Ozzy was in a bind. Randy Rhoads was dead; he had been killed in a tragic plane crash and left Ozzy without a guitar player. His future wife, Sharon Arden, would successfully convince Ozzy to immediately hire another guitar player and resume the Diary Of A Madman tour, rather than sink into depression that was …

This is a work of sublime coronation by the methodical as well as mythological grand master of Hip-Hop. Jay-Z is in a synchronicity resonance with his past, and skillfully adapted to his present choreography of vision and undertaking that has aggrandized its highest elevation to date. While the composition is a sometimes-bloody narrative of his …

  1979 was a year full of change in music; just a year earlier, Van Halen made their mammoth preview with their self-titled album and Eddie Van Halen forever hurled the guitar into a cosmic chaos of tameless frets and gorgeously exaggerated tremolo blows; his venture was astonishingly poetic and placed the electric guitar into …

Color. Imagery. Fantasy. Arrangement. Fashion. Themes. These became remarkable conservatories of creativity that would never suggest a location in an orthodox genre again. Apothegms are not permitted in one of the most profound storybooks of music ever created or recorded. This album is the ‘Alice in Wonderland’ of creative expression in music. In this episode, …

  In its most pure essence, what began as a requisition to record a symphony turned into an architectural masterpiece project of a new genre of music: Progressive Rock. When The Moody Blues were asked to record a symphony of Dvorak, they were astonished; however, they were also immensely interested into expanding their own creative …