Racine carrée – Square-root pop across Europe
In August 2013, Racine carrée put Stromae's square-root branding across European dancefloors and chart peaks.
Cock Robin – Just Around The Corner
Cock Robin’s Just Around the Corner (1987): Don Gehman, Kingsbery/LaCazio, France No. 18, Germany No. 16, Swiss No. 6.
Top 10 Songs That Defined the 90s
Ten songs that defined 1990s radio beyond nostalgia branding.
Beastie Boys – Three MCs who kept rewriting the break
Three New York kids started in hardcore punk rooms, then turned turntables, samples, and jokes into a hip-hop career that refused to freeze in 1986.
Imagination – Just an Illusion
Just an Illusion arrives in February 1982 as the lead single from Imagination’s second album, In the Heat of the Night, on British label R&B Records (MCA in the US). Steve Jolley, …
Bob Marley – The island carried in a voice
On 3 December 1976 at 56 Hope Road, Kingston, gunmen interrupted a Smile Jamaica rehearsal.
Interview of Kate Bush (1979)
On Tiswas in 1979, Kate Bush appears in a leather jacket during her Palladium week, between Saturday morning chaos and art-pop precision.
C + C Music Factory – Gonna Make You Sweat
C + C Music Factory’s Gonna Make You Sweat (1990): Clivillés/Cole, Freedom Williams, Martha Wash, Hot 100 No. 1.
High Voltage – The Australian pack that woke the world
In May 1976, Atlantic and Atco put High Voltage in shops outside Australia, and for most listeners that LP was the first AC/DC record they could actually buy.
Simply Red – Holding Back The Years
Holding Back The Years, from Picture Book (1985): UK climb then Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 in 1986.