Queen – The Show Must Go On
In 1990 Brian May was afraid Freddie Mercury could not sing The Show Must Go On, and Mercury answered with a couple of vodkas and three or four takes.
The La’s – There She Goes
Lee Mavers' 1988 Go! Discs single, remixed by Steve Lillywhite for the 1990 album, reached UK No. 13 on reissue.
The Beatles – A Day In The Life
On 19 January 1967 John Lennon sat at a piano in EMI Studios with a copy of the Daily Mail in front of him and started the last song on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
The Stone Roses – I Wanna Be Adored
Recorded with John Leckie across late 1988 and early 1989, I Wanna Be Adored opens The Stone Roses' debut and later became a US modern-rock single.
Moog Minimoog – Portable monophonic synthesizer, 1970
Before the Minimoog, Moog synthesizers were modular systems that needed patch cables, rack space and studio time. In 1970 the Minimoog Model D left Trumansburg, New York, as a compact monophonic keyboard instrument with three oscillators, a resonant ladder filter and hard-wired controls.
Supergrass – Sun Hits the Sky
Sun Hits the Sky came out on 9 June 1997, the third single from In It for the Money, and stopped at number ten in Britain.
Eagles – Hotel California
In 1976 the Eagles cut "Hotel California" between Criteria Studios in Miami and the Record Plant in Los Angeles, then released a six-minute single Don Felder thought radio would refuse.
Afterlife Interview with Tupac Shakur
Riffs and Beats finds Tupac Shakur on a West Coast night street, bandana silhouette against purple neon, walking like the block still belongs to the poem.
Supergrass – Can’t Get Up
Can't Get Up is the fifth song on Life on Other Planets, recorded from October 2001 to March 2002 and released on 30 September 2002.