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After releasing their best album, 1973's Brain Salad Surgery, Emerson, Lake and Palmer embarked on a world tour, followed by a much-needed break.  When they returned they did so with the double album ...

5 Nov 20239min

"Rock Lobster" quickly became a song that filled dancefloors in the late 1970s and, though it only sold moderately well at the time, The B-52's has become one of the top new wave albums in everyone's ...

29 Okt 20236min

After Public Image Ltd's second album Metal Box (known as Second Edition in the United States) bass player Jah Wobble left.  John Lydon and Keith Levene continued on, with drummer Martin Atkins, for t...

22 Okt 20236min

Dio's first two albums, Holy Diver and The Last in Line, were hard rock classics.  So, why change things up?  If anything, Sacred Heart was a bit poppier, but largely it sounded like the first two, wh...

15 Okt 20235min

After a critical success with Murmur, R.E.M. again teamed with producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon for their sophomore effort, Reckoning.  In some ways it was more of the same, but a slightly rawer, ...

8 Okt 20236min

Devo scored a top-20 hit with the song "Whip It" in 1980, from their third album, Freedom of Choice.  Unfortunately, it meant that even though the band had worked hard on its concept and identity thro...

1 Okt 20237min

After dominating late '80s pop and hard rock radio with seven singles from their album Hysteria it took a while for Def Leppard to get a new album out.  During that time guitarist Steve Clark passed a...

24 Sep 20236min

Peter Gabriel, the unique and flamboyant lead singer of Genesis, decided to part ways with the band in 1975 after the conclusion of their tour supporting their 1974 album, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadw...

17 Sep 20237min