Et si le rock avait changé le monde ?
Le 13 juillet 1985, Live Aid ne s'arrête pas : le satellite reste ouvert jusqu'à la signature en direct d'un gel de la dette et le rock devient un canal diplomatique permanent.
Eagles – Harmonie californienne avec rimshot dur
Glenn Frey et Don Henley ont bâti les Eagles sur des voix empilées, l'art country-rock et la longue route d'Hotel California.
John Lennon – Solo years that kept asking questions
After the Beatles, John Lennon put private material on Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, and Double Fantasy.
Blackstar – Birthday gift, farewell in seven tracks
On 8 January 2016, David Bowie's 69th birthday, ISO/Columbia released Blackstar, seven tracks cut with a New York jazz group led by Donny McCaslin.
Liam Gallagher – Bold
Sur As You Were (2017), Bold est la piste 2 écrite par Liam Gallagher : chantée d’abord dans un pub du Mayo en 2015, Bonehead à la guitare.
David Bowie – Blackstar
Blackstar opens David Bowie's final studio album of the same name, released on his 69th birthday, 8 January 2016, via ISO/Columbia. The title track runs near ten minutes: two main sections, meters that change, and a band.
Oasis – Gallagher swagger that owned Britpop
In 1991 in Burnage, Liam Gallagher was in a band called The Rain. Noel arrived with a folder of songs and the rule that he alone would write them.
Liam Gallagher – The sneer that outlived Oasis
Liam Gallagher carried Oasis' sneer from Knebworth into As You Were and the solo records that followed.
Pink Floyd – Sound built for the dark and the stadium
London and Cambridge in the mid-sixties: Syd Barrett named the band, wrote the early singles, and painted the psychedelic front.
Hunky Dory – Piano songs before Ziggy took over
In 1971 RCA released Hunky Dory, the album where David Bowie stacked piano-led songs, Mick Ronson's arrangements, and a clear run at British pop before Ziggy.