David Bowie : Nothing Has Changed (The Very Best of Bowie) (3 CD Version)

David Robert Jones 

( January 8th 1947 –  January 10th 2016)

 known as 

David Bowie, 

was an 

English singer,

 songwriter and actor. 

Regarded as among 

the most influential

 musicians of

 The 20th Century,

 Bowie received

 particular acclaim

 for his work in the 1970s. 

His career was marked by

 reinvention and visual presentation, 

and his music and stagecraft 

have had a 

great impact on 

popular music.

Bowie studied art,

 music and design 

before embarking 

on a music career

 in 1962. 

He released a string of 

unsuccessful singles 

with local bands 

and a 

self-titled solo album 

(1967) 

before achieving his

 first top-five entry 

on the UK singles chart 

with 

"Space Oddity" 

(1969). 

After a period of 

experimentation,

 he re-emerged

 in 1972 

during the 

glam rock era 

with the alter ego 

Ziggy Stardust. 

The single 

"Starman" 

and its album 

The Rise and Fall of 

Ziggy Stardust

 and the 

Spiders from Mars 

(1972) 

won him 

widespread popularity.

 In 1975, 

Bowie's style shifted towards 

a sound he characterised as

 "plastic soul",

 initially alienating 

many of his

 UK fans

 but garnering his

 first major US

 crossover success

 with the number-one single

 "Fame" 

(w/John Lennon) 

and the album

 Young Americans

 (1975).

 In 1976, 

Bowie starred in

 the cult film

 The Man Who Fell to Earth 

and released 

Station to Station. 

In 1977,

 he again changed direction

 with the

 electronic-inflected album

 Low,

 the first of three 

collaborations with 

Brian Eno 

that came to be known as

 the Berlin Trilogy.

 "Heroes" 

(1977)

 and

 Lodger

 (1979) 

followed; 

each album

 reached the

 UK top-five 

and received 

critical praise.

After uneven 

commercial success

 in the late 1970s, 

Bowie had three 

number-one hits:

 the 1980 single 

"Ashes to Ashes",

 its album 

Scary Monsters

 (and Super Creeps) 

and 

"Under Pressure"

 a 1981 collaboration

 with Queen

 He achieved his

 greatest commercial success

 in the 1980s

 with 

Let's Dance

 (1983).

 Between

 1988 and 1992, 

he fronted the

 hard rock band

 Tin Machine.

 Throughout the 

1990s and 2000s,

 Bowie continued to

 experiment with

 musical styles,

 including industrial 

and jungle. 

He also continued acting;

 his films included 

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

 (1983), 

Labyrinth

 (1986), 

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me 

(1992), 

Basquiat

 (1996), 

and 

The Prestige 

(2006). 

He retired from touring

 in 2004

 and his last

 live performance

 was at a 

charity event

 in 2006. 

He returned from a

 decade-long 

recording hiatus

 in 2013

 with

 The Next Day. 

His death in 2016 

came two days after

 the release

 of his final 

studio album, 

Blackstar.

Janis Joplin : The Pearl Sessions

FREEDOM IS JUST ANOTHER WORD

FOR NOTHIN' LEFT TO LOSE,

NOTHIN' DON'T MEAN NOTHIN'

HON, IF IT AIN'T FREE

Bob Weir : Heaven Help the Fool

 Robert Hall Weir

 (October 16, 1947 – January 10, 2026) 

was an 

American

 musician and songwriter

 best known as a 

founding member of

 The Grateful Dead. 

After the group

 disbanded in 1995, 

he performed with

The Other Ones, 

later known as

 the Dead, 

together with

 other former 

members of

 the Grateful Dead. 

Weir also founded 

and played in 

several other bands

 during and after

 his career with

 the Grateful Dead,

 including 

Kingfish, 

the Bob Weir Band, 

Bobby and the Midnites, 

Scaring the Children,

 RatDog, 

and

 Furthur, 

which he

 co-led with former 

Grateful Dead 

bassist 

Phil Lesh. 

The Doors : Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine (Expanded Edition)

 

THE OLD GET OLD

AND THE YOUNG 

GET STRONGER

MAY TAKE A WEEK

AND IT MAY TAKE LONGER

THEY GOT THE GUNS

BUT WE GOT THE NUMBERS

Budgie : An Ecstasy of Fumbling – The Definitive Anthology

 John Burke Shelley

  (April 10th,1950 – January 10th, 2022) 

was a 

Welsh musician, 

best known

 as the

 lead vocalist 

and bassist

 of the early 

heavy metal band 

Budgie

Musical Career

In 1967, 

Cardiff-born

 Shelley 

co-founded

 the band 

Hills Contemporary Grass 

with 

Tony Bourge 

on guitar

 and vocals

 and 

Ray Phillips 

on drums. 

The following year 

they changed

 their name to 

Budgie.

Shelley is 

often compared

 to Rush

 bassist/vocalist 

Geddy Lee, 

as they both share

 the position of 

bassist/vocalist

 in power 

trio bands,

 both have 

distinctive

 high-pitched 

singing voices, 

and during the

 mid- to late 1970s,

 they bore a 

striking resemblance

 to one another, 

with long, 

straight hair 

and large glasses. 

Both vocalists 

possessed a

 high tenor vocal range, 

but unlike Lee, 

who is a

 fingerstyle player, 

Shelley played bass

 with a pick.

 In addition to singing

 and playing bass

 for the group,

 Shelley also performed

 keyboards 

on Budgie's 

early albums,

 including the Mellotron on

 "Young Is a World" 

from the band's

 second album 

Squawk.

Budgie's 

November 2010 tour 

of Central Europe

 had to be cancelled 

as Shelley was 

hospitalised on

  November 9th

 in Wejherowo, Poland, 

with a 6 cm

 aortic aneurysm. 

After surgery, 

he returned to Britain

 for recovery, 

but no decision about

 the future of the band

 had been made. 

By the time of his death

 in 2022, 

Budgie were 

considered disbanded

 or on hiatus, 

having not performed 

or recorded since

 Shelley's hospitalisation.

Harry Nilsson : Sandman

...THEY SAY MONDAY'S CHILD

IS FULL OF GRACE

TUESDAY'S CHILD IS FAIR OF FACE

THURSDAY'S CHILD HAS FAR TO GO

AND IT'S NO WONDER

WHEN THE WEEK BECOMES A RAT RACE

YOU CAN BET,

WIN, SHOW OR PLACE

BUT NEVER BET ON THURSDAY

'CAUSE GOD'S NOT ON ITS CASE

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".