Как и три предыдущих диска Pink Floyd, The Wall является концептуальным альбомом, исследующим тему отчуждения и самоизоляции. По своей структуре это — рок-опера, сюжет которой повествует о Пинке (главный герой сочетает в себе черты самого Уотерса и первого лидера группы — Сида Барретта). Душевный упадок Пинка начинается с потери отца, который погибает во время Второй мировой войны, усугубляется травлей со стороны школьных учителей и чрезмерной опекой деспотичной матери, а затем крахом его брака; все это приводит его к добровольному отчуждению от общества. Стена — символ этого отчуждения. По словам Уотерса, идея альбома зародилась после одного из концертных выступлений группы во время турне In the Flesh Tour (1977), когда он, не вытерпев выходок одного из фанатов у сцены, плюнул ему в лицо. В итоге он настолько остро переживал свой поступок, что представил воображаемую стену между собой и аудиторией.

Это последний альбом Pink Floyd, в создании которого участвовал Роджер Уотерс (он является автором всех композиций) и единственный записанный без Ричарда Райта. Уотерс планировал, что The Final Cut станет последней работой группы, но позже Дэвид Гилмор разрушил эти планы, собрав Pink Floyd без Уотерса.
Альбом достиг первого места в хит-парадах Великобритании и шестого в США. К маю 1983 г. в США было продано более миллиона экземпляров, и он получил статус платинового, а в 1997 г. — двойного платинового. Тем не менее, The Final Cut является наименее продаваемым альбомом группы со времен Meddle. В 2004 г. альбом был переиздан с добавлением одной композиции.

The Dark Side of the Moon был записан в период с июня 1972 года по январь 1973 года в Лондоне в студии компании EMI Abbey Road. В сочинении музыкального материала и продюсировании принимали участие все музыканты группы, тексты к песням написал Роджер Уотерс. Альбом создавался с использованием последних достижений звукозаписывающей техники начала 1970-х годов, включая мультитрекинг, аналоговые синтезаторы, а также различные эффекты с магнитными записями. Звукоинженер Алан Парсонс, работавший над альбомом, был номинирован на премию Грэмми «За лучшую технику записи альбома.

Первоначально альбом был издан в Великобритании 23 января 1977 года на лейбле Harvest Records, затем на Columbia Records в США 2 февраля 1977 года. Неоднократно переиздан на CD в Европе и США.
Два визуальных образа с альбома Animals стали особенно известными: электростанция Баттерси и огромная надувная свинья. Вид электростанции на обложке альбома сделал её туристической достопримечательностью. А надувная свинья, являющаяся, по словам Роджера Уотерса, символом надежды, позднее использовалась практически на всех концертах группы.

One of New York's Finest, this Double CD Set Collects Three Albums Willie Recorded for Arista and Columbia Between 1980 and 1991. The Quality of These Recordings Proves Why Willie is Held with Such High Critical Regard by the Likes of Bono and Lucinda Williams. Guests Include Roger Mcguinnand Richard Thompson While Willie's Band Featured Jay Dee Dougherty and Fred Smith, Both of the Patti Smith Group.

Streets of New York (2006) is the fifth studio album by New York City based singer/songwriter Willie Nile. This is Nile's tribute to the city that gave him international exposure to the music world through the critical eyes and ears of the New York Times. The album is a tour book of City images; The tourists, the subway, the West Side, Rivington Street, a circus at Washington Square where one meets Bo Diddley, a Broadway night out with Annie, where we encounter a saddened aging actress whose best years are far behind her. A protest and a chilling reminder of the modern dangers we all face in today's world. The album is a portrait of the maze of iron, stone, and people that makes New York so unique, while mocking its opulence; still Nile always finds his way back home to the "Streets of New York".

Places I Have Never Been is the third studio album, and first in ten years, by singer/songwriter Willie Nile.

If I Was a River is the ninth studio album from American singer-songwriter Willie Nile. The all-piano album was released in November 2014 under River House Records. Nile recorded If I Was a River on the same Steinway grand piano that he played the night John Lennon was killed, December 8, 1980. Nile was in Studio "A" at The Record Plant in New York City making Golden Down and John and Yoko were working on Walking on Thin Ice in Studio C that night.

Beautiful Wreck Of The World is the fourth studio album from American musician Willie Nile. It was released in 1999 by Nile's label River House Records.
Uncut: "the majestic "On The Road to Calvary (For Jeff Buckley)" is soul music of the deepest order".

American Ride is the eighth studio album from American musician Willie Nile. It was released in June 2013 under Loud & Proud Records.

In 1988, at the pinnacle of the “Hollywood Hair Metal” craze, WILDSIDE, then called YOUNG GUNNS, was formed by guitarist Benny Rhynedance and singer Drew Hannah. Both were 1986 hair metal transplants from the pre-grunge Seattle music scene, which in 1986, did not exist yet.
By 1988 in Los Angeles, after slugging it out for two years in the LA club scene as glam rockers Rogue and enduring the Hollywood “Pay to Play” club promoter rip-off, Benny and Drew disbanded their original Seattle band. They then formed THE BOYZ, which became YOUNG GUNNS, and recruited second guitarist Brent Woods from the Sunset Strip band ALRISHA, and bassist Marc Simon from local heroes ST. VALENTINE. The lineup was soon completed with the addition of drummer Johnny Dean, but he soon left the band.
The guys searched for a permanent drummer and dominated the Sunset Strip and the Whisky-A-Go-Go on the weekly Monday night “No Bozo Jam” shows. After a year and a half of “false starts and flakes,” they found ex-NRG and KANE ROBERTS drummer Jimmy D. from San Bernardino, CA to finally complete the classic lineup.
This is when the hard work truly began. With a solid lineup, the band began an all-out assault on Hollywood. Sold out shows followed at the Roxy, Whisky, Troubadour, Gazzarri’s, and X-Poseur 54. Front page covers on all of the LA rock press magazines arose, and record labels began to take notice.
Diligently writing and rehearsing in their shared Hollywood gigs, the boys played endlessly throughout 1988-1989. When they weren’t ripping through impassioned sets, they were putting up flyers on every telephone pole in town. Their self-determination turned self-promotion into an art form and soon the band’s name was on everyone’s lips.
However, the band needed to eventually change their name. Originally known as YOUNG GUNNS between ’88 to ‘90, the producers of a western film using a similar title (released incidentally after the band was already well on its way) from Lionsgate Studios and Artisan Entertainment issued a series of cease and desist warnings and wanted $350,000 for the rights to the name.
After another late night Sunset Strip gig, while the guys were afterwards at the Rainbow bar, the name WILDSIDE was thrown around and seemed to fit their lifestyle perfectly, while being inspired by the Lou Reed song of the same name.
With their new name, a new phase of the band history was about to begin. But, that’s another story…

The Purple Album is the twelfth studio album by British hard rock band Whitesnake. It contains remakes of songs from Deep Purple band lineups Mark III and Mark IV, when Whitesnake lead singer David Coverdale was a member of that band. It was released on 29 April in Japan, 15 May in Europe, 18 May in the UK and 19 May 2015 in the US through Frontiers Records. The album debuted at number 87 on the Billboard 200 with first week sales of around 6,900 units in its first week of release. It is also the first album since the band's 1989 studio album, Slip of the Tongue, to feature 'classic' Whitesnake drummer Tommy Aldridge.

"Kon-Tiki" is an instrumental tune by the Shadows. It became a No. 1 hit in the UK Singles Chart in October 1961. It was the fifth Shadows hit and their second to reach the top of the UK chart. The name refers to Thor Heyerdahl's ship Kon-Tiki.

Normally, the first few lines of an album review are fertile soil for some rock-and-roll philosophy, or irony, or witticisms, or some old-fashioned rock history. However, what does one say about a Helsingborg-based Swedish metal band, with a mild-mannered Clark Kent alter ego in the form of a 70s/80s glam funk AOR band themed around airline travel? Not much. It has a way of speaking for itself.
In the way of light history, metal band Soilwork gives us fairly legendary Björn “Speed” Strid on vocals, as well as David Andersson on guitars. From 2007 to 2012, the two began scheming a musical way to tell the tales of rock-and-roll excess and absurdity of the 70s and 80s, and once Arch Enemy’s Sharlee D’Angelo insisted upon not being left out of the absurd shenanigans, thus was The Night Flight Orchestra born. In the years since, the band released four albums, exploring tales of travel, romance, heartbreak, space exploration, and even the deliciously retro “Turn to Miami” found on their fourth album, “Sometimes the World Ain’t Enough,” complete with its obviously quasi Miami Vice underpinnings.

Hell Freezes Over is the second live album by the Eagles, released in 1994. The album is the first to be released after the Eagles had reformed following a fourteen-year-long break up. The band's lineup was that of the Long Run era: Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Don Felder, Joe Walsh, and Timothy B. Schmit. It contains four new studio tracks and eleven tracks recorded live in April 1994 for an MTV special. Two Top 40 Mainstream singles, "Get Over It" and "Love Will Keep Us Alive", were released from the album. It also features an acoustic version of "Hotel California". The four new studio recordings are the last to feature Don Felder, who was fired from the band in 2001.