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With her ‘Lady Soul’ album, Aretha Franklin made further steps towards grabbing the crown as The Queen Of Soul.

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With their debut album, ‘Homework’, Daft Punk cemented their place in history, even while shaping what that history would become.

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A masterpiece of subversive songwriting, the ‘Excitable Boy’ album found Warren Zevon joking about things no one had joked about before.

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Capturing the Madchester zeitgeist, New Order’s ‘Technique’ album was hailed as ‘a rare and ravishing triumph’

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After losing two bandmates to drug-related deaths, Chrissie Hynde rebooted Pretenders and came back stronger than ever.

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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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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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Capturing the zeitgeist and casting inspiration down the decades, The Smiths’ third album, ‘The Queen Is Dead’, reigns supreme.

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Despite being made as Fleetwood Mac were in tatters, ‘Rumours’ became one of the band’s biggest albums. It continues to resonate today.

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‘Strangeways, Here We Come’ became The Smiths’ premature epitaph. Morrissey and Johnny Marr still feel it’s their best album.

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