Blur – The exit door from Britpop
In February 1997, Blur's self-titled album kicked open an exit from Britpop toward American indie volume.
Black Eyed Peas – Just Can’t Get Enough
Black Eyed Peas’ Just Can’t Get Enough (2011, The Beginning): softer electro, tour-absence lyric, Taboo on MTV.
AC/DC – The schoolboy riff that would not sit down
In November 1973, in Sydney, Malcolm Young and his younger brother Angus started AC/DC.
ABBA – Dancing Queen
ABBA’s Dancing Queen (Arrival, 1976): Andersson/Ulvaeus, Metronome Stockholm, Billboard Hot 100 No. 1.
David Bowie – The art of becoming someone else
In Brixton, David Jones practiced saxophone, studied mime and R&B, and turned a stage name into a working method: David Bowie, from Space Oddity to Blackstar.
Jamiroquai – (Don’t) Give Hate a Chance
(Don't) Give Hate a Chance is the third UK single from Jamiroquai's sixth studio album Dynamite, released on 7 November 2005 by Sony BMG. Jay Kay co-wrote it with Rob Harris, Matt …
Matador – Second act that refused to shrink
In January 2015, Matador stepped out of a Wheatley home studio as Gaz Coombes's second solo act after Supergrass.
Underworld – Dark & Long
On 13 June 1994, Junior Boy's Own released "Dark & Long," the song that opens dubnobasswithmyheadman, with a ten-minute "Dark Train" mix beside it.
Simply Red – Manchester soul that filled the charts
Mick Hucknall left Manchester post-punk for a soul project built around his voice and Stewart Levine's production, took "Holding Back the Years" to number one in the United States, and kept Simply Red in arenas for two decades.
Interview of Elton John (1976)
On Parkinson in 1976, Elton John shares the sofa with Michael Caine and ends up at a pub piano under studio lights.