1983

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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble 'Texas Flood' album artwork

"We Set up in a Circle, Just Like We Did Onstage, Put Mics on Everything and Ran Through the Songs a Couple of Times": Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton Tell the Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Game-Changing Debut Album, ‘Texas Flood’

By Mark McStea published

Faced with a choice between David Bowie and his own band, Stevie Ray Vaughan took a bet on the blues and unleashed one of the greatest blues-rock albums ever made

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U2 'War' album artwork

“’Sunday Bloody Sunday’ Was an Absolutely Pivotal Song for Us”: Three Albums Into Their Career, U2 Found Their Triumphant Sound and Activist Voice on ‘War’

By Joe Bosso published

Forty years on, The Edge and producer Steve Lillywhite discuss the album on which the group built its legacy

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ZZ Top in 1983

“We Were Still the Little Band From Texas, Interpreters of That Great American Art Form the Blues”: Billy Gibbons on the Making of “Gimme All Your Lovin’”

By Richard Bienstock published

How ZZ Top’s 1983 classic took the blues “up a notch”

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