Album

Mixed bag from the leading man of manic MOR

More party-rocking heartbreak from the Shangri-Las of retro-punk

Anti-Bush manifesto from perennial protest singer

Now 78 years young and still crooning

Southern-boy sensations experience growing pains on difficult second album

Scintillating songs let down by clumsy visuals

Well chosen overview of the ultimate Cali troubadour

Stanley The Steamer's Soho showcase

Deluxe edition of their breakthrough album, with a CD of outtakes

So gargantuan a behemoth is this whole franchise that even we head-shaking non-believers can recognise the commercial import of these releases. The 3D "lenticular" images on the sleeves are doing my eyes in, but I'll retain the composure to report that John Williams' bombastic scores for the three original Star Wars films are here repackaged (either as box set or three doubles) and digitally remastered. You get archival bonus tracks, posters, screensavers and various Internet links.