Mccartney Live Glasgow

This is a stripped down version of The 7" Singles Box. The 7" Singles was designed as a collectable and was treated as such by its intended audience. Not long after its announcement, the wooden crate containing 80 vinyl 7" singles sold out its limited pressing of 3,000 units. Those who missed the boat – or were constrained by the high cost of admission – could enjoy the digital version, which trims a few duplicates and re-releases existing in the vinyl incarnation. Listening to the digital version of The 7" Singles is much easier than flipping sides on 80 different 45s, but the experience is much the same, as it's hard not to marvel at the breadth and scope of what McCartney achieved within the confines of a single for five different decades.

Paul McCartney retreated from the spotlight of the Beatles by recording his first solo album at his home studio, performing nearly all of the instruments himself. Appropriately, McCartney has an endearingly ragged, homemade quality that makes even its filler – and there is quite a bit of filler – rather ingratiating. Only a handful of songs rank as full-fledged McCartney classics, but those songs – the light folk-pop of "That Would Be Something," the sweet, gentle "Every Night," the ramshackle Beatles leftover "Teddy Boy," and the staggering "Maybe I'm Amazed" (not coincidentally the only rocker on the album) – are full of all the easy melodic charm that is McCartney's trademark…

EMERSON LAKE & PALMER (ELP) reformed for the first time since 1998 to headline the High Voltage Festival on Sunday July 25th 2010. 2010 marked the 40th anniversary of the creation of Emerson Lake and Palmer, the band that was formed from King Crimson, The Nice and Atomic Rooster. They became the first true prog-rock Super Group and defined an era…