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 Last week saw the announcement of Animals 50, which celebrates Pink Floyd's 1977 album with a Deluxe Box Set, 1LP, 2LP, 2CD, Blu-Ray Audio and digital releases.
The Deluxe Box Set contains 3 LPs: the original 1977 album, the 2018 Remix (remixed by James Guthrie), and a disc of five rarities that includes an unheard Roger Waters track titled Young Nicholas Jon and previously unreleased early versions of Sheep and Dogs. It also has 5 CDs mirroring the LPs, plus 2 discs of the 1977 Oakland show recorded live at the Oakland Coliseum Arena by a then 19 year old bootlegger, Reinhard Hohlwein, and the 1 disc Blu-Ray, which includes all of the above audio with the 2018 Remix being available in 5.1 and Dolby Atmos.
The Deluxe Box Set also features a 64 page hardback book comprising new sleeve notes from New York Times Best-Selling author and life-long Floyd fan Jonathan Lethem, an interview with Reinhard Hohlwein and an excerpt from Hipgnosis' Aubrey "Po" Powell's memoir about the making of the iconic album art for Animals. These fascinating insights are interspersed with previously unpublished images that document the full creative journey, from the album recording to the shooting of the cover at Battersea Power Station and the subsequent global tour. The 1LP contains the original 1977 album, with the 2LP and 2CD sets contain the original 1977 album plus rarities, as does the digital release, which also features the Oakland show.
For those of you out there who are keen collectors, there is now a new colour variant of the single vinyl edition, which joins the already announced orange vinyl, and, via the official Pink Floyd store, the sandstone colour variant. Now available to order is another colour edition, exclusive to Walmart in the USA, and FNAC.com who ship to many countries, is a special burgundy vinyl edition.
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