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For more than three decades, Foreigner - powered by Mick Jones' guitar heroics and Lou Gramm's lead vocals - has been filling arenas with big crowds and even bigger riffs. A constant fixture on the charts and the airwaves through the '70s and '80s, the group has sold more than 70 million albums worldwide. Rhino's new 32-song compilation NO END IN SIGHT: THE VERY BEST OF FOREIGNER, the legendary band's most comprehensive double-disc anthology to date, features all the classic hits plus as well as live and previously unreleased tracks.

Spanning 1977 to the present, highlights include the Billboard #1 pop smash “I Want To Know What Love Is” plus the Top 5 singles “Feels Like The First Time” (the band's first single, “Double Vision,” “Hot Blooded,” “Urgent,” “Waiting For A Girl Like You,” and “I Don't Want To Live Without You.” In addition to all the fist-pumping hits, NO END IN SIGHT boasts the new recording “Too Late,” a new acoustic version of “Say You Will” and recent live takes on the medley “Juke Box Hero/Whole Lotta Love” and “Starrider.”

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Multi Dimensional Warrior Explores Spiritual Essence of Santana

A decade after their induction into the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame (in January 1998), the hypnotic power of Santana – to mesmerize crowds of tens of thousands in the world’s biggest stadiums, or to cast the same spell on a single listener in their solitude – continues to be one of the enduring and mysterious pleasures of the band’s music. That meditative power has coursed through Santana’s recordings for four decades, but has never been the exclusive focus of any one collection – until now.

MULTI DIMENSIONAL WARRIOR is a unique project, with every track personally selected and sequenced by Carlos Santana to create an engaging journey through a soundscape of moods and feelings. In an unprecedented concept, disc one comprises 14 vocal performances chosen from albums spanning the 1970s, ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s, while disc two comprises 14 instrumental performances from albums covering the same years. MULTI DIMENSIONAL WARRIOR is the first anthology to include tracks from the band’s three major label associations: Columbia, Polydor/ PolyGram, and Arista/BMG. With just three exceptions, all of the albums represented on disc one are different than the albums represented on disc two. Carlos Santana supervised new overdubs to five tracks on the set. He personally added guitar to “Spirit” and “Right Now,” Santana band member Chester Thompson contributed piano to “Let There Be Light,” and Barbara Higbie added harp to “Praise” and “Let There Be Light.”

MULTI DIMENSIONAL WARRIOR is in stores now on Columbia/Legacy, a division of SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.

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40 Years Of CCR
28 SEP 08 DAVID VIENNA, Editor-In-Chief - Concord Music Group

As a young alternative rocker, it was Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Fortunate Son" that showed me social outrage knew no specific genre. The band's Southern swamp-rock sound defined the late-'60s. On Sept. 30, Fantasy celebrates CCR's legacy with 40th Anniversary remasters of six seminal albums.

The albums -- Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bayou Country, Green River, Willy And The Poor Boys, Cosmo's Factory and Pendulum -- all were originally released between 1968-1970. All the best tracks are on these discs, from the band's iconic version of "Suzie Q" to the solemn anthem "Have You Ever Seen The Rain." (On a personal note, CCR's version of "I Put A Spell On You" remains a favorite of mine, showing up on the stereo at every party I've thrown since 1990.)

Each re-issed CD also features bonus tracks such as live cuts from concerts held around the world and a jam session with Stax Records house band Booker T. & The MGs. One of the real gems is the super-rare "45 Revolutions Per Minute" (Parts 1 & 2), a funny, hodge-podge fake interview with Bay Area DJ Tom Campbell that is probably drop-dead hysterical if you're smoking whatever John Fogerty and the rest of the guys were when they recorded it.

The packages artfully recreate the original covers and include previously unpublished photos and new liner notes from veteran music journalists like Ben Fong-Torres and Joel Selvin.

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Todd Rundgren has a new album "Arena", and this 50-minute commercial-free special features tracks off of it, plus some old favorites.

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“...drummer Frank Beard slams away as tight, hard and potent as a kicking mule, bassist Dusty Hill accompanies Beard with the kind of dirty thunks that'll loosen your back teeth, and guitarist Billy Gibbons roars through a repertoire of blues-and Hendrix-influenced licks as sharp and flashy as a pimp's wardrobe.” - from Rolling Stone's original 1983 review of ELIMINATOR

“This is the heartbeat of the whole country, of rock and roll. These cats know their blues, and they know how to dress it up.”
- from Keith Richards' speech inducting ZZ Top into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rhino and MP103 celebrate the 25th anniversary of the 1983 masterpiece from “that little ol' band from Texas” with ELIMINATOR (COLLECTOR'S EDITION), a deluxe CD+DVD set that fires on all cylinders. When it was first released, ELIMINATOR was a landmark in ZZ Top's evolution - geniuses at reinventing themselves, the Texas trio proved themselves timeless and utterly of the moment with the disc's amped up, synth-boogie overdrive. The album hit #9 in Billboard®, remained on the Hot 100 for three years and sold over ten million copies.

The COLLECTOR'S EDITION audio CD features the LP's classic eleven song set list, including the original album version of their smash hit “Legs,” which appeared only on very early pressings of the title - it was subsequently replaced with a markedly different radio edit, and has been unavailable until now. Bonus tracks include the single version and 12” dance mix of “Legs” plus previously unreleased live send-ups - recorded in November, 1983 - of hits including “Gimme All Your Lovin',” “Sharp Dressed Man” and “Got Me Under Pressure.”

The DVD disc features all four of ELIMINATOR's videos, two of which were honored at the first-ever MTV Video Music Awards in 1984: “Legs” for Best Group Video and “Sharp Dressed Man” for Best Direction. Clips for “Gimme All Your Lovin'” and “TV Dinners” are featured as well. Highlights also include four songs performed for the U.K.'s “Live On The Tube” in November 1983.

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RETURN OF THE STRANGER features brand-new interviews with Billy Joel and producer Phil Ramone, plus archival footage of Joel discussing The Stranger back in 1977. Music includes classic Stranger tracks, as well as rare, vintage live recordings from Carnegie Hall (June 1977) and Nassau Coliseum (Dec 1977). Live cuts also include some of Joel’s best-known pre-Stranger anthems.

THE STRANGER - 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION hits stores on July 8 with newly-remastered original album tracks on disc 1, plus a bonus CD of Billy Joel live at Carnegie Hall in June 1977.

The radio special is hosted by Bob Buchmann (WAXQ-FM / Q104.3 in New York), and produced by Tres Hombres (Paul Rappaport, Jym Fahey and Mitch Maketansky) - industry professionals with long histories of working closely with Billy Joel.

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The legendary singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood has signed a new deal with Columbia Records who will release the artist's highly-anticipated new major label album, "Nine Lives," on Tuesday, April 29.

The eagerly-awaited "Nine Lives" is Winwood's first full-length studio album since About Time, released on Winwood's own independent label, Wincraft, in 2003; and it opens an important new chapter in Steve's extraordinary career. The musician also recently announced that he will head out on a national tour with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers this summer for shows across the U.S.

Each of the nine tracks on the aptly-titled "Nine Lives" paints a musical portrait of spiritual transformation as Winwood continues the exploration of soul, rock, blues and world music which began in 1957, when, at the age of 9, he played guitar in his father's band in Birmingham, England.

Songs on "Nine Lives" include "I'm Not Drowning," "Fly," "Raging Sea," "Dirty City," "We're All Looking," "Hungry Man," "Secrets," "At Times We Do Forget," and "Other Shore." Additionally, fellow musical legend Eric Clapton lends guitar work to "Dirty City."

News of Steve Winwood's "Nine Lives" comes in the wake of a transcendent live collaboration between Winwood and his erstwhile Blind Faith bandmate Eric Clapton at the Chicago Crossroads Guitar Festival in July 2007. The pair's staggering on-stage chemistry in Chicago led to the announcement of three historic Steve Winwood & Eric Clapton concerts at New York's fabled Madison Square Garden, scheduled for February 25, 26 and 28, 2008. Tickets for all three of Winwood's MSG shows with Clapton sold-out within minutes of their release.

Winwood (who turns 60 this year) was perhaps the youngest member of the original British pop music invasion of the mid-1960s. A prodigious guitarist and keyboard player in the Birmingham R&B scene by his mid-teens, Winwood cut his musical chops as a back-up musician for an impressive array of American rock & roll and blues pioneers -- including Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley -- during their UK tours.

In 1962, Steve and his older brother, Muff Winwood, began playing with Spencer Davis and drummer Pete York in The Rhythm & Blues Quartet, an ensemble which would eventually morph into the Spencer Davis Group. An intensely powerful and emotional vocalist and formidable songwriter, Steve Winwood launched an enormously influential "blue-eyed soul" movement with hits like "Keep On Runnin'," "Somebody Help Me," and, especially, the massively successful pop-soul anthem, "Gimme Some Lovin'." Originally released in 1966, "Gimme Some Lovin'" entered the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996. Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in 1967 to form the groundbreaking jazz-rock ensemble Traffic.

In 1966, as "Gimme Some Lovin' transformed the pop landscape, the 18-year-old Steve Winwood entered into his first collaboration with Eric Clapton, recording three songs -- "Steppin' Out," "Crossroads," and "I Want To Know" -- as the Powerhouse (a group which also included future Cream bassist Jack Bruce). Winwood and Clapton would join forces again in 1969 to create Blind Faith, one of pop music's first bona fide supergroups, with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Rick Grech.

Following the break-up of Traffic in 1974 (they would reform and successfully tour in the 1990s), Steve Winwood launched a successful solo career which reached an apogee in the mid-1980s with the release of four classic albums in a row: Arc of a Diver (1981, platinum); Talking Back To The Night (1982); Back In The High Life (1986, 3x platinum), which featured the #1 smash, "Higher Love," which earned Winwood a trio of Grammys including "Record of the Year"; and the #1 Billboard chart-topping Roll With It (1988, 2x platinum).

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