Belgian-born pop singer/songwriter Lara Fabian began singing, dancing, and taking piano lessons at a very young age and began formal music lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels at age eight. During her ten years of study there, Fabian started writing and performing her own songs, which were inspired as much by her classical vocal and music theory training as they were by Barbra Streisand and Queen…
Australian Crawl the band who from 1979-1986 perfectly married the sounds of the summer and good times into musical form, celebrate the 35th anniversary of their first single Beautiful People with a new careerspanning 'Greatest Hits' collection.
In 1976, Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards founded the legendary CHIC Organization Ltd. Together they wrote and produced many number one hits and very quickly became the biggest hit music factory since Motown. A few years after the dawn of Disco, Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards disbanded The Chic Organization Ltd., but they kept on playing & producing, with Nile Rodgers quickly becoming the biggest pop producer of the 80’s. In 1983, he produced David Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” and in 1984, Madonna’s “Like a Virgin”. Many more artists also benefited from his incredible production skills and unique guitar style, including Mick Jagger, INXS, Duran Duran, Eric Clapton, Hall & Oates, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Mariah Carey, Maroon 5, Michael Jackson, Grace Jones…to name but a few.
This UK-based beat group, consisting of Brian Poole, Alan Blakely, Len 'Chip' Hawkes, Dave Munden and Rick West, formed in 1958 and first entered the UK Top 40 charts at #4 with a version of "Twist and Shout", originally sung by The Beatles in 1963. Later that year, they topped the charts with a cover of The Contours' USA million-seller "Do You Love Me". Before Poole’s departure a few years later, the band did several cover versions of artists including Roy Orbison with “Candy Man” and The Crickets with “Someone Someone” which made it to #2 in the UK Top 40 charts.
Five CD sets containing 100 classic tracks by legendary artists, one of the biggest selling and best remembered musical icons of all time.