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“Paris Pavilion, November 29, 1979,” began David Margereson’s liner note inside the gatefold sleeve. “This tour has been a hard one – 108 shows so...

It’s a statistical travesty that Patsy Cline never had so much as a Top 30 single in the UK during her all-too-short lifetime. Indeed, the...

Mary J. Blige had every reason for celebrating on December 17, 1994, as she reached the landmark of her second R&B No.1 album with My Life....

Bon Jovi’s third album Slippery When Wet had already been to No.1 and turned platinum, but November 29, 1986 found the band sitting pretty at...

As ABBA drew close to completing the Super Trouper album at Polar Studios in 1980, there was only one thing lacking. That was a song called…“Super Trouper.”...

The career of multi-octave sonic experimentalist Captain Beefheart was never governed by commercial success. But it’s typically paradoxical that the album in his catalog with...