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Sony release Elvis best of for his 75th birthday
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 16 November 2009
Sony Music will release a special compilation to celebrate what would have been Elvis’ 75th birthday in January featuring, you guessed it, 75 Elvis tracks.
The new compilation is released on 4 Jan, but I’m hoping we get a finished copy of the three CD collection before Christmas, because that’ll be my Mum’s present sorted. With that in mind, you’d have thought Sony would have wanted this one out before Christmas, but perhaps they are hoping to get some extra press in that quiet first week of the year, Elvis’ actual birthday was 8 Jan.
Of course Sony need to cash in on their Elvis catalogue as best they can, just in case the European record industry never gets the extension on the sound recording copyright they so dearly want. By my maths, some of the songs on this compilation are already out of copyright.
