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The Purple Rain movie may have been a polished turd of soapy melodrama, but it – and the brilliant soundtrack – transformed Prince into a towering icon of the video age
Buying guide Twelve months of life-enriching, extraordinary new music
Freed from Cold Chisel, Australian national treasure Jimmy Barnes called in the big guns for his attempted US breakthrough
No filler or flab on one of the most obscenely thrilling moments in all of recorded metal history
While punk rock was big news in 1977, the radio-friendly rock of Foreigner was still perfectly timed
Life at the melodic end of the hard rock spectrum was not always kind
Combining Eddie Clark’s in-your-face guitar, Dave King’s high-register vocals and Jerry Shirley’s gut-rumbling drumming, Fastway peaked early
The third Mammoth album feels like the work of a musician settling comfortably into his own space and comfortable with all that attention
Kiss famously released four solo albums on the same day. Just as famously, only one of them was truly worthy of the Kiss name - Ace Frehley's
Join the Moody Blues for a psychedelic voyage through mysticism, melody, and late-60s cosmic curiosity
Night Ranger hit the ground running with their platinum debut Dawn Patrol
Fields Of The Nephilim's second album blends mysticism and the occult, referencing Aleister Crowley and HP Lovecraft
The album that took Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks away from their day jobs into the belly of the Fleetwood Mac beast
With Roger Hodgson departed for solo pastures, Rick Davies augmented Supertramp's lineup with a couple of very special guests
For a band frequently pigeonholed as a singles act, Nightingales & Bombers proved Manfred Mann’s Earth Band could deliver depth and daring in equal measure
With Bob Ezrin behind the desk and a pocketful of rollicking, quality tunes, Killer – in tandem with Alice’s shlock-horror image – just couldn’t fail
Mirage: a flute-heavy mix of symphonic sweep, jazz fusion and melodic subtlety
Original it ain't, but Black Country Communion's debut ticks all the right boxes for anyone who can't get enough of that classic early-70s sound
With Metallica's Black album bringing them a huge new audience, Exodus clambered aboard the experimental bandwagon
Proof that there's more to Golden Earring than Radar Love
Black Sabbath: now heavier, denser and doomier than before
A New World Record added Olympian levels of commercial success to Jeff Lynne's mix of melodic craft and production nous
The polar opposite to Mick Jagger’s synthesised solo clatter, Keith Richards' Talk Is Cheap brimmed with soul
