Tokyo Nights

Tokyo Tapes is the first live album by German hard rock band Scorpions and their final album released by RCA Records…

UFO’s 13th studio album, 1992’s High Stakes & Dangerous Men, was their first record in ten years to feature bassist and founder member Pete Way.

If you played in a hard rock band during the '70s, what were you likely to be doing circa 1978? Why, recording a live album, of course. Preferably a double vinyl set, and in Japan to boot. The Scorpions were no exception, and in fact, their Tokyo Tapes were captured only days after Cheap Trick's At Budokan in April 1978. Though hardly as inspired or successful, the Tokyo Tapes set still serves as an ideal greatest-hits collection of the Scorpions' first decade…

Agitation Free were invited to play three gigs in Shibuya/Tokio some years ago, February 2007 exactly. It was a passionate Japanese fan who sponsored their mini tour. This also connoted the first band reunion since 1974, at least when speaking of the line-up consisting of Lutz 'Lüül' Ulbrich, Michael Hoenig, Burghard Rausch, Gustl Lütjens and Michael 'Fame' Günther. So this should be regarded as a sensation for sure, so much the more in Japan. The band has a relatively big reputation there, Hoenig and Lüül both are immortalized in the prog rock section of the Tokyo Tower Wax museum for example…

One is the Bee Gees' eighteenth studio album (sixteenth worldwide), released in April 1989 (August 1989 in the United States). After the European success of their previous album, E.S.P., the Gibb brothers began to work on the One album in early 1988. In March, their brother Andy suddenly died and the Bee Gees took a break until November when they returned to the studio to complete the album, but this time they shifted to Mayfair Studios in London, making One their first album since Mr. Natural to be recorded partly or fully in the British capital, though "Ordinary Lives" was started before Andy Gibb's death. The style of One was more melancholic than E.S.P., and heavily influenced by the loss of their brother. The album was dedicated to Andy and the song "Wish You Were Here" was written as a tribute to him.

Due to the lack of attention to all releases and news that every day that is falling above our heads, it’s impossible to hear and know every album and every artist. Then, when the listener meets the band, it’s an instant love case. That’s what many will feel when listening to “I Belong”, the second album of JIMI ANDERSON GROUP. It’s a massive and accessible form of AOR/Melodic Rock in its classic way, near of what everyone knows from names as JOURNEY and KANSAS, but with some features near works from names as TOTO, SUPERTRAMP and other names from the same genre (the mix between elegant musical outfits with Pop approach that was usual during the first half of the 80’s)…