Tim Peacock

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Elastica will always be synonymous with the 1990s Britpop movement. Yet it’s fair to say the London-based quartet also fuelled its own legend, for its feisty, self-titled debut even outsold Oasis’ storied Definitely Maybe when it topped the U.K. album chart in the spring of 1995. However, while it’s impossible to completely separate Elastica from Britpop, it’s entirely reasonable to suggest the record still would have cracked the mainstream in any case.

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Aerosmith has sold upwards of 150 million albums and won music’s biggest prizes, but the band’s success was by no means preordained. Despite including fan favorites like “Dream On,” “Mama Kin,” and “Same Old Song And Dance,” their first two albums failed to set the charts alight. That all changed with 1975’s Toys In The Attic.

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Now widely accepted as a southern rock classic, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s third album Nuthin’ Fancy peaked inside the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 on release, but its success was hard won. Indeed, the album’s creation tested the band to the very limit. Things began to go wrong when Skynyrd’s original drummer Bob Burns quit just weeks before the album sessions were due to commence in January 1975.

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The late Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart once described playing live as being akin to “living in a fisheye lens, caught in the camera eye,” but while it’s true the pioneering Canadian trio rarely courted publicity, they nonetheless came alive when they stepped onstage – and they performed some truly monumental shows during their time together. Of course, with so many live shows to choose from, selecting a definitive list of Rush’s best live performances is a tough ask.

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Sam Fender scored a well-deserved U.K. No. 1 with his 2019 debut Hypersonic Missiles, but he reached a much wider audience with “Seventeen Going Under”: an impassioned anthem from his second album that remains among his biggest hits to date. Hypersonic Missiles highlights such as “The Borders” and the suicide-related “Dead Boys” proved Fender could write affecting songs about his generation’s struggles, but on “Seventeen Going Under” the English singer-songwriter drew upon his own troubled past.