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Texas – I Don’t Want A Lover: The Collection

Limp set from the polite person's Pretenders

Various Artists – Funk 45s Box Set

Irresistible compendium of funk drops and breakbeat chops

Both Sides Wow

Songwriting legend breaks her 'retirement' with hand-picked best-of

Dwight Yoakam – The Very Best Of…

Roundup of Kentucky country boy's 1986-2003 years

Rock Goddess

Teenage kicks from heavy metal's female phalanx

Anthony Newley – Pure Imagination

Ex-Mr Joan Collins' Willy Wonka years

Various Artists – Maybe Someone Is Digging Underground

In 1967, John Peel used to justify the frequent inclusion of Bee Gees tracks on his legendary Perfumed Garden show by saying, "If you're going to copy anyone it might as well be The Beatles." He was right, of course, and this excellent comp is testimony both to that assertion and the undeniable endurance of the Gibb brothers' early material. Gerry Marsden, Billy J Kramer, Marmalade, Status Quo and Paul Jones are just some of the acts who elect to don the red velvet cape of love in order to deliver appropriately idiosyncratic interpretations of those delightfully eccentric songs.

Various Artists – Biba: Champagne & Novocaine

Glammy tribute to a clothes shop a bit hipper than Primark

Blazing Apostles

The best of Bill Nelson's undervalued art rockers, coinciding with reissues of five original Be-Bop albums

The Teardrop Explodes – Zoology

"Unreleased and rareness" from the capacious archives of Cope
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