Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – Black Star Dancing
In May 2019 Noel wrote Black Star Dancing at Abbey Road's Gatehouse because his other songs were weak: EP title track after Who Built the Moon?.
Iggy Pop – The Passenger
The Passenger is the open-road track on Iggy Pop's Lust For Life (1977). Ricky Gardiner's guitar turns in a circle while Pop narrates looking out of a car at city lights. The "la l…
Oasis – Some Might Say
Oasis’s Some Might Say (Creation, 24 April 1995): first UK No.1, Owen Morris, last McCarroll-era single.
Afterlife Interview with Prince
Riffs and Beats Prince, if you were still with us in the physical world, what kind of music would you be making right now?
Sex Pistols – God Save The Queen
On 27 May 1977 Virgin released God Save the Queen, the Sex Pistols single the BBC banned in Jubilee week.
Supertramp – Goodbye Stranger
Rick Davies wrote Goodbye Stranger on a neighbour's piano in his hometown, then Supertramp cut it for Breakfast in America with a Wurlitzer, a whistle, and Roger Hodgson's guitar at the end.
Supergrass – Butterfly
"Butterfly" closes Diamond Hoo Ha, the Supergrass album released on 24 March 2008, and Gaz Coombes has called it epic in a raw way.
Pink Floyd – Green Is The Colour
Green Is The Colour is the quiet song on More, the soundtrack Pink Floyd wrote for Barbet Schroeder's film.
Coldplay – Lovers in Japan
The piano charges before the vocal arrives, and that rush is the pleasure of the cut. Lovers in Japan, from Coldplay’s June 2008 album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, is built as a run: chords climbing, Will.
Prince – Sexy Dancer
In April 1979 at Alpha Studios in Burbank, Prince cut Sexy Dancer at almost nine minutes, and Bob Mockler edited it down for the album.