Neil Diamond-Hot August Night (1972)

This legendary singer-songwriter has always been characterized by an unusual creative prowess and a solemn voice with a career as spectacular as it is unique, with more than one hundred million records sold throughout his career, he is considered one of the greats of rock music.
In 1972 Neil Diamond already had recorded after himself eight spectacular albums, considered the best of his career with songs like "Sweet Caroline", "Holly Holy", "Brother´s Love Traveling Salvation Show", "Until it's time for you to go ", " Cracklin Rose ", or "Song Sung Blue", most of these songs and many others would appear in the superb direct double "Hot August Night" published in 1972, during the tour of his album "Moods" and that would mean his farewell to the MCA Records label, to later sign with the Columbia Records label, for the record figure at that time of five million dollars.

Levon Helm-Dirt Farmer (2007)

Levon Helm is quite a legend in the United States, drummer of the mythical The Band, as well as an actor and one of the greatest percussionists in American folk and country and a patriarch of American roots music.
In 2007 when he was partially recovered from cancer he published his eighth work "Dirt Farmer" where he opened his musical horizon introducing more electric elements with influences from blues, gospel music and even airs that emanate from a city as melomaniac as New Orleans. Levon's voice at the time accused his illness but nevertheless it was perfectly adapted to the new compositions of this work with predominance of versions of The Band, Muddy Waters, Randy Newman, Staples Singers, with some of their own.
A superb record of folk, country and sounds from the deep America.

The Ozark Mountain Daredevils-Men From Earth (1976)

With an exquisite sound and a wise mix of country, rock and pop, perfectly balanced, in a subtle, harmonious and delicate way, and at the same time sophisticated, they would lead The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, to be considered the Steely Dan of country and a hard Contractor to the Eagles.
With a series of albums of a beauty out of the ordinary, and it is that when this band set out to compose a ballad and halftime or intimate, placid and evocative songs (all their albums are full of them), they leave behind the best brands obtained by bands like The Eagles, America, Poco or Jackson Browne. A statement of this caliber may seem gratuitous, pure exaggeration, but it is not. His vocal play causes amazement, it is perfect; his skill and instrumental finesse is to take off his hat; their talent as arrangers, simply portentous.
In 1976 they would publish their fourth album "Men From Earth" that would have the success that it had reaped in its first three works and where the exquisite "You Know Like I Know" and the classic "Homemade Wine" stood out.

The Allman Brothers Band-Brothers and Sisters (1973)

After suffering the loss of her virtuous guitarist Duane Allman in that fateful accident in 1971, the so-called forerunner of southern rock embarked on a new adventure entitled "Brothers And Sisters", which we can consider her as her particular creative resurgence and one of her most relevant works.
It was released in 1973, the time when the Allman Brothers faced the arduous task of molding their first album without the presence of that rock and roll legend Duane Allman, a former teammate and co-founder of the group. And they would come out triumphant, fortunately they would see the light at the end of the tunnel and they left us this authentic musical gem for posterity. It includes two of the most famous songs of the band, one of their hymns, "Ramblin´man", and the instrumental "Jessica", which has some extraordinary jams and improvisations, others with a certain bloody air like "Southbound", the intensity of the We will feel the art of blues with "Jelly Jelly", the splendid keyboards of "Wasted Words", and "Come and Go Blues", to finish with the peculiar country touches of "Pony boy".
But misfortune and tragedy haunted the Allman Brothers again, as bassist Berry Oakley died in another car accident during the recording of this album. But the band overcame all these adversities, and "Brothers And Sisters" was the proof they needed, giving us this special and significant work.
Once the production of this album ended, marked by irresistible melodies, and being an anthological work of each and every one of the components of this unforgettable formation, "Brothers And Sisters", it would become one of its biggest sales successes , clearing all kinds of doubts and realizing that the Allman Brothers will always have one of the first places in the Olympics of rock and roll.

Average White Band-AWB (1974)

It was the year 1973 when a former component of Oblivion Express, Brian Auger's band decided to join other musicians, all passionate about soul and funk, to form a sextet they would call Average White Band, a somewhat humorous name for being all white and practicing eminently black music.

This musician was drummer Robbie Mcintosh, who together with guitarist Hamish Stuart, bassist Onnie McIntyre, and saxophonists Roger Ball and Malcolm Molly Duncan thus began a career that would soon bring them great successes on both sides of the Atlantic.

This Scottish group would choose for their presentation, the return to the stage of Eric Clapton after his tumultuous attics of the latter with drugs, acting as opening act for the legendary guitarist.

And soon after, their first album "Show Your Hand" (1973) would be published under the MCA label, which despite not entering the charts, confirmed the group's rise with a style that fused British rhythm & blues with soul.

A year later the group gets a contract with Atlantic Records, in part due to the mediation of Bruce McCaskill, manager of Eric Clapton at the time, who also directs them from now on.

"Average White Band" (1974), produced by Arif Mardin (responsible for the success of the great soul artists of the Atlantic) the second album of the group, would be the definitive accolade and a large commercial boom, managing to climb to first place in USA and No. 6 in the UK.

In this album the group showed a solid rock base fused with soul, blues and even pop elements, a style that was starting to have thousands of followers around the world thanks to fashion groups such as Sly Family Stone, Temptations or Kool and the Gang among other contemporaries.

The album contained great hits like "Pick up the pieces", "Nothing You can do" or "You got it".

But the misfortune would be fattened with the group shortly after, since that same year McIntosh would pass away due to an overdose of heroin.

But the group will go ahead and recruit another ex-Oblivion Express, Steve Ferrone with whom they publish "Cut the Cake" (1974) who, without reaching the success of the previous album, manage to stay at the top of the ranking with several hits such as "School boy Crush" or "If I Ever Lose This Heaven".

"Soul Searchin" (1976) would be the last great album of the band, which contained the hit "Queen of my Soul" and that would initiate the decline of the group, publishing works of less commercial impact, some of them of good invoice but far from their first albums.

Iron Butterfly-In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (1968)

Founded in the midst of fever, flower power and effervescent acid Iron Butterfly have gone down in history for having composed one of the most legendary songs in rock history such as "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".
Originally from San Diego, shortly after its foundation they moved to Los Angeles, where they began to compose what would later become the repertoire of their first album "Heavy" published in 1967.
In this first album, the band shows a style full of atmospheres that run between psychedelic and progressive and excellent sounds.
After multiple problems with the Warner label, the band breaks up completely except for their keyboard player Doug Ingle who soon recruits new musicians to continue without delay and enter the studio for a new recording.
"Heavy" was a resounding success despite the general rampage, so the label left Doug freely choosing new musicians and producers for a new album.
Shortly after the new members arrive; Ron Bushy as drums, Lee Dorman as bassist and guitarist Erik Brann.
In this new album Iron Butterfly they would be lost in the vastness of the psychotropic cosmos. Perhaps they were considering solving an arithmetic problem. They searched for the perfect riff among thousands of alphanumeric combinations and hit it, by chance or not, we will never know.
A classic album, steeped in psychedelia from start to finish. Thanks to his central hit, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”, the song of the same name and the most successful of his career, he remains alive in the memory of rock.
This was the first platinum record in history, it was released in 1968 by the Atlantic Records label and contains 6 songs. Inside the album we find on his A-side with a whole display of psychedelia and incessant guitar playing, reflected in cuts like "Most Anything You Want", "Flowers and Beads", "My Mirage" or "Termination".
However, the culminating moment comes with “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”, a star song that occupies the entire B-side of the vinyl with more than 17 minutes duration and which closes a legendary album.
An album that after fifty years since its publication continues to be one of the most successful in history with more than 30 million copies sold.

Ian Hunter-Welcome To The Club (1980)

"Welcome To The Club" was the first live album recorded by Ian Hunter alone and already out of the band Mott The Hoople, which he had abandoned in 1974.
This live double was recorded at The Roxy in West Hollywood, in November 1979, on the tour to promote the album "You’s Never Alone with a Schizophrenic", his fifth album so far.
His band included former David Bowie and Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ronson, and his flowing guitar solos are one of the main reasons for the popularity of this album, in addition to drummer Eric Parker, keyboard player Tommy Mandel or bassist Martin. Briley among other musicians.
"Welcome To The Club" is a much more subtle and less visceral live performance than "Mott the Hoople Live" released in 1974, here Ian Hunter allows the band the space necessary to develop.
It also includes four new songs recorded live in the studio on the last side of the album.
A live show where the classics "All the Young Dudes", "Just Another Night ", "Once Bitten Twice Shy" or "Walking with Mountain / Rock´n´roll Queen" are not missing, which alternate with some versions by other artists such as Shadows "FBI" or "Laugh at me" by singer Sonny Bono, best known for having belonged to the duo Sonny & Cher.

Passport-Ataraxia (1978)

Passport are one of the most recognized jazz rock bands that contributed with some of the best albums in the genre. Led by saxophonist Klaus Doldinger, in 1971 he formed this spectacular band together with several German musicians, among whom were drummer Curt Cress, bassist Wolfgang Schmid and keyboard player Kristian Schultze.
After getting a contract with Atlantic Records they recorded a series of great albums highly appreciated by jazz-rock fans such as "Passport" (71), "Second Passport" (72), "Looking Thru" (73), "Cross- Collateral" (75), "Infinity Machine"(76), "Iguacu"(77), "Ataraxia" (78), "Garden of Eden"(79) or "Ocean Liner"(1980).
Ataraxia would be his tenth album and one of the most acclaimed of his career, for the recording of this work Doldinger would recruit a series of additional South American musicians to give an ethnic flavor to the final sound of the album.
This album contains a series of great compositions like the intro "Ataraxia part 1 and part 2" with a synth introduction that gives way to an exquisite sax played sublime by Doldinger.
Other songs like the cinematic "Sky Blue" or the addictive "Mandrake", "Reng Ding Deng Dong" or "Loco-Motive" leave us with an exquisite album of great jazz fusion.

Max Middleton & Robert Ahwai-Dick Morrissey & Jim Mullen-Another Sleeper & Cape Wrath (1979)

"Another Sleeper" and "Cape Wrath" are two fantastic jazz funk albums released in 1979 seventies by the progressive label Harvest, a subsidiary of Emi-Odeon.
Signed by musicians Max Middleton, Robert Ahwai, Dick Morrissey, and Jim Mullen.
Although for the vast majority of connoisseurs the language of funk-jazz is exclusive to North American musicians such as George Benson, Bob James or The Crusaders, something that on the other hand is not entirely true, we cannot forget that in Britain at the end From the 70s there was also a thriving jazz-funk scene, which was led by bands like Shakatak and Level 42.
This is one of the best albums of the genre made in Great Britain, with a charming and romantic sound of West Coast sound, although with a unique British sensibility, on much of the music of "Another Sleeper", particularly in the fluid rhythms of Robert Ahwai "Dance by the Light of the Moon" and Max Middleton's "Partial Eclipse / Total Madness", where the Fender Rhodes piano and lush string arrangements combine with a wonderful effect. "Another Sleeper" is associated with "Cape Wrath", the second album, by Morrissey & Mullen, which became one of the UK's most successful jazz-funk groups in the 1980s. Cape Wrath was also recorded for EMI's record label Harvest and featured many of the musicians who had appeared on "Another Sleeper," including Max Middleton and Robert Ahwai, which helped give a nice consistency of feel and style to both albums.
Along with the original compositions of the tenor saxophonist Dick Morrissey; "Return to Tooting Broadway" and guitarist Jim Mullen's "Cape Wrath" or "Night Song" also featured soul versions such as Bill Withers' "Lovely Day" or the jazzy "Soul Eyes" by Mal Waldron.
These works showed that, at best, British jazz-funk was easily equal to American jazz and in fact had its own identity and sound.

Al Di Meola-Elegant Gypsy (1977)

Right after the release of the Return to Forever album "Romantic Warrior" (1976), Al Di Meola left the band to start his own solo career and that same year he recorded the album "Land of the Midnight Sun".
A year later, the virtuoso guitarist published his second full-length album entitled "Elegant Gypsy" where he continued to show his great power to the six strings surrounding himself for this recording of a cast of great musicians.
Among the invited musicians were Jan Hammer, Lenny White, Steve Gadd or Paco de Lucía, it is precisely the latter who puts his guitar to play the song "Mediterranean Sundance" with Meola, with a wonderful flamenco touch.
The influence of the Return to Forever is heard in the initial "Flight Over Rio", with a superb work by Jan Hammer on keyboards and Anthony Jackson on bass.
Also notable is the energetic "Race With Devil on Spanish Highway", without a doubt one of the great compositions in Al Di Meola's career.
Elegant Gypsy is one of the classic jazz rock albums, which would end up with Al Di Meola rising.

Dire Straits-Communiqué (1979)

In 1979 Dire Straits released their second album "Communique", which was the logical continuation of their first album, however here the band took a risk by being more diverse and eclectic, endowing the sound with other instruments that were not used in the debut album, how to incorporate keyboards in some songs.
With a sensational start to "Once Upon A Time in The West" where they move away in a sense from the influences of the characteristic style, while with "Lady Writer" they try to follow in the footsteps of "Sultans of Swing" in a failed way.
Mark Knopfler shines with subtle compositions like "Where Do You Think You're Going?" and "News" showing its most intimate side.
Instead the spirit of J.J. Cale is present in songs like "Portobello Belle" or "Follow Me Home".
However, both the criticism and the sales of this album were much lower than its debut, mainly due to the early success of that album and the little time it took to republish new material, so it was too big a burden for the band.

Gentle Giant-Playing The Fool (1977)

"Playing the Fool" is a live double by the progressive rock band Gentle Giant and it may not be as well known as other great live records from the 70s and although it was not widely accepted when it was published, it is among the best records of the time, for the production and the good work of the band live.
Recorded during the "Interview" album tour in late 1976, it is a great sample of what this band were capable of performing on stage.
The theme that opens the album and the first album is a combination of "Just The Same / Proclamation", belonging to the albums "Free Hand" and "The Power & The Glory" respectively. The coordination is perfect, as usual in Gentle Giant, and the virtuosity of the musicians is even more evident since it is a live recording.
The bucolic and medieval "On Reflection", the epic "Excerpts", or the sweet "Funny Ways" with that jazzy touch give way to the second album
where stand out the hard rock "Experience", the rocker "So sincere", the funny "Sweet Georgia Brown" or the medley of "Peel The Paint / I Lost my Head" which is the final touch with one of his best compositions of his entire career.
"Playing The Fool" is one of the most enjoyable albums of the time, shadowed by other live shows by renowned bands, which however does not detract from any of them at all.

The Alan Parsons Project-Pyramid (1978)

The third album by The Alan Parsons Project: "Pyramid" was the most conscientiously sharpening deepening of the lavish line drawn by the debut album "Tales of Mystery and Imagination", going hand in hand with an extension of the multivalent coloring that marked the album " I Robot ".
Parsons and Woolfson, without going completely into repeating the previous formula, here manage to reaffirm and solidify their genuine proposal: sophisticated and elegant music, endowed with enough ingenuity in arrangements that, without really departing from conventional melodic patterns, create an air of good careful delicacy.
The repertoire of "Pyramid" flows naturally continuously, despite the fact that there is no strict link in the lyrical sense between the songs: 'Voyager' starts the album in the manner of a pompous reflective prelude, then gives rise to 'What goes up ... 'a meditation on the futility of earthly things, to then conclude with' The eagle will rise again ', a beautiful melancholic song to power that has the motivation to resurface, very much in a Renaissance tone,' One more river 'repeats the idea of ​​resurgence, this time with a more frontal affirmation, in a pop-rock key with slight R'n'B colors. But before the positive side of things takes ideological hold on the matter, comes 'Can't Take It With You', as a counterpart; here comes the idea of ​​futility,
Side B of the vinyl began with the powerful instrumental 'In the lap of the gods', one of the most ambitious and bombastic compositions of the project. With the last echoes of the metals and the eardrums, almost immediately a stroke of the gong begins 'Pyramania', a frivolous and fun theme that works as a suitable contrast resource against the majestic sound display of the previous theme, next is 'Hyper-gamma-spaces' that continues the logic of working with multiple records within the confines of a single album: to finish the beautiful ballad 'Shadow of a lonely man'.
"Pyramid" is indispensable as a recommendation in any large progressive collection.

Mahavishnu Orchestra-The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)

The importance of the Mahavishnu Orchestra and its musical legacy were essential for the development and diversity within the Jazz Rock genre. In an age where the term fusion was still not well understood and much less accepted, John McLaughlin managed to bring together a legion of experienced musicians within the Jazz genre eager to create new sounds and break limiting barriers just as one of its most important mentors, Miles Davis years ago with his album "Bitches Brew" in which McLaughlin took part as the first guitar.
With Billy Cobham on drums, Jerry Goodman on violin, Jan Hammer on keyboards and Rick Laird on bass, this groundbreaking guitarist and songwriter made sure to form the most effective vehicle with which to express his new musical trend and, above all, leave the hobbyist audience Rock with a lasting influence and an inexhaustible source of energy.
This debut album is a living example of this energy and influenced each of the guitarists on the British music scene of the moment as well as the world.
With a superb beginning with the theme "A Lotus on Irish Streams" where the band build a pseudo melodic landscape with strongly ethnic nuances and adorned with flamenco techniques of classical guitar and a violin that more than a string instrument resembles a Celtic lament of the 9th century, followed by jam "Vital Transformation", the blues and repetitive "The Dance of Maya" or the jazz rock anthology "Awakening".
The chemistry between each musician in this work is incredibly prestigious and it is what makes it an unforgettable experience and has been a source of inspiration for generations of subsequent musicians.

Focus-Moving Waves (1971)

Focus's second album "Moving Waves" embodies an undoubted symptom that the band had achieved its own musical maturity, after an attractive but still immature debut such as "In and Out of Focus" and a series of comings and goings that occurred within the band between the late 1970s and early 1971. With the addition of guitarist Jan Akkerman and the entry of drummer Pierre Van Der Linden, Focus channeled his musical direction.
From here on, the works of Van Leer and Akkerman benefited enormously from the peculiar vibration and creative instinct that Van Der Linden showed with his percussive style.
The opening theme of this masterful work began with 'Hocus Pocus' an iconic rock fire prodigy combined with humorous self-confidence: it is not surprising that it is one of Focus's best-known pieces, the solemn 'Le Clocharde', the contained sadness 'Janis' and the ethereal atmosphere of the eponymous theme directly show us the most formally elegant facet of Focus's musical vision.
This same irresistible elegance is reiterated in ‘Focus 2’, a beautiful jazz theme, and the best is in the immense suite "Eruption", the same one that occupied all 23 minutes of the B side of the vinyl. Originated from a Van Leer idea, the ensemble performs wonderfully through successive sections and subsections. This suite closes in a grandiose and monumental way a truly superb album, “Moving Waves” is one of the definitive masterpieces of the progressive tradition.

Jade Warrior-Last Autumn's Dream (1972)

Jade Warrior is a progressive rock legend, a cult band that far from making a progressive commercial, has strived to offer complex, original music, full of experimentation and its own concept, generally influenced by cultures steeped in an ancient tradition.
The ideas, the concept by which this group is born music is not always very well appreciated. This is probably due to the fact that the compositions haunt musical elements that move away from a naturally progressive structure, however intelligent in its natural concept. For this reason "Last Autumn's Dream", with all its recognition of oriental aesthetics, became one of the indispensable albums of progressive rock.
"Last Autumn's Dream" is an album that includes a lot of concept, a lot of experimentation, a touch of fusion, sounds inspired by the Japanese tradition, folk, jazz, progressive rock as it should be: growing, offering, experimenting, creating first-line music that Any listener and fan of progressive rock greatly appreciates it.

B.B.King-Completely Well (1969)

B.B. King, would achieve in 1969 one of his greatest successes in his career with the fabulous album "Completely Well", King considered the king of the blues, he would get throughout his career many awards and prizes such as winning 15 Grammy Awards or the medal national arts among many others and be among the greatest guitarists in history.
Choosing among B.B. King's extensive discography is not an easy task and we opted for this, since it was an essential time for the blues in terms of changes and because a hit that almost everyone knows is included here: "The Thrill is Gone ", considered by analysts as the greatest success of his musical career, composed by pianist and singer Roy Hawkins in 1951.
The album contains nine songs and is produced by Bill Szymczyk, a young sound engineer who would later promote groups such as The Eagles or the J. Geils Band.
With the help of Szymczyk, BB King took a turn in his career, notably improving his sound, giving it more color and bringing it closer to other genres, such as soul or funky, but without giving up pure blues, as in "No Good "," What Happened "or the cut that opens the album" So Excited ".
In "Crying Won't Help You Now / You're Mean" two songs together, King accompanied by another guitar are used in depth in an extensive jam and the rest of the band is totally involved sounding spectacular.
In other fundamental themes such as "Confessin´The Blues" or "Key To My kingdom" the peculiar style of B.B.King, with good sections of winds, pianos and wrapped by his powerful voice, of a man born in the Mississippi, is notably appreciated.
The song "The Thrill is Gone", mentioned above, is curiously located in the last position of the B-side and was one of the classics that ranked one of the greatest in the history of blues and was constantly covered by other artists .
B.B King is an extraordinary artist, who all by the remote forties already knew how to capture the essence of blues masters like Elmore James, T-Bone Walker or Lowell Fulson.
Over the years, he became a unique bluesman on his own merits, possessing an unmistakable voice, special guitarist and excellent composer, who made his mythical Gibson ES-335 guitar world famous since the sixties worldwide. the one called "Lucille".

Albert King-Live At Montreux (1977)

Albert King is one of the greatest bluesmen in history, he was essential in the sixties and seventies, participating in all kinds of concerts and festivals, collaborating with groups like The Doors and with artists of the stature of the legendary Texan bluesman Stevie Ray Vaughan or Gary Moore, providing a unique and peculiar style.
Albert King was left-handed and played his Gibson Flying-V guitar upside down like Jimi Hendrix, also with the strings, which had double merit, because it produced a distinctive and unmistakable sound and once it reached the ears of the public it became unforgettable .
In 1977 one of his best live shows "Live at Montreux" was published, beginning with "Watermelon Man", composed by Herbie Hancock, a theme that he used regularly as the beginning of his concerts, given his passion for jazz. It continues with others that have a certain funky air, continues to shed classics, such as a plethoric "Blues at Sunrise" or the excellent "Stormy Monday", most of which is long in duration and shows an undeniable virtuosity.
The climax comes when interpreting the well-known "As the years go passing by" Rory Gallagher, who is splendid in the first solo of the song, joins to finish this fabulous live with the wonderful "I´ll play the blues for you".

Highwayman-Highwayman (1985)

Initially formed as a single-disc project, this supergroup became one of the leading country bands of the turn of the century; Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson are individual legends in the United States, as they well know each other. They put together and released an amazing yet classic album, mythical songs like "The last cowboy song", an old western song by Ed Bruce, "Deportee" by Woody Guthrie, "Jim, I wore tie today" by Eddy Arnold, "Big River" by Johnny Cash or "Against the wind" by Bob Seger, without mentioning the theme "Highwayman" composed by the four musicians are part of this gem, in short, a really impressive country, folk and rock'n album Roll.

Pacific, Gas & Electric-Get It On (1968)

Pacific, Gas & Electric Blues Band was formed in 1967 and is considered one of the cult bands in the blues rock scene.
"Get in On" was his debut album with a basically blues rock repertoire with many approaches to the great classics, where there is room for many elements of soul and gospel music, which later and in later records would be increased with the addition of trumpets , saxophones and other typical elements of black music.
"Get It On" is one of those great albums that is still buried for most of the general public, an authentic forgotten masterpiece, an essential record in any discography for all lovers of blues rock.

Soft Machine-Third (1970)

This magnificent Soft Machine album is marked by the strong tension between the psychedelic side of the band, represented by Robert Wyatt, and the jazzy cares of bassist Hugh Hooper and keyboard player Mike Ratledge. It is precisely the struggle of these egos that makes this album a disturbing display of jazz-rock and psychedelia. In addition, by this time Soft Machine had a long history behind them and they had lost two of its founding members, the charismatic Kevin Ayers and Daevid Allen.

 "Third" was recorded live in Birmingham in 1970, with a solid base of wind players, with Elton Dean on sax, Lyn Dobson on flute and soprano sax, Nick Evans on trombone, Jimmy Hastings on flute and Violinist Rab Spall, noted for his raw and experimental sound, in a sound and compositional search on songs like 'Facelift', 'Slightly All The Time' and 'Out Bloody-Rageous', plus Wyatt's beautiful composition,' Moon in June ', undoubtedly the closest to the Soft Machine of their first two albums.

"Third" represented the transitional album, where they abandon the song format for long compositions in which they mix classical and electric instruments and in which they investigate open structures that allow improvisation,  Ratledge´s keyboard solos, Elton Dean's sax, Hooper's distorted bass, and Wyatt's processed vocals are essential features of this outstanding album.

Traffic-Traffic (1968)

Once he had left the Spencer Davis Group, Steve Winwood would join Dave Mason, Jim Capaldi, and Chris Wood in 1967 to form a band they called Traffic, which would soon become one of the most intimate gangs in the late 1960s. 60s and early 70s, in which a good part of its members treasured a recognized music reputation.
After a first album titled "Mr Fantasy" (1967) where they did not follow the dominant theme of the psychedelic era and which is dominated by the soul, jazz and blues influence of Steve Winwood.
A year later they published "Traffic" which contained several of their most celebrated songs such as "You Can All Join in", "Pearly Queen" "Forty Thousand Headman", or the classic "Feelin Alright", which together with others of a psychedelic nature and folk influences, marked a progression where the instrumental skill and composition talent of the entire band stood out.

Ramones-It's Alive (1979)

Produced by Ed Stasium, "It´s Alive" is one of those live shows recorded in a single day, which perfectly captures what the Ramones represented on stage. With a repertoire of 28 songs, where the majority does not exceed two minutes, they review all the classics of the band at that time.
The influences of Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Mc5 are evident throughout the length and breadth of the album but sifted by that characteristic punk rock sound of the Ramones. Few pauses between song and song, energy in abundance and large doses of fun is what these guys from New York did. The rest of the story is well known. The following years they record dozens of discs, some better and others mediocre but all with the imprint of the group until their final disappearance in the late nineties.

Steve Hillage-Live Herald (1978)

A member of Gong at his most solid stage between 1972 and 1975, Steve Hillage would debut solo with the album "Fish Rising" in 1975, combining Gong's conceptual magic with the solid skills of avant-garde guitarist and musician.
After several very interesting works such as "L" (1976) with the production of Todd Rundgren and recorded with the members of Utopia, Hillage begins a new horizon with more intense themes and a greater creative concentration.
After the great "Motivation Radio" (1977) and "Green" (1978) the direct double "Live Herald" was released, when the guitarist's career was at its best.
With a repertoire based primarily on his first three albums "Fish rising", "L" (appearing almost entirely) and "Motivation Radio",
the sound quality is excellent throughout the album, however Hillage adds a tougher touch to many of the compositions, giving a distinctive touch to the final work, Steve's guitar work sounds spectacular, supported all the time by synthesized tones of string synthesizers with a full band of rapport. Arguably, this album represents the peak moment of one of the great rock guitarists.

Rick Wakeman-Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (1974)

In 1973 Rick Wakeman had recorded with his band Yes, the album "Tales from Topographic Oceans" to shortly leave the group and focus on his solo projects.
So in 1974 Wakeman released his second album and without a doubt his absolute masterpiece "Journey To The Centre of the Earth", based on the work of Jules Verne.
This album was recorded live in January 1974 at the Royal Festival Hall in London in collaboration with the London Symphony and the English Chamber Choir.
The album would be a success and over the years it has sold more than 14 million albums, making it one of the best-selling symphonic rock albums in history.
A recording that is divided into four parts joined by a narrator who tells the story of the trip.
The first part entitled "The Journey" is an epic overture that culminates with some splendid Wakeman minimoog sounds, continuing with "Recollection" where Wakeman draws dreamlike landscapes and blows the imagination of listeners.
Side B opens with "The Battle" with an exciting orchestrated beginning recalling the leitmotif of the work to quickly move on to a great instrumental display by the keyboard player.
"The Forest" is the culmination that ends this magnificent work in an apotheosis way in the purest symphonic style.
A progressive rock masterpiece and one of the most important records in rock history.

Steely Dan-A Decade of Steely Dan (1985)

Steely Dan was always considered an unclassifiable band, that moved in the imprecise terrains that separate or unite (depending on how you look at it) pop, rock and jazz.
Already in the seventies, criticism differed if they were considered a sophisticated rock band or a band with new ways of understanding jazz rock, but away from the proposals of the pioneers in that field such as Chicago or Blood, Sweat & Tears.
Although its main nucleus was always formed by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, all their records included session musicians or renowned guest musicians; Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton, Jeff Porcaro, Jeff Baxter, Tom Scott, Randy Brecker, Wayne Shorter, Patti Austin or Michael McDonald are just some of them.
The magnificent trajectory of this band is concentrated in seven albums from their debut "Can't Buy a Thrill" (1972) to "Gaucho" (1980), all of them with a notable presence in the North American hit charts.
In addition to innumerable reissues and compilations that have been published throughout these last decades, the band would meet in 2000 to publish several more albums "Two Against Nature" that same year and "Everything Must Go" in 2003.
In 1985 the MCA Records would publish Decade a fantastic compilation where he realizes the virtuosity of the band and the finesse of his style.
Here you will find a large part of his unbeatable compositions from the classic "FM (No Static at All)", to the well-known "Do It Again", through the great "Deacon Blues", "Hey Nineteen", "Peg" or " Kid Charlemagne ".

Bob Marley & The Wailers-Babylon By Bus (1978)

In 1978 Bob Marley and The Wailers had achieved great success with his album "Kaya", and on his subsequent tour several concerts were recorded from which the material for this live double entitled "Babylon By Bus" was extracted, which was published at the end of 1978.
With overwhelming performance and sound, this live contains a selection of its best repertoire, performed in a more aggressive and more rock, something that ultimately would benefit and would like rock fans.
Very psychedelic guitars and basses for what was usually used for traditional reggae, with much more importance to improvised blues keyboards achieved an excellent result.
From the initial "Positive Vibrations" to the final climax with "Jammin", through classics such as "Stir it Up", "Concrete Jungle", "Is This Love" or "Exodus", make this magnificent live show a gem of the reggae and rock in general.

Joe Cocker-Mad Dogs And Englishmen (1970)

This is one of the most perfect live fusion between rock and soul. Joe Cocker, the "Voice of Woodstock", joined an unforgettable tour of the United States in the spring of 1970 to a group of sensational musicians, especially Leon Russell as guitarist and pianist, the drummer Jim Keltner and the section of regular wind from the Rolling Stones, Bobby Keys and Jim Price, plus an exceptional choir of soul voices. This album, which includes the performances of Cocker with his band on March 27 and 28, 1970 at the Fillmore East in New York, within the historic American tour they did that spring, the selection of versions chosen to reel off live they are pure essence, feeling and rock spirit. Cocker does not hesitate to turn the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Woman" into a mere soul in which, when adding his blues style when singing, they make this one of the most inspired versions ever recorded of this classic of the Stones of '69. The same thing happens with his interpretations of "Cry Me A River" by Arthur Hamilton, or "Bird On The Wire" by Leonard Cohen, for not mentioning Otis Redding's excellent piece "I´ve Been Loving You Too Long "and his" Feelin´ All Right ",  a song that from now on would never fall from the British singer's repertoire.
Subsequent reissues included in addition to the tracks included on the original vinyl, other highlights including a jam-session featuring the Stones' "Under My Thumb" and bonus versions of "Let It Be" and "With A Little Help From My Friends "by the Beatles, the same that I consecrate as one of the artists who created the Woodstock 69 legend.
An authentic gem of live music.

Bad Company-Bad Company (1974)

An ex-Mott The Hoople, Mick Ralphs, guitar, an ex-King Crimson, the bassist Boz Burrell, and two ex-Free, the drummer Simon Kirke and the vocalist Paul Rodgers formed Bad Company that would start his new career on the right foot. and there is nothing strange in having this splendid gathering of talents. The four members released their first album, a powerful and stupendous album titled simply "Bad Company" (1974) released on the Led Zeppelin-owned label, "Swan Song".
The album quickly became a great bombshell, which was helped by the single "Can't get enough of your love" (number one on some charts), a muscular song of powerful rock, which was followed by songs like accurate "Rock Steady", the faint blues "Ready For Love", the soul" Don´t Let me down ", the halftime "Bad Company" or the blues "The way i Choose".
This was one of the most remembered debuts of those times and the best Bad Company album along with the next "Straight Shooter"

Bob Dylan-Blonde on Blonde (1966)

In 1965 it would be a crucial year for Bob Dylan as he would electrify his sound after admiring the expansive possibilities of rock and pop music in folk with the Byrds' version of his "Mr. Tambourine man" and for the superb adaptation of the Animals with the theme "House of the rising sun", being cruelly rejected by the most staunch fans of folk, who booed him when he appeared at the Newport Folk Festival with his electric guitar and the group The Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Folk-rock was definitely adopted by Dylan on his album "Bringing it all back home", a key piece of his discography with songs impregnated with imagery and eclectic themes with surreal connotations in pieces like "Subterranean Homesick blues", "Maggie 'farm "," She belongs to me "," Love minus zero "," Bob Dylan's 115th dream "," Gates of Eden "," It's alright, ma, I'm only bleeding "," It's all over now, baby blue " or "Mr. Tambourine man" herself.
The transition to the electric field and embrace of more blues, R&B and rock strokes fully materialized in two later and essential works of his extensive career: "Highway 61 revisited" (1965) and "Blonde on blonde" (1966), two works teachers who extended their lyrical and musical talent with classics like "Like a Rolling Stone" (their most commercially successful single, reaching number 2), "Rainy day women # 12 & 35", "Visions of Johanna" , "I want you" or "Just like a woman", songs (with the single "Positively 4th Street") in which people like Michael Bloomfield, Harvey Brooks, Al Kooper and the members of The Band collaborated, a Canadian formation known until that moment as The Hawks (at that time they were the support band of Ronnie Hawkins) that would become his live support group and with whom he would tour the United Kingdom in 1966, being accused of being a traitor again to the folk cause for his British followers.

Pat Benatar-Precious Time (1981)

Pat Benatar is one of the great female rock singers, with a brilliant voice, her overflowing performance and high-quality compositions that made her one of the style's female references and an undisputed pioneer.

In addition, Pat Benatar has one of the greatest milestones in history, winning the Grammy Awards for the best female singer four years in a row and she was nominated on four other occasions, something unusual.

Already with his first album "In the heat of the Night" (1979) he achieved the platinum record, which, however, would be too small when the following year with his second album "Crimes of Passions" (1980), he would multiply it by five driven for its theme "Treat Me Right".

But it would be with her third job when Pat Benatar would be known worldwide thanks to this "Precious Time", and two of the themes it contained; "Promises in the Dark" and "Fire and Ice" both climbed the charts to the top and took her to win her second Grammy award.

Rare Bird-As Your Mind Flies By (1970)

Along with The Nice, Hawkwind, Genesis or Van Der Graaf Generator, "Rare Bird" was one of the first bands to sign with Charisma Records, the progressive-sounding record label that producer Tony Stratton-Smith had recently founded in 1969.
"Rare Bird" would emerge from the ashes of another band called "Lunch", and its most notable peculiarity was the total absence of string instruments, made up of two keyboard players, bass and drums, thus obtaining a very intense and dark sound in which According to their leader Graham Field, the guitars had no place.
A year after the release of their first album the band would release their album "As You Mind Flies By", their swan song and another progressive masterpiece.
If, with the first album, it reaches commercial levels that exceed the company itself, which had originally published a few thousand copies and which are insufficient when observing the high demand for the album, it sold a whopping more than one million copies, in this "As your mind files by" confirm the group as one of the most important in the progressive rock scene of the time and the stylistic continuity of the group.
Here the group showed even more eclecticism with the medieval "Down on the floor" or the epic "Flight", a marvelous theme that has nothing to envy to the larger suites of more leading groups.

America-America´s Greatest Hits History (1975)

When "America" band appeared on the music scene, their peers Crosby, Stills Nash and Young had ended their short-lived adventure, so folk rock fans with great vocal melodies found perfect substitutes for them.
Formed in England by children of American military in the United Kingdom; Dan Peek and Gerry Beckley who, together with the British Dewey Bunnell, knew of having studied at the same school and shared a common hobby, folk music and rock.
As early as 1970 all three were part of a group called Daze, where the trio sang and played the guitars.
In 1972 the scout Jeff Baxter discovers them and offers them a contract with the Warner Brothers and at the beginning of 1971 his first album is released generically titled "America" ​​which has hardly any commercial repercussion.
Shortly after they re-enter the studio to record a series of additional songs like "A Horse With No Name", which soon after being published is placed at the top of the charts.
From here the album is reissued with this single and it also becomes a massive success, including the singles "I Need You", "Sandman", "Riverside" or "Three Roses" that soon become the favorites of His Followers.
This first album together with the following "Homecoming" (1972), "Hat Trick" (1972), "Holiday" (1974), or "Hearts"(1975), catapult them as one of the best folk rock bands of the time with a Stupendous exercise of melodic vocals and guitars in a style halfway between the CSNY and The Eagles.
In 1975, taking advantage of the band's success, Warner published "History: America's Greatest Hits", which contained all of the band's eleven hit singles to date; "A Horse With No Name", "I Need You", "Ventura Highway", "Tim Man", "Lonely People" or "Sister Golden Hair" ... plus an edited version of the song "Sandman," positioning this anthological selection to the first positions of the North American lists and managing to certify multi platinum sales.

Rainbow-On Stage (1977)

Five long years had passed since Deep Purple's "Made In Japan" had been released, considered the greatest hard rock live show in history, and Ritchie Blackmore, the guitar ax of that mythical and great album, would leave us another fantastic double album, this time with his band Rainbow.
Excerpted from recordings pertaining to the "Rising World Tour" tour, the band performed live under a 12-meter-high rainbow that stretched grandly across the stage.
With a band that in addition to Blackmore, included Ronnie James Dio on vocals, Cozy Powell on drums, Jimmy Bain on bass and Tony Carey on keyboards, all together left memorable performances that are still remembered by fans today with longing.
From the outset, this fantastic album began with the intro extracted from "The Wizard of Oz" and in which Judy Garland herself is heard to say a few sentences to start the majestic "Kill the King" and from there they are happening master songs like "Man On The Silver Mountain", "Starstruck", the magical and sublime "Catch the Rainbow", the Purple "Mistreated", the wonderful "Sixteenth Century Greensleeves" or an elongated version of the Yardbirds theme "Still I ´m Said "sublime.
"On Stage" was the worthy testament of a band that sounded live anthological and that would soon become one of those essential records to understand rock.

Yes-Tormato (1978)

In 1978 Yes was already one of the most famous and successful bands in rock history, it had been part of the golden age of progressive rock, they had sold millions of records and filled entire stadiums, but nevertheless the logic and inexorable decline began , reason why they began to adapt to the new musical tastes of the general public, with more commercial sounds, thus orienting their sound towards those who were about to arrive in the 1980s.
"Tormato" would also be the last album of the most successful classic band (Anderson-Howe-Wakeman-White-Squire) and the airs of change and the end of a cycle were palpable in the environment, (or the beginning of the aforementioned transition stage).
Tormato far from the criticism received by his fans and the specialized press was a good album, a worthy culmination to his entire career of a long stage that without going anywhere near his top works ("Fragile", "Close to the edge", "Relayer" or "Going For the One"), maintains a high level and the most important; essence of Yes, a little adapted to the new times.
Here we are facing great moments like the epic "Future Times", the catchy "Don't Kill the Whale", the tremendous "On the Silent Wings of Freedom", the sensitive "Onward" or the rhythmic "Release, Release".

The album climbed to eighth place on the British charts and reached tenth place in the USA ranking.

The Who-Who Are You (1978)

"Who Are You" is one of the best works of The Who that, however, did not have a commercial or critical response at the time.
An album with excellent compositions with Townshend's powerful guitars, combined with the devastating rhythmic section of Moon and Entwistle and the overwhelming voice of Daltrey.
Subjects like the classic song that gives the album its title, or the melodic "Trick Of the Light, give a good example of this, but it also contains small gems such as the contagious" New Song ", or the excellent" Had Enough "and" 905 ", in short, a brilliant work by a mythical band.

Frank Marino And Mahogany Rush-Live (1978)

Frank Marino is one of the best guitarists and at the same time most underrated in rock, at an early age he would take his first steps in music playing the drums, which he would exchange for the guitar as a teenager.
His influence of Jimi Hendrix's style has always haunted him, even the tabloid press came to publish that at 17 he was induced by the spirit of Hendrix himself after a trip with LDS and was the one who taught him the technical knowledge of the guitar ( this absurd theory has always been a bad joke to Frank Marino himself)
However, it is true that his very personal style is loaded with large doses of psychedelic adrenaline and a lot of blues, something that was characteristic of Jimi Hendrix.
In 1970, he founded his band Mahogany Rush with which he would publish a dozen albums, all of them intense works where his fast and fluid pentatonic touch and a great number of large-scale pyrotechnic effects were the characteristic of his unmistakable style.
In 1978 he published this "Live", recorded during his world tour of the previous year presenting the album "World Anthem", and where he made an excellent review of the most select of his career with the Mahogany Rush.
In this live show, Frank Marino is shown as a prominent guitarist, showing an excessively instrumental fluidity and to some extent aggressive, as well as a devastating rhythmic section supported by drummer Jimmy Ayoub and bassist Paul Harwood, who make this recording stunning and a of the best live recordings of the 70s.

Mike Oldfield-Tubular Bells (1973)

This is one of the most important musical works of the 20th century and the impetuous debut of a very young Mike Oldfield.
Mike Oldfield was only 20 years old when he composed, arranged, performed and recorded this ambitious 49-minute play that would become the absolute pinnacle of the British musician.
This album was the first album released by the Virgin Records company, which until then was only a chain of record stores distributed throughout Great Britain.
"Tubular Bells" featured an Oldfield in charge of all string instruments and keyboards, with drummer Steve Broughton, flute player John Field, and vocalist Viv Stanshall in attendance.
For the recording of such a complicated musical work, more than a thousand overdubs were needed, (an overdub to the recorded).
Considered one of the peak works of symphonic rock and its end point and in a way the appearance of the new age.
Many of the musical parts of this gigantic work were used in the movie "The Exorcist" in 1973, which contributed significantly to the success of this fantastic album that has sold a whopping close to 20 million albums worldwide.

Slade-Sladest (1973)

Slade are perhaps the greatest Glam Rock band in history, experts in making great rock hymns, ideal for chanting in the British football fields of the 70's, they managed to place 13 singles in the Top 10 between 1971 and 1975 .
Its beginnings date back to the late 1960s, when Chas Chandler, a former bassist for The Animals, would discover the group in one of the London gambling dens where the group, which at the time was called Ambrose Slade, performed.
The band after signing for the Polydor label publishes their first two albums "Beginnings" (69) and "Play it Loud" (70) with which they manage to enter the charts with the songs "Coz I luv You" and "Mama Weer All Crazee Now "
Little by little, the band is making a name for itself in the British music market with an aggressive, low-key rock style, but with great doses of humor and catchy songs.
"Slayed?" published in 1972, it consecrates them definitively managing to reach number one, thanks to songs like "Skweeze Me", "Pleeze Me" or "Merry Xmas Everybody".
A year later the compilation "Sladest" and the single "Cum on Feel the noize" put them back in the top positions of the British Charts.
In the successive three years they published other albums that managed to sneak into the top positions as "Slade in Flame" (74), gradually losing interest of the public in fervor for other styles more in vogue in the middle of the decade.
Years later, the new generations of Heavy groups rediscovered the potential of Slade, covering their songs like Quiet Riot with their album "Metal Health" (83) and the song "Cum On feel the noize" that will catapult them to the first place on the Billboard with some sales that exceeded five million copies.

Black Sabbath-Never Say Die (1978)

"Never Say Die" was the last Black Sabbath album with Ozzy Osbourne, an album that was beaten by critics and its closest fans and yet it is an album that deserved much more notoriety.
No one can doubt the career of this historic group at this point, Black Sabbath had built a reputation as the greatest heavy metal band in the world thanks to works such as "Black Sabbath", "Paranoid", (both from 1970 ), "Master of Reality (1971)," Vol 4 " (1972) or" Sabbath Bloody Sabbath "(1973).
However, from the album "Sabotage" (1975), they decided to incorporate the use of keyboards to its lugrube and dark sound and macabre lyrics.
After that album the band would publish "Technical Ecstasy" (1976), who would receive very bad reviews and a mediocre sales, even so two years later, the band will continue on the same path with the edition of this "Never say Die", where the keyboards and synthesizers are still present, even more so than in the previous work.
For this the band had hired former Gary Moore Band member Don Airey, who contributed substantially to the end result of this recording.
Tracks with jazzy touches like "Air Dance", the dynamic "Johnny Blade", the boogie rock "A Hard Road", the great "Junior Eyes" or the R&B "Swinging The Chain", show that "Never Say Die" sounds today on a cooler day than then and how unfairly undervalued it was received at that time.

Traveling Wilburys-Vol. 1 (1988)

The story of the Traveling Wilburys is the least curious and anecdotal, this superband was the product of coincidences, coincidences and above all the friendship of some great musicians who were all friends.
The story goes that George Harrison found himself needing to compose and record a song for the B-side of the European version of the single "Cloud Nine, and while in Los Angeles, he calls Jeff Lynne, friend and producer of Harrison's album. to help him on that single, by chance Jeff Lynne is in a recording studio with Roy Orbison in the making of the album "Mistery Girl", so Lynne himself asks Orbison for help to collaborate on the song.
For the occasion George needs one of his guitars that is at Tom Petty's home and when he goes to pick it up and talk about it, he offers to participate.
A short time later when they are ready to start recording, Bob Dylan finds out about this recording and proposes to George Harrison to help them finish the song ... and so a group of friends meet in the studio, all of whom are extraordinary talents.
However, George thinks that he is not going to sing the solo with the great Roy Orbison in front of him, so he composes a song for him to sing, and so it all begins, since then each one begins to compose material for the singer to sing. another and the other and thus begin to create songs like "Handle With Care".
They soon realized that this song was excellent and they concluded that they needed 9 more to complete an album and so the album "Vol 1" was born, which was born naturally and modestly, without any ambition on the part of five great rock stars and that in the end it would become one of the best albums in the history of recent rock.
An album that is a true masterpiece and a musical delight that only the greatest are capable of achieving.
Superb songs like "Dirty Word", "Tweeter and the Monkey Man" or "Margarita" pushed the album to the top of the charts with more than three million albums sold, and get a Grammy award for best rock performance .

Fleetwood Mac-Tango in The Night (1987)

In the mid-eighties, Fleetwood Mac was not exactly experiencing a good time, the personal and financial problems of some of its members were constant.
His latest album had been "Mirage" which despite its good sales and favorable criticism, was nowhere near its previous successes as "Rumors" or "Tusk".
Thus the things, the guitarist Lindsey Buckingham would initiate the recording of a solo album that later was offered to the rest of the components and with it starting the recording of what would be her new album which they titled "Tango in The Night"
With an overwhelming sound, exquisite production and a series of sublime compositions, the album would reach sales levels close to its overwhelming album "Rumors" with more than 15 million copies sold.
However, in addition to all this, the album supposed the total reactivation of a band that seemed to be resting on its laurels, and in the end it would be the last album of the most legendary and successful formation of Fleetwood Mac.
An album with an impressive series of songs as addictive as suggestive, ranging from rock, pop and even new wave approaches.

The Alan Parsons Project-The Turn Of A Friendly Card (1980)

The eighties began and the Alan Parsons Project was adapting to the new times, and so in the album "The Turn Of A Friendly Card" we see a style that becomes even more commercial, but of undeniable quality, perhaps it is even the best composition work of his entire label.
Like all previous albums, this is also a concept album, this time the game world is the central theme of the musical plot that Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson propose.
With a perfect conjunction between the rock band and the orchestrations, they manage to reach sublime heights, despite the fact that the album is very oriented to commercial sound, the suite "The Turn Of A friendly Card", would mark a before and after in the race of both musicians and of the project in general.
Here are the sublime ballad "Time ·" and the beautiful "Nothing Left To Lose" that made up an album as memorable as anthological.

Thin Lizzy-Live and Dangerous (1978)

In 1978 Thin Lizzy published what would become her swan song and her most important album of all published, "Live and Dangerous".
However, this double album was not the typical live album, but a real-time document of a band and its live capabilities.
Recorded during the "Bad Reputation" album tour (1977), this sound document exudes magic and mysticism on all four sides, with a band made up of Lynott, Downey, Robertson and Gorham who were totally involved as a band and loved what they did in the best moment of their lives.
And as someone once said, let no one come to say that it is a retouched album in the studio, because the pyramids of Egypt have also been restored and are the first of the seven wonders of the world, so do not spoil the myth with that.
With a repertoire that leaves us breathless, mythical songs such as "Jailbreak", "Emerald", "Southbound", "Dancing in the Moonlight", "Massacre", "Johnny the Fox meets Jimmy the Weed", "Cowboy" Song "or" The Boys are Back in Town ", all of them legendary songs that will never grow old and have gone down in history as the best of hard rock.
Special mention deserves the wonderful "Still In Love With You" an exquisite bluesy ballad with spectacular and sublime guitar solos by Robertson and Gorham in unison.
For many this is the best live show in history, exaggerated or not, (I will not enter that debate), the truth is that it is among the best, in the highest positions of the Olympus of rock.

Def Leppard-Hysteria (1987)

This is one of the milestone albums in the history of rock, with almost 20 million copies sold in two decades ... something that no one has yet been able to overcome anywhere.
This was Def Leppard's culminating album after another masterpiece such as "Pyromania", released four years earlier.
In this work the band shows all its fullness and part of the blame for this mega success is in the producer Mutt Lange who at times over produces the sound of the band.
The entire repertoire is sublime, with glorious moments of high quality pop metal and with choirs that marvel at how addictive and unmatched
Powerful hits like "Put some Sugar on Me", "Animal" or "Rocked" are almost insurmountable.

The Law-The Law (1991)

Paul Rodgers is one of the most prolific singers who have ever existed in rock, front-man of the mythical Free in the late sixties and early seventies and later during this same decade of the incombustible Bad Company, for later already in the Eighty join Jimmy Page and together form The Firm, years later in 2008 he would join the members of Queen to make an album and a massive tour around the world.
All this has been combined with his extensive solo career with more than half a dozen albums.
In 1991 he would join forces with the ex-drummer of Small Faces, Faces and The Who, to found the project called The Law, with which Rodgers would unleash his most melodic facet, publishing one of the most admired albums on the scene. of melodic rock.
A work that combined strength, quality and feeling, with which he transmits on an album in which a handful of great musicians intervene as guests such as Chris Rea, David Gilmour, Pino Palladino or Bryan Adams, among others.
Cool songs like bluesy "Stone", southern "Nature of the beat", hard rock melody "for a Little Ride", the AOR "Come Save Me (Julianne)", the extraordinary and dynamic "Laying Down The Law" or the precious ballad "Miss You in A Heartbeat", shows us the genius of one of the best singers in rock history in one of the genre's greatest albums.

Barclay James Harvest-Berlin-A Concert For The People (1982)

On August 30, 1980 the Barclay James Harvest gave a free concert in the city of Berlin, in front of the Reichstag and very close to the Berlin wall.
At that time the band was presenting their work "Turn Of The Tide" and it must be remembered that in Germany they were as popular or more than other great bands such as Yes, Genesis or ELP.
For many, this concert had some political connotations, such as the reception by the city authorities and the beginning with the emblematic theme "Berlin".
As an anecdote, this concert, which would be practically ten years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, part of the speakers were conscientiously turned upside down, so that people behind the wall could also listen to the concert. That part of the city was East Germany, which was behind the wall, but its confinement was eternal, or so it was intended.
By this time the band had already been reduced to a trio (Holroyd-Lees-Pritchard), and were supported by Kevin McLea and Colin Browne both on keyboards and other instruments.
The concert was quite a show with a band sounding perfectly blended and with an overwhelming sound.
With a magnificent repertoire of songs featuring the precious "Living Is Easy", the nostalgic "Mockingbird", the epic "Hymn" or the thrilling "Children of the Universe.
That memorable afternoon before more than 250 thousand people, the Barclay James Harvest, entered the history of Berlin through the front door.

Caravan-In The land Of Grey And Pink (1971)

Caravan are one of the fundamental pieces of the so-called Canterbury Sound, and although their style was somewhat different from the experimentations of other great genres such as Soft Machine, if they became the one that perhaps had the best accessibility to the general public, they had However, they never managed to reap the approval of a massive public.
"In The Land of Gray And Pink" is next to "If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You" (1970) and "For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night" (1973), its three best works this magnificent band.
"In The Land ..." is also his most progressive work, where Pye Hastings' voice moves away from its more pastoral side and Richard Sinclair diversifies his keyboards even more, with a great palette of sounds.
An album where some of the band's best songs stand out, such as the epic "Winter Wine" and "In The Land Of Gray And Pink" or the suite "Nine Feet Underground" which entirely occupied the B side of the album with more than 20 minutes duration.
Later bands like Camel have an unpayable debt to Caravan who decisively influenced their successful careers years later.

Camel-A Live Record (1978)

Live album that is considered an unquestionable masterpiece of progressive rock, despite the fact that Camel has never been a star band like other progressive compatriots (Pink Floyd, Genesis, Yes o or Jethro Tull), they had the merit of having known how to maintain themselves for almost 4 decades as a cult band among progressive rock lovers.
Originally released as a double vinyl, this album was released when A Camel already had five very high-quality studio works, some of them like "Mirage" (1974), "The Snow Goose" (1975) or "Moonmadness" (1976) true masterpieces.
The repertoire included in this album is full of material to highlight, from "Lady Fantasy" to "Rhayader", through "Flight of the Snow Goose" and "Song Within a Song". This work represents the best of three different tours.
Also in this live we can appreciate the most classic Camel band and the most successful in action, and with the inclusion of Richard Sinclair and Mel Collins, all performing great classics of the group, with high performance and a lot of group chemistry, with All stars aligned, here is the best version of "The Snow Goose", unsurpassed versions of "Lunar Sea", "Lady Fantasy" and "Never Let Go", but also other immortal "Moonmadness" classics.
Chronological recordings appear of the "Mirage" tour in 1974, and of the "Rain Dances" tour in 1977 on the first album. And in the second it is dedicated to the complete presentation of the concept album, "The Snow Goose", during the album tour in 1975.
This really is a must-have record for any fan of pure progressive rock.