Def Leppard - Hard Rock (UK)

Def Leppard are an English rock band formed in 1977 in Sheffield as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement. Since 1992, the band has consisted of Joe Elliott (lead vocals), Rick Savage (bass, backing vocals), Rick Allen (drums, backing vocals), Phil Collen (guitars, backing vocals), and Vivian Campbell (guitars, backing vocals). This is the band's longest lasting line-up.

The band's strongest commercial success came between the early 1980s and the early 1990s. Their 1981 album, High 'n' Dry, was produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, who helped them begin to define their style, and the album's standout track "Bringin' On the Heartbreak" became one of the first rock videos played on MTV in 1982. The band's next studio album, Pyromania, was released in January 1983, with "Photograph" and "Rock of Ages" as the lead singles. In the U.S., Pyromania was certified diamond (10× platinum), making Def Leppard among the most popular music groups at the time. In 2003, the album ranked number 384 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

Def Leppard's fourth album Hysteria, released in 1987, topped the UK and U.S. album charts. As of 2009, it has reached beyond the success of Pyromania, having been certified 12× platinum for sales of over 12 million in the U.S. and has gone on to sell over 25 million copies worldwide. The album spawned seven hit singles, including the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 number one "Love Bites", alongside "Pour Some Sugar on Me", "Hysteria", "Armageddon It", "Animal", "Rocket", and "Women". Their next studio album, Adrenalize (the first following the death of guitarist Steve Clark), reached number one in UK and U.S. charts in 1992, and contained several hits, including "Let's Get Rocked" and "Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad". Their 1993 album, Retro Active, contained the acoustic hit song "Two Steps Behind". Their greatest-hits album Vault, released in 1995, featured the UK hit "When Love & Hate Collide".

As one of the world's best-selling music artists, Def Leppard have sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and have two albums with RIAA diamond certification, Pyromania and Hysteria. They are one of only five rock bands with two original studio albums selling over 10 million copies in the U.S. The band were ranked No. 31 in VH1's "100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock" and ranked No. 70 in "100 Greatest Artists of All Time". Def Leppard will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019.

Def Leppard - On Through The Night 1980

Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry 1981

Def Leppard - Pyromania 1983

Def Leppard - Live At The L.A. Forum 1983

Def Leppard - Hysteria 1987

Nirvana - Rock

Nirvana was an American rock band formed in Aberdeen, Washington, in 1987. It was founded by lead singer and guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic. Nirvana went through a succession of drummers, the longest-lasting and best-known being Dave Grohl, who joined in 1990. Though the band dissolved in 1994 after the death of Cobain, their music maintains a popular following and continues to influence modern rock and roll culture.

In the late 1980s, Nirvana established itself as part of the Seattle grunge scene, releasing its first album, Bleach, for the independent record label Sub Pop in 1989. They developed a sound that relied on dynamic contrasts, often between quiet verses and loud, heavy choruses. After signing to major label DGC Records, Nirvana found unexpected worldwide success with "Smells Like Teen Spirit", the first single from the band's second album Nevermind (1991), which has now been ranked as one of the greatest songs in the history of rock music. Nevermind has also been called one of the greatest albums of all time and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide. Nirvana's sudden success widely popularized alternative rock and grunge, and Cobain found himself referred to in the media as the "spokesman of a generation", with Nirvana considered the "flagship band" of Generation X. After touring heavily and releasing Incesticide (1992) and Hormoaning (1992), Nirvana's third studio album, In Utero (1993), was released to critical acclaim. The album debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 album chart and featured an abrasive, less mainstream sound and challenged the group's audience and has since sold over 15 million copies worldwide. In Utero would be Nirvana's last studio album in their active career. Nirvana's active career ended following the death of Cobain in 1994, but many various posthumous releases have been issued since, overseen by Novoselic, Grohl, and Cobain's widow Courtney Love. The posthumous release MTV Unplugged in New York won the Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 1996.

Overall, Nirvana have received twelve awards from twenty-five nominations winning an American Music Award, Brit Award, Grammy Award, seven MTV Video Music Awards and two NME Awards Since its debut, the band has sold over 25 million records in the United States alone, and over 75 million records worldwide, making them one of the best-selling bands of all time. Nirvana has also been ranked as one of the greatest music artists of all time with Rolling Stone placing them at number 27 on their list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2004, and at number 30 on their updated list in 2011.[5] Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014, in its first year of eligibility.

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Osibisa - Jazz Funk Afro Rock (UK - Ghana)

Osibisa is an Afrobeat band, founded in London in 1969 by four expatriate African and three Caribbean musicians. Their music is a fusion of African, Caribbean, jazz, funk, rock, Latin, and R&B. Osibisa were one of the first African-heritage bands to become widely popular and linked with the establishment of world music as a marketable genre.

In Ghana in the 1950s, Teddy Osei (saxophone), Sol Amarfio (drums), Mamon Shareef, and Farhan Freere (flute) played in a highlife band called The Star Gazers. They left to form The Comets, with Osei's brother Mac Tontoh on trumpet, and scored a hit in West Africa with their 1958 song "Pete Pete." In 1962 Osei moved to London to study music on a scholarship from the Ghanaian government. In 1964 he formed Cat's Paw, an early "world music" band that combined highlife, rock, and soul. In 1969 he persuaded Amarfio and Tontoh to join him in London, and Osibisa was born.

Joining them in the first incarnation were Grenadian Spartacus R (bass); Trinidadian Robert Bailey (keyboard); Antiguan Wendell Richardson (lead guitar and lead vocalist); and Nigerians Mike Odumosu and Fred Coker (bass guitar) and Lasisi Amao (percussionist and tenor saxophone). The band spent much of the 1970s touring the world, playing to large audiences in Japan, Australia, India, and Africa. During this time Paul Golly (guitar) and Ghanaians Daku Adams "Potato" and Kiki Gyan were also members of the band. In 1980 Osibisa performed at a special Zimbabwean independence celebration, and in 1983 were filmed onstage at the Marquee Club in London. Changes in the music industry however (punk and disco primarily) meant declining sales for the band, and a series of label changes resulted. The band returned to Ghana to set up a recording studio and theatre complex to help younger highlife musicians. In the 1990s their music was widely anthologised in many CD collections, most of them unauthorised and paying no royalties whatsoever to the band.

In 1996 Osei reformed the band, and many of their past releases began coming out legally on CD. The revitalised band remains active, although Osei has cut back his touring schedule due to the effects of a stroke. Osibisa had an energetic performance in India, at the November Fest 2010 on 28 November 2010 at the Corporation Kalaiarangam in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The name Osibisa was described in lyrics, album notes and interviews as meaning "criss-cross rhythms that explode with happiness" but it actually comes from "osibisaba" the Fante word for highlife. Their style influenced many of the emerging African musicians of the time and even now, as Ace Ghanaian hip-hop music producer Hammer of The Last Two stated that his debut production, Obrafour's Pae Mu Ka album, the highest selling hiplife album to date was inspired by a single song ("Welcome Home") by Osibisa. He also had the chance to work with Kiki Gyan a few days before his death.

Their first two albums featured artwork (and logo) by famed progressive-rock artist Roger Dean (before he became famous for his artwork), depicting flying elephants which became the symbol for the band. The third album, Heads, features a cover by Mati Klarwein, famed for his covers for Santana (Abraxas) and Miles Davis (Bitches Brew). Osibirock features "Negro Attacked by a Jaguar" (1910) by Henri Rousseau. Playing on the original flying elephants theme, the Ultimate Collection set features elephants with tank turrets for heads. In 2009, their Osee Yee album featured the flying elephants once more, this time painted by Freyja Dean (Dean's daughter). Roger Dean's logo for the band continues to be used on every release. One major controversy surrounding the death of legendary keyboardist Kiki Djan, was made public by his daughter Vanessa Sullivan Djan in an interview she granted a local newspaper RazzPaper. In the interview she stated "“They betrayed him! If I’m your friend and I’m into some form of immorality and you watch me go on with it till I crush, that is a form of betrayal! Kiki wrote many songs when he was part of Osibisa but they never gave him credit for that. That was another betrayal.” Teddy Osei, who refuted the reports said in an interview with Let’s Talk Entertainment (LTE) on JoyNews on MultiTV, the group took care of Kiki, who joined the band at age 18, until his death in 2004.”

Musicians

Saxophone: Teddy Osei

Trumpet: Mac Tontoh (born Kweku Adabanka Tonto), Colin Graham, Kenny Wellington

Flute – Abdul Loughty Lasisi Amao

Trombone: Abdul Remiola

Percussion, congas: Kofi Ayivor, Nii Tagoe, Darko Adams 'Daku' Potato , Dinesh Pandit

Drums: Solomon "Sol" Amarfio, KB, Frank Tontoh, Remi Kabaka, Robert Fordjour

Keyboards: Robert Bailey, Bessa Simons, Kwame Yeboah, Chris Jerome, Emmanuel Rentzos, Errol Reid, Kiki Gyan (a.k.a. Kiki Djan), Jean Rousell

Guitars: Kari Bannerman, Gregg Kofi Brown, Wendell "Dell" Richardson, Tony Etoria, Paul Golly, Gordon Hunte, Kwame Yeboah, Jake Solo, Robert Abia Moore, Matola, Winston Delandro

Bass guitar: Spartacus R (born Roy Bedeau), Mike Odumosu, Fred Coker, Victor Mensah, Herman Asafo-Agyei, Gregg Kofi Brown, Jean-Karl Dikoto Mandengue, Abia Moore

Vocals: Gregg Kofi Brown, Teddy Osei, Emmanuel Rentzos, Wendell Richardson, Pamela Carter, Desiree Heslop

The original line-up consisted of Teddy Osei (saxophone, flute, and vocals), Mac Tontoh (trumpet and background vocals), Sol Amarfio (drums and backing vocals), all three from Ghana, Loughty Lassisi Amao (congas, percussion, and horns), from Nigeria, Robert Bailey (keyboards), from Trinidad, Spartacus R (bass), from Grenada, and Wendell Richardson (lead guitar and vocals); together they were also known as "the beautiful seven". The first to exit officially was Spartacus R, who was replaced numerous times, once by the bassist of the group called Assagai and a few times by Jean Mandengue and others. Amao left and was replaced by Kofi Ayivor, who was replaced by Potato but returned to the group later. Richardson left in 1972 and returned in 1975 and henceforth "Welcome Home" and "Sunshine Day". Bailey was replaced by Kiki Gyan before "Sunshine Day"′s release. Richardson was replaced a few times by the likes of guitar wizard Kari Bannerman. Black Welsh guitarist Tony Etoria, who had a hit in 1977 with "I Can Prove It", joined on guitar in the early '80s.

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Return to Forever - First Class Fusion Jazz

Return to Forever is a jazz fusion group founded and led by pianist Chick Corea. Through its existence, the band has had many members, with the only consistent bandmate of Corea's being bassist Stanley Clarke. Along with Weather Report and Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever is often cited as one of the core groups of the jazz-fusion movement of the 1970s. Several musicians, including Clarke, Flora Purim, Airto Moreira and Al Di Meola, first came to prominence through their performances on Return to Forever albums.

After playing on Miles Davis's groundbreaking jazz-fusion albums In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew, Corea formed an avant-garde jazz band called Circle with Dave Holland, Anthony Braxton and Barry Altschul. However, in 1972, after having become a member of Scientology, Corea decided that he wanted to better "communicate" with the audience. This essentially translated into his performing a more popularly accessible style of music, since avant-garde jazz enjoyed a relatively small audience.

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Light As A Feather 1972

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Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy 1973

Where Have I Known You Before 1974

No Mystery 1975 

Romantic Warrior 1976 

Musicmagic 1977

The Bangles - Rock (USA)

The Bangles are an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1981. They scored several hit singles during the 1980s, including "Walk Like an Egyptian" (Billboard magazine's number-one single of 1987), "Manic Monday," "A Hazy Shade of Winter," and "Eternal Flame."

Their classic line-up consisted of Michael Steele on bass and vocals, founding members Susanna Hoffs on vocals and rhythm guitar, Debbi Peterson on drums and vocals, and Vicki Peterson on lead guitar and vocals. The band currently consists of Hoffs, Debbi and Vicki Peterson, and Annette Zilinskas.

All Over The Place 1984

Different Light 1986

Domingão é dia de som, Domingão é dia de ROCK

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Queen - Live Killers (1979)

Não menos controverso, “Live Killers” (1979), do Queen, foi registrado ao longo da tour européia do álbum “Jazz”, mais notadamente na França. As críticas por parte da mídia especializada desta vez se direcionavam à performance morna da banda em muitas canções, fato contestado pelos fiéis seguidores da banda (dentre os quais, este que vos escreve). Outro ponto foram algumas discussões internas e o perfeccionismo da banda, que acabaram por gerar alguns “overdubs” (sempre eles), probleminhas de mixagem em uma ou outra faixa, e a exclusão de alguns temas até então obrigatórios em todos os shows da banda, como a grande “Somebody To Love”, que só foi ter sua primeira versão ao vivo oficial em disco quando do lançamento do CD “Queen On Fire”, gravado em Milton Keynes em 1982. O álbum foi, contudo, responsável pela versão que todos conhecemos de “Love Of My Life”, que se tornou clássico instantâneo nos shows, especialmente no Brasil. E tem ainda “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Don’t Stop Me Now”, “Brighton Rock” (incluído aí o solo do grande Brian May), a dobradinha “We Will Rock You”/“We Are The Champions”... Apenas anos mais tarde, após o falecimento de Freddie Mercury, com o lançamento póstumo de “Live At Wembley ‘86”, a banda conseguiu unanimidade entre fãs e crítica...

Manowar - Hail to England (1984)

No seu terceiro álbum, o MANOWAR estava realmente honrando o power metal. "Hail to England" tinha algumas das letras extravagantes e a postura já comum da banda, mas a composição e a musicalidade estavam realmente boas. O álbum começa com tudo com a sensacional "Blood of my Enemies" e mantem a qualidade até a épica "Bridge of Death" no final. Esta foi a banda que colocou o poder no power metal.

Raven - All For One (1983)

Esta é a terceira aparição do RAVEN no top 10 em três anos, mas também é sua última. O terceiro álbum era ótimo, mas depois disso a popularidade e qualidade musical deles sumiu. "All for One" mostra os vocais de John Gallagher em alta frequência, e a guitarra de seu irmão Mark em perfeita forma. O New Wave of British Heavy Metal estava se enfraquecendo, mas o RAVEN em 1983 teve seu pico.

Raven - (1982) Wiped Out

Este foi o segundo de três álbuns marcantes lançados em três anos entre 81 e 83. Ele tem o som da banda no seu melhor momento. As músicas combinam o NWOBHM com thrash/speed metal, que seria um gênero que decolaria nos próximos anos. É um álbum poderoso e que sobreviveu bem ao teste do tempo.

Raven - Rock Untill You Drop (1981)

O RAVEN fez parte do New Wave of British Heavy Metal, e seu álbum de estreia foi também o melhor deles. Eles sempre foram ofuscados pelos seus contemporâneos, como o IRON MAIDEN e o JUDAS PRIEST, mas o trio britânico soltou alguns álbuns excelentes no início da década. Eles tocavam de maneira rápida e crua, e quase poderiam ser classificados como Speed Metal. Lars Ulrich do METALLICA foi um dos primeiros fãs da banda.

Riot - Fire Down Under (1981)

O RIOT era uma banda de metal de Nova Iorque que teve seu início no meio da década de 70. Este álbum foi o melhor deles, e depois dele o vocalista Guy Speranza deixou a banda e eles nunca mais foram os mesmos. É uma banda que nunca teve muito sucesso comercial e muitos fãs de metal não estão cientes da sua existência. O início do catálogo deles merece ser explorado, especialmente este álbum, que é excelente e melódico, com diversos hinos do rock de arena.

Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations (1980)

O DIAMOND HEAD era uma banda que teve uma forte influência no METALLICA, que depois acabaria por fazer covers de várias de suas músicas. "Am I Evil", "Helpless" e "The Prince" são deste álbum de sete músicas

Banda Black Rio - Brazil Funk & Soul

Banda Black Rio is a Brazilian musical group from Rio de Janeiro that was formed in 1976. It has a repertoire based on funk but also including samba, jazz and Brazilian rhythms.

Compared to other soul-funk groups, such as Kool & the Gang and Earth, Wind and Fire, Banda Black Rio developed a particular style of instrumental soul music fusing together elements from a number of genres.

WEA had just been established in Brazil, and they wanted to create a band that could be the pioneer of this movement; so they contacted Oberdan Magalhães, a renowned saxophonist, who accepted the challenge together with trumpet player Barrosinho, keyboards and arrangements Cristovao Bastos, guitars and arrangements Claudio Stevenson, bass Jamil Joanes, trombone Lucio Silva and formed Banda Black Rio. Mixing R&B, jazz and samba elements, Banda Black Rio was one of the first to undertake the fusion of Essential Brazilian Music with International Black Music. They were brought together in 1976. Banda Black Rio was often associated with soul-funk bands such as Kool & the Gang, Earth, Wind and Fire, Herbie Hancock, and others.

The band recorded six albums: the instrumental Maria Fumaça (1977), Gafieira Universal (1978) and Saci Pererê (1980). They were also invited to take part in other artists' albums, such as Luiz Melodia, Raul Seixas, Sandra de Sa, Emilio Santiago, Alcione, Carlos Dafe, and recorded a live album with Caetano Veloso entitled Bicho Baile Show and Global Brazilians in 1985. The album was released in 1995.

The present band are the sons of the original members. Two albums came out from this new generation of Black Rio. Rebirth released in the 2001 and Supernova samba funk in 2012.

Maria Fumaça 1977

Saci Pererê 1980