"Get It On", "Children of The Revolution", "20th Century Boy", "Metal Guru", "Solid Gold Easy Action" and the rest of his top ten hits showed Bolan's worth as a writer of great pop-rock tunes, but he was never built to last. He was a pop phenomenon, but with a few glorious exceptions, pop phenomenons invariably have a short shelf-life before the bubble bursts. When the bubble burst for Bolan it was in the form of a rapid descent in terms of sales and quality material.

Suzanne Nadine Vega (born July 11, 1959) is an American songwriter and singer known for her eclectic folk-inspired music.
Two of Vega's songs (both from her second album Solitude Standing, 1987) reached the top 10 of various international chart listings: "Luka" and "Tom's Diner". The latter was originally an a cappella version on Vega's album, which was then remade in 1990 as a dance track produced by the British dance production team DNA.

Retrospectacle – The Supertramp Anthology, also known as Gold in the U.S., is the first comprehensive compilation album by the English rock band Supertramp, released in October 2005.

Pictures – 40 Years of Hits is a compilation album by the British rock band Status Quo

In 1987, Orbison was admitted to the "Hall of Fame Rock and Roll" and "Hall of Fame Nashville composers." In 1989 he was accepted into the "Hall of Fame of the International Association of Composers." Orbison takes 37th place in the list of "50 Greatest Artists of All Time magazine Rolling Stone» 13 and the list of "20 of the 100 greatest singers of all time", composed in 2008.

The Story So Far: The Very Best of Rod Stewart is a 2001 Rod Stewart career-retrospective compilation album, which summarises his solo work beginning with material from his 1971 breakthrough album Every Picture Tells a Story until his 2001 album Human. For contractual reasons, only two songs from his Mercury Records tenure ("Maggie May" and "You Wear It Well") were included (a third song from the Mercury era, "Reason to Believe", was included in a live acoustic version from the Warner Bros. album Unplugged...and Seated). The rest of the material is from different albums released under Warner Bros. Records.