Gaz Coombes – Needle’s Eye
Track six on Matador, Needle's Eye tightens Gaz Coombes's 2015 solo writing into a leaner groove cut between Wheatley home sessions and Courtyard Studios.
Fender Stratocaster – Contoured solid-body, 1954
In 1954, in Fullerton, California, Leo Fender, with George Fullerton and Freddie Tavares, introduced the Stratocaster: a solid-body electric guitar with a contoured body, a bolt-on maple neck, three single-coil pickups and a synchronized tremolo bridge built into the design from the start. Early bodies
David Bowie – Hang on to Yourself
Hang on to Yourself reaches most listeners on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars in June 1972, but the song already had a life. Bowie cut an earlier version with Arnold Corns, his short-lived.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication
The title track of Californication was the first song the band tried when John Frusciante returned, and it still took seven months to find the chord.
Interview of Joe Strummer – The Clash (1988)
The 1988 Night Network interview catches Joe Strummer after The Clash years, in a rare stretch of plain talk.
Queen – A Kind of Magic
Roger Taylor wrote A Kind of Magic from a line in Highlander, and Freddie Mercury rebuilt it while Taylor was in Los Angeles.
Blur – Barbaric
Barbaric is the third track on Blur’s ninth studio album, The Ballad of Darren, released 21 July 2023 on Parlophone. James Ford produced the record at Studio 13 in London and Devon, the same rooms that shaped the.
The Beatles – Something
In the summer of 1968, during the sessions for the album The Beatles, George Harrison stepped into an empty room at EMI Studios on Abbey Road and started a song at the piano.
The Smashing Pumpkins – Cherub Rock
On 21 June 1993, Hut Records released "Cherub Rock," the song that opens Siamese Dream and the first single from the album.
Oasis – Champagne Supernova
Oasis’s Champagne Supernova closes Morning Glory (Creation, 1995): seven minutes, Weller’s SG, bus premiere.