What Came Next...

After the double album Blonde on Blonde became one of the biggest selling and most lauded of his career Bob Dylan decided, either for health or other reasons, to pull back on his exhaustive touring sc...

10 Sep 20236min

After releasing one of the most influential albums in history Pink Floyd found itself without its guiding light, Syd Barrett.  With new guitarist David Gilmour the band was tasked with recording a fol...

3 Sep 20237min

Although it was a parody of progressive rock - Ian Anderson wasn't too happy about Aqualung being lumped in with such - Thick As a Brick reached number one on the Billboard 200 despite the fact the al...

5 Maj 20238min

Alan Parsons cut his teeth as an assistant on the Beatles' Abby Road, and by 1973 he was the main engineer for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon.  Producing was the next step and, in 1975, the Sc...

28 Apr 20237min

Chicago's second album, simply titled Chicago but at times retconned to Chicago II, is what really broke the band.  The singles from Chicago Transit Authority didn't exactly light up the charts in 196...

21 Apr 20235min

Traveling Wilburys were a surprise dream come true of a supergroup and their 1988 album, Vol. 1, was one of the best of the decade.  It pretty much brought out the best in every member and put them on...

14 Apr 20238min

After becoming one of the biggest pop bands of the early 1980s Air Supply realized the ballads were where it was at.  That meant that the rock and disco songs from the previous albums were no more, bu...

7 Apr 20236min

The Moody Blues may have been an afterthought of the 1960s, a one-hit wonder in most countries with their version of the R&B song "Go Now".  However, in 1967, they were asked to appear on a stereo dem...

31 Mars 20238min