Phyllis Hyman’s ‘Prime of My Life’ Turns 35 | Album Anniversary

June 7, 2026 Brandon Ousley

Hyman’s final studio LP before her tragic death remains a bright portrait of her masterful use of pathos to create beauty from chaos.

Phyllis Hyman’s ‘Goddess of Love’ Turns 40 | Album Anniversary

May 6, 2023 Quentin Harrison

Hyman’s sixth LP has much to share and time has not sapped the energy of the stronger sides of an album that saw her rise up to create something beautiful.

Phyllis Hyman’s Eponymous Debut Album 'Phyllis Hyman' Turns 45 | Anniversary Retrospective

April 1, 2022 Quentin Harrison

The beloved singer’s debut long player marked one of the inaugural turning points in marrying R&B and jazz music idioms flawlessly.

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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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