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 ".

" Run From Love " was subsequently released in a remix form on the Bronski Beat album Hundreds & Thousands, a collection of mostly remixes ( LP ) and b-sides ( as bonus tracks on the CD version ) as well as the hit " I Feel Love ".

In addition he released two albums in July 1990: the instrumental jazz trio album Lofty's Roach Souffle and a big-band album of mostly original songs titled We Are in Love, which also went double platinum.

In 2011, Limp Bizkit's long awaited sixth studio album, Gold Cobra, was a commercial success, selling 63, 000 copies in the United States and peaking at number 16 on the Billboard 200 and the album has received mostly positive reviews.

On the EP, Francis drew upon his experiences in Puerto Rico, mostly in the songs " Vamos " and " Isla de Encanta "; the album included lyrics describing the poverty in Puerto Rico.

While the album is almost completely guitar-driven, it is mostly devoid of any conventional sounding guitar solos, a conscious decision made by Lifeson during the writing process.

In the 1985 album King of Rocks title track, McDaniels says the initials have two meanings: " Devastating Mic Control " and " D for never dirty, MC for mostly clean.

They recorded their first album, Casa ( 2001 ), mostly in Jobim's home studio in Rio de Janeiro, with Sakamoto performing on the late Jobim's grand piano.

* The album, Midnight Marauders ( 1993 ) by A Tribe Called Quest includes the song " Steve Biko ( Stir It Up )" in which Biko is mentioned very briefly during the song, mostly in the 20 second chorus.

is a mostly instrumental album made up of music composed earlier in their career, which had been completely reworked for the Voice of Midnight album.

The album was received with mostly favorable reviews and sold enough copies to chart at # 12 on the Billboard 200, a significantly higher position than the preceding album's position at # 54 on the same chart.

Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Amos's tenth solo studio album and her first album released through Universal Republic, was released in May 2009 to mostly positive reviews.

The album featured an eclectic range of songs ( mostly covers ) performed in diverse genres.

They released IBTABA in 1989, a " live " album of mostly re-worked versions of songs from The Ideal Copy and A Bell Is a Cup, heavily re-arranged, edited, and remixed.

Nicks used material written mostly in previous years to record a solo album in 1992 and 1993 entitled Street Angel, which was ultimately released following her detox in May 1994.

The band's 1997 and 1998 tour featured only a few pieces from the album, but mostly concentrated on earlier material.

The tone of the album was more introspective and relatively low-key compared to the mostly upbeat numbers of Graceland.

The album consisted mostly of folk-pop writing combined with foreign musical sounds, particularly grooves from North Africa.

This was an album of mostly self-penned acoustic, country-flavored songs about love and life and was closely followed by Have a Good Time For Me, also on Atlantic.

In 2002, Newton-John released ( 2 ), a duets album featuring mostly Australian artists ( Tina Arena, Darren Hayes, Jimmy Little, Johnny O ' Keefe, Billy Thorpe, Keith Urban ) as well as a heartfelt " duet " with the deceased Peter Allen.

Although it was acknowledged as a continuation of their old work, albeit with an increased use of synthesisers, Sam Spies of the Richmond Times-Dispatch noted that " the experiments in style that made Cake fun to listen to have all but disappeared from ' Pressure Chief ' ... What's left is mostly uninspired, so-called alternative rock ", and Graeme Hammond of the Sunday Herald Sun wrote that " the melodies are listless, the album bereft of anything with the verve of Short Skirt / Long Jacket or Comfort Eagle ".

The album was met with mixed, but mostly positive, reviews.

Age to Age became the first Christian album by a solo artist to be certified gold ( 1983 ) and the first Christian album to be certified platinum ( 1985 ).

Tim Blake ( synthesiser player on Planet Gong ) produced a solo album called " Blake's New Jerusalem ", including a 20 minute track with lyrics from Blake's poem.

In 1987, Andersson released his first solo album Klinga Mina Klockor (" Chime, My Bells ").

A second solo album followed: November 1989.

In 2006, Love started recording what was going to be her second solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean, collaborating with again with Perry and Billy Corgan in the writing and recording.

Nobody's Daughter featured a great deal of material written and recorded for Love's aborted solo album, How Dirty Girls Get Clean, including " Pacific Coast Highway ", " Letter to God ", " Samantha ", and " Never Go Hungry ", although they were re-produced with Larkin.

Her later work was more introspective in its lyrics as opposed to aggressive ; Hole's Celebrity Skin and Love's solo album, America's Sweetheart, focused more on celebrity life, Hollywood, and drug addiction, while also carrying on past themes of vanity and body image, and Nobody's Daughter was lyrically reflective of Love's past relationships and her struggle to sobriety, with the majority of its lyrics having been written while Love was in rehab in 2006.

Tim Finn had resumed his solo career after leaving the group in 1992 and he also worked with Neil on a second Finn Brothers album, Everyone Is Here, which was released in 2004.

In 2001 he released a solo album, Nada Sonata.

It was on Hessie's Shed that Finn, Hester and Seymour last shared a stage, on an episode filmed as part of Finn's promotion for his solo album Try Whistling This in 1998.

Matt Sherrod, Dublin, 2007. In 2006 Neil Finn asked Nick Seymour to play bass on his third solo album.

As the recording sessions progressed it was decided that the album would be issued under the Crowded House band name, rather than as a Neil Finn solo album.

* Chimera, a 1983 solo album by Bill Nelson

The Jacksons ( previously The Jackson 5 ) did many disco songs from 1975 to 1980, including " Shake Your Body ( Down to the Ground )" ( 1978 ), " Blame it on the Boogie " ( 1978 ), and " Can You Feel It " ( 1980 )— all sung by Michael Jackson, whose 1979 solo album, Off the Wall, included several disco hits, including the album's title song, " Rock with You ", " Workin ' Day and Night ", and his second chart-topping solo hit in the disco genre, " Don't Stop ' til You Get Enough ".

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

During the same period, Iggy Pop, with Bowie as a co-writer and musician, completed his solo album debut, The Idiot, and its follow-up, Lust for Life, touring the UK, Europe, and the US in March and April 1977.

His final solo album of the decade was 1987's Never Let Me Down, where he ditched the light sound of his previous two albums, instead offering harder rock with an industrial / techno dance edge.

Tin Machine began work on a second album, but Bowie put the venture on hold and made a return to solo work.

Tin Machine toured again, but after the live album Tin Machine Live: Oy Vey, Baby failed commercially, the band drifted apart, and Bowie, though he continued to collaborate with Gabrels, resumed his solo career.

Also, in the wake of Devo's demise, Bob Mothersbaugh attempted to start a solo career with The Bob I Band, recording an album that was never released.

* Since 1972 – Josh Freese's solo album

His second solo album, Davy Jones ( 1971 ) was notable for the song " Rainy Jane ", which reached # 52 in the Billboard charts.