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On May 14, 1988, the Atlantic Records label held its 40th-anniversary celebration by staging, at Madison Square Garden, New York, a non-stop concert lasting almost 13 hours [1] starting at noon and ending just shortly before 1 am the following morning. The event was dubbed "It's Only Rock And Roll".
The album celebrates Foreigner's 40th anniversary of their first release with Atlantic Records. [2] The album includes all Foreigner's' biggest hits from 1977 to 2017. It was released through Atlantic Records and contains 40 tracks. [3] To promote the album Foreigner toured. [4]
Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.Over the course of its first two decades, starting from the release of its first recordings in January 1948, [3] Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most important American labels, specializing in jazz, R&B, and soul by Aretha Franklin ...
Atlantic's first 33⅓ RPM LP records were 10-inch albums and their first release in 1949 was a recording of Walter Benton's poetry set to music which was also issued as three 12 inch 78 RPM records. [1] This was followed by two albums in 1950 with the bulk of Atlantic's 10-inch albums released between 1951 and 1953.
It is not available on the Quicksilver soundtrack album. A section of the song "Shortcut to Somewhere" was performed live for the first time when Genesis played a special concert for the 40th anniversary of Atlantic Records in 1988. It is the only Tony Banks solo song to have been played live by the band.
The band, along with the New Riders of the Purple Sage, opened for the Grateful Dead for the final show at Winterland, New Year's Eve 1978. With the film came the soundtrack album, which was the band's first studio album. "Gimme Some Lovin' " was a Top 40 hit and the band toured to promote the film.
They performed live, as "Emerson and Palmer" (Berry was onstage but unnamed), at the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert in 1988, broadcast on HBO, but only performed a long medley instrumental set including Fanfare for the Common Man, Leonard Bernstein's America, and Dave Brubeck's Blue Rondo, which later became an ELP encore in their ...
It was the first compilation of songs by the band (not counting Coda, which some sources list as a studio album) [a] and the selection and remastering of the tracks were supervised by Jimmy Page. Atlantic Records released it on 29 October 1990 on several formats: four compact discs, six vinyl records, or four cassette tapes. A 36-page booklet ...