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Simply Red - Stars (Classic Album)
Simply Red will go down in history as one of the UK’s biggest and most successful pop bands of the late eighties and early nineties. Formed in 1984, Mike Hucknall and co released their debut album Picture Book in 1985 which went platinum, making Simply Red one of that year’s major success stories. Their following albums, Men And Women and A New Flame continued this success but it was the arrival of Simply Red’s fourth album Stars, released in September 1991, that would change history forever. Stars would top the UK charts for nineteen weeks and become the biggest selling album of 1991 in the UK, making Simply Red a household name. They also achieved phenomenal success around the world with Stars spawning two top ten hits, For Your Babies and the title track Stars as well as three top forty hits, Something Got Me Started, Thrill Me and Your Mirror. Stars would go on and sell in excess of eight-and-a-half million copies by the middle of 1993.
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Simply Red will go down in history as one of the UK’s biggest and most successful pop bands of the late eighties and early nineties. Formed in 1984, Mike Hucknall and co released their debut album Picture Book in 1985 which went platinum, making Simply Red one of that year’s major success stories. Their following albums, Men And Women and A New Flame continued this success but it was the arrival of Simply Red’s fourth album Stars, released in September 1991, that would change history forever. Stars would top the UK charts for nineteen weeks and become the biggest selling album of 1991 in the UK, making Simply Red a household name. They also achieved phenomenal success around the world with Stars spawning two top ten hits, For Your Babies and the title track Stars as well as three top forty hits, Something Got Me Started, Thrill Me and Your Mirror. Stars would go on and sell in excess of eight-and-a-half million copies by the middle of 1993.
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John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (Classic Album)
John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band was John Lennon's first solo studio album after the break up of The Beatles. Both John & Yoko had been undergoing primal scream therapy in the lead up to the recording of the album and both this and Yoko Ono's companion album (Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band) were deeply influenced by their therapy.
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The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds - Classic Albums
A brand new documentary in the Classic Albums series celebrating the 50th anniversary of the release of Brian Wilson’s masterpiece The Beach Boys ‘Pet Sounds’. Brian Wilson and the surviving members of The Beach Boys, (Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks) guide us through the writing and recording of the landmark album that is consistently voted one of the top three influential albums of all time.
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The Who - Sensation The Story Of Tommy
A look at the creation and impact of The Who's seminal album Tommy, featuring interviews with Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and the late John Entwistle.
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The Doors - Mr. Mojo Rising the Story of L.A. Women
‘Mr. Mojo Risin’’ is the story of the making of the Doors’ last album with Jim Morrison ‘L. A. Woman’. 2016 is the 45th anniversary both of the album’s release and of the death of Jim Morrison and this film goes into detail of how the album came about, its recording and what was happening to the band at the time. The story is told through interviews with the three then-surviving Doors: Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore plus contributions from Jac Holzman, founder of their label Elektra Records, Bill Siddons, who was their manager, Bruce Botnick, engineer and co-producer of the album and others associated with the Doors at this time.
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Rush - 2112 & Moving Pictures (Classic Album)
The latest addition to the acclaimed & award winning Classic Albums series tells the story behind the making of two legendary albums from Rush. 2112 was the album that saw Rush break through to major chart success. Moving Pictures opened them to a mass audience for the first time and remains the biggest selling album of their career. It also went to No. 1 in Canada and went quadruple platinum there whilst hitting No. 3 in both the UK and USA. Rush members Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart talk the making of the albums with original producer Terry Brown via interviews, demonstrations, archive videos and use of the original multi-track tapes.
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‘Mr. Mojo Risin’’ is the story of the making of the Doors’ last album with Jim Morrison ‘L. A. Woman’. 2016 is the 45th anniversary both of the album’s release and of the death of Jim Morrison and this film goes into detail of how the album came about, its recording and what was happening to the band at the time. The story is told through interviews with the three then-surviving Doors: Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore plus contributions from Jac Holzman, founder of their label Elektra Records, Bill Siddons, who was their manager, Bruce Botnick, engineer and co-producer of the album and others associated with the Doors at this time.
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