Genesis release ‘Invisible Touch,’ their thirteenth album featuring ‘Tonight, Tonight, Tonight’ (1986)
Genesis‘ ‘Invisible Touch” feat. “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight” is their thirteenth studio album, released on June 9, 1986 by Charisma.
Queen release ‘A Kind of Magic’ based on movie ‘Highlander’ soundtrack (1986)
Queen‘s ‘A Kind of Magic’ is their twelfth studio album recorded in Munich, Montreux and London and released on 2 June 1986 by EMI / Parlophone.
Sonic Youth release their third album : ‘EVOL’ (1986)
Sonic Youth‘ s ‘EVOL’ is their third studio album co-produced with Martin Bisi and released in May 1986 by SST Records.
Wynton Marsalis starts the recording of ‘Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1’ with Marcus Roberts on Piano (1986)
Wynton Marsalis‘ ‘Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1’ is an album recorded on May 29 and September 25, 1986 by Cbs/Columbia.
Charisma publish Peter Gabriel’ s fifth album ‘So’ featuring ‘Sledgehammer’ & ‘Don’t Give Up’ (1986)
Peter Gabriel‘s ‘So’ is his fifth studio album co-produced with Daniel Lanois, featuring ‘Sledgehammer’ & ‘Don’t Give Up’ and released on May 19, 1986 by Charisma Records
Run–D.M.C. release their third album : ‘Raising Hell’ featuring ‘Walk This Way’ with Aerosmith (1986)
Run–D.M.C.’s ‘Raising Hell’ feat. “Walk This Way”. is their third studio album released on May 15, 1986 by Profile / Arista.
Columbia release the soundtrack of ‘Top Gun’ featuring ‘Take My Breath Away’ (1986)
‘Top Gun’ feat. ‘Take My Breath Away’ is the soundtrack from the film of the same name, released on May 13, 1986 by Columbia.
Prince releases ‘Parade’ (Music from the Motion Picture ‘Under the Cherry Moon’) featuring ‘Kiss’ (1986)
Prince‘s ‘Parade: Music from the Motion Picture Under the Cherry Moon’ is his eighth studio albumrecorded with The Revolution and released on March 31, 1986 by Paisley Park.
Miles Davis records ‘Tutu’ in tribute to Desmond Tutu (1986)
Miles Davis‘ ‘Tutu’ is an album (in tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu) recorded on March 25, 1986 and released in December 1986 By Warner Bros.
The Rolling Stones release ‘Dirty Work’ featuring ‘Harlem Shuffle’ (1986)
The The Rolling Stones‘ ‘Dirty Work’ feat. ‘Harlem Shuffle’ is their eighteenth British (and twentieth American) studio album released on March 24, 1986 by The Rolling Stones/Columbia Records.
Van Halen release ‘5150,’ their seventh album featuring Sammy Hagar as a singer (1986)
Van Halen‘s ‘5150’ is their seventh studio album (a.k.a. “fifty-one-fifty”) featuring Sammy Hagar in replacement of David Lee Roth and released on March 24, 1986 by Warner Bros.
Elektra publishes the second Anita Baker’s album ‘Rapture’ (1986)
Anita Baker‘s ‘Rapture’ is her second (and breakout) album released on March 20, 1986 by Elektra.
This month Mike Stern records ‘Upside Downside,’ his second album (1986)
Mike Stern‘s ‘Upside Downside’ is his second studio album recorded in March & April 1986 and released the same year by Atlantic.
Mute Records release Depeche Mode’s fifth studio album : ‘Black Celebration’ (1986)
Depeche Mode‘s ‘Black Celebration’ is their fifth studio album released on March 17, 1986 by Mute Records.
MCA publish Steve Earle’s debut album : ‘Guitar Town’ (1986)
Steve Earle‘s ‘Guitar Town’ is his debut album produced by Emory Gordy, Jr. and Tony Brown and released March 5, 1986 by MCA
Elektra publish Metallica’s third album : ‘Master of Puppets,’ a musical landmark (1986)
Metallica‘s ‘Master of Puppets’ is their third studio (six times platinum) album produced by Flemming Rasmussen and released on March 3, 1986 by Elektra Records.
EMI publish Talk Talk’s ‘The Colour of Spring,’ their third studio album featuring ‘Life’s What You Make It’ (1986)
Talk Talk‘s ‘The Colour of Spring’ is their third studio album featuring ‘Life’s What You Make It,’ produced by Tim Friese-Greene and released in February, 1986 by EMI
Woody Shaw records live in Detroit ‘Bemsha Swing’ for Blue Note (1986)
Woody Shaw‘s ‘Bemsha Swing’ is a live album recorded in Detroit on February 26 & 27, 1986 and released in 1997 by Blue Note.
Asylum publish Jackson Browne’s eighth album : ‘Lives in the Balance’ (1986)
Jackson Browne‘s ‘Lives in the Balance’ is his eighth album self-produced and released on February 18, 1986 by Asylum
MCA Records publish Larry Carlton’s live album : ‘Last Nite’ (1986)
Larry Carlton‘s ‘Last Nite’ is a live album recorded in 1985 at The Baked Potato In North Hollywood and released on February 17, 1986 by MCA Records