Between 1976 and 1979, the Alan Parsons Project were a staple of FM radio here in the States. With the release of The Turn of A Friendly Card in 1980, the band became a hit-making juggernaut. An interesting proposition for…
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Jade Warrior – Wind Borne: The Island Albums 1974 – 1978
During their tenure with Island Records, Jade Warrior received critical plaudits while failing to garner album sales. This new box set makes the case for why that might have been. Progressive in the small “p” sense, this was a band…
View More Jade Warrior – Wind Borne: The Island Albums 1974 – 1978UFO – No Heavy Petting [Deluxe Expanded Edition]
At the start of 1976, UFO were a band on the way up. Since acquiring the services of the young guitar maestro Michael Schenker in June 1973, they had recorded two well received albums, Phenomenon and Force It, produced by…
View More UFO – No Heavy Petting [Deluxe Expanded Edition]thisOneness – The Story of thisOneness
Unless you are a long-time subscriber to Prog Line, a fantastic YouTube channel that posts full albums by obscure prog bands from times gone by, there’s a very good chance you’ve never heard of thisOneness, the Minnesota band who released…
View More thisOneness – The Story of thisOnenessIan Anderson – Plays The Orchestral Jethro Tull
This is the first time that this album has been released on vinyl, originally released in 2005 on CD and DVD as a live document of the concert played at Mannheim’s Rosengarten during 2004. This two LP set in black…
View More Ian Anderson – Plays The Orchestral Jethro TullMontrose – I Got The Fire: Complete Recordings 1973-1976
Montrose were formed in 1973 when hot shot American session guitarist Ronnie Montrose quit the Edgar Winter Group and teamed up with Sam Hagar (as he was then known) and drummer Denny Carmassi, who had been playing together in cover…
View More Montrose – I Got The Fire: Complete Recordings 1973-1976Van der Graaf Generator – Interference Patterns: The Recordings 2005-2016
When old, disbanded groups reform many decades after their heyday, it’s generally to sell a few concert tickets to cash in on nostalgia, and perhaps even record a studio album that’ll inevitably be terrible, not worthy of being considered alongside…
View More Van der Graaf Generator – Interference Patterns: The Recordings 2005-2016Babe Ruth – Darker Than Blue: The Harvest Years 1972-1975
Babe Ruth began life in 1972 as Shacklock, named after Alan Shacklock, the creative driving force behind the band. He was a gifted guitarist, composer and arranger who trained at the Royal Academy no less, and a young talent which…
View More Babe Ruth – Darker Than Blue: The Harvest Years 1972-1975Marillion – Holidays In Eden [Deluxe Edition]
Parlophone/Warner have now almost completed their run of deluxe set reissues from Marillion’s original eight-album run with EMI; Holidays In Eden is the seventh and Season’s End will complete the series when it is released in 2023. Each of these…
View More Marillion – Holidays In Eden [Deluxe Edition]Dio – Holy Diver: Remixed Super Deluxe Edition
Now then… the observant amongst you might notice that it would be something of a stretch to regard Dio’s 1983 debut album Holy Diver as a thing of progression. Fair enough, but I think I would be right in saying…
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