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The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
(Album ©1971, Rolling Stones Records) This was the Stones’ first album of the 70’s, their first on their own label, and was the third in what has to be considered one of if not THE most impressive four-album run of any band in rock history, from ’68’s Beggar’s Banquet through ’69’s Let It Bleed, this one, and…
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The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
(Album ©1967, EMI/Capitol Records) Here is the other most important album in rock-n-roll, in my opinion. The Beatles had heard Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited and The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds (which itself had been heavily influenced by The Beatles’ Rubber Soul), and responded with perhaps the most ambitious album to date. Paul McCartney had an idea…
