Depeche Mode. Now approaching 30 years in the music business.
Lily Allen
Sonic Youth
Raphael Saadiq
Taj Mahal
It's a fragment of the film "New Orleans", directed by Arthur Lubin in 1947. This is the saddest part of the film, in my opinion, because everybody is obliged to leave the city they learnt to call a home and that's what this song tell us about.
With a vocal range spanning three octaves, she was noted for her purity of tone, phrasing and intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. She is widely considered to have been one of the supreme interpreters of the Great American Songbook.
Over a recording career that lasted 59 years, she was the winner of 13 Grammy Awards, and was awarded the National Medal of Art by Ronald Reagan and the Presidential Medal of Freedom by George H. W. Bush.
This 16-CD set collects all of Ella Fitzgerald's Songbooks, a monumental tribute to the American popular song and its greatest composers, recorded for Verve between 1956 and 1964. There is likely no other singer possessed of the mix of talents that Fitzgerald brought to the project, a combination of sheer vocal technique, creativity in phrasing and rhythm, and fidelity to lyrics and intent. The sheer scale of the project contributes to its value, for Fitzgerald went far beyond the standard repertoire, rediscovering little-known gems by many of her subjects: Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Harold Arlen, Rodgers and Hart, Johnny Mercer, Irving Berlin, and Duke Ellington. The discs of Ellington material still stand out, illuminated by the presence of Duke and his band. They put Ellington, a master melodist as well as a great composer, in his rightful place in the pantheon of American songwriters. --Stuart Broomer
Glasgow's art school rockers Franz Ferdinand played songs from their most recent album Tonight - got this!
British ska legends The Specials had seven consecutive top 10 singles in the late 70s and early 80s. They recently announced they were reforming to celebrate their 30th anniversary and perform a selection of their classic songs. They had greyer hairs than this but the music was as vital.
American singer-songwriter Carole King makes her first UK TV performance since 1971, the same year as her landmark album Tapestry was released. You've Got a Friend. Superb to see her live again - this was the first CD I ever bought.
Karen O, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase, aka Yeah Yeah Yeahs, debut tracks from their new album It's Blitz!
Making their TV debut are The Mummers, a big band from Brighton who feature the quirky and quixotic vocals of Raissa Khan-Panni
Plus Blackpool-born singer-songwriter Karima Francis.
Robert Plant/Alison Krauss, Raising Sand. I was really surprised to learn that this album debuted at #2 in October 2007 behind Carrie Underwood's Carnival Ride and returned to #2 in February 2009 even though its Grammy victory as Album of the Year. And get this, it again was kept from the top spot by a female country singer's sophomore album: Taylor Swift's Fearless. Raising Sand is the only album to peak at #2 in non-consecutive years.
Akon, Konvicted. Akon's second album was number 2 for four weeks. It had hits Smack That (featuring Eminem) and I Wanna Love You (featuring Snoop Dogg). 
Green Day, Dookie. This debut album spent 30 weeks in the top 10 and had five airplay hits, including Basket Case and When I Come Around. But it was stuck at number two for two weeks in January 1995 behind Garth Brooks' The Hits.
Def Leppard, Pyromania. This hard rock blockbuster spent 38 weeks in the top 10, including two weeks at number two in May 1983. 
Many of the albums on the list are shocking because they did not make it to number one, but some are simply amazing because of what did make it to number one.Motörhead are a British rock band formed in 1975 by bassist, singer and songwriter Lemmy Kilmister, who has remained the sole constant member. Usually a power trio, Motörhead had particular success in the early 1980s with several successful singles in the UK Top 40 chart. The albums Overkill, Bomber, Ace of Spades, and particularly No Sleep 'til Hammersmith, cemented Motörhead's reputation as one of Britain's foremost rock bands.
In 1984, MTV began playing a video that poked fun at the idea of rock's lead status in the music world. It showed RUN DMC — two rappers and a DJ trespassing at an imaginary rock 'n' roll museum and causing a holy ruckus. The irony is that, 25 years later, RUN DMC is being welcomed onto that hallowed ground. On Saturday, the group will be inducted into the real Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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