Soul Of A Man is a fascinating, live album by Al Kooper, released on a double CD in 1995 and chronicles a brilliant past of his career. Recorded over three performances at the Bottom Line in New York in 1994, it functions more as a celebration of his entire career than as a typical live album.Kooper reunites members of the Blues Project and Blood, Sweat & Tears with later collaborators […]

Marquee Moon is the debut album by American rock band Television. It was released on February 8, 1977, in the United States and on March 4 of the same year in the United Kingdom, where it became an unexpected success, peaking at number 28 on the country's album charts. The album's two singles, the title track and "Prove It", both reached the UK Top 30. The album's commercial success in […]

Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 through Harvest Records in the United Kingdom and a day later in the United States through Columbia Records, as their first album for the label. Based on material composed by Pink Floyd while performing in Europe, Wish You Were Here was recorded in numerous sessions throughout 1975 at EMI Studios in London.As the […]

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 […]