Mardi Gras is the seventh and final studio album by American rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, released on April 11, 1972. It was recorded after the departure of guitarist Tom Fogerty and was their only album as a trio, with the band also sharing lead vocals on select tracks.Unlike previous albums, Mardi Gras featured Stu Cook and Doug Clifford sharing songwriting and production with John Fogerty, as well as their […]

Two For The Show is the sixth album by American progressive rock band Kansas and their first live album, released in October 1978 by Epic/Legacy Records. The album was reissued in a remastered form on CD in 2008. It was recorded during the band's three previous tours in 1977 and 1978 and went gold and then platinum shortly after its release.The album spawned a single, "Lonely Wind", which preceded the […]

Zebop! is the 12th studio album by Santana, released on April 29, 1981 by Columbia Records with producers Carlos Santana, Bill Graham and Keith OlsenAfter collaborating with Herbie Hancock on the jazz album The Swing Of Delight, Santana returned to the realm of pop-rock for 1981's Zebop. They even managed to include, albeit slightly, some of their famous Latin sound on some of the album's tracks, such as "E Papa […]

Animals is the tenth studio album by Pink Floyd, released on 21 January 1977 by Harvest and Columbia Records. It was recorded at the band's Britannia Row studios in London in 1976 and was produced by the band itself. The album continues the extensive songwriting style found on their previous works, including 1975's Wish You Were Here. The album received positive reviews and was commercially successful, reaching No. 2 and […]

Go is the first album by the supergroup Stomu Yamashta's Go, released in 1976, and is a concept album in the truest sense of the word, fusing pop/rock sounds with jazzy colors and classical elements that are connected by a central motif of space travel. More specifically, according to journalist Robin Denselow, the whole thing deals with "change and the polarity between fantasy and reality, death and revolution and the […]

Welcome Back, My Friends, To Show That Never Ends - Ladies and Gentlemen E.L.P. is the second live album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released as a triple album in August 1974 by Manticore Records. It was recorded in February 1974 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California, during the group's 1973–74 world tour in support of their 1973 fourth album, Brain Salad Surgery.The album […]

Working Nights is the debut album by British jazz band Working Week, released by Virgin Records in 1985. The album peaked at No. 23 in the UK Albums Chart in April 1985. Working Nights was re-released in 2012 as a remastered 2-disc Deluxe Set by Cherry Red Records.Working Week were the brainchild of guitarist Simon Booth and saxophonist Larry Stabbins, who had worked with Booth in his previous band, the […]

Eat a Peach is a 1972 double album by the American rock band, The Allman Brothers Band, containing a mixture of live and studio recordings. Following their artistic and commercial success with the release of the live album At Fillmore East in 1971, the band entered the studio for their third album.Sadly, on October 29, 1971, the band's leader and founder Duane Allman was killed in a motorcycle accident in […]

Space Oddity is the second studio album by David Bowie, released on 14 November 1969 by Mercury, a subsidiary of Philips Records, and produced by Gus Dudgeon and Tony Visconti.Following the commercial failure of his self-titled debut album in 1967, Bowie acquired a new manager, Kenneth Pitt, who also took on a promotional film in the hope of broadening the artist's audience. For the film, Bowie wrote a new song, […]