A version with Alicia Keys was included in Charles ' 2005 duets album Genius & Friends.

Woolfson, a songwriter and composer, was working as a session pianist ; he had also composed material for a concept album idea based on the work of Edgar Allan Poe.

Their first album, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, including major contributions by all members of Pilot and Ambrosia, was a success, reaching the Top 40 in the US Billboard 200 chart.

The song " The Raven " featured lead vocals by the actor Leonard Whiting, and, according to the 2007 remastered album liner notes, was the first rock song to use a digital vocoder, with Alan Parsons speaking lyrics through it.

1987's Gaudi was the Project's last release, though they planned to record an album called Freudiana next.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

Arista's refusal to release the album had two known effects: the negotiations led to a renewed contract and the album was never released.

Tales of Mystery and Imagination was first remixed in 1987 for release on CD, and included narration by Orson Welles which had been recorded in 1975, but arrived too late to be included on the original album.

The opening instrumental was largely done away with by 1980 ; no later Project album except Eye in the Sky featured one ( although every album includes at least one instrumental somewhere in the running order ).

* The New Wave band Missing Persons ' best-selling album was called Spring Session M.

Her producer was present and suggested she include a version of it on her 1970 album Whales & Nightingales.

DiFranco was one of the first independent artists to own her own label, which has allowed her a considerable degree of creative freedom over the years, including, for example, providing all instrumentals and vocals and recording the album herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel, and handling much of the artwork and packaging design for her 2004 album Educated Guess.

ABC is Jin's fourth overall album, which was released on February 20, 2007

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

When Heart in Motion was released in 1991, many fans were surprised that the album was so clearly one of contemporary pop music.

The album was a multi-platinum success and produced the pop hit " Lucky One " ( No. 18 pop and No. 2 AC ; No. 1 on Radio & Records ) as well as the title track ( a duet with country music star and future husband Vince Gill ) ( No. 37 pop ) and a cover of Joni Mitchell's frequently covered " Big Yellow Taxi " ( No. 67 pop ) ( in which she changed the line " And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see em " to " And then they charged the people 25 bucks just to see em ").

Although " Takes A Little Time " was a moderate hit single, the album failed to sell like the previous two albums, which had both gone multi-platinum.

The album was certified Gold in 2000.

He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist three times: 1998 for album " Nour El Ain ", 2002 for album " Aktrr Wahed Byhbak 2001 " and 2007 for album " El Lillady ".

Three more albums followed in quick succession: Rio ( 1982 ), Seven and the Ragged Tiger ( 1983 ) and the live album Arena ( 1984 ).

The album loses some of the mathematical-like rhythmal quick changes of past releases and the melodic orchestration of Catch Thirty-Three and uses " angular " riffs, mid-tempo and common 4 / 4 beats.

* Anna had a quick cameo in Green Days 9 minute epic Homecoming that was released in the 2004 hit album American Idiot.

TSG's fourth album got off to a quick start in early 2005 while Weezer's fifth album, Make Believe, was waiting to be mixed and released.

The duo were quick to work again with Bobby Gillespie, who appeares on the third track and third single " Out of Control ", as they remixed Gillespie's Primal Scream song " Swstk Ys " ( as it was titled on the 1999 single release ) which later appeared on the band's 2000 album Xtrmntr.

2003 saw the release of the Nun trilogy, with the Inferno album and the EPs Trialog and View From a Throne, released in quick succession.

We did a quick mix and that was that until twenty years ago ( sic ) when he includes the number on the reissue of his A Pagan Place album ".

" Other critics praised the album but were also quick to note its dramatically different sound in comparison to previous releases.

As opposed to the rather quick, almost factory-like process of writing and recording an album in a matter of a few days or at most a couple of weeks ( as with " Goodbye Yellow Brick Road "), the team spent the better part of a month off the road at Caribou Ranch Studios working on the recordings.

In 1993, pop rock band Ex-Votos released an album called " Cantigas do Bloqueio ", with the hit single " Subtilezas porno-populares " a. k. a. "... e pimba " a song that talked about the sexual fantasies of a degenerate man-it was so successful that popular singer Emanuel was quick to jump in the bandwagon and create a song with the same expression (" pimba ") being repeatedly used in the chorus.

Eric Danton of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel found the album " suffers from the same problem afflicting most major-label albums dumped on the market by an industry desperate for quick cash — It's About Time features one hit single, a couple of lesser tracks and a lot of filler.

Similar to the quick follow-up of Emergency Exit to ClockWork ( spaced ten months apart ), Larsen indicated that his desire was to release a follow-up album to Broken Windows, tentatively titled The Last of the Romantics, sometime in late 2004.

Some critics were quick to note that this live album was Starr's seventh official release of the sort in fourteen years.

He followed this in quick succession with Live at the Algonquin ( 1986 ); Remember: Michael Feinstein Sings Irving Berlin ( 1987 ); Isn't It Romantic ( 1988 ), a collection of standards and his first album backed by an orchestra ; and Over There ( 1989 ), featuring the music of America and Europe during the First World War.

1982 saw the release of her breakthrough album Age to Age.

The second was their breakthrough album, 2112, released the following year in 1976.

1: The Miracle and the Sleeper ", which was released on the band's 1992 breakthrough album, Images and Words, and is followed by the 2005 album " Octavarium ".

" Starman ", issued as an April single ahead of the album, was to cement Bowie's UK breakthrough: both single and album charted rapidly following his July Top of the Pops performance of the song.

Bowie contributed backing vocals to Lou Reed's 1972 solo breakthrough Transformer, co-producing the album with Mick Ronson.

Enya achieved a breakthrough in her career in 1988 with the album Watermark, which featured the hit song " Orinoco Flow " ( sometimes incorrectly known as " Sail Away ").

The band's American breakthrough came with the third album, Travelling Without Moving in 1996, which yielded two big hits, " Virtual Insanity " and " Cosmic Girl ".

The band released its breakthrough album, Hybrid Theory, the following year.

Credited for being the pioneers that paved the way for the commercial breakthrough of teen pop in the late 1990s, their debut album, Spice, sold more than 28 million copies worldwide, becoming the best-selling album by a female group in music history.

In 1999, the Come on Over album was remixed for the European market as a pop album with less country instrumentation and actually gave her the big breakthrough in Europe she and her producer husband ( Robert John " Mutt " Lange ) were looking for.

This album became her commercial and artistic breakthrough.

* August 10 – Michael Jackson releases his breakthrough album Off the Wall.

The album was a breakthrough success for the band.

After the release of the second album, Unveiling the Secret, along with titles such as " Prisoner to Desire ", " Black Panther ", and " The Saint Became a Lush ", Psyche achieved the European breakthrough that gave them the ability to go on a formal tour.

His next album, Poems, Prayers, and Promises ( released in 1971 ), was a breakthrough for him in the U. S., thanks in part to the single " Take Me Home, Country Roads ", which went to No. 2 on the Billboard charts despite the first pressings of the track being distorted.

The band has had several big Swedish radio hits since the breakthrough single " Kräm ( så nära får ingen gå )", from their second studio album.

The band became an international act in the late 1980s, when they released their breakthrough album Slippery When Wet.

Overkill released their breakthrough album The Years of Decay in 1989.

Face to Face ( 1966 ), the first Kinks album comprised solely of original material, was a creative breakthrough.

1977's Sweet Forgiveness album gave Raitt her first commercial breakthrough when it yielded a hit single in her cover of " Runaway.