Showing posts with label Elton John. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Elton John. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Elton John - Greatest Hits (1974) and Greatest Hits Volume II (1977)

(U.K 1962 - 2023)

The 'Greatest Hits' (1974) compilation, remains as the best seller album of Elton John's catalog. In the States, it became the first hits package to reach number one. In Canada, it’s one of few albums to ever ship one million copies. Volume II 1977 wasn't far behind but never reached the heights of its predecessor.

About Greatest Hits Volume I:

In 1974, there was no bigger music star than Elton John. His Greatest Hits collection came out at the peak of his career and not only topped the charts in the U.S. – a rarity for a compilation – but stayed there for 10 weeks. It captured many of the songs which still remain highlights today from "Your Song" to "Rocket Man" to "Crocodile Rock" to "Candle In The Wind". On the international version of the album, "Candle in the Wind replaced “Bennie and the Jets”. The 1992 reissue on CD included both songs.

It did skip over a couple of lesser hits from this era, most notably "Levon" and "Tiny Dancer", but added them to Elton’s next greatest hits collection - Vol 2 (depending on the version)

Track Listing (Australian Pressing):
01 - Your Song
02 - Daniel
03 - Honky Cat
04 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
05 - Saturday Nights Alright For Fighting
06 - Rocket Man
07 - Candle In The Wind
08 - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
09 - Border Song
10 - Crocodile Rock


About Greatest Hits Volume II:


While it wasn’t nearly as successful as the first volume, this is as chock-full of hits, including non-album #1 singles Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, and Philadelphia Freedom. Also included is John’s version of Pinball Wizard, taken from the soundtrack to Tommy. In short, it’s an excellent continuation of the first collection, and taken together, they function as an ideal singles retrospective of the most successful singles artist of the early ‘70s.

The original international version replaced Levon with Bennie and the Jets. The 1992 CD reissue included Tiny Dancer and I Feel Like a Bullet in the Gun of Robert Ford.

Track Listing (Australian Pressing):
01 - The Bitch Is Back
02 - Pinball Wizard
03 - Grow Some Funk Of Your Own
04 - Somebody Saved My Life Tonight
05 - Bennie And The Jets
06 - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
07 - Philadelphia Freedom
08 - Country Comfort
09 - Island Girl
10 - Levon
11 - Tiny Dancer (Bonus Track)

* Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (11/23/74, 1 US, 1 CL, 10 UK, 1 CN, 3 AU, gold single)
* Philadelphia Freedom (3/7/75, 1 US, 32 RB, 1 CL, 12 UK, 1 CN, 4 AU, platinum single)
* Pinball Wizard (3/20/76, 9 CL, 7 UK, 88 AU)

Bernie Taupin (Lyrics) & Elton John (Music)

Featured Albums on Greatest Hits Vol I & II


Elton John (1970)
Elton John’s self-titled album was a top-5 hit in the UK and U.S., largely thanks to Your Song, which was Elton’s breakthrough hit and has become one of, if not, the signature song of his career.

* Border Song (3/70, 92 US, 20 CL, 34 CN)
* Your Song (11/28/70, 8 US, 9 AC, 1 CL, 7 UK, 3 CN, 11 AU, 2x platinum)

Elton's Band
Madman Across the Water (1971)

This was another top-10 album in the U.S., but only peaked at #41 in the UK. Tiny Dancer wasn’t a big hit at the time, but has become an Elton John favorite.

* Levon (11/29/71, 24 US, 4 CL, 6 CN, 94 AU, gold single)
* Tiny Dancer (2/7/72, 41 US, 35 AC, 1 CL, 19 CN, 13 AU, 3x platinum)

Honky Château (1972):
This was Elton John’s first of seven consecutive #1 albums in the U.S. It peaked at #2 in the UK. In addition to the album’s two top-10 hits, it also produced the album cut “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters.”

* Rocket Man (4/22/72, 6 US, 39 AC, 1 CL, 3 UK, 8 CN, 13 AU, 3x platinum)
* Honky Cat (8/12/72, 8 US, 6 AC, 3 CL, 31 UK, 10 CN, 78 AU)

Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Piano Player (1973):
This was Elton’s first album to top the charts in both the U.S. and the UK. It also produced Crocodile Rock, his first U.S. #1. In addition to the two hit singles, the album produced the popular cut “Elderberry Wine.”

* Crocodile Rock (11/4/72, 1 US, 11 AC, 1 CL, 5 UK, 1 CN, 2 AU, platinum single)
* Daniel (1/20/73, 2 US, 1 AC, 1 CL, 4 UK, 1 CN, 7 AU, platinum single)


Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (1973):
The best-selling studio album of Elton’s career is also widely considered his crowning achievement. It was a #1 hit in the U.S. and UK. It gave him his second U.S. #1 song with Bennie and the Jets and Candle in the Wind become one of the biggest hits of all time when Elton performed it with new lyrics in 1997 as a memorial to Princess Diana.

* Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting (7/7/73, 12 US, 2 CL, 7 UK, 12 CN, 31 AU, gold single)
* Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (9/29/73, 2 US, 7 AC, 1 CL, 6 UK, 1 CN, 4 AU, 2x platinum)
* Bennie and the Jets (2/16/74, 1 US, 15 RB, 1 CL, 37 UK, 1 CN, 5 AU, 2x platinum)
* Candle in the Wind (3/2/74, 6 US, 2 AC, 2 CL, 5 UK, 5 CN, 5 AU)

Elton On The Muppet Show 1977
Caribou (1974):
This was Elton’s third consecutive album to top the charts in both the U.S. and UK. The 1973 Christmas single "Step into Christmas" was not on the original album, but was featured as a bonus track on the 1995 reissue.

* Step into Christmas (12/8/73, 20 CL, 8 UK, 44 AU) D
* Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me (6/1/74, 2 US, 3 AC, 1 CL, 16 UK, 1 CN, 13 AU, gold single)
* The Bitch Is Back (9/7/74, 4 US, 3 CL, 15 UK, 1 CN, 53 AU, gold single)

Elton John - The Pinball Wizard
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1975):
Elton John made history when this album debuted atop the Billboard album chart, the first ever to do so. It reportedly sold 1.4 million copies within the first four days of release. Someone Saved My Life Tonight was the only single featured from the album.

* Someone Saved My Life Tonight (6/23/75, 4 US, 36 AC, 1 CL, 22 UK, 2 CN, 54 AU, gold single)

Rock of the Westies (1975):
This was the last of Elton’s #1 U.S. albums. Like its predecessor, it debuted atop the Billboard album chart. It also gave Elton another #1 song in the U.S. with Island Girl.

* Island Girl (10/4/75, 1 US, 27 AC, 1 CL, 14 UK, 4 CN, 12 AU, platinum single)
* Grow Some Funk of Your Own (1/24/76, 14 US, 8 CL, 8 CN)

Thanks to Dave's Music Database for chart & album details


This post consists of FLACs ripped from my vinyl copies, both Australian Pressings. The Australian track listings are different to those of the US, UK and European releases, making them somewhat unique I believe. Both posts come with full artwork for vinyl - including label scans. However, I have only been able to source CD artwork for his first Greatest Hits album and suspect the Volume II was never released on CD in Australia. 

My only criticism of the Australian releases are that they did not include one of his most popular hits (and ratified by Elton himself, only recently), namely  "Tiny Dancer".
I am therefore including "Tiny Dancer" as a bonus track to rectify this huge oversight.
Nevertheless, I have always believed that Elton's first "Greatest Hits" album is one of the BEST and STRONGEST compilation albums ever released by an artist, hands down.  



Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Double Post: The Who - Tommy (1969) and The Original Soundtrack Recording (1975)

 (U.K 1962 - Present)

The Who are an English rock band formed in London in 1964. Their classic lineup consisted of lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist and singer Pete Townshend, bass guitarist and singer John Entwistle, and drummer Keith Moon. They are considered one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century and have sold over 100 million records worldwide.

The Who developed from an earlier group, the Detours, and established themselves as part of the pop art and mod movements, featuring auto-destructive art by destroying guitars and drums on stage. Their first single as the Who, "I Can't Explain", reached the UK top ten, and was followed by a string of hit singles including "My Generation", "Substitute" and "Happy Jack". In 1967, they performed at the Monterey Pop Festival and released "I Can See for Miles", their only US top ten single. The group's fourth album, the 1969 rock opera Tommy, included the single "Pinball Wizard" and was a critical and commercial success.

Live appearances at Woodstock in August 1969, and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970, along with the concert album Live at Leeds in 1970, established their reputation as a respected rock act. The success put pressure on lead songwriter Townshend, and the follow-up to Tommy, Lifehouse, was abandoned. Songs from the project made up the 1971 Who's Next, which included the hit "Won't Get Fooled Again". The group released the concept album Quadrophenia in 1973 as a celebration of their mod roots, and oversaw the film adaptation of Tommy in 1975. They continued to tour to large audiences before semi-retiring from live performances at the end of 1976. The release of Who Are You in 1978 was overshadowed by Moon's death shortly after.
 

Tommy - The Who Album

The most spectacular year in The Who's career began in uncharacteristic placidity. It was 1969. Apart from an appearance in court by Roger Daltrey for minor motoring offences and a controversial decision to turn down the opportunity to appear on Tom Jone's British TV show, The Who remained ensconced in the recording studio throughout January and February putting the finishing touches on their next album Tommy.

It was an exhausting experience for the group. "When we did Tommy", said Roger Daltrey, "Pete used to come in some days with just half a demo. We used to talk for hours, literally. We probably did as much talking as we did recording. We spent weeks sorting out arrangements for the music."

Keith Moon echoed Roger's feelings. "Pete had been working on Tommy for at least two years, writing songs and fitting them together just like a jigsaw. But when we went into the studio it was still in bits and pieces. Pete would say 'Well, what do you think about this bit?' and John or someone would come up with an idea, and then gradually it became a group effort."

In the first week of march Track released the first sampler from Tommy, a riveting new Townshend song entitled 'Pinball Wizard'. The song had actually been written for Nik Cohn, a journalist who was both a pinball fanatic and a close friend of Pete, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. It was by far The Who's best single release since 'I Can See For Miles' eighteen months earlier.

"Pinball Wizard" opened with what is perhaps the best guitar part that Pete Townsend has ever written; following a slow, tension-filled build up through a series of unusual, rather melancholy chords, the rhythmic balance is secured with some furious strumming on acoustic guitar down an eight note sequence, each change enhanced by the deep cannon of John's bass guitar.

Roger's singing had improved beyond recognition, while Keith's usual manic drum work added significantly to the pace of the song. If there was any doubt that Pete Townsend is the finest rhythm guitarist in the whole of rock, 'Pinball Wizard' sets the record straight. The B-Side incidentally, was Keith Moon's jokey 'Dogs Part II', a throw away track with composition credited to 'Moon, Towser and Jason'. Towser was Pete's pet spaniel and Jason was John's favourite deerhound.

Brilliant though 'Pinball Wizard' was, it only managed fourth place on the British charts and in America - despite the group's high profile over the past year - it peaked at No. 19.

The next stage in the growth of Tommy was the development of a stage act that would run parallel with the album's release, and extensive rehearsals took place during March and April perfecting a Who show to end all Who shows. The Who had always been the most visual performers of the sixties: now the had an opportunity to develop this side of their collective personality to perfection. After a month The Who were capable of performing the entire Tommy opera non-stop, a full ninety minutes of uninterrupted electrically charged rock music, all delivered with astonishing confidence and vitality.

By the end of these rehearsals The Who were unquestionably the most exciting live rock band of all time. None of their likely rivals could approach the experience and mastery of The Who in this department and now, at last, they had a wealth of good, new material to perform at the same time.

Needless to say they seized on the opportunity, especially Roger whose new curly haired, ultra-sexy image would shortly become the accepted stereotype for every lead singer in rock. As the Who's on-stage spokesman, Roger became Tommy and thanks to Roger, Tommy, in his fringed suede jacket and tight jeans , became a far more attractive character than the deaf, dumb and blind boy of Pete's imagination.

Pete's sartorial leanings veered in the opposite direction: he opted to wear a plain white boiler -suit and Dr. Martins shoes on stage. The boiler-suit was eminently practical: Its loose fit enabled Pete's gymnastics to go on unimpeded and his baggy knees hid the rubber pads that protected the Townshend patellae from serious injury. John's tailor had made up a number of fancy leather outfits for the solid bassist, including the famous skeleton suit, and Keith henceforth adopted the athletic all-white look that belied the truth of his deteriorating physical condition.

This splendid new-look Who, drilled to perfection, was unveiled before the British press at Ronnie Scott's Club in Soho shortly after 1pm on 2 may, a few weeks before the Tommy album was released. An eager crowd settled down to curried chicken, rice and white wine in anticipation of a brief Who performance on the tiny stage which normally played host to the giants of modern jazz. With its low ceiling and close-up vantage points, the club was ideally intimate for The Who to present their spectacular new show.

"They seemed to play quietly at first but after the first number - the overture - the volume increased until it became almost intolerable in there", says Chris Welch, who covered the event for Melody Maker. "Nobody walked away though. The music was too good. They played non-stop for an hour and a half and at the end everyone stood and cheered which is unusual for a press reception. The press didn't normally show much enthusiasm at these gatherings.


"The Who were desperate to gain respectability and, of course, they did just that. I was sitting right in front of Keith Moon's huge drum kit and when I got home to bed much later that night I had a vivid dream of Keith playing his drum's. He was absolutely brilliant that day but it was so loud that there was a ringing in my ears for two whole days afterwards."

Like many others present Welch went back to his paper - then the country's most influential and widely read music weekly - and wrote an ecstatic review. "I can still remember Roger throwing the mike around on its lead and almost hitting the ceiling each time. I had to duck when it came towards my table but miraculously he never hit anybody or anything.

"That same week Kit Lambert brought the first copy of the Tommy album into the editor's office and offered Melody Maker an exclusive if he put it on the front page.

Jack Hutton, the editor, was very cool about it in his usual Scottish was so Kit walked out with the album still tucked under his arm, threatening to go to the New Musical Express. Jack got up and chased him down the corridor...and Kit got his exclusive. I wrote a 'Who triumph' story for the front page."


The press euphoria was not universal however. New Musical Express, for one, accused The Who of being 'sick' and 'pretentious' and a few other misguided publications jumped on the anti-Who bandwagon by criticising Pete Townshend's taste in cashing in on Tommy's disabilities. Most hailed the double album as the first-ever rock opera (which it wasn't) and saw its release as a quasi-cultural event much like the arrival of The Beatles' 'Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band'. As an album, Tommy slipped between two stools: the serious press took the opera line too far, while much of the music press accused The Who of losing the spirit of their music through ostentatious marketing.

If there were faults on Tommy they boiled down to the album's excessive length and its vague story-line. Much of The Who's finest ever music - "Pinball Wizard", "See Me Feel Me", "Underture", "Amazing Journey" and "I'm Free" - is contained on those two sides, but this standard was not maintained throughout.


The inclusion of two songs by John Entwistle confused the flow of the music and at least half a dozen of Townshend's songs were simply not up to his usual high standard. Had it been a single album, Tommy would rank as The Who's best ever piece of work, yet those two albums still contain instrumental sections where Keith Moon's drumming is revealed as some of the finest rock percussion ever recorded. Roger's singing too, improved by leaps and bounds on Tommy and the album remains not just an important landmark in The Who's career, but in the whole of rock.


Tommy of course, was a gargantuan commercial success but the music was not what sold the album. The package - a blue triple fold out sleeve complete with twelve-page lyric book including seven pages of paintings all drawn and designed by Mike McInnerney - was chock-full of mystique, obscure spiritual references and over blown psychedelia designed to appeal to the young pseudo-intelligentsia of the day. Townshend even credited Makher Baba as his avatar. Such was the impact that it became a matter of honor for anyone who considered themselves even remotely modern to possess at least one copy of the album [extracts from The Who: Illustrated Biography by Chris Charlesworth, 1982]

Tommy - The Film

The decision to make a film of Tommy was made in principle in 1970, after the success of their album and live shows when Pete Townshend's rock opera was both fresh and topical. The practical details, however, were not so simple. Although the delays were accompanied by a natural lowering of enthusiasm by all concerned, the path was finally open to proceed on the next stage of the saga of the deaf, dumb and blind boy; in 1973.

Tommy had originally been offered to an enthusiastic Universal Pictures, the sister company of MCA Records who had lately acquired The Who's US recording contract by taking over American Decca.

Universal agreed to back the film but delayed in releasing the necessary funds after finding Kit Lambert's script and ideas unacceptable. This delay - almost two years - turned out to be the final straw in Lambert's waning relationship with The Who.

Independent producers and directors were contracted throughout 1973 and eventually, Robert Stigwood agreed to help The Who make the picture. The sandy-haired, Australian impresario had prospered mightily since the early days when he acted as The Who's agent and formed the Reaction label to assist in their dispute with Shel Talmy: by 1974 he was well on the way to becoming one of the wealthiest moguls in the music industry through his interests in management, records, stage-shows, and films. With Stigwoods's help, Ken Russell was persuaded to direct the film and Columbia Pictures agreed to back the project on a mutual basis with Stigwood himself.

After lengthy discussions with Townshend, Russell produced a new script, which satisfied the financial interests, and Stigwood adopted the traditional producer role for casting. A host of stars were rounded up, including all of The Who, Ann-Margret (see below hugging Daltrey), Oliver Reed, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Jack Nicholson and Tina Turner and it was decided that there should be no dialogue; instead Pete would re-record the score, adding in it where necessary, and all the characters would sing their respective parts.

Above: Ken Russell

Before and after the Who's French Quadrophenia tour Pete Townshend toiled away in his home recording studio and at Ramport re-recording Tommy with The Who and selected outside musicians. Elton John brought his own band along to record his version of "Pinball Wizard", and Eric Clapton, Ron Wood, Kenny Jones, Chris Stainton and Mick Ralphs were among those involved in the sessions. With the soundtrack completed, the cast descended on Portsmouth and Southsea, the location selected for Tommy's rebirth. The cost of the operation, much of it coming from Robert Stigwood, was $3,500,000 and shooting began on 22nd April.

Significantly retooled from the 1969 double-album by The Who, Tommy became a quasi-spiritual parable about a boy (Barry Winch) rendered hysterically deaf, dumb, and blind after witnessing the murder of his father (Robert Powell) at the hands of his mother's lover (Oliver Reed).

While shared guilt tears at the fibers of the marriage of Nora (Ann-Margret) and Frank (Reed) - Nora, in particular, grapples with remorse over what she has done - the now grown Tommy (Daltrey) retreats further and further into himself, inhabiting a vivid inner world which serves to shield him from the trauma of well-intentioned cure attempts and instances of parental neglect and familial abuse. As a result of his experiences, Tommy develops a near-supernatural talent for pinball and is hailed as a pop culture prodigy.


For Nora, instant wealth and fame serve to superficially cushion the pain of the responsibility she feels for Tommy's afflictions, but when her actions bring about his “accidental” fall through a plate-glass mirror, the miraculous restoration of his senses changes the course of her life. Tommy instantly becomes a worldwide spiritual messiah, but finds the world of redemption by way of material acquisition to be just another form of spiritual prison.


In March of 1975, at the end of John Entwistle's Ox tour, The Who reunited briefly for the ceremonies that surrounded the British and American premiere of the Tommy film and the simultaneous release of the soundtrack album. Surrealistic, imaginative, inept, unforgettable, cowardly, brilliant, elusive and pointless - these were all adjectives chosen to describe Ken Russell's reading of Pete Townshend's magnum opus.


The Who featuring their Dollar Bill Outfits

The Who themselves, especially Roger Daltrey, were obviously pleased with the result but nothing could shake the truth that Tommy's greatest moments always lay in The Who's own stage performances when it was first released. Press conferences with the stars, with Roger taking pride of place alongside Ann-Margret and Robert Stigwood, were held in majestic fashion in New York and Los Angeles, while the parties that followed each premiere were amongst the most glittering show/rock business occasions of the year. Roger Daltrey appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, now a star in his own right with or without The Who.

Elton John - Pinball Wizard

"Tommy is so much a part of my life that I don't know what the fuck it means," wrote Roger in a short essay included in The Who's authorised account of their first ten years together. "It's like being married. For the first six months you can answer questions on marriage very well, but after ten years.....you know what I mean? You're so surrounded by it all and it's so much a part of you that you don't know what it means any more at all". [extracts from The Who: Illustrated Biography by Chris Charlesworth, 1982]

As much as I enjoy concept albums, rock music rarely makes the leap to the silver screen gracefully: The Wall, The Song Remains The Same, 200 Motels, Give My Regards To Broad Street, True Stories. Quadrophenia made more sense as a movie, I thought, but it wasn’t a musical. Tommy at least deserves credit for being a remarkably ambitious adaptation of the original, one that sought to match art with art.

Given the fact that people still talk about this film, maybe Russell was an inspired choice after all. Plus, it couldn’t have been easy to corral so many personalities and egos (Pete Townshend, Ann-Margaret, Oliver Reed, Jack Nicholson, Elton John, Tina Turner and dear old Moonie among them) while working with a lead actor (Daltrey) who had no real acting experience. Come to think of it, only a maverick like Russell would have taken the job in the first place.

This post consists of both Tommy double albums, ripped to FLAC and include full album artwork and label scans. The only short coming of my copy of the Who's Tommy album is the missing 12-page lyric booklet. As a bonus, I have decided to include the B-Side of their Pinball Wizard singe called "Dogs Pt II" which was written and sung by Keith Moon (a real rarity indeed)

Original Who Album
A1 Overture 3:50
A2 It's A Boy 2:07
A3 1921 3:14
A4 Amazing Journey 3:25
A5 Sparks 3:45
A6 Eyesight For The Blind (The Hawker) 2:15
B1 Christmas 5:30
B2 Cousin Kevin 4:03
B3 The Acid Queen 3:31
B4 Underture 9:55
C1 Do You Think It's Alright? 0:24
C2 Fiddle About 1:26
C3 Pinball Wizard 3:00
C4 There's A Doctor 0:25
C5 Go To The Mirror! 3:50
C6 Tommy Can You Hear Me? 1:35
C7 Smash The Mirror 1:20
C8 Sensation 2:32
D1 Miracle Cure 0:10
D2 Sally Simpson 4:10
D3 I'm Free 2:40
D4 Welcome 4:30
D5 Tommy's Holiday Camp 0:57
D6 We're Not Gonna Take It 6:45
BONUS   Dogs Pt II (B-Side Single)   3:06


The Who are:
Roger Daltrey: Vocals, Percussion
Pete Townshend: Guitar
John Entwistle: Bass, Vocals
Keith Moon: Drums

Original Soundtrack Recording
01. Prologue/1945
02. Captain Walker/It’s A Boy
03. Bernie’s Holiday Camp
04. 1951/What About The Boy?
05. Amazing Journey
06. Christmas
07. Eyesight To The Blind
08. Acid Queen
09. Do You Think It’s Alright
10. Cousin Kevin
11. Do You Think It’s Alright
12. Fiddle About
13. Do You Think It’s Alright
14. Sparks
15. Extra, Extra, Extra
16. Pinball Wizard
17. Champagne
18. There’s A Doctor
19. Go To The Mirror
20. Tommy Can You Hear Me
21. Smash The Mirror
22. I’m Free
23. Mother And Son
24. Sensation
25. Miracle Cure
26. Sally Simpson
27. Welcome
28. T.V. Studio
29. Tommy’s Holiday Camp
30. We’re Not Gonna Take It
31. Listening To You/See Me, Feel Me

Tommy The Original Soundtrack (516Mb) New Link 17/10/2023

The Players
Roger Daltrey (Tommy), John Entwistle (himself), Ann-Margaret (The Mother), Keith Moon (Uncle Ernie), Robert Powell (Captain Walker), Oliver Reed (The Lover), Pete Townshend (himself, musical director) with Eric Clapton (The Preacher), Elton John (The Pinball Wizard), Paul Nicholas (Cousin Kevin), Jack Nicholson (The Doctor), Tina Turner (The Acid Queen). 

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Various Artists - Rock Anthems

 (Various Artists 60-70's)

Concept was a marketing company in the vein of K-Tel. J & B was a sister company. They were based at 37 Whiting Street Artamon Sydney and later 139 Murray Street, Pyrmont. Other than that there is little information. The label was started by Theo Tambakis. He had worked at K-Tel, where he produced Hooked on Swing.

Concept was a highly prolific producer of compilations, and lasted into the CD era. The first release was in 1984 – Breakin’ It Up CC0001, and the final seems to be after CC0200D – Unforgettable Songs, in 1992. The albums were heavily promoted on radio and television.
A majority of their compilations didn't display release dates on their covers and this compilation is one of them. However, of those that have dates (see Discogs listing) a majority were released during 1987-1989, and so my guess is that this compilation was released sometime during this period


This compilation features tracks from both the 60's and 70's and in my opinion packed with 20 fantastic rock classics. But are they all Rock Anthems? Well, I'll let you be the judge.

Meatloaf - "Bat Out Of Hell" (1977)

Surging, soaring but melodic "Bat Out Of Hell" single and album (of same name) shook up the punk/new wave music scene of the late 1970's/early 80's, forcefully reminding it of hard rock's presence., but also crossing-over into 'theatrical' pop appreciation. Its perpetrator, Meat Loaf (born Marvin Lee Aday in Texas in 1948), adopted a tumultuous theatricality, which should have surprised nobody since he had already starred in the movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show". Like all of Meat Loaf's hits, Bat Out Of Hell was written by pianist Jim Steinman. He said he wrote this to be the ultimate "Motorcycle crash song." The lyrics refer to a rider being thrown off his bike in a wreck and his organs exposed. The Bat Out of Hell album spent 474 weeks on the UK album chart and became one of the top five all time best selling albums.

Elton John - "Crocodile Rock" (1972)

"Crocodile Rock" was written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and recorded in summer 1972 at the Château d'Hérouville studio in France (it was listed as "Strawberry Studios" in the album's credits), where John and his team had previously recorded the Honky Château album. It was released on 27 October 1972 in the UK and 20 November 1972 in the U.S., as a pre-release single from his forthcoming 1973 album 'Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player', and became his first U.S. number-one single, reaching the top spot on 3 February 1973, and stayed there for three weeks. In the U.S., it was certified Gold on 5 February 1973 and Platinum on 13 September 1995 by the RIAA.

The song was inspired by Elton's discovery of leading Australian band Daddy Cool and their hit single "Eagle Rock", which was the most successful Australian single of the early 1970s, remaining at No.1 for a record of 10 weeks.

Elton heard the song and the group on his 1972 Australian tour and was greatly impressed by it. A photo included in the album packaging features John's lyricist, Bernie Taupin, wearing a "Daddy Who?" promotional badge.(see right)

The Spencer Davis Group - "Gimme Some Lovin'" (1966)

The Spencer Davis group was signed by Chris Blackwell, who released their first single, a cover of the John Lee Hooker song "Dimples," in 1964. He had the group record songs written by the Jamaican composer Jackie Edwards, two of which were #1 UK hits in 1965: "Keep on Running" and "Somebody Help Me." When Blackwell set his sights on the American market for the group, he had them record with producer Jimmy Miller and asked them to write an original song that would go over well in the US. "Gimme Some Lovin'" was the result; Miller made the US release more appealing to American taste by adding percussion and a female chorus. The song served its purpose, becoming the first American hit for The Spencer Davis Group.

Gimme Some Lovin' was written by the group's lead singer, Steve Winwood (Spencer Davis was their guitarist - he was chosen as the group's namesake because he was the only one who enjoyed doing interviews). Winwood says they banged it out in the studio in the first or second take. The song was also written on the fly. In Rolling Stone magazine, bassist Muff Winwood said, "Steve had been singing, 'Gimme some lovin',' just yelling anything. It took about an hour to write, then down the pub for lunch."

Dave Edmonds - "I Hear You Knockin" (1970)

Dave Edmunds is one of those artists who is always on the verge of becoming a big name in the pop industry. It started back in 1967, when, as the lead guitarist with the UK band LOVE SCULPTURE, he reached the No 1 spot in the U.K. with Sabre Dance. In 1970 he decided to go solo and his first single, I Hear You Knockin, hit the No. 1 spot in England, selling over 3,000,000 copies. The record made Top 20 in Australia as well.

The song did very well in America, but far better in his native UK (Edmond's Welsh), where it was one of the biggest selling singles of all time to that point. He had several other UK hits, following up with another retro cover: "Baby, I Love You," which made #8 in 1973. He had a number of other hits in his native Britain, among them "Queen of Hearts" and "I Knew The Bride (When She Used To Rock & Roll)."

Canned Heat - "On The Road Again" (1968)

Though the blues originated in the United States, and then were a few credible American blues-rockers (such as The Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Captain Beefheart's early groups), the genre was dominated by UK stars like The Roiling Stones, Cream, Fleetwood Mac, and Jeff Beck Group. At the very point where all those acts were at their peak, Canned Heat rushed into the top 40 on September 7 , 1968 with "On the Road Again" adapted from a little known record by Floyd Jones.

Based in Southern California, far from the blues' southern Delta origins, Canned Heat demonstrated with the single that a young American white band could both play the blues credibly and add enough of a psychedelic rock sheen to make it relevant in the late '60's. The modern touches were supplied by a solid rock beat and a pseudo-Eastern tamboura drone, though Al Wilson's eerie high vocal sounded literally out of this world. Canned Heat were dedicated record collectors and folklorists as well as musicians, Wilson had even helped teach legendary Delta bluesman Son House now to play guitar again when House made a comeback on the '60s folk circuit. So it was little surprise they reached all the way back to the '20s for their next hit, "Going Up the Country," which adapted elements from country bluesman Henry Thomas' "Bull Doze Blues".

T. Rex - "Get It On" (1971)

The pioneering glam rock band T. Rex (originally Tyrannosaurus Rex) could do no wrong in their native England. From 1970 to 1973, they had an astonishing ten Top 5 singles, including four #1’s. (Yes, you read that right.) The band was formed in 1967 by guitarist Marc Bolan, who was not quite 20 years-old at the time, and he teamed with producer Tony Visconti to shape the group’s records, a relationship that would continue for eight albums.

In 1971, their British label, Fly, released “Get It On” and it became the band’s second consecutive #1 chart hit on July 24. Their U.S. record label changed the name of the song to “Bang a Gong (Get It On)” to avoid confusion with a song also called “Get It On” which was released that same year by a jazz rock band named Chase.

According to T. Rex drummer Bill Legend, he and Bolan worked out the rhythm one day in Bolan's hotel room, and when the tour got to Los Angeles, the group reconvened with members of the team that worked on their first album: producer Tony Visconti and backup singers Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman, who were members of The Turtles and recorded as Flo & Eddie. At Kaylan's home in Laurel Canyon, they spent all night working up the song, and the next day, they recorded it at Wally Heider Studios in LA. When they got to the studio, they had the chorus, the rhythm, and the "you're dirty and sweet" line, but Bolan had to come up with the other lyrics on the spot, indicating he wasn't thinking too hard about them. Everyone agrees that cocaine was involved throughout the process.

Joe Cocker - "With A Little Help From My Friends" (1968)

Joe Cocker's flailing arms, parodied by John Belushi on Saturday Night Live, always gave the impression of a man who was out of control, an impression sometimes heightened by Cocker's lifestyle: it belied a deep, respectful passion for R'n'B, and Ray Charles in particular. After paying hard-earned dues around northern clubs, his rise to fame was swift: a UK Number One single with his cover of 'With A Little Help From My Friends' (the friends included Jimmy Page and Steve Winwood), and notable appearances at Woodstock and the Isle of Wight. The rambling, shambling Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour of the US, organised by Leon Russell in 1970, was a saga of exhaustion (sixty gigs in three months) and self-destruction, and the strain nearly did for him. But Cocker was made of Sheffield steel, re-emerging to duet with Jennifer Warnes on 'Up Where We Belong' and jump-start his career.

The Kinks - "All Of The Day & All Of The Night" (1964)

Given Ray Davies' later dominance, it's worth recalling that it was the Kink's guitarist Dave Davies, his frenetic younger brother, who gave the group's first singles their substantial mettle: he ripped up the speakers in his practice amp and hooked them with a couple of his Vox amps for the raw sound of 'You Really Got Me'. Dave and Ray fought constantly, like all good brotherly bands, but Ray's songwriting skills held sway. By 'Dedicated Follower Of Fashion' and 'Waterloo Sunset' the Kinks had segued to the very model of an English band, with their neatly observed cameos of life in Blighty, always serious but blessed with a twinkling, crinkled smile.

From there on it was but a sprightly stroll towards some concept albums, success in America following 'Lola' ('Celluloid Heroes' was the Hollywood parallel of 'Waterloo') and obeisance from Paul Weller, Supergrass and Blur - whose single 'Country House' was an undisguised tribute to the Kinks' 1966 'House In The Country'.

"All Day and All of the Night" was released as a single in 1964, reaching No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart and No. 7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1965. The song was included on the Kinksize Hits EP in the UK and the Kinks' second American album, Kinks-Size (1965). Like their previous hit "You Really Got Me", the song is based on a power chord riff. Both songs are similar in beat and structure, with similar background vocals, progressions, and guitar solos.

Santana - "Black Magic Woman" (1970)
Black Magic Woman was a hit for Santana, but few people know that this song was actually a cover of a 1968 Fleetwood Mac song that hit No.37 in the UK. Peter Green, who was a founding member of Fleetwood Mac, wrote the lyrics.

Many also don't know that Santana started out as a blues band, just like Fleetwood Mac. "I used to go to see the original Fleetwood Mac, and they used to kill me, just knock me out," Carlos Santana said in the book The Guitar Greats. "To me, they were the best blues band."

Santana put their own spin on the song, incorporating Latin textures, but they kept the basic sound from the original intact. Santana keyboard player Gregg Rolie sang lead on this. He later joined Journey in 1973.

On January 10th 1971, "Black Magic Woman" peaked at No.4 (for 2 weeks) on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it had entered the chart on November 8th, 1970 and spent 13 weeks on the Top 100 (and 7 of those 13 weeks were on Top 10).

Toto - "Hold The Line" (1978)

“Hold the Line” was released back in 1978 as the band’s first single EVER and also featured in their debut self-titled album. Not many artists had the opportunity to leave such an outstanding first impression the moment they stepped into the cutthroat world of music industry. However, Toto did it with this song – it immediately reached top positions in the USA, Swedish, South African, Canadian and Australian charts. It’s also RIAA certified as “GOLD”.

The song was written by the keyboardist of the band – David Paich and the lead vocals are performed by the incredibly talented Bobby Kimball.

The song features a single-note piano percussion, which was a quite popular technique at that time. In addition, in my opinion, the song’s biggest asset would be the elegant but vigorous “creamy” guitar riff. The song simply proved that six talented session musicians, who used to back up other famous artists can actually make magic on their own from the first try!

“It started out with the piano riff that is in the intro. I started playing this riff and I just couldn’t stop playing it. I played it for days, and I started singing, “Hold the line, love isn’t always on time.” It was a phrase that just came into my head. . . it was a blessing. (The words) came to me in the night, and then I went to the verse. I wrote it in 2 hours. Sometimes songs come quickly like that, and sometimes I spend 2 years trying to finish a song,” said David Paich about the writing of the song.

Bachman-Turner Overdrive - "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" (1974)

Randy Bachman lifted a riff here and a phrase there, coming up with Bachman Turner Overdrive's rocktastic classic "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet", a song that still pays his bills.

Randy recalls: “I’m looking for something, and then You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet comes along by accident. I was rehearsing and producing BTO’s third album. We needed an FM Top 40 hit, something light with a heavy bit in it. At that time, I was inspired by Traffic’s Dave Mason and his song Only You Know And I Know, which had a dang-a-lang rhythm, and the Doobie Brothers’ Listen To The Music. So I copped those jangling rhythms, changed the chords and then added some power chords of my own. I had a work in progress, in two parts: a great rhythm and a heavy riff.”

“Way back when, my brother Garry, one of four Bachman boys, had a speech impediment; he stuttered and stammered. For the ultimate tease I wrote a song like he spoke. Then I called him up and scared him by telling him it would be on the album. “The words just flowed out without thought: ‘I met a Devil woman, and she took my heart away.’ That sounded good. Then for the chorus I copied the way he’d say: ‘You ain’t seen n-n-nothing yet,’ and also the way he stumbled on ‘f-f-forget’, and the way he said ‘b-b-b baby’. I liked it as an idea but I was never going to finish it off.”

Randy would have shelved the song altogether had not Mercury’s artist liaison man, Charley Fach, intervened.

“He loved the album that became Not Fragile, but he couldn’t hear an FM radio single. He said: ‘It’s great, but we need a hit.’ I’d just done a 90-day tour, so I told him: ‘Take it or leave it. But I do have this real bad work track with an awful Van Morrison impression.’ The engineer played it to him, and within 1 second he said: ‘Put that on the album now.’ A few weeks later he phones me up and says the record is huge!

Note: The title is grammatically incorrect. It is a double-negative, although "You Haven't Seen Anything Yet" wouldn't have the same ring to it.

Status Quo - "Rockin' All Over The World" (1977)

Often dismissed as three-chord jokes, Status Quo have had the last laugh. After four decades, they've racked up over 50 UK Top 40 chart entries, even if only guitarist Rick Parfitt and guitarist/lead singer Francis Rossi have been ever-present.

They started as a psychedelic band whose excellent "Pictures Of Matchstick Men" (1967) saw them gain their only Top 40 American hit. Before tong, though, the group began chafing at their paisley shirts.

They used the album Ma Kelly,s Greasy Spoon (1970) to affirm a new direction: no-nonsense boogie. It's a path from which they have never deviated, iheir crowd pandering, be-jeaned stage act summed up by their literally head-down ax-thrashing (which iconic pose they featured on the cover of their 1972 album Piledriver) and by the tone of their sole UK No.1, "Down Down" (1974).

As time wore on though, the odd country or pop touch crept into the proceedings, their mordant song about tax exiledom, Living on An lsland, (1979) a particular surprise.

Though they write plenty of material themselves, Quo's signature song has become their version of John Fogerty's "Rockin' All Over The World", which entered the UK chart on October 8, 1977. It's stirring celebration of rock was deemed by Bob Geldof to be the perfect way to open 1985's Live Aid concert, thus securing the Quo an immortality even more elevated than their record of more UK chart entries than any other British band.

Steppenwolf - "Born To Be Wild" (1968)

In 1968, rock 'n' roll was becoming harder and more urgent, reflecting the uncertainty and danger of the times - and Steppenwolf's "Born To Be Wild," which entered the Billboard Top 40 on July 20,1968, sealed the band's legacy in the annals of an angry counterculture with its loud guitar riffs, dense drumming, and outlaw lyrics.

Written by Mars Bonfire (aka Dennis Edmonton), the song's second verse references "heavy metal thunder" the first time the phrase "heavy metal" appeared in song. Steppenwolf's use of the term, first used colloquially by Beat poets Herman Hesse and Williams S. Burroughs, coined the name of the emerging genre - one that dominated the U.S. charts throughout the '70s.

As Steppenwolf singer John Kay commented, "our philosophy was to hit'em hard, make your point, and move on." With its aggressive guitar riffs and lyrics that challenged both mainstream and counterculture values and prized individual freedom above all else, "Born To Be Wild," from the album Steppenwolf (1968), paved the way for bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, and even now for bands like the atmospherically heavy HIM. lt also provided the perfect sonic complement to the influential Dennis Hopper/Peter Fonda biker flick Easy Rider (1969).

Free - "All Right Now" (1970)

Pure and unadulterated, Free emerged as keepers of the flickering flame jf the British blues in a quartet of beautiful balance. Paul Rodgers's Huskily yearning vocals, clothes courtesy of the small ads in Melody Maker; Paul Kossoff stretching his timeless guitar licks with his Les Paul's sustain; teenage Andy Fraser's mile-wide bass; rock-steady Simon Kirke 4/4'ing the whole together on drums. Their manifesto was nowhere better proclaimed than on their 1970 hit "All Right Now".

Alexis Korner had suggested that they call themselves Free after his own blues trio Free At Last, and seemingly erupting out of nowhere, they found themselves up amongst the headline acts at the Isle of Wight Festival of 1970. Yet they were never able to build completely on that success, not least through trying to keep Paul Kossoff's drug addiction under control. 1973's 'Wishing Well', Free's final single, was a heartfelt plea from Rodgers to Kossoff - he failed to heed the song's message, and was dead within three years.

Uriah Heep - "Gypsy" (1970)]

"Gypsy" is the debut single by British progressive rock/hard rock band Uriah Heep. It is the opening track on their first album, …Very 'Eavy …Very 'Umble, released in 1970. "Gypsy" was written by Mick Box and David Byron. The B-side of the song in most countries was "Bird of Prey", though in others, the B-sides were "Wake Up (Set Your Sights)", "Come Away Melinda" and "Lady in Black". The album version of "Gypsy" lasts more than six and half minutes, while the single version lasts less than three minutes.

To differentiate themselves from other Rock bands at the time, Heep replaced the almost obligatory guitar solo with a wild organ solo in this song. The song was one of the heaviest of its time, quickly became one of Heep's most loved songs and is now considered to be one of the most important early heavy metal compositions.

Procol Harum - "Conquistador" (1967)

Formed early 1967 in Southend, Essex, from the ashes of R&B group the Paramounts, Procol Harum's first single, the ethereal Bach-influenced  'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' gave them a huge international hit. Number 1 in the UK for six weeks, it stands as an immortal cornerstone of the celebrated 1967 Summer of Love. Royer and Harrison were replaced by Robin Trower on guitar and B J Wilson on drums during the recording of their first album, but Procol Harum received greater recognition (and healthier record sales) in the US than at home, where their first album to chart was 1969's 'A Salty Dog'.

"Conquistador" was written by Gary Brooker and Keith Reid, and it originally appeared on the band's 1967 self-titled debut album. It was released as a single off the band's 1972 album 'Procol Harum Live In Concert' with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, and it is this version that is their most popular release. Note that the version released on this compilation is the original studio version.

Procol Harum's lyricist Keith Reid told Songfacts that the music for "Conquistador" was written before the lyrics. He added that this was unusual as "99 out of 100" of the Procol Harum songs back then, "were written the words first, and then were set to music." 

Joe Walsh - "Rock Mountain Way" (1973)

"Rocky Mountain Way" is a 1973 song by rock guitarist Joe Walsh and his band Barnstorm. The song was originally released on the album The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get. The song features Walsh using a guitar talk box, manufactured by sound engineer Bob Heil, who invented the device used by almost every rock music exponent. The distinct tone "... gives Walsh's blues stomp a futuristic wave, as if a hulking mechanical beast was looming just over those rocky mountains

Joe explained in an article for Rolling Stone Magazine - I had left the James Gang, left Cleveland and gone to Colorado because Bill Szymczyk was there and so were a whole bunch of other people I knew. We had the Smoker album pretty much done [1973's The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get] except we had this one track that was an instrumental. I couldn't think of any words and everybody was patiently waiting for me to come up with something.

One day I was in my backyard in Boulder mowing the lawn and I was thinking, "Boy, I sure hope leaving the James Gang was a good idea!" Because I hadn't really surfaced as a solo act yet. I was almost there, but not quite. And then I looked up … and there were the Rocky Mountains. It was summer but you could still see snow on the back range. It just hit me how beautiful it all was, 5,000 feet up. And that was it – the words came: "Spent the last year Rocky Mountain way/Couldn't get much higher." And the second verse is about my old management – telling us this, telling us that, time to change the batter. I got all of that at once. And I ran inside to write it down before I forgot it.

Only problem was, I forgot to shut off the lawnmower. It kept moving and went into the neighbour's yard and ate her rose bushes. Cleared a little path straight through. So those lyrics wound up costing me, I don't know, maybe 1,500 bucks. But it was well worth it. The neighbour, though, she was pissed. I said to her, "You don't understand! I got the words!" But she just looked at me. [My Life in 15 Songs: Rolling Stone, May 2016]

Cheap Trick - "Dream Police" (1979)

"Dream Police" is a song written by Rick Nielsen and originally released in 1979 by the American rock band Cheap Trick. It is the first track on the group's album of the same name. Nielsen has stated that the song "is an attempt to take a heavy thought - a quick bit of REM snatched right before waking up - and put into a pop format." He also stated that "the song was about Big Brother watching you.

"Dream Police" dates back to 1976. It was one of 22 songs the band had written for their first album, and it didn't make the cut. The song evolved as they played it live and refined it in the studio, and it was released as the title track of their fourth studio album. By this time, their live album At Budokan had been released, breaking them big with the single "I Want You To Want Me." The next single was "Dream Police," and it became one of their most popular songs, reaching #26 in the US on the Billboard Hot 100.

Rod Stewart - "Maggie May" (1971)

In the '60s, The Beatles had topped UK and U.S single and album charts all at the same time but never technically with the same product, it took Rod Stewart to achieve what even the mighty Fabs hadn't. Still the frontman of The Faces but increasingly becoming better known for his solo albums, in 1971 Stewart recorded his LP masterpiece, 'Every Picture Tells A story'. As usual, it was made up of a highly unusual mixture of folk, soul, and rock, an epic version of "I'm Losing You" rubbing shoulders with Stewarts beautiful rustic evocation of frontier life, "Mandolin Wind." It also featured a collaboration between Stewart and classical guitarist Martin Quittenton about the artist's first sexual conquest.

Despite a raunchy theme and a catchy, jangling melody set off by an arresting mandolin solo, all driven home by Stewart's unique emotional rasp, Mercury Records didn't think that the song was hit material, relegating it to a B-side, instead, "Reason To Believe" was chosen as the album's single. But fate in the form of DJ opinion intervened, and the single "Maggie May" was given the radio play she deserved; on October 9, 1971, the song topped the singles charts in the UK. it had made the top spot in the United States on October 2, the same day as the album had topped the U.S. album charts. With the album also lodged at NO. 1 in Britain, it made for an unprecedented double-double whammy.

Boston - "More Than A Feeling" (1976)

At one time, Boston’s debut release was the fastest-selling debut album of all time. Nearly everything about this album is masterfully crafted, from the volume to the layering and everything in-between. The musicianship found in every song is superb. While Tom Scholz plays several instruments, his most notable is the guitar. Although there are many good musicians out there, that’s not where Boston makes it’s case.

Take for instance the opening track “More Than a Feeling.” This debut single entered the Billboard chart on October 16, 1976 on its way to peak at No. 5. Aside from having one of the more recognizable riffs, the way everything comes into place at just the right time is something few were able to do before Boston.

It’s sound is difficult to explain without listening to the album, but I'll give it a try. Imagine a level of sound where the lead guitar is playing and the forefront, where it usually is. With Boston, Scholz found a way to make every instrument, from the drums, to the organ, to the bass; be easily heard at the same time, in just the right places for maximum effect.

There’s something about Boston's debut LP that makes it one of the best LP's of all time, and although they hit it big with their single "More Than A Feeling", this album has much, much more to offer.

This post consists of FLACS ripped from my Concept Vinyl and includes full album artwork and label scans.  This is one of my favourite compilation albums and offers a broad range of hits from the 60's and 70''s.  A couple of rarities worth mentioning on this comp: Uriah Heep's "Gypsy" (the single release being a shorter version to the album release that people are more familiar with) and Procol Harum's studio version of Conquistador (most people are more familiar with the Live version).  
The only negative I have with this comp is the absence of any Aussie Anthems, which is a bit short sighted of the part of Concept in my opinion.  But then again, this is only a Concept Record !   LOL

Tracklist
A1 – Meat Loaf (Bat Out Of Hell)
A2 – Elton John (Crocodile Rock)
A3 – The Spencer Davis Group (Gimme Some Lovin')
A4 – Dave Edmunds (I Hear You Knocking)
A5 – Canned Heat (On The Road Again)
A6 – T. Rex  (Get It On)
A7 – Joe Cocker (With A Little Help From My Friends)
A8 – The Kinks (All Day & All Of The Night)
A9 – Santana (Black Magic Woman)
A10 – Toto (Hold The Line)
B1 – Bachman-Turner Overdrive    (You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet)
B2 – Status Quo (Rockin' All Over The World)
B3 – Steppenwolf    (Born To Be Wild)
B4 – Free (All Right Now)
B5 – Uriah Heep (Gypsy)
B6 – Procol Harum (Conquistador)
B7 – Joe Walsh (Rocky Mountain Way)
B8 – Cheap Trick    (Dream Police)
B9 – Rod Stewart    (Maggie May)
B10 – Boston   (More Than A Feeling)

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