Universal Music is to release a comprehensive and strictly limited John Martyn box set covering his classic years with Island Records in September 2013.

Housed in an LP size hard-back slip case, this lavish box set contains 18 Discs including:

17 CDs featuring John Martyn's 12 key studio albums, recorded for Island between 1967 and 1987, including the two John and Beverley Martyn albums from 1970, plus Martyn's original mail-order only album Live At Leeds.

These discs include previously unreleased Out-Takes, unheard songs and 2 complete, previously unreleased live solo concerts from 1972 and 1977 and the complete demos for The Apprentice, the last album Martyn delivered to Island.