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	Queen A Night at the Opera Folded by managerial tribulations and resentment over lack of profit despite their ascending career, the band relies on new manager John Reid and delivers its best album, experimenting beyond the recording techniques possibilities and unraveling in the most disparate musical genres. The lp marks the full maturation of Brian May's identitary skills, surpassing himself in a painstaking guitar work, with which he demonstrates his total mastery over the instrument effects. This album is treated with so much care to appear lighter than Queen's previous records. The hard rock theatre of "Death on two legs" releases all its acrimony toward	5.0 05.29.23
	Santana Santana III Last album of the band’s first incarnation, it’s a soaring and vibrant, mostly instrumental, selection from a group of musicians trying to look tight as ever but, underneath the surface, torn apart by a life of excesses. The opening jam immediately exploits a fierce guitar shredding duel between Carlos and the new addition, twin-lead guitarist kid Neal Schon, which continues in the subsequent track “No one to depend on”, that really is in some sort the heaviest track up to that time by Santana, resulting in a ballsy thick hard rocking pounder acting as a forerunner to the wilder Journey’s ‘mark 1’ tracks to come. “Taboo” is	4.0 05.28.23
	Joni Mitchell Blue That cover shot says it all: an intense inner narrative, tinged with the blue of melancholy and regret, on a path of self-analysis that from afar regain what is near, rediscovering what makes us ourselves. This record is one of the most outspoken confessions put together by an artist, in which an unguarded Joni lays bare that troubled time marked by the end of his love story with Graham Nash, the difficult new relationship with James Taylor and her escape vacation through Europe. The instrumentation is kept as usual to a minimum and that combines perfectly with the intimate matter treated in the selection. Appalachian dulcimer, guitar and pia	4.0 05.28.23
	Billy Joel 52nd Street A Grammy award winner album, Billy Joel’s 6th studio album, "52nd street" takes its name from the famed New York jazz district, where the lp was actually recorded. The sound is broader than previous releases, with a selection of tracks very diverse the one from the other, not to mention that Joel's playing sounds particularly enthusiastic. "Big shot" starts the album with a bang, marked by a solid rock motif. "Honesty" assumes the role of the big glossy ballad designed to be released as a single and has established itself as a classic of its genre, countlessly covered by other artists. "My life" possesses a killer pulsating piano groov	4.0 05.28.23
	Genesis Wind & Wuthering	4.0 05.28.23
	Free Free Almost entirely written by the Fraser/Rodgers partnership, Free's second studio album sold poorly even if the material is among the best the rock blues scene had to offer at the time of its release. "I'll be creeping" builds a sophisticated theme about the blues recurring figure of the possessive lover. "Songs of yesterday" is strictly led by the bass, from which the tune has been composed, and benefits from appropriate time changes and a free rein storming performance by Paul Kossoff. "Lying in the sunshine" is a beautiful muffled acoustic intermission, like a lazy summer nap, where we can enjoy a different canon in precious Rodger	4.0 05.28.23
	Eagles Desperado	4.5 05.28.23