All Time Top 1000 Albums

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Encompassing many facets of pop, rock and jazz, this book assesses 1000 albums and is divided into listings of between ten and 250 for various genres and areas of interest, together with a single "top 1000" list, all in order of appraisal by the editor of "The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music" and 82 contributors from around the world. They have taken account of critical and personal opinions of the albums when they were first reviewed, together with reappraisal throughout their lifetime, and their commercial success. Each album is listed with an illustration of its cover, a full track-listing, UK and US chart-listing if applicable, and a 100-word review.

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1,1994

About the author

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Colin Larkin is a British music writer. He founded and was the editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Along with the ten-volume encyclopedia, Larkin also wrote the book All Time Top 1000 Albums, and edited the Guinness Who's Who of Jazz, the Guinness Who's Who of Blues, and the Virgin Encyclopedia of Heavy Rock. He has over 650000 copies in print.

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