Rolling Stones Box Set

While fronting Roxy Music in the 1970s and early '80s, Bryan Ferry devised a blueprint for art rock, and as a solo performer, he brilliantly updated the parameters of the pop songbook. Although Ferry's solo career has included several excellent self-penned tracks, he's best-known for his adventurous interpretations of songs from the rock and pop canon. Combining a studied, wry, lounge-singer persona with a genuine passion for everything from Motown and Bob Dylan to the Great American Songbook of the 1920s and '30s, Ferry's performances add a post-modern gloss to pop standards. Following rumors of a reunion, Roxy Music re-formed in 2001 and did several tours during the ensuing decade.

While fronting Roxy Music in the 1970s and early '80s, Bryan Ferry devised a blueprint for art rock, and as a solo performer, he brilliantly updated the parameters of the pop songbook. Although Ferry's solo career has included several excellent self-penned tracks, he's best-known for his adventurous interpretations of songs from the rock and pop canon. Combining a studied, wry, lounge-singer persona with a genuine passion for everything from Motown and Bob Dylan to the Great American Songbook of the 1920s and '30s, Ferry's performances add a post-modern gloss to pop standards. Following rumors of a reunion, Roxy Music re-formed in 2001 and did several tours during the ensuing decade.

2016 three CD set. Surprisingly never before released, NOW '70s delves into pre-NOW compilation history. All the '70s greats like Dolly Parton, Elton John, Marvin Gaye, ELO, Bill Withers, Abba, Hot Chocolate, John Lennon, The Jackson 5, Queen and Donna Summer grace this definitive collection of one of the most musically influential decades. This album guarantees feel-good-nostalgia for anyone that lived through the '70s.

On the 1961 single "Go Go Go," a side that went nowhere on the charts, Chuck Berry sang that he was "Mixing Ahmad Jamal in my 'Johnny B. Goode'/Sneaking Erroll Garner in my 'Sweet Sixteen'/Now they tell me Stan Kenton is cutting 'Maybellene'" – as always, Chuck is stretching the truth to fit his story.

Complete Clapton is a greatest hits collection by British rock musician Eric Clapton, released on 9 October 2007 to accompany Clapton's official autobiography. An exclusive edition sold through Barnes & Noble bookstores in the United States included a bonus compact disc with four additional tracks. As with The Rolling Stones' Forty Licks, each disc has been compiled by different record companies: disc one, virtually identical to The Cream of Clapton by Polydor, and disc two by Warner Bros. Records. Clapton helped to promote the album by being interviewed by Matt Lauer on the Today Show in 2007. The compilation debuted at number 14 on the U.S. Billboard 200. It also peaked at number two on the British albums chart, compiled by the Official Charts Company.

These 3 CDs Are Packed With Some Of The Greatest Songs From The Late 1950s And Early 1960s As R&B Was Morphing Into Soul Music And Making Stars Of The Likes Of Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson And So Many More, This Music Was To Influence The Beatles, Rolling Stones And Other Chart Toppers Across The Atlantic.

3CD box set spotlighting the pioneering movement that brought the world The Beatles but has been overshadowed by their success. Merseybeat was a brief phenomenon but hugely influential throughout the world. It blew up nationwide in 1963 before Merseybeat groups spearheaded the ‘British Invasion’ of the US charts. This box celebrates the scene on the first two discs, then on disc three presents some of the brilliant mod, freakbeat, psych and Mersey soul music that came from Liverpool when the Merseybeat bubble burst and press and public looked elsewhere. Inspired by US rock ‘n’ roll, R&B and Motown and the D.I.Y. attitude of skiffle, the Liverpool beat groups rocked clubs such as their hometown’s The Cavern and the Star-Club in Hamburg and larger ‘Big Beat’ sessions at The Tower Ballroom in New Brighton. The Searchers and Gerry And The Pacemakers achieved success on the world stage, others never made it out of their local area, made a couple of 45s or even demos and disappeared.

The late LESLIE WEST was one of the great, BIG characters of American rock and roll. His passing in December, 2020, at the age of seventy-five from cardiac arrest, drew to a close a career that embraced vertiginous highs and deep troughs. Throughout it all, though, West remained garrulous, loud and unafraid to voice his opinion. West is featured on two releases from the Voiceprint division of North London indie Floating World Records – the first, entitled ‘Five Originals’, features five full length albums on three CDs, and includes his album ‘The Great Fatsby’, which is unique insofar as it features ‘High Roller’, a very rare co-write with West and the ‘Glimmer Twins’ themselves - Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones. Jagger even puts in a shift on rhythm guitar, proving that he is equally as talented at the ‘Keef chord’ as the Human Riff himself. The Leslie West Band also featured West’s long-time drumming foil, Corky Laing, as well as British guitarist Mick Jones, who would soon quit to form the multi-million selling Foreigner.

It's accepted wisdom among a faction of Dylan devotees that causing controversy, stirring emotions, and deliberately ruffling feathers—as happened when he went electric—secretly makes their hero very happy. Nothing (so far) in his career though has caused the ruckus that his late '70s conversion to Christianity and subsequent gospel albums incited. For the second time in his career, he heard boos from a live audience as he stubbornly performed his new evangelical music on the tumultuous 1979-80 Gospel tour. Although it contained hints that perhaps a secular revival was at hand, the last religious album, 1981's Shot of Love was savaged by the press and public alike. With the uproar in full swing, Dylan retreated from public view to refresh and regroup. In the spring of 1983, Dylan, who'd by then veered away from religion back to secular subjects, began tracking at the Power Station in New York City with a band that included former Rolling Stones guitar player Mick Taylor, singer Clydie King, and a rhythm section of reggae demigods Robbie Shakespeare (bass) and Sly Dunbar (drums). The resulting album, Infidels, and its closely related follow-up, 1985's Empire Burlesque, marked a welcome return to relevance and success.