- 21 March 2017

They're among 500-plus artists supporting the 10th Record Store Day - the annual event celebrating independent record shops - with David Bowie, Madonna and Babymetal all joining the fun.
Best of all, Aqua are celebrating 20 years of Barbie Girl by re-issuing their global smash in a plastic sleeve.
Why? Because "life in plastic, it's fantastic".
The full, exhaustive list of releases (PDF) has just been published and, as usual, it mixes must-have exclusives with brain-scrambling obscurities by bands you've probably never heard of.
Luckily, we've ploughed through it so you don't have to. Here are 10 of the records you might actually want to track down on Saturday 22 April.

David Bowie: Cracked Actor


Cracked Actor (Live in Los Angeles 1974) is a three-album set recorded on the so-called "Philly Dogs" leg of his Diamond Dogs tour - the same show that was captured in an infamous BBC documentary of the same name.
Over five sides of vinyl, you'll hear material from Diamond Dogs and Aladdin Sane; as well as a handful of tracks intended for (but eventually dropped from) the soul-inflected Young Americans, which was released the following year.
The set is completely different to Bowie's patchy 1974 concert album David Live - and features a brand new band, including Luther Vandross on backing vocals.
The sixth side of the three-album set features an etching of Bowie.

Madonna - Dance Mix EP


The artwork will authentically replicate the original, which changes hands for about £200 in the second-hand market.

Doctor Who and the Pescatons


The double album also features a second disc of classic sound effects from Doctor Who.

Bruce Springsteen: Hammersmith Odeon, London '75


Enraged, he ran around the Hammersmith Odeon destroying them all. "My business is SHOW business not TELLING. You show people and let them decide," he fumed in his autobiography, released last year.
That energy fuelled his performance, which went down in history as one of The Boss's most incendiary performances (although Springsteen himself, wracked with doubt, felt otherwise).
Released as a live album and DVD in 2006, it gets its first vinyl outing for this year's Record Store Day.

The Comet Is Coming: Death To The Planet


The songs will not initially be available to download or stream - so this is the only way to hear the new material. For now.

Deee-Lite: Groove Is In The Heart


Re-released as a solid pink 12", the song is backed by the original B-side, What Is Love?

The Fall: Masquerade (PWL mix)


Masquerade was originally a track on The Fall's 19th album, Levitate, but was re-recorded and remixed in February 1998 to coincide with Smith receiving the Godlike Genius award at the NME Awards.
On the b-side was a remix from Stock Aitken Waterman's in-house team of Jason Barron and Richie Reed.
A sought-after rarity, it's being released for the first time ever on 7".

The Smiths: Boy With The Thorn In His Side


The limited edition 7" also contains an early version of Rubber Ring, the original b-side to Boy With The Thorn In His Side.
The release is an early sample of the material being unearthed for a reissue of The Smiths' seminal album The Queen Is Dead next year.

Johnny Cash: The Johnny Cash Children's Album


Available on vinyl for the first time since 1975, it's worth a listen just for Cash's self-penned and scientifically-inaccurate Dinosaur Song, in which the country star imagines opening his very own Jurassic Park.
"Now can't you just see yourself walking along / Leading your pet Trachadon?" he asks. "Or feeding your Brontosaurus Rex? Or scratching your Diplodocus neck."
"And if we had dinosaurs, now / Could they get along with a horse and a cow?
"Well, I wish they hadn't become extinct / Dinosaurs would be nice pets and friends."
Truly bizarre.

Bastille: Comfort of Strangers


The B-side is a live version of fan favourite Warmth, which gave Wild World its title; and the whole package comes on white vinyl, with a holographic sleeve. Fancy.

Ten more to look out for


- Sex Pistols: God Save Sex Pistols - The first configuration of the band's seminal Never Mind The Bollocks album, with slightly different versions of the key tracks and completely different artwork.
- Fleetwood Mac: Alternate Mirage - A completely new version of the band's 13th album, featuring alternate versions of every song, including Hold Me and Gypsy. Available for the first time on vinyl.
- Kate Nash: Agenda EP - Kate Nash's first new material since 2013; following her well-received appearance at the SXSW festival last week.
- Iggy Pop: Post-Pop Depression Live - A full recording of the star's already-legendary 2016 shows at the Royal Albert Hall, backed by members of Arctic Monkeys and Queens Of The Stone Age
- Pink Floyd: Interstellar Overdrive - A full, 15-minute version of the Pink Floyd instrumental, released for the first time on one-sided black vinyl with a fold-out poster.

- Prince: 12" collection - Reissues of seven classic Prince singles, including Sign O' The Times, Batdance and Pop Life, with the original B-sides and remixes. Little Red Corvette will also be re-released as a 7" picture disc.
- Kate Tempest: Let Them Beat Chaos / Let Them Speak Chaos - A deconstructed version of the punk poet's latest album, with just the beats on one vinyl and just the spoken word on the other.
- Ramones: Ramones singles box - A box set of the band's first 10 singles, including Blitzkrieg Bop and Sheena Was A Punk Rocker.
- Paul McCartney: Flowers In The Dirt (Demos) - A three-track cassette featuring early versions of the songs Sir Paul wrote with Elvis Costello in 1987.
- Wiley: Godfather - One of the few grime releases for Record Store Day, this is a white label vinyl of Wiley's current, and allegedly final, album.
source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39325897