Reggatta de Blanc is the second album by The Police, released in 1979. It features the band's first two UK #1 hits: "Message in a Bottle" and "Walking on the Moon". It was their second album to bear a foreign language title after the band's 1978 debut album Outlandos d'Amour. Reggatta de Blanc proved both more popular and successful than its predecessor. The title track earned the band their first Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1980.

Альбом достиг 5 строчки в чарте США и стал №1 в хит-парадах Великобритании и Австралии, чему поспособствовал успех синглов «Don’t Stand So Close to Me» и «De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da». Пластинка получила восторженные отзывы музыкальной прессы (среди прочих — Rolling Stone и Q), но всё же остальные четыре альбома группы были встречены лучше, и Zenyattà Mondatta стала единственной работой The Police которая не попала в список «500 величайших альбомов всех времён по версии журнала Rolling Stone».

Synchronicity is the fifth and final studio album by the Police, released in the United Kingdom on 17 June 1983.[2] The band's most successful release, the album includes the hit singles "Every Breath You Take", "King of Pain", "Wrapped Around Your Finger", and "Synchronicity II". The album's title and much of the material for the songs were inspired by Arthur Koestler's The Roots of Coincidence. At the 1984 Grammy Awards the album was nominated for a total of five awards including Album of the Year and won three. At the time of its release and following its tour the Police were hailed as the "Biggest Band in the World".

Second Helping is the second studio album by Lynyrd Skynyrd, released April 15, 1974. It featured the band's biggest hit single, "Sweet Home Alabama," an answer song to Neil Young's "Alabama" and "Southern Man".[2] The song reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1974. This L.P. was the last to feature Bob Burns on drums.
The album reached #12 on the Billboard album charts. It was certified Gold on September 20, 1974, Platinum and 2x Platinum on July 21, 1987 by the RIAA.

Mit ihrem dritten Album „Night Of Passion“ waren die vier Jungs von MAD MAX anno 1987 bereit, die USA zu überfallen und dort gehörig Rabatz zu machen. Es war alles perfekt: ein tolles Album im Gepäck, die Zeitpunkt gut gewählt, sogar die Tournee war schon in trockenen Tüchern. Und nach einem Album wie „Stormchild“, das zwar einen Hit wie „Lonley Is The Hunter“ enthielt, aber insgesamt etwas schwächelte, hatte man sich enorm gesteigert und ein Meisterwerk abgeliefert. Warum es trotzdem nicht klappte, kann wohl keiner so richtig nachvollziehen. In den Geschichtsbüchern des Rock´n Roll steht auf jeden Fall, dass sich die Band nach diesem Disaster frustriert aufgelöst hat und erst 2006 zum Album „Night Of White Rock“ wieder in Originalbesetzung mit Michael Voss (g.,v.), Jürgen Breforth (g.), Roland Bergmann (b.) und Axel Kruse (d.) zusammenkam. Aber nach dem 2007er Opus „White Sands“ war schon wieder Schluß damit, denn Drummer Axel Kruse konzentrierte sich auf JADED HEART und stieg erneut aus. 25 Jahre nach „Night Of Passion“ hat sich das Ur-Line Up wieder zusammengefunden, um dort anzuknüpfen, wo sie damals aufgehört hatten. Und obwohl der Titel bewusst so gewählt wurde, um einen Zusammenhang zu damals herzustellen, haben die Alben musikalisch nicht allzuviel gemein. Allerdings gibt es doch ein paar Gemeinsamkeiten, denn das neue Album tönt verdammt kernig aus den Boxen und strotzt nur so vor Spielfreude. Gute Songs haben die Jungs schon immer abgeliefert, aber in jüngerer Vergangenheit haben MAD MAX öfter mal das „Mad“ im Bandnamen vergessen und eher zahmen Hardrock gespielt.

Hasten Down the Wind is the Grammy Award-winning seventh studio album by singer/songwriter/producer Linda Ronstadt. Released in 1976, it became her third straight million-selling album. Ronstadt was the first female artist to accomplish this feat. The album earned her a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female in 1977, her second of 13 Grammys. It represented a slight departure from 1974's Heart Like a Wheel and 1975's Prisoner in Disguise in that she chose to showcase new songwriters over the traditional country rock sound she had been producing up to that point. A more serious and poignant album than its predecessors, it won critical acclaim.

Planet P Project is a pseudonym used by American rock musician Tony Carey for his science-fiction themed, progressive rock/space rock music. Carey has released six albums under the Planet P Project name: Planet P (1983, later retitled Planet P Project), Pink World (1984), Go Out Dancing, Part I (1931) (2005), Go Out Dancing, Part II (Levittown) (2008), Go Out Dancing, Part III (Out in the Rain) (2009) and Steeltown (2013). Music videos for singles from the first albums received heavy to moderate airplay on MTV, when originally released. Pink World was originally a two-record set, released on bright-pink-colored vinyl.
Planet P's most well known singles were "Why Me?" (a sweeping, energetic romp about outer space and isolation), and the downbeat "Static". Go Out Dancing, Part I (1931) is the first of the trilogy, with part two titled Go Out Dancing, Part II (Levittown) and part three as Go Out Dancing, Part III (Out in the Rain).
The project's name was inspired from the fictional "Planet P" in Robert A. Heinlein's book Starship Troopers.

Procol's Ninth is the eighth studio album (ninth including Live) by Procol Harum, and was released in September 1975. Produced by songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Procol's Ninth featured a slightly different direction from the previous album, with a much more stark sound than Chris Thomas's more elaborate productions. According to an interview with guitarist Mick Grabham, conducted by Roland Clare for the 2009 reissue, Leiber and Stoller focused less on the production sound and more on "the structure of the songs". The band appeared on the cover of the album in a straightforward unassuming photograph, mirroring the sound of the album itself. The cover featured simulations of each band member's signature.

Shine On Brightly is the second studio album by English rock band Procol Harum, released in 1968 by record labels Regal Zonophone and A&M.
It is considered an early example of progressive rock.

Procol Harum - is an English rock band formed in 1967. Their best-known recording is the 1967 hit single "A Whiter Shade of Pale", one of the few singles to have sold over 10 million copies. Although noted for their baroque and classical influence, Procol Harum's music also embraces the blues, R&B, and soul.
In 2018, the band was honoured by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when "A Whiter Shade of Pale" was inducted into the brand-new Singles category.

Broken Barricades is the fifth studio album by English rock band Procol Harum, released in 1971. It was guitarist Robin Trower's last recording with the group until The Prodigal Stranger (1991).
"Song for a Dreamer" is a tribute to late Jimi Hendrix from Trower, who was stunned by Hendrix's death in September 1970 at the age of 27.

Exotic Birds and Fruit is the seventh full-length studio album by British progressive rock band Procol Harum. It was released in 1974. Of special note is the release of the album in Argentina, calling the album "Pájaros Y Frutas Exóticas" (literally translated as "Birds and Exotic Fruit"). The cover artwork for the album is by Jakob Bogdani, a noted Hungarian artist whose paintings centred on exotic birds and fruit.

Grand Hotel is the sixth studio album by Procol Harum. Released in 1973, it signalled a change of direction for the band. Guitarist Dave Ball who had joined the band for their live album the previous year left shortly after the photo shoot for the proposed album's cover to be replaced by Mick Grabham. Grabham's head was superimposed on the front and back cover of the album on Ball's body. Although the band had gone through significant personnel changes in previous years, the band would enter its most stable phase with this line up.
The album reached No. 21 on the Billboard album charts. It peaked at #4 in Denmark, where the group was always well received.

Procol Harum Live: In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, by the English band Procol Harum together with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, was released in 1972; it was recorded at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on 18 November 1971. The album was very successful on the Billboard Top 200, peaking at No. 5. It is the band's best-selling album, certified Gold by the RIAA.