Emerson, Lake & Powell "Emerson, Lake & Powell"

Emerson, Lake & Powell is the only studio album by the band Emerson, Lake & Powell and was released in 1986. Two further albums comprising rehearsals (The Sprocket Sessions) and live material (Live in Concert) were subsequently issued in 2003.

The album's cover graphic is based on a logo used from the 1930s until the 1950s by German cigarette manufacturer Haus Bergmann.

"The Score" is used as the company theme music of professional wrestling promotion New Japan Pro Wrestling, played at live events, press conferences and to signify New Japan wrestlers' involvement on other companies' shows (usually to provoke a negative crowd reaction from said promotions' core fans).

"Touch and Go" is based on the traditional English folk song "Lovely Joan", though uncredited. Another version of "Touch and Go" was recorded by Emerson, Lake & Palmer and is included in the box set The Return of the Manticore (1993).

With the death of Cozy Powell on 5th April 1998, of Keith Emerson on 11th March 2016 and Greg Lake on 7th December 2016, there are no surviving members of the band.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Greg Lake, except where noted; all music is composed by Keith Emerson, Lake, except where noted.

Side one

1. "The Score" 9:10
2. "Learning to Fly" 3:52
3. "The Miracle" 7:02

Side two

1. "Touch and Go" 3:35
2. "Love Blind" 3:08
3. "Step Aside" 3:42
4. "Lay Down Your Guns" Lake, Steve Gould Emerson 4:20
5. "Mars, the Bringer of War" Gustav Holst (adaptation: Emerson, Lake, Cozy Powell) 7:53

Total length: 42:50

CD bonus tracks on some (but not all) US and Japanese Versions

1. "The Loco-Motion" Gerry Goffin, Carole King 4:40
2. "Vacant Possession" 4:42

Total length: 52:24

Emerson, Lake & Palmer "The Best Of Emerson, Lake & Palmer"

The Best of Emerson, Lake & Palmer is an album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1980. 

The Alan Parsons Project "The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project Volume 2"

The Best of the Alan Parsons Project, Vol. 2 is a 1988 greatest hits compilation by The Alan Parsons Project. 

Track listing

All tracks are written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.

1. "Prime Time" (single edit) Ammonia Avenue 3:48
2. "Let's Talk About Me" (single edit) Vulture Culture 3:37
3. "Standing on Higher Ground" (single edit) Gaudi 4:22
4. "Stereotomy" (single edit) Stereotomy 4:26
5. "Don't Answer Me" Ammonia Avenue 4:10
6. "Limelight" Stereotomy 4:38
7. "I Robot" I Robot 6:00
8. "What Goes Up..." Pyramid 3:24
9. "Days Are Numbers (The Traveller)" (single version) Vulture Culture 4:08
10. "Ammonia Avenue" Ammonia Avenue 6:32
11. "The Turn of a Friendly Card, Pt. 2" The Turn of a Friendly Card 3:20

Total length: 48:25

The Alan Parsons Project "The Best Of The Alan Parsons Project"

The Best of the Alan Parsons Project is a 1983 greatest hits compilation by the Alan Parsons Project. As well as featuring several previously released songs, it also contained a new song "You Don't Believe", which was included in the next APP album, Ammonia Avenue. In 1986, it had become the first album of the group to be released in the Soviet Union, although the song "Psychobabble" was removed from it.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Alan Parsons and Eric Woolfson.

1. "I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You" I Robot 3:08
2. "Eye in the Sky" Eye in the Sky 4:29
3. "Games People Play" The Turn of a Friendly Card 4:14
4. "Time" The Turn of a Friendly Card 4:57
5. "Pyramania" Pyramid 2:40
6. "You Don't Believe" Ammonia Avenue 4:23
7. "Lucifer (single edit)" Eve 4:05
8. "Psychobabble" Eye in the Sky 4:48
9. "Damned If I Do" Eve 3:30
10. "Don't Let It Show" I Robot 3:28
11. "Can't Take It with You" Pyramid 4:40
12. "Old and Wise (7" edit)" Eye in the Sky 4:04

Total length: 51:30

Supertramp "The Very Best Of Supertramp 2"

The Very Best of Supertramp 2 is a best of album by the English rock band Supertramp originally released by A&M Records in November 1992.

This compilation features 13 tracks from their five "prime" albums Crime of the Century, Crisis? What Crisis?, Even in the Quietest Moments..., Breakfast in America and ...Famous Last Words... as well as the title track from their 1987 album Free as a Bird. The cover depicts the starry backdrop and grate from the cover of Crime of the Century, the hand carrying the glass from the cover of Breakfast in America, and the orange umbrella from Crisis? What Crisis?.

Supertramp "The Very Best Of Supertramp"

The Very Best of Supertramp is a best of album by the English rock band Supertramp, originally released by A&M Records in June 1990.

The compilation features 15 studio recordings from 1974's Crime of the Century to 1985's Brother Where You Bound. The cover depicts the grate from the cover of Crime of the Century, the hand carrying the glass from the cover of Breakfast in America and the orange umbrella from Crisis? What Crisis?.

A Dutch release, also titled The Very Best of Supertramp, was issued in late 1989, featuring the same tracks but in a different order and a different sleeve. It was compiled by Dutch compilation label Arcade, although it was later re-issued on the A&M label. The album was a major success in the Dutch chart, spending nine weeks at number one and 70 weeks in total. Given its success, A&M did not officially release the alternative The Very Best of Supertramp in the Netherlands, although it has now replaced the Arcade version.

Bryan Ferry "Bête Noire"

Bête Noire is the seventh solo studio album by the English singer Bryan Ferry. The album was released in November 1987 on Virgin Records in the United Kingdom and E.G. in the United States. The album was a commercial and critical success, peaking at No. 9 in the UK and was certified Gold by the BPI.

The first single, "The Right Stuff" (a collaboration with Johnny Marr and is adapted from The Smiths' instrumental B-side "Money Changes Everything") was the album's only top 40 hit in the UK, peaking at No. 37. The second single, "Kiss and Tell", narrowly missed the UK top 40, but made the U.S. top 40 (becoming Ferry's only solo single to chart in the U.S. Top 40). The song also appeared in the film Bright Lights, Big City. The third and final single, "Limbo", peaked at No. 86 in the UK. The promotional video for the single "Kiss and Tell" features the models Mandy Smith (who is also featured on the single's cover photograph), Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies.

After the success of Ferry's previous album, Boys and Girls (1985), he decided that it was time for a change of style in his career. In an attempt to give his music a more danceable sound, he joined forces with Patrick Leonard who was famed for having worked with Madonna. Leonard went on to co-write five of the album's songs. Guesting on the album would be Pink Floyd's former guitarist, David Gilmour, session musicians Guy Pratt, David Williams, Abraham Laboriel, Roxy Music's former guitarist Neil Hubbard and drummer Andy Newmark.

Fans have often speculated that his song "Kiss and Tell", was Ferry's response to Jerry Hall's tell-all book about their relationship published a couple of years earlier.

Prior to the release of the album, Ferry claimed that his recording agreement with the label, E.G. ended in March 1987, and that he was in a position to sell his new album to any company. E.G. said that he was in breach of a 15-year contract which gave them exclusive rights to market the album in Canada and the United States. The action was heard at the High Court of Justice in London, and in a preliminary hearing, the parties agreed that if the album was to be released before the main hearing, Ferry was to pay a third of the royalties into a joint account with E.G. – which they would receive if they were to win the case. E.G. later won the case and they marketed the album in Canada and the United States.

The album was released in the United States by Reprise Records. Reprise Records 25598 debuted on the Billboard chart 11/21/1987 and spent 31 weeks on the chart peaking at #63.

Ferry toured Australia, Japan, United States, and Europe to promote the album. The Edge from U2 joined Ferry on stage at the Dublin show to perform the Irish folk song, "Carrickfergus" (which Ferry had previously recorded in 1978) and Johnny Marr joined the backing band for "The Right Stuff" at the Manchester show. Former Roxy Music musician Andy MacKay also joined the backing band for a few numbers at the London Palladium and Wembley Arena dates.

Several of the songs from the Glasgow show were included on several Bryan Ferry CD singles between 1993–95.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Bryan Ferry and Patrick Leonard, except where noted.

Side one

1. "Limbo" 5:00
2. "Kiss and Tell" Ferry 4:57
3. "New Town" Ferry 4:50
4. "Day for Night" 5:35
5. "Zamba" 3:00

Side two

1. "The Right Stuff" Ferry, Johnny Marr 4:25
2. "Seven Deadly Sins" Ferry, Chester Kamen, Guy Pratt 5:10
3. "The Name of the Game" 5:28
4. "Bête Noire" 4:53

Total length: 43:18

Note: The LP's sleeve notes includes "Vive la Résistance" to a list of musicians. Only their names are mentioned; their instruments and the exact songs on which they play are not. The following list merely tentatively mentions the instruments the same musicians have played on other Ferry records.

Bryan Ferry – lead vocals, keyboards, acoustic piano

Additional musicians

Patrick Leonard – keyboards, synthesizers

David Gilmour – guitars

Neil Hubbard – guitars

Dann Huff – guitars

Chester Kamen – guitars

Johnny Marr – guitars

Bill Rupert – guitars

David Williams – guitars

Abraham Laboriel – bass

Marcus Miller – bass

Guy Pratt – bass

Vinnie Colaiuta – drums

Andy Newmark – drums

John Robinson – drums

Rhett Davies – drum machines

Paulinho da Costa – percussion

Jimmy Maelen – percussion

Courtney Pine – saxophone

Dan Wilensky – saxophone

Mario Abramovich – violin

José Libertella – bandoneon

Luis Stazo – bandoneon

Tawatha Agee – backing vocals

Michelle Cobbs – backing vocals

Yanick Etienne – backing vocals

Siedah Garrett – backing vocals

Paul Johnson – backing vocals

Albert Sanchez – backing vocals

Fonzi Thornton – backing vocals

• All songs produced by Bryan Ferry and Patrick Leonard; Except "Kiss and Tell", "New Town", "The Right Stuff" and "Seven Deadly Sins" produced by Bryan Ferry, Patrick Leonard and Chester Kamen.
• Recording Engineers – Ian Eales, Steve Jackson and Kevin Killen.
• Mixed by Bruce Lampcov and Alan Meyerson
• Mastered by Bob Ludwig at Masterdisk (New York, NY).
• Tracks 1, 4, 5, 8 and 9 published by Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd. and Johnny Yuma Music.
• Tracks 2 and 3 published by Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd.
• Track 6 published by Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd. and Warner Brothers Music Ltd.
• Track 7 published by Virgin Music (Publishers) Ltd., Warner Brothers Music Ltd. and Copyright Control.