They have a unique style inspired by each member's influences (Medeski was a classical music player (and then he became a jazz one), Martin liked Zappa, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, Sly and the Family Stone, James Brown and Jimi Hendrix, Wood was into the sixties rock bands, and later into jazz). And placed high in this Top 50 are albums by British acts FM, Strangeways (fronted by American singer Terry Brock) and Dare (featuring future Professor Brian Cox on keyboards!).Medeski, Martin & Wood is a Jazz-Rock trio from New York, USA, formed in 1991 in Brooklyn.

One of the great AOR voices is Lancashire-born John Waite. And two now legendary albums were made by a singer who couldn’t get arrested when he was a rock artist, and failed an audition for Black Sabbath before reinventing himself as a soul star – the one and only Michael Bolton.Įqually, while AOR is a quintessentially American art form, a handful of Brits got in on the act, most notably Mick Jones, who founded Foreigner as an expat in New York City in 1977. Some of the greatest AOR albums were made by artists who never made it big, among them Diving For Pearls, New England, Balance, Giant, White Sister, Valentine and Le Roux.

In AOR, as in life, there are winners and losers for every fairy tale, a thousand hard-luck stories. We also dig deep, going beyond the hits and the household names to shine a light on the cult classics and lost heroes from this golden age. Included are some of the biggest-selling records in the history of rock. Here we present The 50 Greatest AOR Albums Of All Time.

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