Tripping The Live Fantastic is Paul McCartney's first official solo live album and the first release of live material from the 1976 Wings Over America live set. Recorded during Paul McCartney's World Tour (1989–1990), it was released in early November 1990 as a triple LP, double cassette and double CD. Tripping the Live Fantastic peaked at number 17 in the UK and number 26 in the US. An abridged version […]

In 1970, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young released one of the most highly anticipated second albums in music history, following in the footsteps of Beatles and Band, which lived up to its expectations and reached number 1 on the charts. The achievement is even more astonishing, given the fact that the band spent only 800 hours together to record Deja Vu, and it would be fair to say that they […]

Jean-Michel Jarre gave a series of five concerts in Beijing and Shanghai in 1981, marking the first time a modern Western musical artist had performed in communist China. Mao let him do the concerts because, according to Jarre's biography, he liked the color of his eyes more than anything else. Recognizing the historical significance of the whole undertaking and the milestone it represented in Jarre's career, a double live album […]

Banquet is the fourth album by German progressive rock band Lucifer's Friend, released in 1974, where Lucifer's Friend finally combined the many different elements of their sound (prog, soul, jazz, hard rock) into a coherent and completely distinct style.This time, the main focus of the album is on epic progressive songs with complex orchestrations that go through a variety of surprising and ambitious changes in their orchestrations.The opening track, "Spanish […]

One Step Beyond is the 1979 debut album by British ska-pop group Madness. It was ranked 90th among the 100 greatest albums of all time in a 2005 poll conducted by British television channel Channel 4.The album, which was recorded and remixed in about three weeks, reached number two and remained in the UK album charts for over a year.It was the first album by producers Clive Langer and Alan […]

The Golden Wire is the third solo album by Police guitarist Andy Summers, recorded in November and December 1988 and released in 1989.Andy Summers is a wonderful and demanding stylist, composer and guitar virtuoso. Summers remained very productive after the Police disbanded in the mid-1980s, making a series of distinctive solo albums, and successful films such as Down And Out In Beverly Hills. His solo musical development has been sporadic […]

All Directions is the 15th album by the Temptations, released in 1972 by Motown Records, produced by Norman Whitfield.The LP contains the group's No. 1 hit, "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone", a twelve-minute track that Whitfield produced, as well as its first single release, Undisputed Truth. "Papa" won three Grammy Awards in 1973:Best R&B Vocal Performance by the group, Best R&B Instrumental Performance by the group, which was on the […]