Stop Making Sense
David Byrne walks on alone, and Jonathan Demme's Stop Making Sense (1984) builds a Talking Heads concert from an empty stage to a nine-person machine.
Gaz Coombes – White Noise
Gaz Coombes’s White Noise, from 2012’s Here Come the Bombs, rides a steady pulse and dry guitars after Supergrass.
“Heroes” – Fripp, Eno, and a wall in West Berlin
In July and August 1977, David Bowie and Tony Visconti tracked "Heroes" at Hansa Studio by the Wall in West Berlin, with Brian Eno in the room and Robert Fripp's guitar lines flying in from London.
The Pointer Sisters – I’m So Excited
Anita, June and Ruth's 1982 Planet single, produced by Richard Perry, returned in 1984 to reach US No. 9.
Interview of Lou Reed (1974)
Lou Reed's 1974 Australian press conference, in the season of Sally Can't Dance and the live heat of Rock n Roll Animal, is less an interview than a refusal of the format.
Live Aid 1985 – Queen
On the afternoon of 13 July 1985, Queen walked into a Wembley Stadium that had not bought tickets to see them.
Lenny Kravitz – TK421
The first thing you hear on TK421 is the groove: dry funk guitars, a dancefloor kick, analog synths cutting in like neon. Then Lenny Kravitz's voice rides the groove, talkbox wheez…
Les Rita Mitsouko – Paris scratched into melody
At the Gibus Club in 1980, Catherine Ringer and Fred Chichin launched Les Rita Mitsouko; Marcia Baïla, produced with Conny Plank, hit number two in France.
Sade – Never as Good as the First Time
Released on 5 March 1986 as the third single from Promise, Never as Good as the First Time added a vocal intro the album did not have.
Emergency on Planet Earth – Didgeridoo debut that hit UK No. 1
In June 1993, Jamiroquai released Emergency on Planet Earth on Sony Soho Square, their debut album after the Acid Jazz single When You Gonna Learn secured a major-label deal.