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 ".

") According to the liner notes of his first ( self-titled ) album, musician Bob Dylan dedicated the first song he ever wrote to Bardot.

The American Pie album is dedicated to Holly.

* Historical artistic and cultural album dedicated to the Borzoi.

Parts of the rock-opera Tommy ( May 1969 ) were inspired by Townshend's study of Baba, to whom the album was dedicated.

The Australian alternative rock band, The Go-Betweens dedicated a track off their 1994 album The Friends of Rachel Worth, When She Sang About Angels in reference to Smith's long time influence on themselves.

" On November 10, 1998 a triple CD live album entitled Different Stages was released, dedicated to the memory of Selena and Jacqueline.

This was followed in 1999 by another graphic album titled A Cosmic Cornucopia, which includes extensive text by David Langford and two chapters dedicated to his work for Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

He recorded an album dedicated to the songs of Don Gibson and another of Hank Williams covers, but both sold poorly.

She previously dated actor Owen Wilson ; her album C ' mon C ' mon ( 2002 ) featured the song " Safe and Sound ", which was dedicated to him and which, according to the album's liner notes, was an autobiographical account of their relationship.

* The White Stripes self-titled debut album was dedicated to Son House and De Stijl featured a cover of " Death Letter ".

Some tracks from an abandoned album dedicated to Sun Ra and Ray Charles have also surfaced.

In the liner notes to Season of Glass, Ono explained that the album is not dedicated to Lennon because " he would have been offended — he was one of us.

The German power metal band Blind Guardian have written two songs dedicated to the Wheel of Time series as part of their 2010 album At the Edge of Time: " Ride Into Obsession " and " Wheel of Time ".

The final track on the album, " Childhood Dreams ", was dedicated to her daughter, Nevis.

Intending to raise awareness about Hicks's material and ideas, Tool dedicated their triple-platinum album Ænima ( 1996 ) to Hicks.

The Beat Fleet, a Croatian hip hop band, wrote a song called " Data " for their album Galerija Tutnplok dedicated to Data.

Folk singer Odetta's album To Ella ( 1998 ) is dedicated to Fitzgerald, but features no songs associated with her.

* The German ambient musician and multi-instrumentalist Klaus Wiese released an album titled Samarkand, which is dedicated to the Ḥāl concept of Sufism.

Although McLean dedicated the American Pie album to Buddy Holly, none of the musicians in the plane crash are identified by name in the song itself.

Marianne Faithfull's album Broken English had the title track dedicated to Meinhof.

Newton-John dedicated the album to her mother, who had died the previous year.

Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen dedicated his 1986 album Trilogy in the memory of Olof Palme.

The album is dedicated to John Anderson, who played Pat Knight in " The Last Gunfighter.

Austin based band Shearwater dedicated their album Palo Santo to the memory of Nico.