Wild Boys of The Road

Also premiering on Friday is the Disney+ original documentary The Beach Boys directed by Frank Marshall & Thom Zimny about the legendary band that revolutionized pop music, and the iconic sound they created that personified the California dream. Capitol/UMe will release a soundtrack album featuring the songs from the movie on May 24. Check back on this page for the full album details and to learn more about the documentary, which traces the band from humble family beginnings and features new interviews with The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston, David Marks & others and which will be available to stream exclusively on Disney+.

Released in conjunction with the silver screen dramatization of the Runaways’ saga, Hip-O Select’s The Mercury Albums Anthology rounds up the group’s four albums - 1976’s The Runaways, plus Live in Japan, Queens of Noise, and Waitin’ for the Night, all released in 1977– in a slick two-disc set. Anybody won over to the Runaways via the charms or Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning will find this to be much too much – really, they’ll be satiated by a quick download of “Cherry Bomb” – as this is intended for connoisseurs of sleaze and those under the impression that the female foursome were pioneers not at all under the skeevy thumb of Kim Fowley. Both groups may find what’s contained on Mercury Albums Anthology somewhat underwhelming: the Runaways plodded as much as the plundered, hammering out three-chord riffs that had more to do with frizzy-haired metal than any kind of proto-punk. Live, they had a modicum of energy, as evidenced by Live in Japan, but they wound up being highly polished and packaged in the studio, with Fowley steering them ever so slightly toward sticky, disposable bubblegum. Joan Jett eventually wound up digging in her heels, asserting control on Waitin’ for the Night, but by then, the band was straining under Fowley’s direction, and the end was near. All this is, of course, apparent on this de facto complete recordings – they knocked out another record after leaving Mercury – but the lasting impression of this double-disc set is that the Runaways’ myth is always better than their music.

A collection of hit tracks that wooed and wowed the charts during a specific and exciting year in Rock and Pop history. The phrase Top Of The Pops was not only a long-running music television show in the UK, but also a term that meant that a release was a certified hit!

2009 UK five CD set containing a quintet of albums from the British rockers: 'All The Young Dudes' (1972), 'Mott' (1973), 'The Hoople' (1974), 'Drive On' (1975) and 'Shouting & Pointing' (1976).

'The Lost Album' project was born from the idea of gathering for the first time all the Beatles unreleased compositions.
Also relevant variations of known Beatles compositions, improvs, jams, and cover versions performed by the group
that were never included in any studio album or single. Many of these tracks come from demos, home recordings, rehearsals, etc, so the original quality is low. In this album we try to improve the audio quality as much as possible, recovering audio drops, fixing technical problems, speed correction, recording failures and so on. Software tools have been used to clean, remaster and enhance the tracks, without ever losing the fidelity to their originals. Short and unfinished songs were sewn into each other, with soft transitions, resulting in a more consistent track. Overdubs and collages were all extracted from original Beatles material, from their period of activity (1958 to 1969). And the Bus makes his bonus ride… Bruno Ribeiro & The Producers © 2019 - UK - Not For Sale!