I’m fascinated by this kind of thing: all of the mastering variations in Blonde On Blonde, going back to the original Mono and Stereo LP editions in 1966!

Sky News have the first still from The Curse Of The Were Rabbit up!

This is the kind of story that makes collecting seem like Las Vegas: a one-of-a-kind acetate of the Velvet Underground’s first recording sessions, valued in 5 figures, was sold at a yard sale in Portland for 75 cents.

Over Thanksgiving I read Chronicles, Volume 1. I have seldom been so absorbed in an autobiography. The storytelling is peerless.

According to Zeta Minor, Granada Ventures is issuing new DVD editions of the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes series on 21 February, using remastered prints recently transmitted on BBC2. Both series of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and both series of The Return of Sherlock Holmes, including the feature-length episodes The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles, will be collected on a 9-disc digistack; The Casebook of and The Memoirs of appear on a second 7-disc volume along with the remaining three two-hour episodes (The Master Blackmailer, The Last Vampyre and The Eligible Bachelor). All 16 discs will be made available as The Complete Collection. This edition should make all extant releases (Cinema Club, MPI) redundant.