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Graham Parker's second album was one of the most critically acclaimed British rock records of 1976, finishing second in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll. Five decades later, Parker's own reservations about the rushed sessions, his vocals and the production of Robert John "Mutt" Lange give the album a more complicated place in his catalogue.

Half a century after its release, ELO's sixth album remains the moment Jeff Lynne's songs finally clicked on both sides of the Atlantic and delivered the band's first real commercial lift-off in the UK.

ABBA's fourth album was the record that turned a successful Swedish group into a global pop force, and 50 years later its significance has been formally recognised by the US Library of Congress.

Bryan Ferry's 1976 solo album Let's Stick Together captured a pivotal moment between Roxy Music's first era and Ferry's emerging identity as a solo artist.

Fifty years after its release, Linda Ronstadt's Hasten Down The Wind remains one of the defining albums of the 1970s, cementing her place as one of popular music's most influential voices while expanding the creative boundaries of country rock.

Rod Stewart's landmark 1976 album A Night On The Town reaches its 50th anniversary this week, bringing renewed attention to a record that produced some of his biggest hits while tackling themes that were unusual in mainstream rock at the time.

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'.