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The surprise follow-up to ‘Purple Rain’, Prince’s ‘Around The World In A Day’ album proved he was ‘the great Prince he wanted to be’.

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A collaboration with Timbaland and Pharrell Williams, ‘Hard Candy’ kept Madonna match-fit at the end of the 2000s.

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Emerging from the great beyond, Gerry Rafferty’s posthumous final album, ‘Rest In Blue’, is a fitting tribute to a legendary songwriter.

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With ‘Rattus Norvegicus’, The Stranglers melded punk nihilism with pop songwriting and prog virtuosity to create something of their own.

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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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