One Hot Minute – The Dave Navarro chapter
On 12 September 1995 Warner Bros. released One Hot Minute, the only Red Hot Chili Peppers studio album with Jane's Addiction guitarist Dave Navarro.
Tears For Fears – Shout
In late 1984 at the Wool Hall, Roland Orzabal played Chris Hughes a drum-machine chorus he thought was only an album track.
The Beatles – Studio craft that kept rewriting the charts
The Beatles formed in Liverpool, turned Hamburg club hours into a writing machine, and then used EMI's Abbey Road to rebuild what a pop record could do.
Afterlife Interview with Chuck Berry
Riffs and Beats finds Chuck Berry outside a St Louis club neon, ES-335 on his hip, duckwalk paused mid-step like a punctuation mark.
Robbie Williams – Angels
On 1 December 1997, Chrysalis released Angels, the fourth single from Robbie Williams's debut solo album Life thru a Lens, written with Guy Chambers.
5 things you didn’t know about Coldplay
Five Coldplay facts: a poetry-book name, Bowie’s blunt rejection, a four-person first gig in Camden, a space-only instrumental, and vegetarian backstage catering.
Sébastien Tellier – Velvet funk with a bearded grin
Sébastien Tellier built a distinctive niche in French pop of the 2000s through Record Makers sessions, a collaboration with Tony Allen on the enduring 'La Ritournelle', and a Daft Punk co-production that gave his velvet funk a wider platform.
Pulp – Disco 2000
Pulp’s Disco 2000, from Different Class (Island, 1995): Jarvis Cocker, Deborah Bone, Chris Thomas, UK No. 7.
The Truth – Acoustic fourth disc inside Crystal Ball
In early 1998 NPG Records shipped The Truth as the acoustic fourth disc inside the Crystal Ball direct-order set, a stripped Prince album that was not sold alone at retail.
Rod Stewart – Young Turks
In 1981 at the Record Plant in Los Angeles, Rod Stewart cut Young Turks with Jim Cregan for the album Tonight I'm Yours, built on synths and a drum machine.