Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Oasis chords without the fight
In 2011 Noel Gallagher walked out of Oasis for good, kept the chord shapes, and built a band that did not need a brother at the microphone.
Lenny Kravitz – Fields Of Joy
Fields Of Joy starts Mama Said on a medium-paced rock pulse and a lyric about walking out of trouble into open ground. Lenny Kravitz did not write it. Michael Kamen and Hal Fredric…
World’s Strongest Man – Hot Fruit masculinity under pressure
In May 2018, Gaz Coombes released World's Strongest Man on Hot Fruit, his third solo album after Matador, cut largely at Courtyard Studio in Oxford.
Stevie Wonder – You Are The Sunshine Of My Life
In summer 1972 at Electric Lady in New York, Jim Gilstrap sang the opening of You Are the Sunshine of My Life before Stevie Wonder took the lead.
Tears For Fears – Therapy hooks built for arenas
Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith formed Tears For Fears in Bath, named the project after a therapy text, and then wrote pop singles precise enough for arenas and literate enough for headphones.
Liam Gallagher – Bold
On As You Were (2017), Bold is Liam Gallagher’s self-written track two: first sung in a Mayo pub in 2015, Bonehead on guitar.
Dirty Mind – Home demos kept as masters
In October 1980, Warner Bros. released Dirty Mind, Prince's third album, cut mostly alone at his Lake Minnetonka home studio and credited to engineer Jamie Starr.
Sting – Fragile
Sting wrote Fragile in 1987 after Ben Linder was killed in Nicaragua, and he played the nylon-string guitar himself.
Interview of Tina Turner (1987)
Norway's NRK special Me, Tina (1987) finds Tina Turner after Private Dancer, voice back at center stage.
Lionel Richie – Soft Motown that filled the arenas
Lionel Richie left the Commodores with Motown soft songs that still filled arenas and radio.