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For the third and final time tonight let's have another look at  another classic album segment  and this time it's the debut self titled album by American singer Whitney Houston. It was released February 14th 1985 which had an slow commercial response but in the summer of 1985 became more popular and would eventually go to number 1 in the USA pop charts in March 1986 as well as number 1 in the USA R&B charts, Australia, Canada, Norway, South Africa and Sweden, number 2 in the UK, Switzerland, Japan, Germany and Finland, number 3 in Austria and New Zealand, number 11 in Italy and number 13 in France  and it has sold over 22 million copies as well as one of the best selling albums worldwide  and also one of the best selling debut albums of all time. It was produced by Jermaine Jackson, Michael Masser, Kashif and Narada Michael Walden and  from the album had the hit singles Thinking About You, You Give Good Love, All At Once, Saving All My Love For You which wo...

For the second time tonight let's have an look at the 1980 album The Jazz Singer by the Legendary American singer Neil Diamond. This album was also the soundtrack album from the movie of the same name that he starred with Laurence Olivier and Lucie Arnaz  which it was the 4th remake of the movie as the original movie starred Al Jolson in 1927. The album was recorded at Arch Angel Studio and the Record Plant(Los Angeles), Sunset Sound Recorders and Cherokee Studios (Hollywood) and Downbreaker Studio (San Fernando) all in California and it was released November 10th 1980 which went to number 3 in the USA, number 3 UK, number 10 Australia and number 24 in New Zealand  as well as going platinum in the USA and UK, double platinum in Canada and South Africa and Gold in Hong Kong. From the album it had 3 hit singles Love On The Rocks, Hello Again and America and it was produced by Bob Gaudio of the Four Seasons legendary American singing group. The movie was an critical and commercia...

For the classic album segment let's have an look at the 1980 album Dark Room by legendary Australian rock band the Angels. It was recorded at Alberts, EMI and Paradise Studios in Sydney and Westlake Audio in Los Angeles and it was released on June 16th 1980 which went to number 6 in Australia and number 37 in New Zealand.  From the album it had the 3 hit singles No Secrets written by Graham Bidstrup and Doc Neeson, Poor Boy and Face The Day and it was produced by John and Rick Brewster and Graham Bidstrup who produced the first track No Secrets. The rest of the tracks on the album written by Rick and John Brewster and Doc Neeson  including  one the 3 of them wrote with Graham Bidstrup and Mark Opitz was the Engineer along with Dave Maret (EMI) and Dave Cafe(Paradise). It's an great album which holds up so well to the day and it still rocks with great songs which has stood the test of time  as next month will be 40 years  when it came out. It's 7 years since Chri...

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This is the autobiography of British blues musician John Mayall and in this book he talks about his upbringing in Manchester, starting collecting Jazz and Blues Records at an young age, served in the National Service in Korea, played in the Dreamland Boys, studying at the Manchester College Of Art, played in The Powerhouse Four and Blues Syndicate before eventually forming The Bluesbreakers which would be an launching pad for musicians like Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Peter Green, Jack Bruce, Hughie Flint, Mick Taylor and others, moving to America and others. It's FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with AWESOME and Very Entertaining stories  about his journey from manchester, Korea, England and the World as well as the start of the British Blues Scene in the 60's. John is still performing although at the moment not able to because of the Corona Virus and I am sure he will be back on the road soon once the situation dies down. This is an must for Blues music fans  and I am giving ...

This is the new CD by the legendary Australian singing group as this is the first Volume  of Hidden Treasures the Rarities Collection and it has the 7 live tracks that they performed at the Myer Music Bowl in Melbourne 1967 which they performed in front of 200,000 people as well as jingles for 3AK as well as coca cola as well as songs they did with Frankie Davidson as well as the live show at the Festival Hall in Melbourne in 1965 and others. It's FANTASTIC, BRILLIANT and SUPERB with great songs  which some of those had never been released before including those 7 tracks at the Myer Music Bowl show and others that were released on the 5-CD set that came out in 1995 after their ARIA Hall of Fame induction  and it's so good to see other Seekers stuff that hasn't been released until now. This is an must for Seekers fans and I give it 5 stars as it's in the shops now so do yourselves an favour and BUY IT which you will love it. Let's Get the Seekers in the charts again....

this is the second book by American singer-songwriter Tori Amos and in this book she talks about her starting performing as an teenager, her mother's passing in 2019, being in New York during September 11th 2001, performing in Russia in 2014 and others. It's impressive and very entertaining with impressive and entertaining stories and an enjoyable read as well which I enjoyed reading it.   I give it 4 stars as it's in the shops now so do yourselves an favour and BUY IT which you will be impressed.