Received my book from Sainsbury's on Sat (under 72 hours after placing the order) and very well packaged too. No tax payable on receipt either.

Went into HMV's flagship store in London's Oxford Street and their computer records still suggest that the high street price for the Roxy box will be £78!

That price compares with £52-£54 from their own online/offshore outlet and Amazon, while Sainsbury's was still offering it for £45 the last time I looked. If that remains the same, the supermarket will get my order.

Smudge,

WOW! just did a currency conversion. You stated price will be - £78 which = $123.43 CAD (Canadian), but Amazon.ca's price will be only 79.75 CAD which = £50.37

Hmmm......SOLD!

Bryan's team posted an updated photo of the set on the Bryan Ferry Facebook profile page:



Was "Country Life" ever a gate-fold LP?

gate-fold? duh...waddat? is it what I think it is? it folds like a gate? ummm....nope, when in doubt, search: wiki roxy music country life

no time to search for you, heading out to tango in beautiful Montreal on a hot, summer night

Was "Country Life" ever a gate-fold LP?

Not as far as I know, Wockawocka. Think I heard somewhere that all 8 CD sleeves would be gatefolds, whereas this was true of only the first 3 LPs.

Debut album, FYP & Stranded will therefore presumably be mini-copies of the originals; the other five may have repros of the printed LP inner sleeves (e.g. song lyrics etc.) on the inside of the CD gatefolds perhaps.

I think Siren was the only LP with neither a gatefold sleeve, nor a printed inner sleeve; what they'll put on the inside of that one is anyone's guess!

P.S. for Erland: there is a Wikipedia page for gatefold sleeve!

The original French pressing of Country Life was gatefold but only in a limited edition.

It was decided early on with this box set that all the sleeves would be unique to this box set and not just a box to contain discs/sleeves that already exist.

J.O'B.

John

Can I ask - decided early on by who???????

There is a team of people involved in all these things, a 3 way thing. Bryan with his management, Virgin EMI and I have been invloved from a fans perspective. The eventual outcome is usually a compromise of all 3 parties involved. The gatefold thing was decided early on at a meeting but I am not sure who suggested it.

Do you think it is a good idea to have these particular discs and sleeves different from what you can buy as individual albums in the shops now?

J.O'B.

Thanks John as always - I presume Phil and Andy had input???????

And yes I think its good to have sleeves different to what was released - we are now in the digital age

Looks a really good package

But what happened to the hi-rez DVDs?

Can we expect some in future?