British Artists

Let’s Dance by David Bowie

1983 Albums, 2013 Reviews, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, British Artists, David Bowie, Stevie Ray Vaughan

Buy Let’s Dance An artist who seemed to constantly reinvent himself, David Bowie created a stylized and soulful new-wave album with a romantic signature on the 1983 album Let’s Dance. It was Bowie’s […]

Let It Bleed by The Rolling Stones

1969 Albums, 2014 Reviews, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, British Artists, Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, Mick Taylor, Rolling Stones

Buy Let It Bleed The middle release of the three greatest Rolling Stones albums, Let It Bleed finished the decade of the 1960s with a mostly solid blues/rock effort which contains a pop/rock […]

Let It Be by The Beatles

1970 Albums, 2015 Reviews, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, British Artists, George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, The Beatles

Buy Let It Be Released less than a month after the announcement of their breakup, Let It Be was a unique release by The Beatles on several fronts. First, the bulk of the […]

Led Zeppelin (IV) by Led Zeppelin

1971 Albums, 2011 Reviews, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, British Artists, Jimmy Page, John Bonham, John Paul Jones, Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant

Buy Led Zeppelin IV Led Zeppelin‘s fourth studio album, which has no proper title but is commonly referred to as Led Zeppelin IV, may well be the pinnacle of the band’s early sound. […]

Learning to Crawl
by The Pretenders

1984 Albums, 2014 Reviews, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, American Artists, British Artists, Midwest Artists, The Pretenders

Buy Learning to Crawl Following a very tumultuous period where two band members lost their lives due to drug overdoses, Learning to Crawl, was a bit of an early career comeback album for […]

Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
by Derek & the Dominos

1970 Albums, 2015 Reviews, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, American Artists, British Artists, Derek and the Dominos, Duane Allman, Eric Clapton, Southern Artists

Buy Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs was the sole studio album by super group Derek & the Dominos. A double length LP, the fourteen tracks on […]

Kinda Kinks by The Kinks

1965 Albums, 2015 Reviews, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, British Artists, The Kinks

Buy Kinda Kinks The Kinks sophomore effort is often overlooked in their catalog due to the popularity of their recently released debut and the critical acclaim of later albums. But the rapidly recorded […]

Journeyman by Eric Clapton

1989 Albums, 2014 Reviews, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, British Artists, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Robert Cray

Buy Journeyman The 1980s seemed to have been a time for old time rockers to make incredible (albeit short) comebacks after several years in the wilderness. This was case with Paul Simon’s Graceland, […]

John Barleycorn Must Die
by Traffic

1970 Albums, 2015 Reviews, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, British Artists, Steve Winwood, Traffic

Buy John Barleycorn Must Die Traffic returned from a short hiatus with the 1970 album John Barleycorn Must Die. Reformed as a trio, the group built this album mainly on extended, jazz-infused jams […]

Jesus Christ Superstar

1970 Albums, 2013 Special Features, Album Reviews by Ric Albano, Andrew Lloyd Weber, British Artists, Ian Gillan, Murray Head, Rock Opera, Tim Rice, Yvonne Elliman

A Rock Opera Before it was a theatre act, Broadway play, or motion picture, Jesus Christ Superstar was simply a 1970 rock album produced by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist by Tim […]