

It also was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame on Nov. The band received the Legends of Live honor in May at the Live Music Industry Awards during Canadian Music Week. The Classics reissue tops off a busy year for a trio that hasn’t played live since 2008 or released a new album since 1992. I had to resequence everything to keep it around 18 minutes a side, which is where you get the optimum audio quality off a piece of vinyl.” “So if you don’t do things first-class, don’t do it at all. “We still have a very solid brand,” says Levine on the phone to Billboard from Canada. Thus, the reissue features vintage photographs and lyrics on the album’s sleeves. The tracklist includes anthemic hits like “Lay It on the Line,” “Follow Your Heart,” “Fight the Good Fight” and “Magic Power.” The original release was to fulfill a contractual obligation following Emmett’s 1988 departure, but the members were unhappy with the low-budget packaging. The 2008 Canadian Music Hall of Fame inductees’ hard rock songs, which offered progressive and neoclassical underpinnings, are being celebrated with the 30th-anniversary reissue of the gold-selling Classics (Round Hill/Triumph Catalog), which arrives today on gatefold vinyl with two new live songs.
