Jim Croce : The Way We Used To Be (The Anthology)

 James Joseph Croce

  (January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973)

 was an American 

folk and rock

 singer-songwriter. 

Between

 1966 and 1973, 

He released

 five studio albums 

and numerous singles. 

During this period, 

Croce took a series of

 odd jobs

 to pay bills 

while he 

continued to write, 

record and 

perform concerts. 

After Croce formed 

a partnership 

with the songwriter

 and guitarist

 Maury Muehleisen

 in the early 1970s, 

his fortunes turned. 

Croce's breakthrough

 came in 1972, 

when his third album, 

You Don't Mess Around with Jim, 

produced three

 charting singles, 

including 

"Time in a Bottle", 

which reached No. 1 

after Croce died.

 The follow-up album 

Life and Times

 included the song

 "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", 

Croce's only 

No. 1 hit 

during his lifetime.

On September 20, 1973,

 at the height 

of his popularity 

and the day before

 the lead single

 to his fifth album, 

I Got a Name, 

was released, 

Croce,

 Muehleisen, 

and four others

 died in a plane crash.

 His music continued 

to chart throughout

 the 1970s

 following his death. 

Croce's widow 

and early

 songwriting partner,

 Ingrid, 

continued to write 

and record

 after his death. 

Their son, 

A. J. Croce,

 became a

 singer-songwriter

 in the 1990s.

Led Zeppelin : London, Royal Albert Hall 01/09/70

James Patrick Page 

(Born January,9 1944)

 is an English

 musician 

and producer 

who achieved 

international success

 as the guitarist 

and founder

 of the rock band

 Led Zeppelin

Page began his career 

as a

 studio session musician

 in London and,

 by the mid-1960s, 

was a 

notable session guitarist

 in Britain. 

He was a member of

 the Yardbirds

 from 1966 to 1968. 

When the Yardbirds 

broke up, 

he founded 

Led Zeppelin,

 which was

 active from 

1968 to 1980.

Following the death 

(1980) 

of

 Led Zeppelin

 drummer

 John Bonham,

 Page played with 

XYZ, 

the Firm, 

the Honeydrippers,

 Coverdale–Page,

 and 

Page and Plant. 

The Black Crowes ,

Page performed with

 many artists, 

both live 

and in

 studio recordings,

 and in a

 2007

 Led Zeppelin reunion

 that was released 

as the 2012

 concert film 

Celebration Day. 

Along with 

the Edge 

and

 Jack White, 

he participated in

 the 2008 documentary 

It Might Get Loud.

Page is considered 

to be

 one of the 

greatest and most

 influential guitarists

 of all time

 Rolling Stone magazine

 has described Page as

 "the pontiff of power riffing" 

and ranked him

 number three

 in their

 2015 list of the 

"100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time", 

behind 

Jimi Hendrix 

and

 Eric Clapton, 

and 3rd again 

in 2023 

behind 

Chuck Berry 

and

 Jimi Hendrix.

 In 2010, 

he was ranked

 number two 

in Gibson's list of

 "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time" 

and, in 2007, 

number four 

on 

Classic Rock's 

"100 Wildest Guitar Heroes".

 He was inducted

 into the

 Rock and Roll 

Hall of Fame twice:

 once as a member of

 the Yardbirds

 (1992) 

and once as

 a member of

 Led Zeppelin

 (1995).

Badfinger : Magic Christian Music (1991 Expanded Edition)

IF YOU WANT IT

HERE IT IS

COME AND GET IT

MAKE MAKE YOUR

 MIND UP FAST

IF YOU WANT IT 

ANYTIME

I CAN GIVE IT

The Doors : The Origins (compilation)

 Robert Alan Krieger

 (Born January 8, 1946)

 is an American

 guitarist 

and founding member 

of the rock band

 The Doors

 Krieger wrote 

or co-wrote

 many of

 the Doors' songs,

 including the hits 

"Light My Fire", 

"Love Me Two Times",

 "Touch Me", 

and

"Love Her Madly". 

David Bowie : Blackstar

Blackstar

 (stylised as ★)

 is the

 twenty-sixth

 and

 final studio album

 by the 

English musician

 David Bowie 

Released on 

 January 8th 2016, 

Bowie's 69th birthday, 

the album was

 recorded in secret

 in New York City 

with his longtime

 co-producer

 Tony Visconti

and a group of

 local jazz musicians: 

Donny McCaslin

 (saxophone),

 Jason Lindner

 (piano), 

Tim Lefebvre

 (bass)

 and 

Mark Guiliana 

(drums). 

Ben Monder

 and

 James Murphy 

contributed 

additional guitar 

and percussion,

 respectively. 

The album contains

 "Lazarus", 

from the

 2015 musical 

of the same name, 

and re-recorded

 versions of the 

2014 songs

 "Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)"

 and

 "'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore".

More experimental

 than its predecessor 

The Next Day

 (2013), 

Blackstar

 combines atmospheric 

art rock with

 various styles of jazz.

 Bowie took 

inspiration from artists

 including 

Kendrick Lamar 

and Death Grips, 

listening to them 

during the

 album's production. 

The album's lyrics 

feature themes of death, 

with many songs 

being told from

 the perspective

 of the dead or dying. 

The cover art, 

designed by

 Jonathan Barnbrook, 

features a large black star 

with five star segments 

at the bottom

 that spell out

 the word Bowie.

The album was preceded by

 the singles 

"Blackstar"

 and

 "Lazarus", 

both of which 

were supported by 

music videos.

 Two days after its release, 

Bowie died 

following a private 

18-month battle

 with liver cancer; 

Visconti described

 the album as a

 parting gift

 for his fans 

after his death. 

Upon release,

 the album was met 

with commercial success, 

topping charts in 

many countries, 

including the

 United Kingdom, 

following 

Bowie's death,

 and became

 his only album 

to top the 

Billboard 200

 in the United States.

 It was the 

fifth-best-selling album

 of the year worldwide.

Blackstar

 received widespread acclaim 

as Bowie's most 

musically challenging album

 in decades, 

with critics praising the music,

 themes and performances

 of the backing band.

 It received three 

Grammy Awards 

and the Brit Award 

for British Album

 of the Year

 in 2017.

 It was listed as one

 of the best albums 

of 2016

 and later of the 

2010s

 decade by

 numerous publications. 

The work was

 re-analysed 

following Bowie's death, 

with critics and fans 

reinterpreting its lyrics, 

title and artwork 

as hinting at

 the artist's demise.

 Blackstar 

has since been described by

 publications and commentators 

as one of Bowie's 

best albums,

 a perfect farewell

 to his fans

 and one of the

 best final albums ever. 

Bowie's Illness

Bowie recorded

 Blackstar

while suffering

 from liver cancer. 

He had been diagnosed

 in the summer of 2014 

and was undergoing 

chemotherapy treatments 

by the time the 

sessions began

 in January 2015. 

He kept the illness private, 

only discussing it

 when it affected his work; 

 Visconti did not learn of it 

until Bowie arrived 

at the studio immediately

 following a chemo session. 

Visconti recalled

 that despite his illness, 

Bowie was in 

high spirits throughout

 the sessions:

"He was so brave and courageous ... 

and his energy was

 still incredible

 for a man who had cancer. 

He never showed any fear. 

He was just all business 

about making the album."

The artwork for

 Blackstar 

was designed by 

Jonathan Barnbrook, 

who filled the same role on 

Heathen 

(2002), 

Reality 

(2003)

 and 

The Next Day. 

The cover depicts a

 five-pointed star: 

black on white

 for the CD edition 

and all-black

 with a cut-out star 

on the vinyl release,

 which revealed the grooves

 of the record beneath. 

Barnbrook explained that due 

to the vinyl revival,

 he "wanted to give it the feeling 

that it contained something 

quite threatening". 

On the vinyl release, 

with the LP removed, 

the black paper behind

 the cut-out reveals

 a hidden picture 

of a starfield 

when the foldout sleeve

 is held up to a light source. 

It took more than

 four months 

for fans to 

discover the effect. 

Both sleeves 

feature five star segments

 below the main star 

that form the word

 Bowie

 in stylised letters. 

The cover's star image

 is credited to NASA 

in the CD booklet. 

The sleeve was the only 

Bowie sleeve 

not to feature

 an image of

 the artist himself.

Originally intended for

 release on 

 October 30th 2015,

 Blackstar 

was released on 

 January 8th 2016, 

coinciding with

 Bowie's 69th birthday,

 through his ISO label, 

Columbia Records 

and Sony Music. 

Two days later on

  January 10th

Bowie died

 of liver cancer; 

his illness 

had not been

 revealed to the public 

until then.

 Promotion and marketing 

continued following his death.

 In February

, a series of sixteen

 15-second film clips, 

titled 

Unbound: 

A Blackstar InstaMiniSeries, 

were uploaded to

 Instagram and later

 YouTube.

 The clips were intended

 to provide the creative team's 

"own visual interpretations 

of the songs, 

with no limits or 

preconditions on

 [Bowie's] part". 

A third and final single,

 "I Can't Give Everything Away",

 was released

 posthumously on 

April 6th 

accompanied by an

 animated video 

created by Barnbrook.

TRACKLIST

Blackstar

'Tis a Pity She Was a Whore

Lazarus

Sue

(Or In a Season of Crime)

Girl Loves Me

Dollar Days

I Can't Give Everything Away

Blackstar 

(Reversed)

NEW LINK

Pink Floyd : A Saucerful of Secrets (Expanded Edition)

Late 1967/ Early 1968

DAVID GILMOUR

RECRUITED FOR

PINK FLOYD 

* December 1967

Nick Mason Invited 

Gilmour To Join

As A Second Guitarist 

To Help

With Live Shows,

As Syd Barrett's 

Health Declined

* January 1968

Gilmour Was Formally 

Accepted In

As The Fifth Member

With Performances Including

A French TV Show

Where He Played Barrett's Parts

* April 1968

Syd Barrett Was Officially Ousted,

And Gilmour Took Over Lead,

Guitar Parts and Vocals

Cementing His Role

In The Bands Future

Yes : Tales From Topographic Oceans (Deluxe Edition)

OPEN DOORS

WE FIND OUR WAY

WE LOOK, WE SEE, WE SMILE

SURELY DAYBREAKS 

CROSS OUR PATH

AND STAY

MAYBE   A WHIILE