Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

Their debut album, Pretty on the Inside ( 1991 ) garnered them critical praise, and they went on to achieve international critical and commercial success for their following albums, Live Through This ( 1994 ) and Celebrity Skin ( 1998 ).

The Who went on to further explorations of the concept album format with their follow-up project Lifehouse, which was abandoned before completion, and with their 1973 rock opera, Quadrophenia.

In the 1980s, concept albums also became popular among rock bands like Kiss, with their album, 1981's Music from " The Elder ", which went on to become the group's poorest selling and charting album in their history, primarily because of its radical departure in musical style compared to Kiss's previous offerings.

The comedy group Buckner & Garcia released a novelty concept album, Pac-Man Fever, that went gold and produced a hit single of the same name ; all of the songs on the album pertained to popular video games of the time.

Nonetheless, on the strength of these unusual time signatures ( the album included " Take Five ", " Blue Rondo à la Turk ", and " Three To Get Ready "), it quickly went platinum.

The album strongly revitalized Parton's somewhat stagnant music career, spending five weeks at number one on Billboard's Country Albums chart, selling several million copies and producing four Top 10 country hits including Phil Spector's " To Know Him Is to Love Him ", which went to number one.

The album went to number one in the UK, spawning the hits " Rebel Rebel " and " Diamond Dogs ", and number five in the US.

Co-produced by Chic's Nile Rodgers, the album went platinum in both the UK and the US.

The album spawned hit singles from both Newton-John (" Magic ," No. 1 in the United States, and " Suddenly " with Cliff Richard ) and ELO (" I'm Alive ", which went gold, " All Over the World " and " Don't Walk Away ").

Bevan approached Lynne to make another ELO album in 1988, but Lynne was not interested and went on to announce that ELO was no more.

Harmony Corruption, their third full-length album, was tuned up to a D. Bolt Thrower went further, dropping 3½ steps down ( A ).

The group was signed to Tommy Boy Records, and their House of Pain debut album ( 1992 ) went multi-platinum, spawning the successful DJ Muggs produced single " Jump Around ".

Their follow-up album, 1994's Same as It Ever Was, went gold despite minimal airplay and no major hits.

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.

He released She, an album of New Orleans funk that also went platinum.

In October 2003, he released his second Christmas album, Harry for the Holidays, which went gold and reached No. 12 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

After a slow start, his country-flavored hit " Picture " with Sheryl Crow resurrected the album and it went gold as a single and pushed the album's sales over 5 million.

" Kid Rock went on the Vans Warped Tour to support the album, performing one of his first New York City shows at Luna Lounge on the Lower East Side during the CMJ convention.

He also produced the 1990 single " Knockin ' Boots " for his classmate Candyman's album Ain't No Shame in My Game, which eventually went platinum thanks to the single

A subsequent single ( a re-worked version of " Down Under ") and their first album ( Business as Usual ) went to No. 1.

2, was released on 6 September, entering straight at number one on the Swedish chart, and the final album of the trilogy, Body Talk, was released on 22 November 2010 with lead single " Indestructible ".

Richie Unterberger of Allmusic called the album " blues – rock gone slightly askew, with jagged, fractured rhythms, soulful, twisting vocals from Van Vliet, and more doo wop, soul, straight blues, and folk – rock influences than he would employ on his more avant garde outings ".

In 2005, Sire Records invested in Brisbane band The Veronicas who went straight to number 2 with their debut single " 4 Ever " and album " The Secret Life Of The Veronicas ".

In 1970 they played to four straight sell out crowds on January 17 and 18 at the Felt Forum later released as Live in New York ( The Doors live album ).

It seemed I couldn't get press on my album unless I was willing to play into the role that the mainstream press has assigned to gay people, which is as servants of straight ideals.

Pure Prairie League, formed in Ohio in 1969 by Craig Fuller, had both critical and commercial success with 5 straight Top 40 LP releases, including Bustin ' Out ( 1972 ), acclaimed by Allmusic critic Richard Foss as " an album that is unequaled in country-rock " and Two Lane Highway, described by Rolling Stone Magazine as " a worthy companion to the likes of The Byrds ' Sweetheart Of The Rodeo and other gems of the genre ".

This was a divergence from the concept of straight live performance without studio trickery, but a relatively minor one, and avoids the somewhat abrupt ending of the version that is used on the Let It Be ... Naked album.

Tomlin has been involved in a number of feminist and gay-friendly film productions, and on her 1975 album Modern Scream she poked fun at straight actors who make a point of distancing themselves from their gay and lesbian charactersanswering the pseudo-interview question, she replied: " How did it feel to play a heterosexual?

" The album, eleven songs in all, was Creedence's best seller and went straight to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album charts and No. 11 on Billboard's Soul Albums chart.

More of a straight ahead death metal effort with symphonic elements, the demo attracted the attention of Cacophonous Records, who signed the band to a three album deal.

In 2010 he released " Born Free " a straight southern rock album without any rap or metal on it.

" Over the next five years Solomon recorded a string of straight gospel albums, beginning with Lord, I Need A Miracle Right Now ( 1979 ), his first ever gospel album.

There is an often-repeated myth that on the day of his release, Skip left Bellevue, jumped on a motorcycle dressed only in his pajamas, and headed straight to Nashville for the recording of his only solo album, Oar, on which he played all of the instruments and produced the album himself.

Signed to RCA Records in 1989, Black made his debut with his Killin ' Time album, which produced four straight number one singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts.

Also a platinum certified album in the US, this album accounted for five straight top five hits.

However, rather than re-release the album straight forward, they recreated the album in a brand new session.

The album brought the band five straight top-10 singles and was a hit throughout Europe, Asia and Canada.

The name of the album alludes to the seven deadly sins which, according to Andi Deris, it goes straight to the point " after an acoustic album, we needed definitely

In Season ten the weekly studio recordings were also released as compilation digital album straight after performance night.

In a return to Scofieldesque " straight ahead " jazz, he went to the studio in January 2011 with pianist / organist Larry Goldings, bassist Scott Colley and drummer Brian Blade, laying the tracks for a ballads album scheduled for a May 2011 release on EmArcy Records.