Various Artists – The Leiber & Stoller Story: Vol 1—Hard Times

Legendary rock'n'roll songwriters' early years

My Summer Of Love

Teen drama spotlights two talented newcomers

Badly Drawn Boy

THE VIDEO COLLECTION

The Notorious Big – Ready To Die

The album that established the late rapper's reputation

The Blasters – 4-11-44

Roots-rockers keep on keepin' on

Glittering Prize

Five-disc box set crammed full of unreleased gems

Page & Plant

The duo's 1994 take on Unplugged, which involved recording new material in Morocco and rearranging old Zep songs with Middle Eastern flavours and musicians, was a brave but preposterous conceit. Filmed in a Welsh valley, in a slate quarry and cross-legged with locals in Marrakesh, they're only really credible and incredible in their natural environment—a stage.

Even Serpents Shine

Twentieth anniversary edition of '80s classic expanded with live songs, sessions and rarities

Kilburn And The High Roads – Handsome

Debut release of Dury's pre-Blockheads outfit from '75, with four extra tracks

Stephen Duffy – Music In Colours

Reissued lost classic from perennial Britpop also-ran
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