Supertramp – Goodbye Stranger
Rick Davies wrote Goodbye Stranger on a neighbour's piano in his hometown, then Supertramp cut it for Breakfast in America with a Wurlitzer, a whistle, and Roger Hodgson's guitar at the end.
Pink Floyd – Green Is The Colour
Green Is The Colour is the quiet song on More, the soundtrack Pink Floyd wrote for Barbet Schroeder's film.
Prince – Sexy Dancer
In April 1979 at Alpha Studios in Burbank, Prince cut Sexy Dancer at almost nine minutes, and Bob Mockler edited it down for the album.
Fender Telecaster – Bolt-on solid-body, 1950
In the late 1940s in Fullerton, California, Leo Fender designed a solid-body electric guitar for mass production, easy repair and stage durability. The Broadcaster appeared in 1950. After a trademark conflict with Gretsch over the name Broadcaster, Fender renamed it Telecaster. Typical early features: ash
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, a short-lived project around Freddie Burretti.
Afterlife Interview with Elvis Presley
Riffs and Beats finds Elvis Presley at the Graceland gates at dusk, white jumpsuit on, pink Cadillac waiting like a prop that still runs.
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.
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.
Oasis – Champagne Supernova
Oasis’s Champagne Supernova closes Morning Glory (Creation, 1995): seven minutes, Weller’s SG, bus premiere.
Supertramp – Take The Long Way Home
Roger Hodgson wrote Take the Long Way Home in Topanga while Breakfast in America was already underway, and Rick Davies answered the intro with harmonica instead of saxophone.