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In 1976, Mountain drummer Corky Laing put together a supergroup called Pompeii with Ian Hunter (Mott the Hoople), Andy Fraser (Free) and others, but the project stayed uncompleted until now. The Secret Sessions, which also features contributions from Eric Clapton and Dickey Betts, will be released for this year's Record Store Day on April 21.As Laing explained in a press release, Pompeii were created as a way of salvaging his record deal after the disintegration of Mountain and as punk was on the rise. "In this environment, my record company, Elektra/Asylum, was preparing to bail on me, but before doing...

Procol Harum are set to release a limited-edition, super deluxe box set celebrating 50 years of their music. The eight-disc collection Still There'll Be More is due March 23 and spans their entire career. You can check out the full track listing below. The 69-track set of remastered music comprises five CDs and three DVDs. The first three discs feature hits from throughout the band's career; the last two showcase live performances, including a September 1973 Hollywood Bowl performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Roger Wagner Chorale, and a previously unreleased March 1976 concert at the Bournemouth Winter Gardens. The...

Journey's Greatest Hits, which originally came out in 1989, this week became only the third album in the history of the Billboard to rack up 500 weeks on the album charts in USA. Bob Marley's Greatest Hits has chalked up 510, but do you know who has spent the most weeks on the chart? Yeah, you guessed it, Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd is way, way ahead of anyone else with an astonishing 937 weeks!! That means Journey will need to be on the charts for over eight more years to get close to them.  For such a...