David Gilmour - About Face

Today (March 6th) marks the thirtieth anniversary of About Face, the second solo studio album from Pink Floyd’s lead guitarist David Gilmour. In the UK, this 1984 release went to number 21. In the US, it spent twenty-eight weeks on the Billboard Album chart with a peak position of number 32.

Paul Young - No Parlez

English born singer and musician Paul Young was the front man for a number of short-lived bands (Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband, and Q-Tips) before going it alone and becoming a huge teen idol. His solo debut No Parlez was released thirty years ago tomorrow (July 18th) back in 1983. It charted at number 79 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 16 in France, number 4 in Austria, number 3 in New Zealand and Norway, and number 1 in Germany, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK.