After the releases of Hammersmith '82 DVD/CD and Rio Double CD Edition EMI will be releasing a remastered "So Red The Rose" next year in February.

Trackslisting:

CD 1 - Election Day, Keep Me In The Dark, Goodbye Is Forever, The Flame, Missing, Rose Arcana, The Promise, El Diablo, Lady Ice, Say The Word (Theme from ‘Playing For Keeps’) (7” edit), She Moody And Grey, She’s Mean And Restless, Election Day (single version), Goodbye Is Forever (single mix), The Promise (7” mix), The Flame (7” remix), Say The Word (Theme from ‘Playing For Keeps’) (soundtrack version) CD 2 - Election Day (Consensus Mix), Goodbye Is Forever (extended mix), The Promise (extended remix), Rose Arcana (extended), The Flame (Extended Remix), Say The Word (Theme from ‘Playing For Keeps’) (extended vocal remix), Election Day (Cryptic Cut), The Promise (12” mix), Goodbye Is Forever (dub mix), Say The Word (Theme from ‘Playing For Keeps’) (extended instrumental remix), Election Day (Early Rough Mix), Flame Game (Yo Homeboy mix), Election Day (Cryptic Cut No Voice Mix). DVD - Filming of Election Day, Election Day, Filming of The Promise, The Promise, Filming of Goodbye Is Forever, Goodbye Is Forever, Filming of The Flame, The Flame, Filming of Missing, Missing

Simon is joining Beautiful Small Machines on their online single Simple Joys. Bree Sharp of BSM is a good friend of Simon.

http://www.musicallies.com/bsm/simplejoys/simonsgift/

Simon Le bon is among many artists covering "Beds Are Burning" from Midnight Oil under the name of Tck Tck Tck.

"A short one: Wednesday January 20th, the band returned to their London studio to review the tracks we recorded last year for the new album. We are due to commence work with Mark Ronson again during the first week of February. The backing tracks are mostly complete on fourteen different songs, I still have a little recording to do, but we plan to concentrate on Simon's vocals through this next period.

Duran duran is contributing to a David Bowie tribute album to benefit War Child.

Tracklisting:
01. Exitmusic -- 'Space Oddity'
02. Vivian Girls -- 'John, I'm Only Dancing'
03. Megapuss (Devendra Banhart) -- 'Sound + Vision' (en Espanol)
04. Carla Bruni -- 'Absolute Beginners'
05. Lights -- ' World Falls Down'
06. VOICEsVOICEs -- 'Heroes'
07. Duran Duran -- 'Boys Keep Swinging'
08. MGMT -- TBA
09. Chairlift -- 'Always Crashing in the Same Car'
10. Aska w/ Moon & Moon -- 'African Night Flight'
11. A Place to Bury Strangers -- ' Suffragette City '
12. The Polyamorous Affair -- 'Theme From Cat People'
13. Keren Ann -- 'Life on Mars'
14. Swahili Blonde (feat. John Frusciante) -- 'Red Money'
15. Marco Benevento -- 'Art Decade'
16. Corridor -- 'Be My Wife'
17. Aquaserge -- 'The Superman'
18. Warpaint -- 'Ashes to Ashes'
19. Rainbow Arabia -- 'Quicksand'
20. We Are the World -- 'Afraid of Americans'
21. Laco$te -- 'Within You'
22. Ariana Delawari -- 'Ziggy Stardust'
23. Pizza! -- 'Modern Love'
24. St Clair Board -- 'Secret Life of Arabia '
25. Caroline Weeks -- 'Starman'
26. Amanda Jo Williams -- 'The Man Who Sold the World'
27. Mick Karn -- 'Ashes to Ashes'
28. Soulwax -- TBA

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