Bette Midler’s ‘Some People’s Lives’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

September 3, 2025 Matthew Hocter

An album of both jazz and pop interpretations, Midler’s seventh studio affair remains her most commercially fruitful album to date.

Bette Midler’s ‘Thighs and Whispers’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

October 13, 2024 Matthew Hocter

While ‘Thighs and Whispers’ may not be among Midler’s personal favorites, it serves as a playful interlude in her illustrious career that continues to be cherished to this day.

Bette Midler’s Debut Album ‘The Divine Miss M’ Turns 50 | Album Anniversary

November 6, 2022 Matthew Hocter

Bette Midler Debut Album The Divine Miss M

A strong case can be made that this album is Midler’s finest moment when it comes to capturing the multitude of facets that she brings to her artistry.

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.