The Music’s Over – The Most Best Albums of 2014
themusicsover Happy Holidays! Please enjoy some NEW music for a change here on The Music’s Over. Presenting the most best as well as the greatest albums from 2014.
1. Wilko Johnson & Roger Daltrey / Going Back Home
2. Jimmer / The Would-Be Plans
3. The Strypes / Snapshot
4. Various Artists – Ronnie James Dio: This Is Your Life
5. Spanish Gold – South Of Nowhere
6. Bruce Springsteen / High Hopes
7. Sturgill Simpson / Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
8. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings / Give The People What They Want
9. Mastodon – Once More Round The Sun
10. U2 / Songs of Innocence
11. Nikki Lane / All Or Nothin’
12. The Gaslight Anthem – Get Hurt
13. Bob Seger – Ride Out
14. The Reverend Horton Heat / Rev
15. Dwight Twilley / Always
16. Ex Hex / Rips
17. Future Islands / Singles
18. String Cheese Incident / Song In My Head
19. Imelda May / Tribal
20. Marianne Faithfull / Give My Love To London
21. Joe Louis Walker / Hornet’s Nest
22. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers – Hypnotic Eye
23. Drowners – Drowners
24. Cocktail Slippers – People Talk
25. Angaleena Presley – American Middle Class
26. Supersuckers – Get The Hell
27. Billy Joe Shaver – Long In The Tooth
28. The Whigs – Modern Creation
29. Jerry Lee Lewis – Rock & Roll Time
30. Benjamin Booker / Benjamin Booker
Big Jim Sullivan was one of the most requested and prolific session guitarists that England ever produced. Over a career that spanned over 50 years, he played on around 1000 records that charted in the UK, more than 50 reached number one. Legend has it that he played on upwards of 3000 records a year during the height of his career. Sullivan was just 14 when he started learning to play the guitar, and in just two years, he was playing professionally. In 1959, he joined a band called the Wildcats who were backing Marty Wilde at the time. The following year, the Wildcats backed 
Eric Woolfson was a much respected Scottish musician, songwriter and singer who is best remembered as one-half of the driving force behind the Alan Parsons Project. Woolfson started out mostly as a songwriter, penning songs for the likes of Marianne Faithfull, Peter Noone and the Tremeloes. In the early ’70s, he got into artist management, guiding the careers of Carl Douglas of “Kung Fu Fighting” fame and an up-and-coming producer, Alan Parsons who had previously engineered the Beatles’ Abbey Road and Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. In 1975, the two began collaborating creatively and the Alan Parsons Project was born. Over the next decade, the group released such popular prog rock albums as I Robot, Pyramid and Eye in the Sky. Overall, they sold in excess of 40 million albums. By the early ’90s, Woolfson and Parsons parted ways with Woolfson moving into musical theater. Woolfson was later diagnosed with cancer and died from the disease on December 2, 2009. He was 64.
Rob Partridge was a UK music industry veteran who founded and ran the Coalition Group, a powerful management and PR firm. Partridge began his career in the mid ’70s when he worked as a journalist Music Week. By the late ’70s, he was the head of the publicity department at Island Records where he worked directly with such greats as