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The New Releases page has been updated to include music CD, DVD and Blu-ray releases for August.

Highlights for August include:

• “Elvis At Stax – 40th Anniversary” deluxe 3 album set (6 Aug)
• “Glen Campbell’s new studio album “See You There” (13 Aug)
• The Monkees’ “Headquarters – The Deluxe Edition” (20 Aug)
• Fleetwood Mac’s “Then Play On – Deluxe Edition” and “1969-1972” vinyl box set (20 Aug)
• The Beach Boys’ “Made In California” 6-CD career-spanning set (27 Aug)
• Bob Dylan’s “Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol 10” in standard and deluxe editions (27 Aug)
• Sly & The Family Stone’s “Higher!” in standard and deluxe editions (27 Aug).

Elvis Presley has again topped Joel Whitburn’s list of the Top 500 Artists of All Time. The list is included in the 14th edition of Whitburn’s “Top Pop Singles” book, which compiles Billboard chart stats in an easy-to-read format.

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The New Releases page has been updated to include music CD, DVD and Blu-ray releases for July.

Highlights for July include:

• Hawkwind’s “Warrior On The Edge Of Time – Super Deluxe Box Set” (2 Jul)
• the 3 CD/DVD “Tom Robinson Band – Anthology (1977-1979)” (9 Jul)
• The Pet Shop Boys’ new studio album “Electric” on CD and vinyl (16 Jul)
• the 6-CD “The Style Council – Classic Album Selection” (23 Jul)
• the 17-CD “Harry Nilsson – The RCA Albums Collection” (30 Jul)
• Elvis Presley “Love Me Tender” on Blu-ray (30 Jul)
• Buddy Guy’s new studio album “Rhythm & Blues” on CD and vinyl (30 Jul).

Happy Fourth of July to our American readers.

We celebrate the USA’s birthday with four great American songs.

“An American Trilogy” – Elvis Presley

Elvis took Mickey Newbury’s medley of American songs and made it his own in February 1972. Eleven months later, he performed the song on his worldwide television broadcast, “Aloha From Hawaii”.

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Mick Jagger and his production company Jagged Films are in talks with 20th Century Fox to produce an Elvis Presley biopic, according to sources who spoke with FOX411’s Pop Tarts column.

There’s no confirmation from anyone involved about whether the project will go ahead, but, if so, it’s probable that the movie would concentrate on Elvis’ early years as 20th Century Fox has been developing a script based on Peter Guralnick’s 1995 biography 1995 for around a decade.

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