Back To Back – Status Quo

‘Back to Back’ is the sixteenth studio album by English rock band Status Quo which was released in November 1983. For the first time in the group's history, it featured four singles namely the hugely popular Ol Rag Blues, which reached the highest position No. 9 followed by A Mess of Blues originally a hit for King of Rock and Roll Elvis Presley which docked at No. 15 on the charts, Marguerita Time which skyrocketed to No 3, and Going Down Town Tonight which reached No. 20 in a different, re-recorded version to the album version. The album entered the UK chart at its highest position of No. 9.

Sweet Freedom - Uriah Heep

Veteran British hard rock band Uriah Heep’s sixth studio album ‘Sweet Freedom’ was the first Uriah Heep album to be released by Warner Bros. Records in the U.S. ‘Sweet Freedom’ reached #33 in the U.S. Billboard charts and #18 in the UK. It was certified Gold by the RIAA on 5 March 1974.

Parade - Prince and the Revolution (Music from the Motion Picture 'Under the Cherry Moon')

‘Parade’ is the eighth studio album by Prince, the third (and final) to feature his backing band The Revolution, and is the soundtrack album to the 1986 film ‘Under the Cherry Moon’ directed by and starring Prince.

Seven and the Ragged Tiger - Duran Duran

Originally released in 1983, one year after their massive ‘Rio’ album, many thought that this album was a must have for every teenager who had listened and grooved to ‘Rio’. But the matter rest when you actually listened to the album that really didn’t have the material to take off.

Risqué – CHIC

Like its predecessor, ‘C'est Chic’, this 1979 LP gave the hottest band in disco a platinum album. The album 'Risque', features 6 songs and one of the most influential songs of the era, the #1 smash Good Times is hard to miss out. It's impossibly funky groove was borrowed by the Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight and was the clear inspiration for Queen's Another One Bites the Dust. In its long version here it looks like the beat would never stop. It’s over 40 years and it is still is as strong as ever. I really love this cut.

Duran Duran - Duran Duran

The debut album of the boys from Birmingham in the UK, made heads turn the moment this record was out. Everything about this album is great. It is a killer first album from a then, unknown band, who went on achieve massive success. But it was this album that kicked it all off.

Parikrama - Live At Mahindra Independence Rock 2022 – (Free School Street Records) (Import) - Rs. 2500/-

Over three decades after they were formed in 1991, Delhi rock band Parikrama continue to shine on the live circuit. This blogger last saw them at the Bandland gig in Bengaluru last December, and what a gig that was, coming before Deep Purple.

The Visitors – ABBA

Not everyone may know, but ‘The Visitors’, was their last album before ABBA separated. With years behind them, this album is several steps away from the "lighter" pop music they had recorded previously. The album is more complex and a mature effort.

The Album - ABBA

It was half a century ago on precisely 6th April 1974, that Swedish quartet ABBA triumphed at the 1974 Eurovision Contest with the peppy love song Waterloo. Telling the story of someone who "surrenders" to a lover, the song references Napoleon's surrender at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. To mark this great moment in history which took place in the English coastal city Brighton, England that year, there were various fan meet ups to mark the occasion on its 50th Anniversary early this month.

Oceans of Fantasy –Boney M (Polydor / Hansa)

Boney M was known for their super disco songs, and of course their ballads too, but disco was what cemented their popularity all over the world. After the huge success of Boney M's third album 'Nightflight To Venus' that spent 65 weeks on the UK charts, expectations were sky high to what their next album would bring.