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Like medieval minstrels spinning tall tales, Genesis’ ‘Selling England By The Pound’ album harnessed fantasy and wit to craft a prog classic.

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Turbo-charged and unstoppably catchy, Nickelback’s fourth album, ‘The Long Road’, found the group speeding towards greatness.

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Still searching for that elusive hit, with the ‘Road To Ruin’ album Ramones refined their sound and made a punk-pop classic.

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His last album for ten years, ‘Reality’ found David Bowie seeking ‘the optimistic in my life’, before being forced into semi-retirement.

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Modern Love may sound like a straightforward pop song, but it smuggled David Bowie’s ‘elegant cliché-twisting’ into the mainstream.

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The sound of a band thriving, Pretenders’ 12th album, ‘Relentless’, pushes beyond the group’s established rock and pop template.

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Officially billed as The New Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin’s debut live gig saw the rock legends take flight in Gladsaxe, Denmark, in 1968.

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Hedonism, drama and great music… Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours Tour had it all – as the ‘Rumours Live’ album proves.

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The Doors’ short residency at San Francisco’s Matrix club, in March 1967, helped build the group’s legend. The shows remain a crucial listen.

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A sword-wielding saga, Jethro Tull’s ‘The Broadsword And The Beast’ album blurs the lines between medieval fantasy and modern politics.

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