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Whitesnake scored its first platinum-selling album in 1984 with Slide It In, a release that has sold more than four million copies worldwide thanks to hard-rocking songs like "Love Ain't No Stranger," "Slow An' Easy" and the title track. The classic album turns 35 this year and Rhino is celebrating with several new versions, including an enormous seven-disc box set.<br/><br/>After releasing Saints & Sinners in 1982, Whitesnake reconvened the following year in Germany to begin recording songs for what would become the band's sixth studio album, Slide It In. At the time, band members included Coverdale, guitarists Micky Moody and Mel Galley, bassist Colin Hodgkinson and keyboardist Jon Lord. The album was initially released in 1984 in the U.K., where it climbed into the Top 10. <br/><br/>SLIDE IT IN: THE ULTIMATE SPECIAL EDITION features unreleased versions of every album track, including 35th Anniversary remixes made this year, as well as monitor mixes recorded in 1983. The set boasts more than a dozen unreleased live recordings from 1984 that feature an entire concert from Glasgow, Scotland, plus several songs from Lord's final show with Whitesnake in Sweden. The collection's final disc unearths 30 tracks that cover original demos and early mixes for album tracks, as well as unfinished song ideas.<br/><br/>The DVD from SLIDE IT IN: THE ULTIMATE SPECIAL EDITION mixes music videos and live performances, all of which have been carefully restored and remixed in 5.1 Surround Sound for the first time ever. A newly recorded interview with singer David Coverdale rounds out the DVD.

The concept is "unplugged" with songs having stripped back, acoustic-based arrangements, inspired by the 1997 Whitesnake album, "Starkers In Tokyo", hence the "Unzipped" title and theme.

Super Deluxe Edition: <br/><br/>Sign O' The Times picks up where 1999 left off, but with an even deeper dive into the legendary Prince Vault. <br/><br/>Spread across 13LPs, the SOTT Super Deluxe Edition boasts a total of 92 audio tracks, of which 63 are previously unreleased, and of which half (46) are completely unheard of and have never even been bootlegged. <br/><br/>Of the five previously unreleased CDs, three are made up of Vault studio material, with the other two presenting a complete live audio recording of Prince's 20/06/87 concert in Utrecht, Netherlands. <br/><br/>That's 27 more previously unreleased tracks than 1999 Super Deluxe, or equivalent to THREE additional albums of previously unreleased material. <br/><br/>The Sign O' The Times SDE also includes a new DVD featuring Prince's previously unreleased New Year's Eve concert at Paisley Park on 31st December, 1987 (and which features a cameo appearance by Miles Davis). The DVD's running time totals 2h15m, which is almost 2x the running length of the 1999 live DVD.<br/><br/>Both CD and LP formats will be packaged in 12" boxes with a lenticular cover and will feature a 120 page 12" hardback book featuring multiple sets of brand new liner notes and a treasure trove of photography by Prince's official photographer of the time, Jeff Katz, including many previously unseen shots.<br/><br/>CD1-2: Sign O' The Times album - remastered for the very first time by original mastering engineer Bernie Grundman (16 tracks).<br/><br/>CD3: 7" edits / 12" mixes / promo versions / etc. (13 tracks).<br/><br/>CD4-6: Prince Vault - 100% previously unreleased material (45 tracks).<br/><br/>CD7-8: previously unreleased SOTT live concert, Utrecht, Netherlands, 20 June 1987 (18 tracks).<br/><br/>DVD: previously unreleased New Year's Eve concert at Paisley Park on 31st December, 1987 (2h15m running time).