Badfinger - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate

BADFINGER 

There are few bands in the annals of rock music as star-crossed in their history as Badfinger. Pegged as one of the most promising British groups of the late '60s and the one world-class talent ever signed to the Beatles' Apple Records label that remained with the label, Badfinger enjoyed the kind of success in England and America that most other bands could only envy. Yet a string of memorable hit singles -- "Come and Get It," "No Matter What," "Day After Day," and "Baby Blue" -- saw almost no reward from that success. Instead, four years of hit singles and international tours precipitated the suicides of its two creative members and legal proceedings that left lawyers as the only ones enriched by the group's work.

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B.B. King [RIP] - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate

B.B. KING

Born: September 16, 1925 - Died: May 14, 2015
R.I.P.

Universally hailed as the king of the blues, the legendary B.B. King was without a doubt the single most important electric guitarist of the last half of the 20th century. His bent notes and staccato picking style influenced legions of contemporary bluesmen, while his gritty and confident voice -- capable of wringing every nuance from any lyric -- provided a worthy match for his passionate playing. Between 1951 and 1985, King notched an impressive 74 entries on Billboard's R&B charts, and he was one of the few full-fledged blues artists to score a major pop hit when his 1970 smash "The Thrill Is Gone" crossed over to mainstream success (engendering memorable appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and American Bandstand). After his hit-making days, he partnered with such musicians as Eric Clapton and U2 and managed his own acclaimed solo career, all the while maintaining his immediately recognizable style on the electric guitar.

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Gilbert O'Sullivan - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate

GILBERT O'SULLIVAN 

Singer/songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan successfully combined a flair for Beatlesque popcraft with an old-fashioned music hall sensibility to emerge as one of the most distinctive and popular new performers of the early 1970s. Born Raymond O'Sullivan in Waterford, Ireland on December 1, 1946, he went on to attend art school in Swindon, England, writing songs throughout his formative years and sending out demo tapes to little avail. After graduating he went to work in a London department store; one of his co-workers there was under contract with CBS, and soon O'Sullivan was signed to the label as well. Early singles like "What Can I Do?" and "Mr. Moody's Garden" were released to little attention, however, and so O'Sullivan sent his demo to impresario Gordon Mills, whose MAM label was home to superstars like Tom Jones and Engelbert Humperdinck; the gambit worked, and his first single for MAM, "Nothing Rhymed," became a Top Ten U.K. hit in late 1970.

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The Springfields - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate

THE SPRINGFIELDS

The Springfields were a British pop-folk vocal trio who had success in the early 1960s in the UK, US and Ireland. They included singer Dusty Springfield and her brother, record producer Tom Springfield, along with Tim Feild, who was replaced by Mike Hurst. 

While Dusty Springfield is best remembered for the iconic pop singles she released in the '60s and her masterful 1969 album Dusty in Memphis, she first found fame with the trio the Springfields, whose canny blend of light pop and folk earned them a handful of hits in both Great Britain and the United States. The Springfields featured Mary O'Brien and her older brother Dion O'Brien; Mary began singing while a student at St. Anne's Convent in West London, and later became a member of the vocal group the Lana Sisters. Dion, meanwhile, played with a variety of groups while a student, and after a hitch in the British military he formed a folk duo with Tim Feild. Looking to expand the group's sound, Dion invited Mary to join the group, and they adopted new stage names; Mary became Dusty Springfield, while her brother became Tom Springfield.

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Dusty Springfield [RIP] - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate

DUSTY SPRINGFIELD

Born: 16 April 1939 - Died: 2 March 1999

R.I.P.

Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien OBE, professionally known as Dusty Springfield, was an English pop singer and record producer whose career extended from the late 1950s to the 1990s.

Britain's greatest pop diva, Dusty Springfield was also the finest white soul singer of her era, a performer of remarkable emotional resonance whose body of work spans the decades and their attendant musical transformations with a consistency and purity unmatched by any of her contemporaries; though a camp icon of glamorous excess in her towering beehive hairdo and panda-eye black mascara, the sultry intimacy and heartbreaking urgency of Springfield's voice transcended image and fashion, embracing everything from lushly orchestrated pop to gritty R&B to disco with unparalleled sophistication and depth. She was born Mary O'Brien on April 16, 1939, and raised on an eclectic diet of classical music and jazz, coming to worship Peggy Lee; after completing her schooling she joined the Lana Sisters, a pop vocal trio which issued a few singles on Fontana before dissolving. In 1960, upon teaming with her brother Dion O' Brien and his friend Tim Feild in the folk trio the Springfields, O'Brien adopted the stage name Dusty Springfield; thanks to a series of hits including "Breakaway," "Bambino," and "Say I Won't Be There," the group was soon the U.K.'s best-selling act.

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The Shadows - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate

The Shadows - Discography

The Shadows are usually thought of as the quintessential British instrumental group and, along with the American band the Ventures and the Swedish group the Spotnicks, one of the most popular instrumental groups in the world. But that barely tells the story of their true significance in the history of British rock & roll -- including the fact that they were the first home-grown British rock & roll band to dominate the U.K. charts; or that they weren't originally an instrumental group, either. The band's roots go back to Chesthunt, Hertfordshire, in early 1958, when a young Indian-born singer/guitarist named Harry Webb joined with drummer Terry Smart and guitarist Norman Mitham to form a group that they ended up calling the Drifters -- at the time, none of the records by the American R&B group of the same name, founded by Clyde McPhatter, had been released in England, so they had no inkling of the name's already being used.

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The Beatles - (1962-1980) All 50 Videos

The Beatles

Track List

1-01 (1962) "Love Me Do"

1-02 (1963) "From Me to You"

1-03 (1963) "She Loves You" 

1-04 (1963) "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

1-05 (1964) "Cant Buy Me Love"

1-06 (1964) "A Hard Days Night"

1-07 (1964) "I Feel Fine"

1-08 (1965) "Eight Days a Week"

1-09 (1965) "Ticket to Ride"

1-10 (1965) "Help!"

1-11 (1965) "Yesterday"

1-12 (1965) "Day Tripper"

1-13 (1965) "We Can Work It Out"

1-14 (1966) "Paperback Writer"

1-15 (1966) "Yellow Submarine"

1-16 (1966) "Eleanor Rigby"

1-17 (1967) "Penny Lane"

1-18 (1967) "All You Need Is Love"

1-19 (1967) "Hello, Goodbye"

1-20 (1968) "Lady Madonna"

1-21 (1968) "Hey Jude"

1-22 (1969) "Get Back"

1-23 (1969) "The Ballad of John and Yoko"

1-24 (1969) "Something"

1-25 (1969) "Come Together"

1-26 (1970) "Let It Be"

1-27 (1970) "The Long and Winding Road"

Bonus:

"Hey Jude" with Paul McCartneys commentary.

2-01 (1963) "Twist and Shout"

2-02 (1963) "Baby Its You"

2-03 (1963) "Words of Love"

2-04 (1963) "Please Please Me"

2-05 (1964) "I Feel Fine"

2-06 (1965) "Day Tripper" [Alternate v.1]

2-07 (1965) "Day Tripper" [Alternate v.2]

2-08 (1965) "We Can Work It Out" [Alternate]

2-09 (1966) "Paperback Writer" [Alternate]

2-10 (1966) "Rain" [Alternate v.1]

2-11 (1966) "Rain" [Alternate v.2]

2-12 (1967) "Strawberry Fields Forever"

2-13 (1967) "Within You Without You/Tomorrow Never Knows" 

2-14 (1967) "A Day in the Life"

2-15 (1967) "Hello, Goodbye" [Alternate v.1] 

2-16 (1967) "Hello, Goodbye" [Alternate v.2]

2-17 (1968) "Hey Bulldog"

2-18 (1968) "Hey Jude" [Alternate]

2-19 (1968) "Revolution"

2-20 (1969) "Get Back" [Alternate] 

2-21 (1969) "Dont Let Me Down"

2-22 (1977) "Free as a Bird"

2-23 (1980) "Real Love" 

 The Beatles - (1962-1980) All 50 Videos Remastered Deluxe - 2015 

(BDRip 1080p) - [Music Videos]

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Duane Eddy - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate

DUANE EDDY DISCOGRAPHY

If Duane Eddy's instrumental hits from the late '50s can sound unduly basic and repetitive (especially when taken all at once), he was vastly influential. Perhaps the most successful instrumental rocker of his time, he may also have been the man most responsible (along with Chuck Berry) for popularizing the electric rock guitar. His distinctively low, twangy riffs could be heard on no less than 15 Top 40 hits between 1958 and 1963. He was also one of the first rock stars to successfully crack the LP market.

That low, twangy sound was devised in collaboration with producer Lee Hazlewood, an Arizona disc jockey whom Eddy had met while hanging out at a radio station as a teenager. By the late '50s, Hazlewood had branched out into production. Before Duane began recording, his principal influence had been Chet Atkins, but at Hazlewood's suggestion, he started concentrating on guitar lines at the lower end of the strings. The opening riff of his debut single, "Movin' and Groovin'," would be lifted for the Beach Boys five years later to open "Surfin' U.S.A." It was the next 45, "Rebel Rouser," that would really break up him as a national star, reaching the Top Ten in 1958. Opening with a down-and-dirty, heavily echoed guitar riff, it remains the tune with which he's most often identified.

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The Foundations - Discography - 320kbps Bitrate

THE FOUNDATIONS 

The Foundations were a surprisingly obscure late-'60s outfit, considering that they managed to reach the tops of the both the British and American charts more than once in the space of a year and had a solid three years of recordings. At the time of their debut in mid-1967, they were hailed as being among the most authentic makers of soul music ever to emerge from England -- the best practitioners of the Motown sound to be found on the far side of the Atlantic -- and were also accepted in jazz circles as well. "Baby Now That I've Found You," "Build Me Up Buttercup," and "In the Bad, Bad Old Days" were the biggest hits for this multi-racial octet, made up of Londoners and West Indians.

The Foundations were formed in January 1967 in the basement of a local coffee bar in Bayswater, gathered together through advertisements in Melody Maker. Lead singer Clem Curtis was a former boxer from Trinidad, while lead guitarist Alan Warner had been making his living in the printing trade in London while waiting for music to pay off. Flutist/saxman Pat Burke hailed from Jamaica, tenor saxman Mike Elliott had played with Colin Hicks (brother of Tommy Steele) in his band the Cabin Boys, as well as in several jazz bands, and trombonist Eric Allan Dale was another jazz veteran. Tony Gomez (keyboards), Peter Macbeth (bass), and Tim Harris (drums) rounded out the lineup. They selected the name Foundations based on their surroundings, a rehearsal space in the basement of a building.

The group made very little headway during their first few months together, although they did manage to get an audition at the Marquee Club. It was at their regular spot at a much smaller club called the Butterfly -- where they played one legendary gig on the last night of the Stax/Volt European tour -- that led to their breakthrough. They were spotted by record dealer Barry Class, who was impressed enough with what he heard to become their manager. He arranged a meeting with Pye Records producer/songwriter Tony Macaulay, who was working with Long John Baldry

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