Tag: Year-1975

This is the career defining album ‘A Night At The Opera’ (ANATO), and of course the real game changer being…

Kiss served up another classic hard rock album, even if the album was barely over 25 minutes long, with all…

‘Alive!’ paved the way for live releases like ‘Frampton Comes Alive!’, ‘Foghat Live’, ‘Double Live Gonzo!’, ‘Live At Budokan’ and…

It’s easy to forget that Journey were one of the premier American progressive rock bands of the day, combining British…

The third studio album from Topeka legends Kansas has long been considered the pinnacle of this band throughout its proto-prog…

All in all and despite its minor inconsistencies, the second Kansas album ‘Song For America’ remains a personal favourite of…

‘Bandolier’ was released during a fertile and creative period for Welsh legends Budgie.

By 1975, keyboardist Gary Wright was about to launch his career into the stratosphere. Quite appropriate really for the former…

The Angel debut is regarded by many as one of, if not, THE greatest, pomp rock album of all time….

In recent times I’ve given Trapeze some overdue attention, here’s another one.

Diamond REO are the Pittsburgh band that have been talked about quite often over the years at this site.

On ‘Equinox’, Styx began their transition from progressive rock to an altogether more commercial brand of pomp, it was a…

On this 1975 album we capture German rock legends The Scorpions still very much in the early stages of their…

The origins of Trooper are sourced from two Vancouver bands: Winter’s Green and Applejack. They became Trooper when they signed…

Sweeney Todd were probably Canada’s first real glam band, who as it turned out made 1975 their own.

‘Flat As A Pancake’ was the start of the Head East bandwagon, a Midwest institution and a band that continues…

Here’s a relic from the early-mid 70’s New York scene, they were the Latin rock influenced Toro.