David Bowie – Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide
A lone acoustic guitar and a tired vocal open the last track. Then Mick Ronson's string arrangement comes in, the band enters, and David Bowie turns the lyric toward the stalls: you're not alone. Rock 'n' Roll.
Queen – I Want To Break Free
John Deacon wrote I Want To Break Free in 1983 as a 12-bar blues, and the Coronation Street video helped keep the US single at number 45.
The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever
In the autumn of 1966 John Lennon was in Almería, in southern Spain, acting in Richard Lester's film How I Won the War, and between scenes he wrote Strawberry Fields Forever.
Oasis – It’s Gettin’ Better (Man!!)
Oasis’s It’s Gettin’ Better (Man!!), Be Here Now track 11 (Creation, 1997): US-tour jam, seven minutes, then reprise.
The Doors – Riders on the Storm
In December 1970, The Doors moved into their own room on Santa Monica Boulevard and started the sessions that became L.A. Woman.
Prince – Darling Nikki
A cassette in Matt Fink's collection dates Darling Nikki to 27 May 1983 at Prince's Kiowa Trail home studio.
The Police – Message In A Bottle
In 1979, at Surrey Sound in Leatherhead, Sting's guitar figure became The Police's first British No. 1.
Queen – Who Wants To Live Forever
Brian May wrote Who Wants To Live Forever on the drive home from a twenty-minute cut of Highlander, and the National Philharmonic recorded the strings at Abbey Road.
The Beatles – Paperback Writer
On 13 April 1966 The Beatles booked EMI Studio Three at Abbey Road for a song Paul McCartney had brought in that week, a letter from a writer to a publisher.