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It’s been a mere 5 days since Ozzy Osbourne passed away at age 76 on July 22, 2025. On that day, we posted an abbreviated tribute to the man and his music on AP, with the added kicker that we’d be posting more about him a little bit later. After AP editor Mike Mettler conferred with main LP reviewer Mark Smotroff, we decided to take a different approach with our tribute. Read on to see our collective choices of 15 great tracks on wax that best honor the legacy of Ozzy and Black Sabbath. . .

Direct from the WWNC files (as in, “Will Wonders Never Cease”) comes an LP reissue that so many of us have been hoping and praying to get back onto our turntables for literal decades — and now, it’s finally come unfrozen. I’m talking about September 1973’s Buckingham Nicks, perhaps one of the last true Holy Grails of coveted 1970s vinyl, and it is finally set to be reissued under the auspices of the oft-excellent Rhino High Fidelity series on September 19, 2025. Read on to see the source materials and how you can pre-order your copy (or copies!) of Buckingham Nicks today. . .

Ozzy Osbourne passed away earlier today, July 22, 2025, at age 76, just a few scant weeks removed from the triumphant Back to the Beginning celebration of Ozzy and Black Sabbath’s storied and eternally influential respective legacies at the already legendary all-day event that took place at Villa Park on July 5, 2025, in their hometown of Birmingham, England. Read on to see our in-the-moment appreciation of his long and storied legacy on vinyl . . .

David Bowie’s March 1975 LP release on RCA, Young Americans, was an album that in some ways divided fans and his career, having come out in the aftermath of shedding his Ziggy Stardust persona and not long before the full-flowered emergence of his suave and sophisticated Thin White Duke phase. Read Mark Smotroff’s review to see if Parlophone’s new half-speed-mastered 180g 1LP reissue of this transitional and transformational Bowie release gives you good reason to reconsider the music and sound of Young Americans, one of the more underappreciated classics in the mid-’70s Bowie catalog. . .