Second Helping was the second album by Lynyrd Skynyrd, released on April 15, 1974. It contained the group's biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama", a response to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man". The song reached No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1974. This was the group's last L.P. with Bob Burns on drums.The album was recorded at Record Plant Studios in Los Angeles except for "Sweet […]

Aladdin Sane is the sixth studio album by David Bowie, released by RCA Records on 13 April 1973. It is the follow-up to the groundbreaking The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, and was the first album Bowie wrote and released to achieve such a major impact on the music scene.The editors of New Musical Express, Roy Carr and Charles Shaar Murray, described the album […]

Abraxas is the second studio album by Santana, released in September 1970.The album's title comes from a line in Hermann Hesse's book Demian, referenced on the album's back cover:"We stood before it and had begun to freeze inside from the exercise. We questioned the painting, we scolded it, we made love to it, we prayed for it. We called it mother, whore, singer, slut, we called it our beloved, we […]