Lenny Kravitz – Stillness Of Heart
Stillness Of Heart opens on clean-ish electric guitars and a measured drum pattern, then Lenny Kravitz leans into the chorus as if he is asking for quiet rather than applause. The …
Turn The Car Around – Oxfordshire cabin, first solo Top 10
In January 2023, Gaz Coombes released Turn The Car Around on Hot Fruit/Virgin: nine songs from his Oxfordshire cabin that gave him a first UK Top 10.
Stevie Wonder – Isn’t She Lovely
Isn't She Lovely opens the third side of Songs in the Key of Life, the double album Tamla released on 28 September 1976. Wonder wrote it for his daughter Aisha Morris, born in February 1975 to him and Yolanda Simmons. The track does not start
KC & The Sunshine Band – Miami sunshine that made disco move
KC & The Sunshine Band turned Miami's TK Records into a mid-70s hit factory of horns, chants, and Get Down Tonight.
Björk – Jóga
Björk’s Jóga (Homogenic, 1997): Mark Bell rebuild at El Cortijo, string octet, One Little Indian lead single.
John Lennon – Solo years that kept asking questions
After the Beatles, John Lennon used Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, and Double Fantasy to turn private fights into studio records.
Sting – Englishman In New York
In 1987 Sting wrote Englishman in New York for Quentin Crisp, and Branford Marsalis answered him on soprano saxophone.
Interview of Annie Lennox (1984)
Mid-1980s television catches Annie Lennox of Eurythmics after Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) has already redrawn the face of pop on MTV. She talks about fame, image, and the strange proximity of David Bowie's theatre to her own sharp androgyny, while Dave Stewart's guit
Blood Sugar Sex Magik – Laurel Canyon mansion with Rick Rubin
In spring 1991 the Red Hot Chili Peppers moved into a Laurel Canyon mansion with Rick Rubin and cut Blood Sugar Sex Magik in roughly seven weeks of live tracking.
Stevie Wonder – As
As sits on the second disc of Songs in the Key of Life, Tamla's double album of 28 September 1976, after the singles I Wish and Sir Duke had already done the chart work. Wonder produced it and sang it. He did not play it