BLUE ÖYSTER CULT Announces 40th Anniversary

BLUE ÖYSTER CULT Announces 40th Anniversary Concert To Coincide With Release Of Columbia Albums Collection





Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment,
will celebrate the 40th anniversary of legendary Long Island, NY-based
act BLUE ÖYSTER CULT.





Unleashed in 1972, the eponymous debut album from America's heaviest
psychedelic metal band presaged punk, thrash and hardcore. Sony Music
celebrates with the release of Blue Öyster Cult - The Columbia Albums
Collection, a monumental career-spanning BÖC library comprised of 16 CDs
(the full official canon plus two discs of rarities) and the mythic
Some OTHER Enchanted Evening DVD (a blistering concert video from 1978).
The highly-collectible boxed set will be available Tuesday, October
30th.


Blue Öyster Cult (led by founding members Eric Bloom and Donald
"Buck Dharma" Roeser) will perform an historic New York City/Times
Square show - featuring special guests and other surprises - at the Best
Buy Theater (44th & Broadway, Manhattan) on Sunday, October 28th
(doors at 7 PM). Tickets go on sale, Friday, August 17th. Reserved
seating is available for the show.


A limited number (100) of individual deluxe VIP packages for the
Times Square Show will also be offered. Designed to provide the ultimate
BÖC experience, each deluxe VIP package includes Blue Öyster Cult - The
Columbia Albums Collection (in advance of street date!) in addition to a
guaranteed seat in the first five rows of the Best Buy Theater for the
BÖC Times Square concert; a pre-show meet & greet with the band; an
autographed limited edition Blue Öyster Cult event poster and an
exclusive commemorative laminate.





Blue Öyster Cult - The Columbia Albums Collection brings together
the group's 14 official Columbia Records albums - including
newly-mastered editions of On Your Feet Or On Your Knees, Fire Of
Unknown Origin, The Revölution By Night, Mirrors, Cultösaurus Erectus,
Extraterrestrial Live, Club Ninja and Imaginos - alongside two
newly-curated bonus discs: Rarities and Radios Appear: The Best Of The
Broadcasts (a special collection of classic live performances).


In addition, the Blue Öyster Cult - The Columbia Albums Collection
box set comes with a special download code good for four live concert
broadcasts as well as as a forty page booklet chock full of photos and
liner notes from celebrated music writer and guitarist Lenny Kaye.





Blue Öyster Cult - The Columbia Albums Collection includes:


1. Blue Öyster Cult (1972 - studio - with 2001 CD bonus tracks)

2. Tyranny And Mutation (1973 - studio - with 2001 CD bonus tracks)

3. Secret Treaties (1974 - studio - with 2001 CD bonus tracks)

4. On Your Feet Or On Your Knees (1975 - live) - 2012 remaster

5. Agents Of Fortune (1976 - studio - with 2001 CD bonus tracks)

6. Spectres (1977 - studio - with 2007 CD bonus tracks)

7. Some Enchanted Evening CD (1978 - live - with 2007 CD bonus tracks)

8. Some OTHER Enchanted Evening DVD (1978 - live)

9. Mirrors (1979 - studio) - 2012 remaster

10. Cultösaurus Erectus (1980 - studio) - 2012 remaster

11. Fire Of Unknown Origin (1981 - studio) - 2012 remaster

12. Extraterrestrial Live (1982 - live) - 2012 remaster

13. The Revölution By Night (1983 - studio) - 2012 remaster

14. Club Ninja (1985 - studio) - 2012 remaster

15. Imaginos (1988 - studio) - 2012 remaster

16. Rarities

17. Radios Appear: The Best Of The Broadcasts


Originally formed in Long Island as Soft White Underbelly in 1967,
Blue Öyster Cult combined adventurous lyrical themes with an aggressive
instrumental sound. With passion and intelligence on display in equal
measure, Blue Öyster Cult became the thinking fan’s rock band and a sign
of life in a sea of dull, anemic soft-pop. Anthems like 'Godzilla',
'Harvester Of Eyes' and 'Don’t Fear The Reaper' stretched the boundaries
of rock topics while lead guitarist Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser became a
hero to legions of budding axe-wielders. The band’s mystique extended
to their album artwork, resulting in some of the most distinctive and
iconic LP covers of the rock era. Blue Öyster Cult - The Columbia Albums
Collection gathers the essential pieces of the Blue Öyster Cult story
into one mind-boggling totality.


Log on to Blueoystercult.com for information about pre-sale tickets for the October 28th show at the Best Buy Theatre."