Nippon Budokan (The Budokan)
The Nippon Budokan, often shortened to simply Budokan, is an indoor arena in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was originally built for the inaugural Olympic judo competition in the 1964 Summer Olympics. While its primary purpose is to host martial arts contests, the arena has gained additional fame as one of the world's most outstanding musical performance venues. The Budokan was a popular venue for Japanese professional wrestling for a time, and it has hosted numerous other sporting events, such as the 1967 Women's Volleyball World Championship. Most recently, the arena hosted the Olympic debut of karate in the 2020 Summer Olympics, as well as the judo competition at both the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Paralympics. A number of famous acts have played at the Budokan. The Beatles were the first rock group to play there, in a series of concerts held between June 30 and July 2, 1966. ABBA ended their last tour and held their final live performance there in March 1980. Numerous acts have recorded live albums at The Budokan, including Blur, TVXQ, Bryan Adams, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, Cheap Trick, Neil Young, Dream Theater, Duran Duran, Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, Mariah Carey, Judas Priest, Paul McCartney, Asia, Ringo Starr, Journey, Deep Purple, Masayoshi Takanaka, and Michael Schenker Group.
Reading and Leeds Festivals
The Reading and Leeds Festivals are a pair of annual music festivals that take place in Reading and Leeds in England. The events take place simultaneously on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the August bank holiday weekend. The Reading Festival is held at Little John's Farm on Richfield Avenue in central Reading, near Caversham Bridge. The Leeds event is held in Bramham Park, near Wetherby, the grounds of a historic house. Headliners and most supporting acts typically play at both sites, with Reading's Friday line up becoming Leeds' Saturday line-up, Reading's Saturday line-up playing at Leeds on Sunday, and Leeds' Friday line-up attending Reading on Sunday. Campsites are available at both sites and weekend tickets include camping.
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[Album]
28 June 2024
Death Metal
'Manual Manic Procedures' is the second studio album by 200 Stab Wounds.
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[Album]
28 June 2024
Country
'Songwriter' is the seventy-second studio album (and fifth posthumously released studio album) by Johnny Cash. The album was recorded as a series of songwriting demos in early 1993, a time when Cash wasn't signed to a label and shortly before he met producer Rick Rubin. The songs were written over several decades. The tapes were shelved when Cash instead made the American Recordings album with Rubin, although he used re-recordings of the songs "Drive On" and "Like A Soldier" for that album. After rediscovering the demos, John Carter Cash and David "Fergie" Ferguson stripped them back to just Cash's vocals and guitar before overdubbing newly recorded parts by a new band, including several musicians who had worked with Cash such as Marty Stuart and David Roe. The recordings also retain original backing vocals recorded by Waylon Jennings, who died in 2002.
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[Album]
21 June 2024
Post-Metal
'Les Chants de L'Aurore' (The Songs of Dawn) is the seventh studio album by Alcest.
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[Album]
13 November 2020
Country
'Johnny Cash And The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra' is a posthumous studio album by Johnny Cash. The album features Cash's original vocals with new orchestral arrangements by The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Don Reedman, who produced the album with Nick Patrick, said: "I believe we have captured the emotion, sensitivity and genuine honesty of Johnny Cash through his story telling and his touching and captivating vocal performances."
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[Albums Boxed Set]
12 October 2108
Classic Rock
'Loving The Alien (1983-1988)' is a boxed set by David Bowie. The set covers the period of Bowie's career from 1983 to 1988. Exclusive to the set are 'Never Let Me Down 2018', a re-engineered version of his 1987 album, and 'Dance', an alternate 2018 version of a previously planned but scrapped 12" collection
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[Albums Boxed Set]
11 November 2016
Classic Rock
'The 1966 Live Recordings' is a boxed set of live recordings by Bob Dylan. It includes every known recording from the 1966 Live Tour, including audience tapes. Most of the set was unreleased and some tapes had never circulated before.
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[Compilation Boxed Set]
11 November 2016
Classic Rock
'The Early Years (1965-1972)' is a boxed set that compiles the early work of Pink Floyd. It contains early non-album singles plus unreleased studio and live recordings.
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[Albums Boxed Set]
29 September 2017
Classic Rock
'A New Career In A New Town (1977-1982)' is a boxed set by David Bowie. The set covers Bowie's career from 1977 to 1982, including his "Berlin Trilogy". Exclusive to the set are a 'Heroes' E.P., which compiles versions of his song "Heroes" recorded in different languages, a new version of 'Lodger' (1979), remixed by coproducer Tony Visconti, and 'Re:Call 3', a compilation of non-album singles, single versions, and B-sides and features the 'Baal' E.P. (1982) in its entirety on CD for the first time.
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[Compilation Album]
18 November 2014
Classic Rock
'The Art Of McCartney' is a tribute album to Paul McCartney. It covers McCartney's solo work, and his work with The Beatles and Wings, and features a wide range of artists such as Jeff Lynne, Barry Gibb, Brian Wilson, The Cure, B.B. King, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Alice Cooper, Smokey Robinson, and Kiss. According to producer Ralph Sall, the project took 11 years to complete.
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[Album]
11 November 2014
Classic Rock
'Lost On The River' is an album produced by T Bone Burnett featuring a collective of musicians recording under the moniker The New Basement Tapes. It features Elvis Costello, Rhiannon Giddens, Taylor Goldsmith, Jim James and Marcus Mumford. The album consists of a series of tracks based on recently uncovered lyrics handwritten by Bob Dylan in 1967; these are believed to have been written in the period between his motorcycle accident (July 29, 1966) and the first recordings in the spring of 1967 in the "Red Room" in Dylan's house, where the first recordings of 'The Basement Tapes' (1975) took place.
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[Compilation Album]
25 March 2014
Classic Rock
'Bob Dylan In The 80s, Volume One' is a compilation tribute album by various artists. It contains Bob Dylan songs that have often gone ignored, covering the period starting with 1980's 'Saved' and ending with 1990's 'Under The Red Sky'.
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[Album]
4 March 2014
Classic Rock
'Bob Dylan, The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration [Deluxe Edition]' is a reissue of the 1993 Bod Dylan album. It is remastered and includes bonus rehearsal performances.
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[Albums Boxed Set]
4 November 2013
Classic Rock
'The Complete Album Collection, Vol. One', is a boxed set by Bob Dylan. It includes 35 albums released between 1962 and 2012, six live albums, and a compilation album unique to the set, 'Side Tracks', which contains previously released material unavailable on regular studio or live albums.
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[Compilation Album]
24 January 2012
Classic Rock
'Chimes Of Freedom, The Songs Of Bob Dylan (Honoring 50 Years Of Amnesty International)' is a charity compilation album featuring new recordings of compositions by Bob Dylan by multiple artists. Proceeds from the album were donated to the human rights organization Amnesty International. It debuted in the U.S at number 11 on the Billboard 200. Featured artists include Diana Krall, Johnny Cash, Adele, Miley Cyrus, My Chemical Romance, Silversun Pickups, Kesha, The Gaslight Anthem, Pete Townshend, Seal, Jeff Beck, Elvis Costello, Mark Knopfler, Darren Criss, Eric Burdon, Sting, Patti Smith, My Morning Jacket, Pete Seeger, Steve Earle and Rise Against.
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[Album]
24 June 2008
Hard Rock
'Saints Of Los Angeles' is the ninth studio album by Motley Crue. This was the first full-length studio album with the band's original lineup since 1997's 'Generation Swine', following the return of drummer Tommy Lee, and the last to feature guitarist Mick Mars before his dismissal from Motley Crue in 2022. It debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard chart, selling about 100,000 copies in its first week. It debuted at No. 14 on the Australian ARIA chart, No. 5 in Sweden, No. 3 in Canada, No. 47 in Italy, and No. 9 in Finland (although it climbed to number 6 in its second week).
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11 July 2005
Heavy Metal
'Fused' is the second solo album by Tony Iommi. The album also features vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes (who briefly fronted Black Sabbath in the mid-1980s, assuming vocal duties on the album 'Seventh Star' (1986), an album that was originally intended to be Iommi's first solo album) and drummer Kenny Aronoff.
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[Album]
25 June 2002
Heavy Metal
'Live At Budokan' is a live album by Ozzy Osbourne. It was recorded at the Nippon Budokan on 15 February 2002 in Tokyo, Japan.
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[Compilation Album]
14 August 2001
Hard Rock
'Twisted Forever, A Tribute To The Legendary Twisted Sister' is a tribute album to Twisted Sister by various artists.
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[Album]
17 October 2000
Heavy Metal
'Iommi' is the debut solo studio album by Tony Iommi. The album took nearly five years to make. All of the songs were written by Iommi, producer Bob Marlette and the respective vocalists of each track (except "Black Oblivion", which was written by Iommi and Billy Corgan). According to Iommi, he and Phil Anselmo had recorded three tracks together for the album, but only one was put onto the album. Iommi has also said he "wrote a couple of tracks with Billy Idol and two with Billy Corgan, but you know, we could only use one of each".
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[Album]
11 July 2000
Hard Rock
'New Tattoo' is the eighth studio album by Motley Crue. Artistically, it shows the band returning to the earlier musical style that gave them commercial success in the 1980s and early 1990s. This is the only album by the band not to feature drummer Tommy Lee, who left the band a year before, and was replaced by former Ozzy Osbourne drummer Randy Castillo on the album. The album also marked Castillo's final full-length studio recording project that he was involved in before his death in March 2002. The album artwork was inspired by the cover of Bruce Dickinson's album 'Tattooed Millionaire' (1990), whose title track is said to be about Dickinson's wife cheating on him with bassist Nikki Sixx, as revealed in Motley Crue's biography 'The Dirt'.
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[Compilation Album]
21 March 2000
Classic Rock
'Later Days, The Best Of Volume Two' is a compilation album by Led Zeppelin. It contains selections from the band's last four studio albums.
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[Compilation Album]
23 November 1999
Classic Rock
'Early Days, The Best Of Volume One' is a compilation album by Led Zeppelin. It contains selections from the band's first four studio albums.
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21 September 1987
Hard Rock
'Crazy Nights' is the fourteenth studio album by KISS. This was the second album to feature the line-up of Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Bruce Kulick, and Eric Carr. The album is notable for its pop-metal or glam-rock sound as well as for its use of keyboards and synthesizers (unlike previous KISS albums) - a reflection of popular trends in the commercial rock genre of this time.
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16 September 1985
Hard Rock
'Asylum' is the thirteenth studio album by KISS. The album marked a continuation of the glam metal sound of the preceding album 'Animalize' (1984).
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13 September 1984
Hard Rock
'Animalize' is the twelfth studio album by KISS. The album marked the only appearance by lead guitarist Mark St. John, who replaced Vinnie Vincent in April 1984.
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[Compilation Album]
?? August 1982
Classic Rock
'The Jimi Hendrix Concerts' is a posthumous live album by Jimi Hendrix. It contains songs from six different concerts between 1968 and 1970. The album spent eleven weeks in the U.K. Albums Chart, peaking at number 16. In the United States, it was less successful, reaching number 79 in the Billboard 200.
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?? March 1982
Hard Rock
'Ruff Cutts' is the debut E.P. by Twisted Sister.
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[Album]
28 June 2024
Death Metal
'Manual Manic Procedures' is the second studio album by 200 Stab Wounds.
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[Album]
28 June 2024
Country
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[Album]
28 June 2024
Country
'Songwriter' is the seventy-second studio album (and fifth posthumously released studio album) by Johnny Cash. The album was recorded as a series of songwriting demos in early 1993, a time when Cash wasn't signed to a label and shortly before he met producer Rick Rubin. The songs were written over several decades. The tapes were shelved when Cash instead made the American Recordings album with Rubin, although he used re-recordings of the songs "Drive On" and "Like A Soldier" for that album. After rediscovering the demos, John Carter Cash and David "Fergie" Ferguson stripped them back to just Cash's vocals and guitar before overdubbing newly recorded parts by a new band, including several musicians who had worked with Cash such as Marty Stuart and David Roe. The recordings also retain original backing vocals recorded by Waylon Jennings, who died in 2002.
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28 June 2024
Country
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[Compilation Album]
2020
Hard Rock
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9 October 2020
Hard Rock
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[Album]
2019
Progressive Metal
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Album]
15 July 2016
Hard Rock
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[Compilation Album]
2008
Hard Rock
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[Album]
2007
Progressive Metal
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[Compilation Album]
2005
Hard Rock
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[Compilation Album]
2004
Hard Rock
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[Album]
2002
Progressive Metal
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[Album]
1999
Progressive Metal
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[Compilation Album]
1999
Classic Rock
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[Compilation Album]
1994
Hard Rock
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[Compilation Album]
1991
Classic Rock
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[Compilation Album]
1990
Hard Rock
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[Album]
1990
Progressive Metal
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[Album]
1990
Classic Rock
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[Album]
?? April 1972
Folk
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