Next Tuesday (November 11th) sees the re-release of Ringo Starr's latest album, his first studio album for six years, which features David Gilmour on guitar.

Ringo Rama Deluxe has been upgraded to include three new bonus tracks, a forty minute interview disc, and a seventy minute DVD which includes the original Ringo Rama sessions with Eric Claptona and David Gilmour, amongst others, together with twenty minutes of additional footage. It will feature completely new artwork, and come in a deluxe soft digipack.

It can be ordered at a discount from the list price through Amazon.com for US/Canadian readers, or Amazon.co.uk for UK/Europe. Buying anything from Amazon (and they sell most things these days!) getting into the site using one of our links, really helps us - we appreciate it!

The Italian release of the DVD and VHS of "Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii" finally happened on Wednesday (November 5th). The VHS includes the Director's Cut, and the interview with Adrian Maben, and the DVD features are the same as all other versions of this title. Our thanks to Nicola at Hey You for this info.

Yesterday's Independent newspaper in the UK printed an extensive tribute to Steve O'Rourke, who as we sadly reported last week, passed away in Miami, Florida on Thursday. In the obituary, Steve's story is covered in detail, along with quotes from the likes of Roger Waters. You can read the piece by clicking here to access the Independent site.

The new issue of Record Collector magazine includes an article concerning some great early promo singles from Hervé Denoyelle's extensive collection. Hervé contacted us a few months ago to tell us he was assisting Joe Geesin (son of Ron!) in the preparation of the piece. In the event, it focused on just three releases, and in particular, a previously undocumented white label promo...