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.

Bent Out of Shape is the seventh studio album released by the British hard rock band Rainbow. It was originally released in August 1983 as an LP and cassette. The cassette featured several longer edits compared to the vinyl version. It was recorded at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen in about 7 weeks.
The song "Street of Dreams" has been re-recorded in two versions by Blackmore's Night in 2006 for their fifth studio album, The Village Lanterne. The version featured on a regular album was sung by Candice Night. The other version, a bonus track on a special edition of the album, was performed in a duet by Night and former Rainbow singer Joe Lynn Turner.
In 1984, "Anybody There" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.

Bat Out of Hell II: Back into Hell is a 1993 studio album by Meat Loaf and was written and produced by Jim Steinman. It was released sixteen years after Meat Loaf's first solo album Bat Out of Hell. The album reached number 1 in the US, UK and Australia. Three tracks were released as singles, including "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)", which reached number 1 in 28 countries.

Jimi Hendrix Live At The Royal Albert Hall (2006 UK 10-track CD recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 24th February 1969, issued exclusively with The Sunday Times on 10th September 2006, includes the classics 'Fire', 'PurpleHaze' & 'Voodoo Chile', plus a version of Creams' 'Sunshine Of Your Love', presented in unique card wallet sleeve.

Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, Deep Purple is the third piece of the marvelous trinity who are the creators of heavy metal. The story of Deep Purple as a band continues to this day and has weathered many a storm and changes of band members. With a handful of albums that are considered true classics of universal rock today, (In Rock, Machine Head, Live in Japan, Burn), Deep Purple is one of the most influential groups that rock culture has given us.

Houston Swing Engine est un groupe suisse formé en 2001. Il regroupe notamment le chanteur de feu Unfold, le guitariste et le batteur de feu Shovel, et le chanteur de Kruger passé à la basse. Un changement de bassiste a eu lieu peu avant la tournée de The Tiger Flamboyant, Renaud étant très occupé par Kruger et son label RRRecords(Ronald Reagan Records).
Le batteur Frank a aussi officié dans A Season Drive, groupe actuellement mort, dans lequel il était guitariste.
Le style est à la croisée du Rock hardcore / punk pour le chant et du stoner pour la musique, le tout étant terriblement groovy.
Leur dernier album Entre hommes est sorti en avril 2007 et semble enfin célébrer l'amour unisexe qu'ils n'ont cessé de revendiquer lors de leurs concerts.

Hughes Turner Project (HTP) was a musical project formed in the 2001 by bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes (formerly of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, etc.) and vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (formerly of Rainbow and Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force). They released two albums, a live album and one joint project with Mikhail Men.