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The New Releases page has been updated to include this month’s music CD, DVD and Blu-ray releases from classic artists.

Highlights for October include:

• Stevie Nicks’ new album “24 Karat Gold – Songs From The Vault” (7 Oct)
• “Ozzy Osbourne – Memoirs of a Madman” on CD, vinyl and DVD (14 Oct)
• Aretha Franklin’s latest album “Aretha Franklin Sings The Great Diva Classics” (21 Oct)
• “The Hollies – 50 at Fifty” 3 CD anniversary set (21 Oct)
• Neil Diamond’s new studio album “Melody Road” (21 Oct)
• Led Zeppelin’s “Led Zeppelin IV” and “Houses Of The Holy” in deluxe and super deluxe editions (27 Oct)
• Jerry Lee Lewis’s new studio album “Rock & Roll Time” (27 Oct)
• Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ new album “Tell ‘Em I’m Gone” (27 Oct)
• “Who Hits 50” in standard and deluxe editions (27 Oct)
• “Spandau Ballet The Film – Soul Boys Of The Western World” on DVD and Blu-ray (27 Oct – UK)
• “Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble – The Complete Epic Recordings Collection” 12 CD box set (27 Oct)
• “Rory Gallagher – Irish Tour ’74” 7 CD/DVD box set (28 Oct).

David Gilmour has said that Pink Floyd’s forthcoming album, “The Endless River,” will be the band’s last.

Gilmour told BBC Radio 6:

This is the last thing that will be out from us. There will not be any sort of follow-up to this… It’s a shame, but this is the end.

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The BBC has produced an all-star version of the Beach Boys’ classic hit “God Only Knows” to raise money for BBC Children in Need.

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Paul Revere died on Saturday at his home in Garden Valley, Idaho. The 1960s rocker and organist with Paul Revere & The Raiders was 76 and had been battling brain cancer for over a year.

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There have been hundreds of books written about Elvis Presley since his untimely death in 1977, but not nearly enough have placed a strong focus on his music. Long-time Elvis fan, Shane Brown, seeks to rectify that with his enjoyable new book “Elvis Presley – A Listener’s Guide”.

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