This is a concept album based on Charles Darwin, composed by the brothers Bolland, and narrated by Ian Gillan.

You have to respect Eagle for all they do concerning their artists’ current work and re-issues, as they have been on a serious roll lately in particular. 

This record takes a few words to describe what’s really going on with it, and being a fan of Ian Gillan it’s appropriate to explain a few things in the process of reviewing this with as much of an unbiased approach as possible. 

Black Sabbath have had many lineups, but the one era that seems to always get overlooked is the Tony Martin fronted era.  Martin sang on five studio releases, yet more people talk about the Ian Gillan version that only produced one record.

Born Again gets the deluxe treatment, and a proper effort was made to improve it as a product.

Michael Lee Jackson's debut album has been out for some time, perhaps flying beneath your radar, but not mine. 

One of several live and studio re-issues to come from Eagle this summer, is this two-disc set that was originally released in 1980, and a couple of times since.

This album was originally released as a Time Life Series disc.

I’ve always been a big fan of the Doors.

As a major fan of Deep Purple, I am approaching this with a more informative angle, to not only shed any overly biased factors, but explain a few things from within the Purple frame of mind.

Deep Purple has a lot of jam band built into the musical picture.

I can’t recommend this live recording enough.

When this was originally released on DVD, Greg Olma reviewed it for Music Street Journal.

With Ronnie James Dio’s passing, Heaven and Hell are done.

Now that Ronnie James Dio has passed away, this is a reminder of the final tour of Heaven and Hell (the Dio led version of Black Sabbath).

There is not a lot of video footage from Ozzy Osbourne’s initial tenure with Black Sabbath. 

I definitely would not put every Deep Purple album in progressive rock. This one, though, certainly qualifies.

To make it back after seven years culminating into eight for a studio album at this stage in the Deep Purple legacy was a big risk, but one I find to be smaller than the last time the name went eight years in existence without an album, which was 1976 to 1984.

This set features live recordings of the original lineup of Black Sabbath. 

I can still remember when the Perfect Strangers album was released.

This new reissue of Purpendicular includes two bonus tracks.

I know many regard this as kind of a throw away Black Sabbath album. Certainly the lackluster cover didn’t help.

Recorded live in Stockholm 1970, this Eagle re-issue is of a historic show that was bootlegged several times over before it was finally released in the late eighties.

The Deep Purple mkI albums are as important as any other in the history of the band. 

Deep Purple's second album was often the least critically acclaimed of the first three, perhaps rightfully so, perhaps not.

This live album from Deep Purple finds the band in a killer performance.

This disc was released in 1990, and by all accounts, Black Sabbath was at their lowest commercial point.  Tony Iommi was the only original member at this point and he had a revolving door of singers for many years.  

I know there are those who disagree with me, but I wouldn’t necessarily consider Deep Purple to be a progressive rock band.