When The Stars Went Out

Few bands in the history of rock & roll were riddled with as many contradictions as the Who. All four members had wildly different personalities, as their notoriously intense live performances demonstrated. The group was a whirlwind of activity, as the wild Keith Moon fell over his drum kit and Pete Townshend leaped into the air with his guitar, spinning his right hand in exaggerated windmills. Vocalist Roger Daltrey strutted across the stage with a thuggish menace, as bassist John Entwistle stood silent, functioning as the eye of the hurricane.

In the late 1950s, the Doo Wop era began in a small subway arcade shop located beneath the Walgreen's Drug Store at Broadway and 42nd Street in New York City. Jerry Greene, a young teenager from Brooklyn, would travel to Times Square in search of records he heard on the Alan Freed radio show. One of his favorite stops was a costume jewelry store that strangely enough, also sold records - twenty for a dollar.

This is an ambitious two-disk set comprising interesting performances of GENESIS material by mostly unknown groups and individual artists (except perhaps for GALAHAD and a couple of other professional musicians). While not every track works perfectly, most are interesting because rare are the ones so faithful to the originals that nothing new is added to them…

This admittedly pricey - but by all means mandatory - Grammy Award-winning box set is the final word on the "songbooks" recorded by Ella Fitzgerald between 1956 and 1964. The audio contents have been completely remastered and each title has been expanded - wherever possible - to include previously unissued material. In terms of packaging, the producers went to extreme lengths to create exact reproductions of all the vintage LP jacket artwork. Even going so far as to precisely miniaturize the entire hardbound text The Gershwins: Words Upon Music that accompanied their 1959 collection as well as the booklet that came with the Ellington anthology…

Follow-up volumes appeared in 1993 and 1996, extending the time period to 1979 and with additional songs from the 1972-76 period, available on cassette or CD (ALL 25 volumes were issued in both formats). Each volume has twelve songs. Despite the greater capacity of compact discs, the running time of each of the volumes is no longer than the limit of vinyl records in the 1970s, from 38 to 45 minutes long.

DVD collection of hit videos by one of Australia's most successful bands. Although they toiled away Down Under for a few years, their 'overnight success' didn't begin worldwide until their third album Shabooh Shoobah (1982). For the next 15 years, INXS continued to release hit albums and remained stadium fillers up until vocalist Michael Hutchence's untimely death in 1997. 16 tracks including 'New Sensation', 'Original Sin', 'Never Tear Us Apart', 'Devil Inside', 'Need You Tonight' and many more…

DVD collection of hit videos by one of Australia's most successful bands. Although they toiled away Down Under for a few years, their 'overnight success' didn't begin worldwide until their third album Shabooh Shoobah (1982). For the next 15 years, INXS continued to release hit albums and remained stadium fillers up until vocalist Michael Hutchence's untimely death in 1997. 16 tracks including 'New Sensation', 'Original Sin', 'Never Tear Us Apart', 'Devil Inside', 'Need You Tonight' and many more…