Black and Blue was the first studio album by the Rolling Stones to be released with Ronnie Wood replacing Mick Taylor. Wood had played twelve-string acoustic guitar on the track "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" from the album It's Only Rock' n Roll and appears on half of the tracks on Black and Blue, mainly on backing vocals, with Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel playing guitar […]

Made In Japan is the seventh and first live album by Deep Purple, recorded during their first tour of Japan in August 1972. It was initially released in December 1972 in Europe and in April 1973 in the United States, and was a great commercial and critical success.The band was known for their strong stage presence, having recorded several of their concerts in person and having made several broadcasts through […]

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 […]

Bob Dylan At Budokan is a double live album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in April 1979 by Columbia Records. It was recorded during his 1978 world tour and consists mainly of the artist's "greatest hits". The performances on the album are radically different from the originals, using the same musicians who played on Street-Legal, but relying on a much larger band with a stronger brass and backing vocal […]

Salisbury is the second studio album by British hard rock band Uriah Heep, released in January 1971 in the United States and a month later in the rest of the world, through "Vertigo Records".The album introduced Uriah Heep to a "progressive" rock musical approach, with the album's title track, which lasts over 16 minutes and features a 24-piece orchestra, being a typical example. "Salisbury" also gave the band their first […]

Led Zeppelin II, as its title suggests, is the second studio album by Led Zeppelin, released in October 1969 by Atlantic Records.The album was recorded between various tours by the group from January to August 1969.The tour to promote the album began in the United States on October 17, 1969, continuing in Great Britain and Europe from January to March 1970.The album was a great success, helping their first album […]

Dreamboat Annie is the debut studio album by American rock band Heart. At the time, the band was based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The album was recorded in Vancouver and first released in Canada by local label Mushroom Records in mid-1975. It was released in the United States on February 14, 1976, through Mushroom Records' Los Angeles subsidiary. The album contained three commercially successful singles, two of which became mainstream […]