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Recorded at lightning speed, Van Halen’s fifth album, ‘Diver Down’, boasted great music and hidden depths.

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Like ‘The X Factor’ for punks, the Stiff Test/Chiswick Challenge got Joy Division noticed and led to the creation of Factory Records.

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They didn’t know it at the time but, following the release of Sheila Take A Bow, The Smiths would make their last public performance.

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Enlisting a team of crack musicians, Stephen Stills created ‘Manassas’, a double-album that found him at his adventurous and ambitious best.

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True became a worldwide hit for Spandau Ballet, but do you know the story of unrequited love that inspired it?

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Considered the second in their 70s folk-rock trilogy of albums, ‘Heavy Horses’ saw Jethro Tull saddle up for prog-infused pastoral poesy.

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Recorded when he was still a teenager, ‘For You’ introduced Prince as a precocious young artist who was already ‘streets into the future’.

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Like ‘Dolly Parton standing on a dancefloor’, Kylie Minogue ensured her ‘Golden’ album was her most surprising new direction yet.

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Speaking truth to a society that does not want to hear, Tracy Chapman’s self-titled debut album gave a voice to millions.

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Confirming ZZ Top as the US South’s meanest boogie merchants, ‘Rio Grande Mud’ set Billy F Gibbons’ team up for the mainstream.

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