Imagine 200+ guys locked in a Vegas ballroom. Then at one point, mysteriously almost a third of them gets out of their chairs. practically stampede to the back of the room. pull out their credit cards. and pre-order a program worth at least $3000. Incredibly they did this WITHOUT being pitched. Without being “sold”. How was this possible, you wonder? No, I didn’t trick them. I didn’t hypnotize them either. Over 50 fortunate guys bought an at the time, unreleased program called Power Influence. You can use Power Influence with anything and anyone.
Falling halfway between musical primitivism and art rock ambition, Roxy Music's eponymous debut remains a startling redefinition of rock's boundaries. Simultaneously embracing kitschy glamour and avant-pop, Roxy Music shimmers with seductive style and pulsates with disturbing synthetic textures…
Slippery When Wet wasn't just a breakthrough album for Bon Jovi; it was a breakthrough for hair metal in general, marking the point where the genre officially entered the mainstream. Released in 1986, it presented a streamlined combination of pop, hard rock, and metal that appealed to everyone – especially girls, whom traditional heavy metal often ignored. Slippery When Wet was more indebted to pop than metal, though, and the band made no attempt to hide its commercial ambition, even hiring an outside songwriter to co-write two of the album's biggest singles. The trick paid off as Slippery When Wet became the best-selling album of 1987, beating out contenders like Appetite for Destruction, The Joshua Tree, and Michael Jackson's Bad.