Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 50. Chapters: 10 Songs for the New Depression, Absolutely the Best (The Zombies album), Alama Fi Hyatak, All the Way (Allstar Weekend album), Antidotum, Ayamy, A Coloring Storybook and Long Playing Record, A Kiss Before You Go, A Meeting by the River, Bez limitu, Blue Tattoo (album), Capital Inicial (album), Certain Starlights and Fleeting Daybreaks, Convertible Music, Das Kapital (album), Dave Mason & Cass Elliot, Dolenz, Jones, Boyce & Hart, Drift (Ken Block album), Drop Everything, Eletricidade, Haymans Green, How Old Are You?, Ikuinen virta, Independencia (album), Jag ar inte radd for morkret, Joy (Paul King album), Love Gone Mad, Love in Motion (Anika Moa album), Love Is War, Love Zone, My Forever (album), Reflections (Candice Night album), Release the Stars, Resta in ascolto, Ricky Nelson (album), Rick Is 21, Rua 47, Rufus Wainwright (album), Shakedown Street, Sold (album), Stranger Things Have Happened (Peter Tork album), Stuck Together with God's Glue, Suddenly (Billy Ocean album), Tacy sami, The Jeb Loy Nichols Special, Traces of Sadness, Vanilla Ninja (album), Video (2 Plus 1 album), Voce Nao Precisa Entender, What Did You Think Was Going to Happen?, When Everything Breaks Open, WZRD (album). Excerpt: Release the Stars is the fifth studio album by Canadian-American singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, released through Geffen Records on May 15, 2007. Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant was the executive producer and the album was mixed by producers Marius de Vries and Andy Bradfield. Wainwright's most commercially successful album to date, Release the Stars charted in 13 countries, reaching Top 10 positions in Denmark, Norway, and the United Kingdom, and was certified gold in Canada and the UK. The album generated three singles: "Going to a Town," which peaked at number 54 on the UK Singles Chart, "Rules and Regulations," and "Tiergarten." Wainwright originally planned to create a more simple piano and voice album, but began leaning towards more lush sounds once the recording process started. Guests on Release the Stars include Richard Thompson, longtime friend and fellow singer-songwriter Teddy Thompson, family members Martha Wainwright and Kate McGarrigle, Neil Tennant, Joan Wasser, and actress Sian Phillips. The world tour supporting the album lasted from May 2007 to February 2008, and included tour stops in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. For Release the Stars, Wainwright received two nominations for the Juno Awards of 2008, including Adult Alternative Album of the Year and Songwriter of the Year, and won the Outstanding Music Artist award at the 19th GLAAD Media Awards. "Initially, this was simply going to be an album of piano and voice," Wainwright stated in a May 2007 interview with The Independent's Nick Duerden. That was, however, until he visited Berlin, which influenced the album's lush sound. Wainwright declared, "Basically, a huge wave of German Romanticism descended on the recording process, and almost drowned me." Wainwright cited two reasons for the change in direction and the heightened dramatic flare: the cancer diagnosis received by his mother (folk musician Kate McGarrigle) during the album's genesis, which he found "fueled his creative inten