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The band’s first album of the 1970s, Sticky Fingers was the ninth British and 11th American studio album by The Rolling Stones. Released in April 1971,...
After releasing Tommy in mid-1969, The Who went on an extended world tour to promote it, and returned to England at year’s end with a desire...
At the start of 1971 Pink Floyd were somewhat at a crossroads, musically. Having experimented with various sounds and styles on their previous albums, they decided...
On 8th Nov 1971, Led Zeppelin released their fourth album. With no title printed on the album, and generally referred to as Four Symbols, The Fourth...
Given a preference, The Faces always chose to be onstage or in a pub (ideally on stage in a pub) rather than inside a studio. However,...
These days, perhaps, Machine Head’s stature has become somewhat tainted by the overbearing familiarity of Smoke On The Water. As well as being Deep Purple’s best-known...
First manager Andrew Loog Oldham said in the sleeve notes to the Stones’ first album: ‘The Rolling Stones are more than a group, they are a...
No-one in March 1973 could have imagined that an album released in that month would still be thrilling listeners decades later, but it’s true. Generally regarded...
Houses of the Holy was the first Led Zeppelin album not to be titled after the band and the first of the band’s albums to contain...
On 8th June in 1974, Wings started a seven-week run at No.1 on the UK album chart with Band On The Run. The album went on...
The recording of Queen II was very different from that of Queen’s debut album; they were allocated their own studio time in August of 1973 and,...
It’s arguable that Sheer Heart Attack, rather than it’s predecessor, Queen II, or 1975’s A Night At The Opera, was Queen’s truly seminal album. Whether you...
In 1974 Genesis were coming off the back of their first British Top 10 studio album, Selling England By The Pound, and they had even had...
Physical Graffiti became the group’s fourth US No.1 album. On its first day of release in the US, the album shipped a million copies – no...
Looking back on the making of Born To Run, its maker Bruce Springsteen had this to say about it: ‘Born To Run had the feeling of...
