John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1917 – June 21, 2001) was an African-American blues singer-songwriter and guitarist, born in Coahoma County near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hooker began his life as the son of a sharecropper, William Hooker, and rose to prominence performing his own unique style of what was originally closest to Delta blues. He developed a 'talking blues' style that was his trademark. Though similar to the early Delta blues, his music was metrically free. John Lee Hooker could be said to embody his own unique genre of the blues, often incorporating the boogie-woogie piano style and a driving rhythm into his masterful and idiosyncratic blues guitar and singing. His best known songs include "Boogie Chillen" (1948) and "Boom Boom" (1962).

Back to Bedlam is the debut studio album by English soft rock musician James Blunt. Produced by Tom Rothrock and released by Custard Records on 11 October 2004, the album was a major commercial success, topping the albums charts of over ten countries, as well as reaching number two in the United States and three other countries.[1] Back to Bedlam was the highest-selling album of 2005, with almost 2.4 million copies,and was the best selling album of the decade[2] though has been somewhat slated critically, with NME awarding it the Worst Album Award at the 2006 NME Awards.

Internationally acclaimed, Juno Award winning Jazz vocalist Sophie Milman returns with her highly anticipated 2009 album Take Love Easy. Sophie ventures into a more contemporary sound with this album, recording covers of Paul Simon's '50 Ways to Leave Your Lover', Joni Mitchell's 'Be Cool', and Bruce Springsteen's 'I'm On Fire', but she remains firmly rooted in Jazz as evidenced the inclusion standards such as 'Day In Day Out' and 'Love For Sale' and Sophie's insistence on recording with the best Jazz musicians in the business. Universal.

Christmas in Vienna is a 1993 album released by American soul singer Diana Ross, and Spanish tenors Plácido Domingo and José Carreras for the Sony Classical label. The concert that formed the basis of this album was Domingo's first in his series of televised Christmas in Vienna concerts. The album was recorded on December 23, 1992 at the Rathaus in Vienna with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Gumpoldskirch Boys Choir as ensemble. It charted in both the US and UK and was very successful on the Billboard Classical albums chart. The album sold over 1 million copies and was an example how pop singers and classical singers can sing together.

CLIFF AT CHRISTMAS celebrates 17 seasonal favorites from English crooner Cliff Richard, from the standards "Winter Wonderland" and "White Christmas" to his highly popular "Millennium Prayer." Given that many of Cliff Richard's biggest hits of the '80s and beyond tended to be his seasonal offerings, Christmas compilations such as this have long been a sure-fire banker, and Cliff at Christmas did not disappoint, either commercially or creatively.