Back catalogue: Rock

Review: Billy Joel's fifth studio album The Stranger, turned Billy into a household name and a consistent multi-platinum seller for the next decade and more. The album reached number two on the US Billboard and ultimately sold to diamond certification in the United States alone. The album was lauded by critics and fans alike, landing on many people's best of the year lists. Included on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 albums you must hear before you die list, the album branded Billy Joel as one of the best songwriters of his day. This reissue is identical to the original 1977 release.

Review: The pairing we didn't know we needed - Rod Stewart and Jools Holland - share their latest full-length album Swing Fever, a worthy throwback to the swing music of yore. A 13-track sparkling salute to the timeless songs of the big band years, and reignited by two giants of their craft, this unlikely dialogue between such titans has produced a convincingly diegetic and immersive work, avoiding any overt pratfall of pure anachronism by producing a roomy, spacious and overall future-present work of art, one which confidently reignites the feeling of Charlestonning and jitterbugging in school proms and/or formal bally occasions, until such quaint aerialisms can be performed no more, whether due to nostalgic satiation or mere exhaustion. With peerless dexterity, Stewart and Holland deliver their takes on timeless jazz classics like 'Ain't Misbehavin', 'Frankie And Johnny', 'Sentimental Journey' and 'Lullaby Of Broadway'.