The Police – Bring On The Night
The Police’s Bring On the Night on Reggatta de Blanc (1979): Last Exit roots, Summers air, Copeland restraint, Sting low.
Rod Stewart – Hair, heart and hits
He grew up in Highgate with football and a harmonica. Rod Stewart, the son of a Scottish master builder raised in London, kept a working-class pride.
Interview of David Bowie (1977)
In 1977 David Bowie spoke about Berlin, addiction, and shedding theatrical personas as he entered the Low / “Heroes” experimental stretch.
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – You Know We Can’t Go Back
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds’ 2015 single You Know We Can’t Go Back: measured guitars, NME ‘brother’ lyric edit.
5 things you didn’t know about David Bowie
Five verified side notes from a career that moved through several styles.
U2 – Where The Streets Have No Name
U2’s Where the Streets Have No Name (Joshua Tree, 1987): Edge delay intro, Eno/Lanois, Bono’s location sketch.
What if The Beatles never broke up?
In January 1970 the lawyers never arrive with dissolution papers.
Genesis – Prog that learned to smile
Genesis began at Charterhouse with Peter Gabriel out front; after he left in 1975, Phil Collins stepped to the mic and the band later scaled to Invisible Touch.
Afterlife Interview with Jim Morrison
In the mist at Père Lachaise, Riffs and Beats finds Jim Morrison in a leather jacket, poetry book open.
David Bowie – Heroes
Bowie’s "Heroes" (Hansa, 1977): Visconti multi-mic, Fripp feedback, Eno pads, Berlin Wall lovers lyric.