Rare Earth Greatest

"The Greatest Show on Earth" is Airbag's third album, following on from their highly acclaimed albums "Identity" and "All Rights Removed". Six atmospheric songs are given, where the title track is divided in two partitions though. Heavy outbursts are rare, the production mirrors a relaxed flow overall. While the musicianship is flawless and Asle Tostrup provides a rather perfect singing voice, they are using a proven formula - consisting of dominant Pink Floyd and Porcupine Tree ingredients, plus a proper pinch of melancholy.

The Italian Italo Disco music project JOE YELLOW was founded in 1983. Already in the same year "Lover To Lover" became their first megahit. Still in 1983 Domenico Ricchini, aka Joe Yellow, was awarded as "Best Composer in Europe" by the TV show "Formel Eins". Other hits by Joe Yellow are e.g. Love At First , I'm Your Lover and Runner . As usual, our series "Greatest Hits & Remixes" delivers the hits as a 7" versions on CD1 and the extended and rare versions on CD2.

Perhaps more of an advocate for contemporary music than any other major pianist essentially rooted in traditional repertory, Maurizio Pollini was born in Milan, Italy. He learned quickly and was given piano lessons from Carlo Lonati from an early age, making his public debut at the age of nine. Enrolling in the Milan Conservatory, he studied with Carlo Vidusso. In 1957 he performed a recital of Chopin etudes in Milan that drew favorable attention from the national Italian press. He won a second prize in the 1958 Geneva Competition. Embarking on further studies with Arturo Benedetto Michelangeli, he won first prize in the Warsaw Chopin competition in 1960…

Sounds of the Seventies was a 38-volume series issued by Time-Life during the late 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, spotlighting pop music of the 1970s. Much like Time-Life's other series chronicling popular music, volumes in the "Sounds of the Seventies" series covered a specific time period, including individual years in some volumes, and different parts of the decade (for instance, the early 1970s) in others; in addition, some volumes covered specific trends, such as music popular on album-oriented rock stations on the FM band. Each volume was issued on either compact disc, cassette or (with volumes issued prior to 1991) vinyl record.