The mention of the name Greg Lake will immediately takes your thoughts back to his work with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, the band he formed with keyboard maestro Keith Emerson, and powerhouse drummer, Carl Palmer, with whom he recorded nine studio albums between 1970 (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) and 1994 (In The Hot Seat), as well as 1986’s Emerson, Lake & Powell with drummer Cozy Powell, a period which also saw him release his massive Christmas hit single, ‘I Believe In Father Christmas’. Besides that, and even before ELP, Lake had also supplied bass and vocals for Robert Fripp’s progressive rock behemoth King Crimson on its genre defining debut album In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969) as well as supplying vocals on its follow up…
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In 2004, Fairport Convention founder member, Judy Dyble emerged from a period of musical inactivity with the album ‘Enchanted Gardens’ which was a delightful collection of songs which were fitting for a new millennium, all with an immersive ambience that defied classification. This album was followed in 2005 by ‘Spindle’, another fine work which included a cover version of Pink Floyd’s ‘See Emily Play’ and featured guest appearances by Robert Fripp and former Hawkwind violinist Simon House.
78 live performances on three CDs, 75 on CD for the frist time, 25 previously unissued in the US, and 20 more prevoiusly unissued anywhere.
It’s a blessing that a band with such a relatively short career (and terribly tragic ending) has an official live album to its catalog of recordings.
…At seventy five years old, 
After the explosion of punk rock in the U.K., the underground split off in many directions including synth pop, dance punk, post-punk, new romantic, and many others. Most groups, no matter the style they played, were looking to experiment or make a statement, often political, and generally treated the pop charts like a curse to be avoided. Around the time that the 1970s turned to the ’80s, there were a number of groups and journalists who decided the time was ripe to remake pop music, not ignore it, and to storm the charts, not disdain them. Chief among the writers was Paul Morley in the NME and his thoughts helped direct many bands to set aside the gray abrasiveness of their music in favor of something shiny and technicolor that wasn’t built for student bedsits, but for…
Peter Gabriel and band recorded live in the 
In 1974, Mike Oldfield followed up his hit 1973 debut full-length Tubular Bells with the chart-topping 
Legendary Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd has released “Celebrating 50 Years – Live At The Ryman” – a live album and DVD capturing Lynyrd Skynyrd’s historic 50th anniversary concert at Nashville’s legendary venue in 2022. This special release is significant as it includes the final performance of founding member Gary Rossington, who passed away the following year.
The Bluebells’ 
…contains singles, demos as well as a BBC session and three live shows from the era. Compiled in conjunction with Fall expert Conway Patton.
Black Antlers comes with less of the mythos that attaches itself to other 
…features a remastered version of the original 1975 mix, a new unearth ‘extended’ stereo remix, plus disc of outtakes and rarities.
On April 2, 1994, Bruce Springsteen scored his biggest ever UK singles chart hit, when ‘Streets of Philadelphia’ climbed to Number 2. In all, it spent five weeks in the Top 5 and a further two in the Top 10. Written specifically for Jonathan Demme’s landmark Aids movie Philadelphia, this shattering monologue from a dying man also went Top 10 in the US Billboard Hot 100, and proceeded to win four Grammy awards – including Song of the Year. It had already won the 1994 Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Four unique top-flight European jazz pianists, each with limitless freedom of expression. Limitless joy too for the audience in the completely full main hall of the Philharmonie Berlin. But perhaps there is also something even more im-portant here: music’s unique power to unite people.