The loudest? Most hated? Certainly the biggest multi-platinum-selling band. All is revealed.

This four-volume work provides provocative critical analyses of 160 of the best popular music albums of the past 50 years, from the well-known and mainstream to

Chris Smith tells the fascinating stories behind the most groundbreaking, influential, and often controversial albums ever recorded.

The '80s were a decade of musical change. As the '70s disco stranglehold was broken, rock, gay, dance and pop music competed with funk and soul, romantic ballad