The Cure – A Night Like This
A Night Like This is track eight on The Head on the Door, released 13 August 1985, with Ron Howe on guest sax.
Afterlife Interview with Freddie Mercury
Riffs and Beats finds Freddie Mercury backstage in a fiction of Wembley lights, yellow jacket still on, treating the afterlife like overtime.
Texas – Glasgow cool with a Motown backbone
Texas formed in Glasgow in 1986 around Johnny McElhone and Sharleen Spiteri, and built a career on American soul grammar filtered through Scottish composure, eventually landing one of the defining UK pop albums of the late nineties.
Prince – Purple Rain
Purple Rain, the 1984 Warner title cut, opens on organ hold and climbs into Prince's guitar storm with The Revolution.
The Fat of the Land – Big beat into the living room
In June 1997, The Prodigy's The Fat of the Land pushed British big beat onto living-room stereos and topped charts on both sides of the Atlantic.
Black Eyed Peas – Don’t Stop The Party
Black Eyed Peas’ Don’t Stop The Party (The Beginning, 2011): DJ Ammo/will.i.am, Dutch-house festival cut.
Don’t Look Back
Cue cards in an alley: Pennebaker films Dylan's 1965 England tour, acoustic set, patience already gone.
Liam Gallagher – I’ve All I Need
Liam Gallagher closes 2017’s As You Were with I've All I Need: slow beat, soft chords, less sneer than Oasis-era punch.
Isle of Wight 1970 – Miles Davis
On 29 August 1970 Miles Davis took an electric Bitches Brew band to the Isle of Wight and played one unbroken set later titled Call It Anything.
Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant
Pretty Vacant, the Sex Pistols' July 1977 Virgin single, names 1977 boredom and anger on the road to Never Mind the Bollocks.