EMI/Capitol Catch Vinyl Fever with Radiohead, "Pet Sounds" Reissues

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As recent studies have shown, vinyl records are bucking the trend of the declining music industry by actually being profitable. EMI, a company embroiled by personnel issues and decreasing sales, are hoping the vinyl trend can help resurrect their profits when they release fifteen of the EMI catalog's most popular albums on vinyl. A rep at Capitol/EMI confirmed that the label would reissue the fifteen albums on August 19th, with each release replicating the original artwork and packaging from when the album was first issued. Getting the vinyl treatment is the Beach Boys' out-of-print Pet Sounds, every pre-In Rainbows Radiohead album, R.E.M.'s Document, Coldplay's pre-Viva la Vida albums and John Lennon's Imagine. Also going back to wax is the Band of Gypsys album, Wings' Band on the Run, a pair of Bob Seger albums and A Perfect Circle's Mer de Noms. Pre-orders for the vinyls show they will be priced in the $20-30 range.

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“He Will Break Your Heart”

Jerry Butler | 1960

A lightly swinging Latin-influenced, almost cha-cha groove and close harmonies decorated Jerry Butler's early soul hit "He Will Break Your Heart," delivering a stately warning that his rival would never love his girl like he did. The melody came to Butler as he was driving on the highway from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Philadelphia with Curtis Mayfield, and as Butler told Rolling Stone, "I just sang the melody and Curtis put the chords to it." The song's premise, Butler added, "was something that I'd lived ...The lyric was an experience rather than a revelation. Whereas music is usually a revelation."

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