-track studio album: “a good blend of broken, wimpy voices. These people deserve the online abuse... and I’m speaking F R O M T H E rock and pop and R&B”. It also as a pioneer of the broken wimpy voice. In fact, I have been called the mother of MAKERS OF features a duet with Jennifer all broken wimpy voices.” Lopez on That’s How Strong Duffy has also been writing an autobiography titled What The **** Was Our Love Is. I Thinking?, which he hopes will follow the new music. ● Shine A Light is reviewed on page 85

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