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 ".

Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".

There was, at some stage during the making of the album an attempt to relate the material to firstly the idea of aging, then as an obscure radio play about the life of an ex-army bandsman and his shortcomings.

In 2004 the British hip hop group The Streets released A Grand Don't Come for Free, a concept album charting a period of the protagonists life in which he meets a girl, starts a relationship with her and then breaks up with her after finding out she has been cheating on him.

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.

Deicide then released their self-titled debut album, also produced by Scott Burns at Morrisound, in 1990.

The band released a full length album in September 2003 entitled " Money Money 2020 " and then a live DVD, " Disease is Punishment ".

" Book Of Days " was featured prominently in the movie Far and Away, with an English-lyric version created for the film then replacing the old Irish language version on all pressings of the Shepherd Moons album from 1993 onwards.

Subsequently, this song was then reissued on his " The Kentucky Colonel " album in 1959.

Though Jive Records did not push the album it gained infamy when radio station WSUC-FM ( 90. 5 ) of Cortland, NY was fined $ 23, 700 by the FCC for playing the song Yo Da-Lin In the Valley then the largest fine against a radio station.

Rock had problems with the release of " Picture ", a country-influenced duet with Sheryl Crow: his label felt it was wrong for his image, and was not keen to spend more money promoting a flagging album ; then, when they agreed to release it, Sheryl Crow's label initially refused to give permission.

Ken Barnes, then editor and vice president of Radio and Records, chose " Forever Changes " as his No. 3 all-time album.

He saw The Beatles perform at the Cavern Club when he was 16, then played guitar along to their first album, Please Please Me, learning the chords.

The debut album was then re-mixed by producer Roy Thomas Baker and re-released on August 20, 1982, two months after its Canadian Warner Music Group release using the original Leathür mixes, to coincide with the tour.

Coltrane then departed to form his classic quartet, although he returned for some of the tracks on Davis ' 1961 album Someday My Prince Will Come.

Power, Corruption & Lies, released in May 1983, was a synthesiser-based outing and a dramatic change in sound from Joy Division and the preceding album, although the band had been hinting at the increased use of technology during the music-making process for a number of years then, including their work as Joy Division.

Listening to her album Horses when he was 15 made a huge impact on him ; he said later, " I decided then that I was going to start a band.

In 1997, after almost two years of silence, they released their second album, albeit without Deon Blue, who by then had left the band.

Rush's music style has changed over the years, beginning with blues-inspired heavy metal on their first album, then encompassing hard rock, progressive rock, and a period with heavy use of synthesizers.

He then became involved with the avant-garde, performing on Jazz Advance ( 1956 ), the debut album of Cecil Taylor, and appearing with Taylor's groundbreaking quartet at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival ; he also made a notable appearance on an early Gil Evans album.

The show ended with Ross singing " Take Me Higher " from her 1995 album of the same name, and then she was taken from the field in a helicopter.

Good Time Jazz has released a nice two-record album which he made.

In 2009, on her album Running for the Drum, Buffy Sainte-Marie released a new version of " America the Beautiful ".

The band completed their third album and released it exclusively digital on August 29, 2009.

Marc also formed a group with Black Silver called Live Black, but while five of their tracks were released on a demo CD sold at concerts, Live Black's first album has yet to be released.

In 2008, Ice-T and Black Silver toured together as Black Ice, and released an album together called Urban Legends.

Parsons released titles under his name ( Try Anything Once, On Air, The Time Machine, and A Valid Path ), while Woolfson made concept albums named Freudiana ( about Sigmund Freud's work on psychology ) and Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination ( continuing from the Alan Parsons Project's first album about Edgar Allan Poe's literature ).

They toured Europe and released an album on Atlantic Records.

In 2010, American dance recording artist Kelis released a song called " Acapella " as the first single from her album Flesh Tone.

A Voices Only album has been released every year since 2005.

In 1992, Osdorp Posse released their debut album Osdorp Stijl, which was the first-ever Dutch hip hop.

In 2009, they released the album Colucci Era.

The 2009 Broadway revival with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury recorded a cast album on January 4, 2010 which was released on April 6.

In 1959, Capp recorded and released an album for Folkways Records ( now owned by the Smithsonian ) on which he identified and described " The Mechanics of the Comic Strip.

Love and Theft is the thirty-first studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released in September 2001 by Columbia Records.

In an interview conducted by Alan Jackson for The Times Magazine in 2001, before the album was released, Dylan said " these so-called connoisseurs of Bob Dylan music ... I don't feel they know a thing, or have any inkling of who I am and what I ’ m about.

In 1985, Andersson produced and released an album with brother and sister Anders and Karin Glenmark, featuring new songs by Andersson / Ulvaeus.

The duo named themselves Gemini, and a second album with more music by Björn and Benny was released in April 1987, containing the big hit " Mio My Mio "; also to be found on the soundtrack to the film Mio in the Land of Faraway, for which Andersson co-produced the music.

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

* Binary ( album ), the 5th studio album by Kay Tse, released on July 25, 2008