Who Built The Moon? – David Holmes, samples, third UK No. 1
In November 2017 Sour Mash released Who Built the Moon?, the third Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds album, produced with David Holmes after years of Belfast and London sessions.
Let’s Dance – Nile Rodgers, SRV, Serious Moonlight
In 1983 EMI America released Let's Dance, David Bowie's commercial peak with Nile Rodgers producing and a young Stevie Ray Vaughan on lead guitar.
Queen – Stadium theatre with studio craft
In July 1985 at Wembley, Freddie Mercury led the Live Aid set at Wembley and pulled 72,000 voices into the chorus.
Moon Martin – Power pop with a private-eye cool
John David Martin, from Seiling, Oklahoma, released four Capitol albums as Moon Martin between 1978 and 1981. Robert Palmer had the hit with Martin's "Bad Case of Loving You."
T. Rex – Glam glitter cut to a Boogie riff
Marc Bolan spent the late 1960s as a folk mystic with Tyrannosaurus Rex, then plugged in, shortened the name to T. Rex, and cut a run of glam singles with Tony Visconti, the guitar riff in front.
What if David Bowie had stayed in Berlin through 1980?
After Lodger, David Bowie remains in Berlin and completes a fourth album there before changing course.
The Beach Boys – Five voices that outgrew the beach
The Beach Boys started as a surf-and-cars group in a Hawthorne garage and arrived, within five years, at Pet Sounds, a record cut with the Wrecking Crew that uses the studio as part of the arrangement.
Which band holds the World Record for the loudest rock concert in history?
Manowar hit 139 dB in Hanover in 2008, the measurement most often cited as the loudest rock concert on record.
David Bowie – Lazarus
Lazarus is the third track on David Bowie's Blackstar and the album's second single, issued as a digital download on 17 December 2015 (ISO/Columbia). The album version runs about 6:22. The video edit is shorter.
Paul McCartney – Melody that outlived the Fab Four
Liverpool, then the world: Paul McCartney learned melody the hard way, writing with John Lennon in small rooms before stadiums existed for them.