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There's to the also movie the boxed set of all their albums, Roadhouse, featuring Jeff Hea- whichpreviously includes unreleased a new albumCarpen- of T- leyWEA; and LittleEric Feat.Clapton's Jour- ters material that will also be neyman, Tracy Chapman's fromavailable Roxanne separately, Shante andalbums LA TheCrossroads Road To and Hell Chrisare amongRea's Mix, and a heavy re-promo- its CD heavyweights. WEA has Janettion of Jackson the recently album. released campaign,also launched under a thesingle banner big MCA: A boxed set of Buddy 40 Golden Greats, centred on Call,Holly albums,The Roaches, albums fromBobby The sellers, which are all on limited Shy,Brown, Cactus Adamski, World Steve News Jones, and Greatsedition includegold CDs. the Eagles'40 Golden Ho- VoiVod, a Transvision Vamp tel California and Desperado, WEA: VAN Morrison CD-onlypicture-disc album. and a Bing Crosby ENORMOUS BIG GIANT

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