Texas – Everyday Now
From the 1989 debut Southside, Tim Palmer produced Johnny McElhone and Sharleen Spiteri's blues-leaning Mercury single that peaked at UK No. 44.
(What’s The Story) Morning Glory? – Rockfield in fifteen days
In October 1995 Creation released (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, cut mainly at Rockfield Studios in Wales with Owen Morris and Noel Gallagher producing.
Tears For Fears – Mad World
On 20 September 1982 Mercury released Mad World, written by Roland Orzabal above a Bath pizza shop and sung by Curt Smith.
Fender Telecaster – Bolt-on solid-body, 1950
In the late 1940s in Fullerton, California, Leo Fender designed a solid-body electric guitar for mass production, easy repair and stage durability. The Broadcaster appeared in 1950. After a trademark conflict with Gretsch over the name Broadcaster, Fender renamed it Telecaster. Typical early features: ash
Ramones – Two minutes, leather, no solos
In Forest Hills, Queens, four men in matching leather jackets turned CBGB into a stopwatch: count of four, downstroke, next song.
Afterlife Interview with Joey Ramone
Riffs and Beats finds Joey Ramone in a CBGB alley neon, tall leather silhouette, mic stand planted like a streetlamp that only knows two chords.
The Korgis – Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime
James Warren's 1980 Rialto single, shaped by David Lord, reached UK No. 5 and topped charts in France and Spain.
Animals – Battersea pig, Orwell in mid-70s Britain
On 21 January 1977, Pink Floyd released Animals on Harvest/Columbia, a five-track concept album built around Orwell's Animal Farm and the Battersea Power Station pig shoot.
The Cure – A Forest
In January 1980 at Morgan Studios in Willesden, Simon Gallup's bass opened A Forest, the Cure's first British chart single.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Funk that refused to stay small
In Los Angeles in the early 1980s, Anthony Kiedis and Flea built a band that treated the stage like a gym and the groove like a dare.