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2 days ago · Today marks the monumental release of “Alone,” The Cure’s first new song in 16 years, which premiered on Mary Anne Hobbs’s BBC Radio 6 Music show. The track serves as the lead single from their eagerly awaited album, Songs Of A Lost World , and has been met with fervent excitement, especially after a 30-second teaser was shared last week via the band’s Songs Of A Lost World website ...
1 day ago · It's their 14th studio record since they formed 46 years ago, in 1978, and their first new album since 2008's 4:13 Dream, which reached #30 on the ARIA charts.
- Herb Alpert – Rise
- The Sandpipers – Guantanamera
- Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 – Fool on The Hill
- Carole King – Tapestry
- The Carpenters – Close to You
- Supertramp – Breakfast in America
- Joan Armatrading – Joan Armatrading
- The Police – Regatta de Blanc
- Joe Cocker – Mad Dogs and Englishmen
- Sheryl Crow – Tuesday Night Music Club
Way back in 1962, Herb had A&M’s first hit single and album with ‘The Lonely Bull,’ and his easy listening jazz-pop, with its trademark Mexican-flavours courtesy of the Tijuana Brass, went on to sell by the scores of millions throughout the 1960s. But in 1979, Alpert climbed back to global prominence with this album featuring the massive, Grammy-wi...
Another of A&M’s earliest successes was from the Los Angeles vocal trio the Sandpipers, who took the title song to this 1966 album into the Hot 100’s top 10. When they released the album, it made No.13, spending 37 weeks on the American chart. The single also reached the UK top 10, as the group helped to establish the label’s reputation and get A&M...
Another early success story for the label was Brazilian jazz pianist Mendes, who produced a string of big-selling albums and singles, including this one from 1968 that made No. 3 on the US album charts and spent 30 weeks on the bestseller list. One of the vocalists on this album is Lani Hall, who married Herb Alpert in 1973 and the couple are still...
One of the definitive albums of the first singer-songwriter era and a staple on almost every list of the greatest albums of all time. Tapestrysaw the rebirth of the great hit songwriter Carole King as an evocative artist in her own right, and every track on it is a classic, from ‘You’ve Got A Friend’ to ‘It’s Too Late.’ Released on Ode, distributed...
The second album by the sibling duo of Richard and Karen Carpenter was the one that truly heralded their international arrival. It showed their superb interpretative powers, notably with Burt Bacharach & Hal David’s title track, previously recorded by Dionne Warwick but reinvented by the Carpenters with their trademark lush harmonies and superior a...
After many years as an inventive British act at the progressive end of the rock spectrum, this was the albumthat blew Supertramp wide open in America and around the world. Containing major hits with ‘The Logical Song,’ ‘Goodbye Stranger’ and ‘Take The Long Way Home,’ the LP spent six weeks atop the Billboard chart in the spring and summer of ‘79.
The sensitive singer-writer born in St. Kitts in the West Indies made her album (and A&M) debut in 1972 with Whatever’s For Us, produced by Gus Dudgeon. In 1975, by now signed to the label worldwide, she won good notices but few sales for Back To The Night. But this self-titled 1976 set finally put Armatrading on the world stage, and into the UK si...
Any of the Anglo-American trio’s run of multi-million-selling LPs could have made our list, but this second album showed their reggae-influenced, sophisticated pop style truly establishing itself. It included their first two UK No. 1 singles, ‘Message In A Bottle’ and ‘Walking On The Moon,’ and a host of other memorable compositions by Stingincludi...
Not just one of the great A&M albums but one of the great live albums in rock history, this was recorded by the Sheffield growler and his Grease Band at the Fillmore East in New York City in March 1970. It showcases Cocker’s vocal brilliance on covers of Traffic, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones and more, and demonstrates the impressive cohesion of ...
The highly gifted singer, writer and guitarist from Kennett, Missouri had had her debut album, recorded with Hugh Padgham, scrapped at the 11th hour in 1992, but had sensational success with what became her debut release the following year. Tuesday Night Music Clubbecame almost a greatest hits album in its own right, with hit single after hit singl...
2 days ago · The Cure have announced their first new album in 16 years. The Boys Don't Cry rockers - whose last album was 2008's 4:13 Dream - will be back with a fresh collection when Songs of a Lost World ...
2 days ago · The Crawley goth-rock icons have also confirmed that the album will drop on November 1, marking their first record in 16 years. Describing ‘Alone’, which sees the group on typically gloomy form, Robert Smith said: “It’s the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded I knew it was the opening song, and ...
1 day ago · The Cure @thecure have announced the release date of their first album in 16 years, by placing a single poster outside the pub they played their first gig in 1978. The Railway, Crawley, Sussex.
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4 days ago · The first play marks the end of an intriguing promotional anti-blitz that has had fans on tenterhooks as to what the heck was going on in Cure world. So far fans have been treated to clips via social media, requiring the joining of a WhatsApp group and answering the question: “Want to hear ‘Alone’?” with an option to click ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.
