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Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record album cover 50th anniversary

Electric Light Orchestra’s A New World Record Marks 50 Years Since The Breakthrough That Changed Everything

by Paul Cashmere

Half a century on, ELO’s A New World Record still stands as the moment Jeff Lynne’s songwriting clicked and the band finally broke through in Britain and beyond.

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Billy Joel performing during the 1976 Turnstiles era

Billy Joel’s Turnstiles Gets 50th Anniversary Box Set With 54 Unreleased Tracks

by Paul Cashmere

Billy Joel’s Turnstiles is expanded for its 50th anniversary with 67 audio tracks, 54 previously unreleased recordings, rare sessions and the complete Billy Joel Tonight concert film.

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Stevie Wonder performing Songs In The Key Of Life during his 50th anniversary tour

Stevie Wonder Turns Songs In The Key Of Life 50th Anniversary

by Paul Cashmere

Stevie Wonder will perform Songs In The Key Of Life in full for 18 concerts marking 50 years since the landmark album was released.

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AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap 50th anniversary Bon Scott Angus Young Malcolm Young

AC/DC Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap Turns 50

by Paul Cashmere

AC/DC’s Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap turns 50, revisiting the 1976 Bon Scott album, its different international editions and lasting catalogue significance.

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Rose Royce Car Wash Original Motion Picture Soundtrack 50th Anniversary

Rose Royce Car Wash Soundtrack Turns 50

by Paul Cashmere

Rose Royce’s Car Wash soundtrack celebrates its 50th anniversary on 13 September 2026, five decades after Norman Whitfield’s landmark film project became the group’s debut album.

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Stevie Wonder photo by Ros O'Gorman

Stevie Wonder Announces Songs In The Key Of Life 50th Anniversary Tour

by Paul Cashmere

Stevie Wonder will perform Songs In The Key Of Life in full on an 18-date 50th anniversary tour across the UK, Europe and United States.

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Bryan Ferry Let’s Stick Together 50th Anniversary

Bryan Ferry’s Let’s Stick Together Turns 50

by Paul Cashmere

Bryan Ferry’s Let’s Stick Together turns 50, revisiting the 1976 album’s Roxy Music remakes, classic covers and pivotal place between Roxy Music and his solo career.

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The Damned at Northcote Theatre, Melbourne 22 March 2024 photo by Mary Boukouvalis

The Damned Open Final Australian And New Zealand Tour In Auckland

by Paul Cashmere

The Damned have opened their final Australian and New Zealand tour in Auckland, with Rat Scabies discussing the challenge of selecting a setlist from five decades of music.

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Hall & Oates Bigger Than Both Of Us 50th anniversary album cover

Hall & Oates Mark 50 Years Of Bigger Than Both Of Us

by Paul Cashmere

Hall & Oates’ Bigger Than Both Of Us turns 50, marking the 1976 album that delivered Rich Girl, the duo’s first Billboard Hot 100 No. 1.

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Tom Waits Small Change

Tom Waits’ Small Change Gets 50th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue

by Paul Cashmere

Tom Waits’ 1976 album Small Change will receive a 50th anniversary vinyl reissue on October 2, revisiting one of the defining records of his early career.

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Led Zeppelin Presence

Led Zeppelin Presence Hits 50 Year Milestone As The Cry Of Survival

by Paul Cashmere

Led Zeppelin Presence has reached its 50th anniversary milestone. Paul Cashmere looks back at the “cry of survival” recorded by Jimmy Page and Robert Plant in just 18 days.

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Marvin Gaye I Want You

Marvin Gaye Marks 50 Years of Iconic I Want You Album

by Paul Cashmere

Fifty years ago, Marvin Gaye released I Want You, blending intimacy, eroticism, and musical innovation, cementing his influence on soul, disco, and quiet storm R&B.

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Lynyrd Skynyrd Gimme Back My Bullets

Lynyrd Skynyrd Celebrate 50 Years of Gimme Back My Bullets

by Paul Cashmere

Lynyrd Skynyrd mark 50 years of their iconic album Gimme Back My Bullets, a Southern rock milestone produced by Tom Dowd.

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Aerosmith debut album box set

Aerosmith Celebrate 50 Years of Self-Titled Debut with Legendary Edition

by Paul Cashmere

Aerosmith celebrate 50 years of their debut album with Legendary Edition, including new mixes, unreleased tracks, live recordings, and deluxe collector’s packages

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Ringo Starr Blast From Your Past 50th Anniversary Album Cover

Ringo Starr Celebrates 50 Years of Blast From Your Past

by Paul Cashmere

50 years on, Ringo Starr’s Blast From Your Past remains a key record of his early solo career, featuring hits Photograph, You’re Sixteen and more.

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Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley unbox the Dressed To Kill 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition box set.

KISS Unbox Dressed To Kill – Gene Simmons & Paul Stanley Revisit the 1975 Breakthrough That Changed Everything

by Paul Cashmere

KISS legends Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley unbox the Dressed To Kill 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition, revealing rare tapes, live recordings, memorabilia and stories from the frantic 1975 sessions that produced one of the band’s most defining albums.

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Neil Young And Crazy Horse During Zuma Sessions 1975

Neil Young And Crazy Horse, 50 Years On, Reconnect With Zuma’s Wild, Wounded Heart

by Paul Cashmere

Neil Young’s Zuma marks 50 years. The 1975 album that reunited Crazy Horse and produced Cortez The Killer remains a raw and electric turning point.

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Elton John Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Elton John Celebrates 50 Years Of ‘Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy’ With Deluxe Reissue

by Paul Cashmere

Elton John’s Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy turns 50. The landmark 1975 album that charted Elton and Bernie Taupin’s early struggles is being reissued with demos, live recordings, and the classic hits Someone Saved My Life Tonight and Philadelphia Freedom.

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Jerry Hall as a siren on the cover of Roxy Music’s Siren album, 1975

Roxy Music ‘Siren’ Turns 50: The Art Rock Classic That Defined A Decade

by Noise11.com

Roxy Music’s Siren turns 50. Released in 1975, the album’s sleek art-rock style, iconic cover featuring Jerry Hall, and hit single Love Is The Drug cemented its place in rock history.

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Elton John Rock Of The Westies 50th Anniversary

Elton John’s Rock Of The Westies Turns 50 – A Wild Ride From The Caribou Ranch Era

by Noise11.com

Elton John’s Rock Of The Westies turns 50, marking half a century since the 1975 album topped the Billboard chart and introduced a fresh new band sound.

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John Lennon Shaved Fish 50th anniversary

John Lennon ‘Shaved Fish’ Turns 50: The Definitive Collection Of Lennon’s Post-Beatles Era

by Paul Cashmere

John Lennon’s Shaved Fish turns 50, marking his defining solo compilation and sparking new discussion over the controversial Woman Is The Nigger Of The World and its omission from his latest box set.

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Neil Young marks the 50th anniversary of Tonight’s The Night with a new deluxe edition featuring rare 1973 session tracks.

Neil Young Revisits The Darkness With 50th Anniversary Edition Of ‘Tonight’s The Night’

by Paul Cashmere

Neil Young’s Tonight’s The Night turns 50 with a deluxe edition that revisits the raw 1973 sessions that defined one of rock’s most emotional albums.

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Little Feat 1975 The Last Record Album era

Little Feat ‘The Last Record Album’ Turns 50 – Celebrating The Band’s 1975 Classic

by Noise11.com

Little Feat’s The Last Record Album celebrates its 50th anniversary, marking a turning point in the band’s career and the enduring legacy of Lowell George.

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Paul Simon Still Crazy After All These Years album 50th anniversary

Paul Simon Marks 50 Years Of ‘Still Crazy After All These Years’

by Noise11.com

Paul Simon’s Still Crazy After All These Years celebrates its 50th anniversary, marking five decades since the release of one of pop’s most sophisticated and reflective albums.

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Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here Turns 50: A Timeless Tribute to Absence and Artistry

by Paul Cashmere

Fifty years ago, on September 12, 1975, Pink Floyd released Wish You Were Here, their ninth studio album and the follow-up to the phenomenon that was The Dark Side of the Moon. Few bands in rock history have faced the challenge Pink Floyd did in the mid-1970s: how do you follow up one of the most successful, best-selling and artistically defining albums of all time? Against that backdrop, Wish You Were Here emerged not only as a worthy successor but as one of the group’s most enduring works.

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Elton John Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy

Elton John’s ‘Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy’ Gets 50th Anniversary Reissue

by Noise11.com

Half a century after it first conquered charts around the world, Elton John’s landmark 1975 album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is being celebrated with a special 50th Anniversary Edition, due October 24th.

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Renee Geyer image by Ros O'Gorman, Noise11, Photo

Vika and Linda Cover Renée Geyer ‘Heading In The Right Direction’ for Mushroom 50th

by Paul Cashmere

Vika & Linda Bull have recorded the Renée Geyer classic ‘Heading In the Right Direction’ as a tribute to Renée and to mark the 50th anniversary of Mushroom.

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George Harrison

Massive George Harrison ‘All Things Must Pass’ Reissue Is On The Way

by Paul Cashmere

George Harrison’s masterpiece ‘All Things Muss Pass’ was released on 27 November 1970. It turned 50 last November. On 6 August 2021, a massive expansion featuring 8LPs and 5CDs will be released to mark the 50th anniversary.

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John Lennon Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band Is Being Expanded For 50th Anniversary

by Paul Cashmere

A 50th anniversary ‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band’ expanded edition is about to be released to mark the 50th anniversary of the Lennon classic.

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Neil Young After The Goldrush

Neil Young Previews 50th Anniversary of ‘After The Gold Rush’ with ‘Wonderin’ Video

by Paul Cashmere

Neil Young will mark the 50th anniversary of his classic ‘After The Gold Rush’ with a new edition old the album in December followed by a deluxe vinyl edition in March 2021.

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