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 ".

Numan re-evaluated his career and went in a harsher, more industrial direction with his songwriting on the album Sacrifice — for the first time he played almost all the instruments himself.

Although misunderstood by many critics at the time, the album has been re-evaluated and highly praised in recent years and is now listed at No. 91 in the book, CCM Presents: The 100 Greatest Albums in Christian Music, released in 2001.

A limited edition release included two bonus tracks on a separate disc recorded in the early 1960s, and two years later, on September 16, 2003, this album was one of fifteen Dylan titles reissued and remastered for SACD hybrid playback.

According to the band's website, although the group admired Holly ( and years later produced an album covering some of his songs ), their name was inspired primarily by the sprigs of holly in evidence around Christmas of 1962.

1 " introduced a story, further parts of the " Metropolis " story were unseen on that album or subsequent releases for seven years.

For many years, Decade was the only Neil Young compilation album available.

He then confounded the expectations of both his record label and his American audiences by recording the minimalist album Low ( 1977 )— the first of three collaborations with Brian Eno over the next two years.

The album, which would remain in the chart for two years, was soon joined there by the six-month-old Hunky Dory.

American Pies success made McLean an international star and piqued interest in his first album, which charted more than two years after its initial release.

They issued the Chain Lightning album two and a half years after it had been recorded in Nashville, and two years after its release in Europe.

1990 saw the release of Smooth Noodle Maps, which would be Devo's last album for twenty years.

His last full-length album in over ten years.

Three years later she followed with another hit album, Shepherd Moons, which sold twelve million copies and earned Enya her first Grammy Award.

Four years after Shepherd Moons she released The Memory of Trees ( 1995 ), another Top Five success in both the UK and Germany, as well as her first Top 10 album in the U. S. Singles released from the album were " Anywhere Is " and " On My Way Home ".

ELO effectively disbanded after that final show in Stuttgart in 1986, but there was no announcement made of it for the next two years, during which George Harrison's Lynne-produced album Cloud Nine and the pair's follow-up ( with Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan and Tom Petty as Traveling Wilburys ) Traveling Wilburys Vol.

Included amongst the remastered album tracks were unreleased songs and out-takes, including 2 new singles " Surrender " which registered on the lower end of the UK Singles Chart at number 81, some 30 years after it was written in 1976.

Brooks released Fresh Horses, his first album of new material in two years, in November 1995 ; within six months of its release, it had sold over three million copies.

Gloria Gaynor returned to the recording studio in 2002, releasing her first album in over 15 years, entitled, I Wish You Love.

He released Come By Me, his first album of big band music in eight years in 1999, and embarked on a world tour visiting the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia.

In July 2003, Connick released his first instrumental album in fifteen years, Other Hours Connick on Piano Volume 1.

After several years in development, Ramone's second posthumous album was released on May 22, 2012.

In 1997, after many years of hard work, Berry released a solo album called Second Wave on One Way Records.

:: Mostly worked on by Jan from 1966 to 1968 the album was shelved by Warner Brothers for 44 years.