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 ".

However, later in 1966, Brian Wilson began work on the Smile album, which was intended as a narrative.

Sessions for the planned album Toy, intended to feature new versions of some of Bowie's earliest pieces as well as three new songs, commenced in 2000, but the album was never released.

The group's name is an intended pun based not only on electric light ( as in a light bulb as seen on early album covers ) but also using " electric " rock instruments combined with a " light orchestra " ( orchestras with only a few cellos and violins that were popular in Britain during the 1960s ).

According to the band's official website, this was intended as part of a tongue-in-cheek album called Nirvana Sings Nirvana that was aborted when Cobain died.

" Spinning Around " was a dance-pop track intended to be the lead single on Abdul's follow-up album to Head over Heels.

The title of the fourth Roxy album, Country Life, was intended as a parody of the well-known British rural magazine of the same name, and the visually punning front cover photo featured two models ( two German fans, Constanze Karoli — sister of Can's Michael Karoli — and Eveline Grunwald ) clad only in semi-transparent lingerie standing in a forest.

Sessions in October and November yielded just one usable single (" Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window "), and two days of recording in January 1966 for what was intended to be Dylan's next album, Blonde on Blonde resulted in " One of Us Must Know ( Sooner or Later )", which was released as a single a few weeks later and was subsequently selected for the album.

Although it was a full-length album, it was not intended to be the follow-up to Skylarking.

Ono's final album of the 1980s was Starpeace, a concept album that she intended as an antidote to Ronald Reagan's " Star Wars " missile defense system.

On 15 July 2010, it was announced he had rejoined Take That and that the group intended to release a new album in November 2010 which became the second fastest-selling album in UK chart history and the fastest-selling record of the century so far.

In Japan, such examples of music inspired by a work and not intended to soundtrack an radio play or motion picture adaptation of it are known as an " image album " or " image song ," though this definition also includes such things as film score demos inspired by concept art and songs inspired by a TV series which do not feature in it.

The band's album covers often incorporate complex and intricate art intended to reflect the themes explored in the music.

The Long Live Love album was released in the United States as If You Love Me, Let Me Know with the six Eurovision songs dropped for four different, more country-oriented tracks intended to capitalize on the success of " Let Me Be There ".

The latter was actually intended for a tribute album for Gene Eugene, who had died recently.

Wetton resurfaced with a 1987 album with guitarist Phil Manzanera, Wetton-Manzanera, based on material that had been originally intended for Asia.

The next album intended for release was to be The Black Album.

" He went on to say that he regretted not having released 4: 13 Dream as a double album as originally intended, but had been " worn down by the fucking idiots around me at the time ".

He still wanted to re-release the album in its intended format, but was hampered by the fact that " the group who made it doesn ’ t exist anymore ".

Originally intended to be a double album called It Comes to You in a Plain Brown Wrapper for the label, it was released later in pieces in 1971 and 1995.

In overview, the works for the double album in this period were intended to be packaged in a plain brown wrapper, with a ' strictly personal ' over-stamp and addressed in a manner that could have connotations of drug content, pornographic or illicit material ; As per the small ads of the time ; " It comes to you in a plain brown wrapper ".

The latter two tracks appear as remixes of the intended album versions and none of " LP5 "' s tracks are expected to resemble the versions that were played on the previous tour, with some songs, such as " Dobro ", dropped altogether.

The album continued Dylan's artistic comeback following 1997's Time Out of Mind, and was given an even more enthusiastic reception.

To herald the band's comeback, the single and lead track from the album, " One Little Victory " was designed to grab the attention of listeners with its rapid guitar and drum tempos.

Anderson Records released Anni-Frid Lyngstad's Swedish comeback album Djupa andetag in 1996, as well as Michael B. Tretow's Greatest Hits in 1999.

After he left The Band, Robbie Robertson became a music producer and wrote film soundtracks ( including acting as music supervisor for several of Scorsese's films ) before a highly praised comeback with a Daniel Lanois produced, eponymous solo album in 1987.

Yes released their comeback album 90125 ( named after its catalogue serial number on Atco Records ) in November 1983.

Most critics also praised the album, and many of them called it a real " comeback " for the artist.

In 1991, Emerson, Lake & Palmer reformed and issued a 1992 comeback album, Black Moon, on JVC.

" Huey of Allmusic cited the Doc at the Radar Station as being " generally acclaimed as the strongest album of his comeback, and by some as his best since Trout Mask Replica ", " even if the Captain's voice isn't quite what it once was, Doc at the Radar Station is an excellent, focused consolidation of Beefheart's past and then-present ".

In 2001, with new guitarist Sami Yli-Sirniö, Kreator released their " comeback " album Violent Revolution, which saw the band returning to their classic thrash metal style.

In 1989 Norman explained why Home at Last, the third album in his Second Trilogy, was released before the other two albums: " When it was suggested that my " comeback ", after ten years absence, might be a difficult passage back into the public arena, it was decided that Stranded in Babylon might be too radical a message for the first release.

Home At Last, Norman's first album on a major US CCM label, was a double album that was promoted by its distributor, Benson Records, as Norman's " comeback album ", announcing " Larry Norman's Back ".

In 1991 he released his comeback solo album, Back from Rio to successful acclaim.

In 2005, his album of big-band arrangements of contemporary standards, Rock Swings, provided a mainstream comeback of sorts that saw Anka awarded a star on Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto.

After recovering from a liver transplant, in 2003 he managed to make a successful comeback with his album Alma, surprising the audience with the song " Mola mazo " (" It rules ") in an exercise of self-assertion.

With his voice strong again, and his songs exploring musical territory reminiscent of Harry or The Point !, Nilsson anticipated Knnillssonn to be a comeback album.

After a year of retirement, Robinson announced his comeback with the release of the eponymous titled Smokey album, in 1973.

In 1987, following a period of personal and professional issues, Robinson made a comeback with the album, One Heartbeat and the singles, " Just to See Her " and " One Heartbeat ", which both peaked at the top ten, with " Just to See Her " winning Robinson his first Grammy Award in 1988.

Robinson remained virtually quiet during the nineties making a brief comeback in 1999 when he re-signed with Motown and issued the album, Intimate, which included the song " Easy to Love ".

View from the Ground became America's comeback album in 1982

This comeback record reached No. 26 on Billboard's album chart and was Bread's seventh consecutive album ( including the two best ofs ) to be R. I. A. A.

The four members of Bread ( along with session guitarist Dean Parks ) toured throughout 1977 to support their comeback album.

Despite generally bad reviews from critics ( who claimed that the band had " dumbed themselves down " not only lyrically, but musically as well ) it was considered by fans of the band as their " comeback album ", with the title track, " Cyco Vision " and " We Are A Family " becoming fan favorites ( although no singles from the album were released ).