There are many thousands of fans around the world, Mr Raffles; it's probably EMI's way of getting all the 70s product into one package to save on re=pressing all the CDs individually. You ask, who is it aimed at? Well, all the thousands who visit Amazon who don't actually have it all. Remember, two thousand people have a ticket for Birmingham in November. It would surely be wrong to assume all of them have all of Steve's 70s catalogue - it will probably sell a few hundred on that night if it's in with the Merch. Good for EMI, I say, for showing this respect to one of their great "finds" of that era. I will add it to my own collection...and by the way, I've contacted EMI with a few suggestions, which if taken up, might encourage even your good self to fork out for the package!!

I am definitly interested in 5cd box set,whether or not I already have the included cd's,which I have ,and I will be buying it,as i,m sure most true fans will.

You can argue that most 'true' fans will already have all the tracks that are going to appear on the new 5 CD release.I just feel that it's a re-packaging job by EMI throwing in the minimum amount of 'extras'.

You don't have to buy it you know. There might be many around the world who will welcome the 5-CD emi release. My wife is one!!

I will certainly be one of the many around the world who will be buying this 5 cd set. As I am one that hasn't got all of the cds that Steve has released so far (although my friend Glynis is helping me out there & I thank her so very much for that), but even if I had them I'd probably still get it for the new artwork & possibly booklet etc which will hopefully be included with it.
Judy