Pink Floyd – Breathe (In The Air)
Breathe is the first song on The Dark Side of the Moon, even though Speak to Me, the heartbeat collage, is the first track.
Coldplay – Square One
The first thing you hear is a three-note figure that nods toward Strauss and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Then Will Champion's drums lock, Guy Berryman's bass thickens, and Chris Martin's vocal rides a mix built for.
Prince – The Beautiful Ones
On 20 September 1983 at Sunset Sound, Prince tracked The Beautiful Ones alone, a piano ballad written for the scene where Morris Day sits with Apollonia.
Gaz Coombes – Long Live The Strange
Bright indie-rock guitars, a chorus built to shout, and just enough glam bite under the polish. Long Live The Strange landed on 28 November 2022 as a single ahead of Turn The Car A…
David Bowie – Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
A lone acoustic guitar and a tired vocal open the last track. Then Mick Ronson's string arrangement lifts the room, the band enters, and David Bowie turns the lyric toward the stalls: you're not alone. Rock 'n' Roll.
Afterlife Interview with Michael Jackson
Somewhere past the fog of Neverland, Riffs and Beats finds Michael Jackson waiting with one white glove and a soft laugh.
Green Day – American Idiot
Green Day released American Idiot as a single on 6 August 2004, the opening shot of an album they wrote after the masters of another record were stolen.
Queen – I Want To Break Free
John Deacon wrote I Want To Break Free in 1983 as a 12-bar blues, and the Coronation Street video helped keep the US single at number 45.
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Hole – Celebrity Skin
Hole released Celebrity Skin on 31 August 1998, the first single from the album of the same name, written by Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson and Billy Corgan.