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Simply Red’s debut album, ‘Picture Book’, launched a surprising attack on social ills and introduced Mick Hucknall as a masterful soul singer.

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With definitive takes of early songs, The Smiths’ ‘Hatful Of Hollow’ marked the point where “even the doubters began to believe”.

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Dig out your leotards and locate your giant boomboxes. Madonna’s ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’ album is a nonstop party from start to finish.

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Charting a story of love and lust, desperation and addiction, ‘Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs’ remains an emotionally raw work of art.

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With a cover of Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together, Tina Turner created a stunning piece of electronic soul that led her to dominate the 80s.

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Their last album with frontman Shane MacGowan, ‘Hell’s Ditch’ found The Pogues at a crossroads between new ideas and their classic sound.

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Laying “the blueprint” for the rest of David Bowie’s career, ‘The Man Who Sold The World’ is an often overlooked treasure.

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Drenched in California sunshine, ‘American Beauty’ found Grateful Dead creating a proto-Americana album full of warmth and emotion.

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With Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen created a song that changed the very concept of what a rock’n’roll band could do.

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Recorded during a vodka-fuelled all-night session, Warren Zevon’s Werewolves Of London was “a lesson in not taking yourself seriously”.

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