Generation X – Dancing With Myself
Dancing With Myself, Generation X's 1980 Chrysalis single, is the club-ready hinge between London punk and Billy Idol's solo years.
Top 10 Videos That Invented a Language
Ten videos that invented moves and frames other clips still copy.
UB40 – Birmingham reggae that crossed the charts
UB40 took their name from the UK unemployment benefit form and formed in Birmingham in 1978.
Kiss – I Was Made For Lovin You
Kiss’s I Was Made For Lovin You (Dynasty, 1979) puts a Desmond Child disco pulse under Paul Stanley’s chorus and hard guitars.
Moon Safari – Air
Air’s 1998 Moon Safari, made in a Versailles home studio by Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, turned soft electronics and Beth Hirsch’s All I Need into a lasting living-room classic.
David Bowie – China Girl
China Girl: Iggy Pop's The Idiot, 1977, then Bowie and Nile Rodgers on Let's Dance, 1983, UK No. 2 / US No. 10.
Parliament-Funkadelic – The mothership in the basement
Parliament-Funkadelic turned George Clinton's studio collective into Casablanca-era theatre, complete with a landing Mothership.
Nina Simone – My Baby Just Cares for Me
In December 1957 at Beltone Studios in New York, Nina Simone cut My Baby Just Cares for Me for Bethlehem with Jimmy Bond and Albert “Tootie” Heath; the track closed Little Girl Blue (1959) and returned as a UK Top 5 hit in 1987 after
Discovery – Daft Punk
Discovery arrived in 2001 as Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo's second album, a clear turn after the club grit of Homework.
Interview of Patti Smith (1978)
Tom Snyder's 1978 conversation with Patti Smith catches her after Horses had already reset the New York rock map and in the year of Easter, when Because the Night put her on the radio.