Bananarama’s Eponymous Second Album ‘Bananarama’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

April 16, 2024 Quentin Harrison

With their second album, the supposed curse of the “sophomore slump” proved to be no bother for the trio of Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward whatsoever.

Bananarama’s ‘Please Yourself’ Turns 30 | Album Anniversary

March 26, 2023 Quentin Harrison

Though its favor for conventional pop polish still divides fans, the album’s consistency and inherent, feel-good froth make it ripe for reassessment.

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Debut Album ‘Read My Lips’ Turns 25 | Album Anniversary

With her debut solo affair, Ellis-Bextor made the dancefloor feel elegant and faintly surreal, a place where heartbreak could wear lipstick and emotional catastrophe could arrive with a four-on-the-floor beat.

Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

Four decades later, ‘Graceland’ remains true to what it was from the start—a beautiful, tangled, genuinely collaborative album that changed what pop music could sound like.

The Rolling Stones’ ‘Tattoo You’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

When listening to ‘Tattoo You,’ you would never know that it is this Frankenstein's monster of an album that was pieced together with songs that came from their most creatively fertile period.

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