Pink Floyd – Free Four
Free Four opens with a count-in, "one, two, free four," in a Cockney accent.
Prince – Let’s Go Crazy
On 7 August 1983 Prince and the Revolution recut Let's Go Crazy at the Warehouse in St. Louis Park, four days after the First Avenue benefit, because the live take was too frantic.
David Bowie – Suffragette City
Mick Ronson's piano hits the downbeat, Trevor Bolder and Woody Woodmansey keep a dry straight beat, and David Bowie shouts as if the city will not wait. Suffragette City sits near the end of Ziggy Stardust, out 16 June 1972 on RCA.
Queen – Radio Ga Ga
Roger Taylor built Radio Ga Ga from a phrase his three-year-old son Felix said in Los Angeles, and Queen recorded it at the Record Plant in 1983.
The Beatles – I Am The Walrus
On 5 September 1967 The Beatles were back at EMI Studios, Abbey Road, with a new John Lennon song that refused to behave like a pop lyric.
Oasis – Acquiesce
Oasis’s Acquiesce, B-side of Some Might Say (Creation, 24 April 1995): stopped-train write, Liam/Noel split.
Supertramp – School
School opens Crime of the Century with a playground tape, a girl's scream and Rick Davies's harmonica, recorded at Trident in 1974 with Ken Scott.
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.
What if Jimi Hendrix had finished a fourth studio album?
In the summer of 1970, Jimi Hendrix finishes the album taking shape at Electric Lady Studios and lives to release it.
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.