THE BEATLES’ “Free As A Bird”: is 2025 mix horrible or wonderful?

December 3, 2025

There are two mixes of The Beatles’ “Free As A Bird”: most people prefer the one from 1995, while I like the 2025 version better. Why?

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DME’s YouTube Channel: What and Why?

December 2, 2025

After 25 years of running this site, it’s about time I went a little bit further.
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First Two Years Of RAINBOW Get Anthologized

December 1, 2025

This year marks the semicentennial anniversary of the mighty RAINBOW, the ensemble devised by Ritchie Blackmore and Ronnie James Dio upon leaving, respectively, DEEP PURPLE and ELF with a prospect of creating medieval metal, and is there a better way to celebrate the band’s birth now than gathering the group’s beginnings into a neat box set? To emerge on March 6th, 2026, “The Temple Of The King: 1975-1976” doesn’t, as its title suggests, try and span the entire initial era of the collective’s existence – Ronnie stayed with the constantly fluctuating line-up for another two releases, a concert and a studio one, but those merely built on what he and Ritchie outlined on their first pair of longplays.

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THE BEAT Issued Beeb Sessions

November 30, 2025

They’re called THE BEAT, although in the States this band are known as THE ENGLISH BEAT and in Australia THE BRITISH BEAT, and they’re one of the most prominent representatives of the two-tone movement – perhaps, less famous than MADNESS or, say, THE SPECIALS, but still. What sets the Dave Wakeling-fronted ensemble from the rest of these groups is the scarcity of concert releases, the earliest of those appearing only in 2012 and harking back to 1982-83, which is why the fresh issue of the collective’s earlier live recordings feels more than welcome.

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The Whole Of WILD HORSES Works To Be Boxed

November 29, 2025

A supergroup of sorts, with former and future members of THIN LIZZY, RAINBOW and UFO, WILD HORSES left a scarce legacy of only two albums, but those two records remain interesting. Sure, people expect more from the collective Brian Robertson and Jimmy Bain envisaged as their hard rock vehicle that Clive Edwards and Neil Carter helped realize – although the latter was replaced after the band’s Trevor Rabin-produced 1980 debut – with Phil Lynott never far away from his friends, yet what they left behind deserves to be anthologized and assessed in its entirety. So a six-disc box set scheduled for release on February 13th, 2026 is going to become a treat for many aficionados.

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