In December 2016, the group released super deluxe editions of Metal Box and Album .
In 2016, U2 worked on their next studio album, Songs of Experience , a companion piece to Songs of Innocence . The group had mostly completed the album and planned to release it that year, but after the shift of global politics in a conservative direction, highlighted by the UK’s…
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In December 2016, the original five-piece lineup lost a case in the British High Court after they attempted to reclaim the U.S. copyright on their first three albums from Gloucester Place Music, part of EMI Music Publishing . Rhodes commented, “We signed a publishing agreement as unsuspecting teenagers, over three…
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In May 2015, the band played several gigs from early May to September to accompany a major reissue of their 15-year-old album Mwng , which had been out of print. The same month a biography, Rise of the Super Furry Animals , was published by HarperCollins. In January 2016, the…
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On 14 October 2016, the band released “Demagogue”, a song protesting and satirising the candidacy of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election of 2016 .
In October 2016, the band announced their fourteenth album titled Spirit .
On 2 September 2016, Everything Everything released the single “I Believe It Now” for BT Sport to use for Premier League shows. They also announced they were working on a fourth album, with Higgs commenting that its lyrics would “inevitably” be affected by Brexit .
In September, the official Depeche Mode Facebook page hinted at a new release, later confirmed by the band to be a music video compilation, Video Singles Collection , scheduled for release in November by Sony .
In September 2016, the band announced they were reuniting just to release a “special song”. On October 19, 2016, Le Tigre released the song, titled ” I’m With Her “, and its accompanying video to voice their support of the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee , Hillary Clinton .
In 2016, a new line-up of Atomic Rooster played together with permission to use the name offered initially to Steve Bolton and Pete French from Crane’s widow. The first gig was a low-key warm-up in Clitheroe, Lancashire on 14 July 2016. The line-up was Pete French and Steve Bolton, keyboardist…
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