Pepper qualifies as a true concept album, there is no doubt that its reputation as such helped inspire other artists to produce concept albums of their own, and inspired the public to anticipate them.

" Shortly after, he released his debut album Rhyme Pays in 1987 supported by DJ Evil E, DJ Aladdin and producer Afrika Islam, who helped create the mainly party-oriented sound.

Under the title, To Markos III ( supposedly named for a " rich uncle " of Spyropoulos who helped finance the album ), it was released in the UK on the Pye label in May 1970, though reportedly only 250 copies were pressed it was deleted shortly after.

The Beach Boys concept album Pet Sounds helped herald the psychedelia movement in America, with its artful experiments, psychedelic lyrics based on emotional longings and self-doubts, elaborate sound effects and new sounds on both conventional and unconventional instruments.

Moreover, because of the limited airplay Rush's previous extended-length songs received, Permanent Waves included shorter, more radio-friendly songs such as " The Spirit of Radio " and " Freewill ", two songs that helped Permanent Waves become Rush's first U. S. Top 5 album ; both songs continue to make appearances on classic rock radio stations in Canada and the United States to this day.

Writing duties were assisted by Ulf Lindstrom and Johan Ekhé, who also helped to produce the album, and they stayed on board with Robyn until the completion of her album Don't Stop the Music in 2003.

On January 17, 1966, the duo released the album Sounds of Silence, which – helped by the title track's success – hit No. 21, while Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. was re-released and reached No. 30.

Sutch's album Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends was named in a 1998 BBC poll as the worst album of all time, a status it also held in Colin Larkin's book The Top 1000 Albums of All Time, despite the fact that Jimmy Page, John Bonham, Jeff Beck, Noel Redding and Nicky Hopkins performed on it and helped write it.

In 1974, he utilized synthesized voices again in his popular classical music album Snowflakes are Dancing, which became a worldwide success and helped popularize electronic music.

A performance at a warehouse party on 20 July helped to build interest in the band, and in August they returned to the studio to record their debut album.

In 1985, Benoit recorded a cover of Guaraldi's " Linus and Lucy " for an album called This Side Up, which enjoyed considerable radio airplay and helped launch the smooth jazz genre.

The band's 1973 album Atem was named as Album of the Year by British DJ John Peel, and this attention helped Tangerine Dream to sign to the fledgling Virgin Records in the same year.

The success of both singles helped the album reach No. 1 on both the Pop ( one week ) and Country ( eight weeks ) Albums charts.

His friend Paul Politi hooked him up with music industry businessman Larry Nunes, who helped to finance their album.

The first, pre-release single, " Musik non stop " ( Music Non Stop ), a disco-rock song, became a huge radio hit and helped bring recognition for this album.

Longtime friend and co-worker, Justin Timberlake helped produce a few songs on Chasez ' album, said " In my opinion, he had the best voice out of all of us ... Out of all the boy bands, call ' em what you will, he was the one that could out-sing all of us.

may have helped to popularize the term with the title of their 1981 album, Hardcore ' 81.

Cameron McVey and Neneh Cherry helped them to record their first LP Blue Lines, partly in their house, and the album was released in 1991 on Virgin Records.

" The inclusion on the album of the title track from the film Trainspotting also helped cement the band's place in alternative modern culture.

The autobiographical and introspective lyrics helped to earn the album its critical praise.

In 1968, McGuinn helped create the groundbreaking Byrds album Sweetheart of the Rodeo, to which many attribute the rise in popularity of country rock.

He contacted Parks, who helped fill in gaps in the original lyrics, and the duo re-recorded the album and then presented it on a world tour, beginning with the world premiere performance at the Royal Festival Hall in London, which Parks attended.

Although the album could not match the sales of their previous albums in the UK, Blur became the band's most successful internationally, particularly in the US, helped by the successful single, Song 2.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

Jarmusch is also featured on the album Wu-Tang Meets the Indie Culture ( 2005 ) in two interludes described by Sean Fennessy in a Pitchfork Media review of the album as both " bizarrely pretentious " and " reason alone to give it a listen ".

Rock had problems with the release of " Picture ", a country-influenced duet with Sheryl Crow: his label felt it was wrong for his image, and was not keen to spend more money promoting a flagging album ; then, when they agreed to release it, Sheryl Crow's label initially refused to give permission.

With the quintet re-formed as a sextet, Davis recorded Milestones, an album anticipating the new directions he was preparing to give to his music.

He came down to the studio on the Mississippi Lad album, that's the first one I did for PolyGram, and he sang two of my songs, wouldn't accept any money, just trying to give me the best boost that he could.

On June 28, 2007, the UK national newspaper The Mail on Sunday revealed that it had made a deal to give Prince's new album, Planet Earth, away for free with an " imminent " edition of the paper, making it the first place in the world to get the album.

Critic Robert Christgau gave the album a B +, saying that " I find it impossible to give this record an A because it is just too weird.

The group worked with Ruby on their third album, Marcus Garvey ( 1976 ), which was immediately successful and led to a deal with Island Records to give the album a wider release.

On his 2000 album Silver & Gold, Young sang of his desire to reform the group and to “ see those guys again and give it a shot ” (" Buffalo Springfield Again ").

The entire album was remastered and Townsend began remixing the band's original 1976 four-track pre-production demos and portions of the album's original 24-track masters for the bonus disc, in an effort to give listeners a new a unique way of hearing some of the album's tracks.

A tour was announced for December 2006 in the UK, but was postponed to give the new line-up time to finish recording their album.

* November – Simon & Garfunkel give live concert at Iowa State University, where they record the track " Bye, Bye Love " for their upcoming album, Bridge Over Troubled Water.

* January 16 – The Monkees begin work on Headquarters, the first album to give them complete artistic and technical control over their material.

The failure of the album left Hart unhappy enough that he decided to leave the band and give up commercial music entirely, in favour of a reclusive life overseas.

This would give the Pesnell-produced album a double release of singles to support a concert tour featuring the two bands.

Ry Cooder's slide guitar and contributions from Byrds members Gene Parsons and Clarence White helped to give the album a much rootsier feel.

Wanting to give fans something new after the massive radio and video airplay for not only the 6 singles but also the Album tracks that Radio DJs were playing off the album, the band performed " Tear It Down ", a Hysteria B-side at the 1989 MTV Video Music Awards.

The album cover for Caress of Steel was intended to be printed in a silver colour to give it a " steel " appearance.

After taking a short hiatus to give birth to her daughter Willow, Pink released her sixth studio album, The Truth About Love.

The band used the Decade of Aggression live album to give them time to decide the album's style.

In the comedy piece " White Harlem ", which appears on his Occupation: Foole album, he said that younger residents would refer to the neighborhood as " White Harlem " as that name would likely be considered an intimidating locale by outsiders and give inhabitants thereof greater respect from outsiders.