Black Sabbath's debut album was released on Friday the 13th, February 1970. The self-titled album was a commercial success, but it was not popular with critics. If fact, Lester Bangs dismissed the album in a Rolling Stone review as "discordant jams with bass and guitar reeling like velocitised speedfreaks all over each other's musical perimeters, yet never quite finding synch".
August 5, 2011 Kansas' self-titled debut album was released in March of 1974, nearly an entire year after it was recorded. The album defined their signature sound, a mix of American style rock combined with complex, symphonic arrangements with changing time signatures. Robby Steinhardt's violin was a distinctive element of the group's sound and set them apart from other progressive rock groups of the era.
The Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," has been recognized as one of the most important albums in the history of popular music, including songs such as "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", "With a Little Help from My Friends", and "A Day in the Life"
With so many people buying music online today, album covers and cd cases have become a thing of the past. We at The Hawk don't think that's a good thing. Album art has always been an important part of rock & roll culture, from King Crimson's "The Court of the Crimson King" and The Beatles' "Sgt. Pe
