Depeche Mode – Stripped
Depeche Mode’s Stripped (Black Celebration, 1986): first single, Miller/Jones, Westside/Hansa.
Les Négresses Vertes – Accordion grit from Saint-Ouen
Les Négresses Vertes arrived with Mlah: accordion, brass, Helno's sneer, and Paris street-party punk.
Lenny Kravitz – It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over
In June 1991 Lenny Kravitz issued It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over from Mama Said: Philly-soul strings, quiet breakup lyric, Hot 100 No. 2.
Emancipation – Triple CD free of Warner
On 19 November 1996, NPG and EMI released Emancipation, Prince's first triple album after leaving Warner Bros., three discs timed to exactly sixty minutes each.
The Weeknd – Heartless
On 27 November 2019, The Weeknd released "Heartless" on XO and Republic, and two weeks later it was No. 1 in the United States.
Oasis – Gallagher swagger that owned Britpop
Burnage, Manchester, early nineties: two Gallagher brothers, a borrowed rehearsal room, and a shared hatred of anything soft.
Eurythmics – You Have Placed A Chill In My Heart
You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart sits on Eurythmics’ 1987 album Savage, written by Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart and produced by Stewart. The pair record at Château de Dangu in Normandy, building a colder, more.
By the Way – Melodies over the funk flex
On 9 July 2002 Warner Bros. released By the Way, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' eighth studio album, cut with Rick Rubin after writing sessions at the Chateau Marmont.
Sting – If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
In 1992 at Lake House in Wiltshire, Sting and Hugh Padgham cut If I Ever Lose My Faith in You with the touring band in the room.
Interview of Alice Cooper (1974)
A 1974 tour interview finds Alice Cooper still in the Billion Dollar Babies circus: makeup barely set, guillotine talk close at hand, and a deadpan Midwestern voice explaining shock rock like a stage plot. He separates Vincent Furnier from the Alice character without kil