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Japanese division of Wea Music puts out this live CD by German melodic rock combo Fair Warning, a band that rose from the ashes of Zeno. The gig included on this disc was recorded at Club Cita in Kawasaki/Tokyo, Japan on April 18, 1993. From the start Fair Warning had a bigger following In Japan than in their home country and Europe, and this CD underlines this once more. Excellent recording. Check out the truly amazing vocals.

"Early Warnings: '92~'95" - Japanese Exclusive Coupling collects songs from the band's first two albums as well as some live material. It features 16 tracks of ultra melodic hard rock, and is the perfect album for anyone unfamiliar with the band's work.

"Fair Warning" is the debut studio album released by the hard rock band Fair Warning. Released at a time when melodic rock was suffering from consequent drops in sales, this self titled debut album established "Fair Warning" as major force in 90s melodic rock with particular success in Europe and Japan.

Tattoo You is the 16th British and 18th American studio album by the Rolling Stones, released in 1981. The follow-up to Emotional Rescue (1980), the album is mostly composed of studio outtakes recorded during the 1970s, and contains one of the band's most well-known songs, "Start Me Up", which hit number two on the United States's Billboard singles charts.

"Of all David Bowie's many distinctive personae, none have done more to lodge this most ingenious of British artists in the world's consciousness than his 1972 amalgam of the alien visitor and Christ-like rock star: Ziggy Stardust. Cheap glamour, spacemen and ambiguous sexuality surface throughout the loosely conceptualised collection that is The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. If its premise sounds faintly ludicrous, then inspired and dramatic songs such as "Starman" and "Five Years" dispel all doubts about Bowie's genius, and the theatrically tragic "Rock 'n' Roll Suicide" brings the album and it's fictional protagonist to a close. As a cultural and musical signpost, Ziggy Stardust points simultaneously backwards to early rock & roll and forward to the simpler, tougher inclinations of late-1970s punk and New Wave rock. As one of the defining rock albums of the 20th century, its influence is immeasurable."

Three-quarters of Sade's back-up band make their album debut under the moniker Sweetback (as in Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 trend-setting film). But whereas the svelte chanteuse makes music that suggests upper-crust, non-smoking jazz clubs, Sweetback's music is more "underground" in tone…