1976 Albums

Billy Joel's fourth studio album ‘Turnstiles' reaches its 50th anniversary this week, marking the record that reconnected the singer-songwriter with New York and laid the groundwork for the commercial breakthrough that followed with ‘The Stranger'.

Fifty years after the release of Warren Zevon's breakthrough self-titled album, the 1976 record remains one of the defining singer-songwriter statements of the decade, powered by a remarkable cast of musicians and songs later transformed into hits by Linda Ronstadt.

Fifty years after its release, Rainbow's second album Rising remains one of the defining records of hard rock and early heavy metal, with “Stargazer” continuing to influence generations of metal musicians and fans.

Five decades on, Aerosmith's fourth album Rocks remains a defining document of 1970s hard rock, capturing the band at a creative and cultural peak

Fifty years on, Bob Marley's Rastaman Vibration remains a defining moment in the global rise of reggae and the international voice of Bob Marley And The Wailers

Jethro Tull's Too Old To Rock And Roll Too Young To Die reaches its 50th anniversary, revisiting one of the band's most conceptually ambitious and debated releases

At the height of Wings' global success, Paul McCartney steered Wings At The Speed Of Sound to become one of the defining releases of 1976, reinforcing the band's identity beyond its Beatle roots