Minnie Riperton’s ‘Love Lives Forever’ Turns 45 | Album Anniversary

October 11, 2025 Mark Chappelle

Minnie Riperton Love Lives Forever Turns 45

One listen to ‘Love Lives Forever’ disabuses any notion that these compositions didn’t deserve a chance to run into the arms of a heart-wounded fanbase waiting to embrace them.

Minnie Riperton’s ‘Adventures In Paradise’ Turns 50 | Album Anniversary

May 19, 2025 Mark Chappelle

Minnie Riperto Adventures In Paradise Turns 50

On her third studio album, Riperton preserves her child-like wonder while blowing the embers of sensuality for an understated melding of soul and jazz-funk.

Minnie Riperton’s ‘Perfect Angel’ Turns 50 | Album Anniversary

August 6, 2024 Mark Chappelle

On this sophomore stunner, Riperton concerns herself only with ecstasy and frivolity to render a triumph of utopian folk-soul.

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.