George Michael – A pop voice with a private weather
The white jeans and the jukebox guitar were a costume.
Kate Bush – Theatre in the upper register
In January 1978 a nineteen-year-old from Bexleyheath put a ghost story at number one in Britain, and she had written every line of it.
ABBA – Glitter with a fracture
Stockholm, April 1976.
Wembley 1988 – Michael Jackson
On 16 July 1988 Michael Jackson played the third of seven sold-out nights at Wembley, with the Princess of Wales in a crowd of 72,000 and the Bad tour at the height of its machinery.
Rumours – Fleetwood Mac
In February 1977, Fleetwood Mac released an album written in the middle of the breakups it describes, and the songs came out polished enough to hide the bruises until the second listen.
Interview of Prince (1985)
Prince's first televised MTV interview, in 1985, arrives in the long shadow of Purple Rain and the deliberate quiet around Around the World in a Day.
What if Madonna never reinvented herself?
What if Madonna froze the chameleon in 1984 and never changed color again? Same lace, same smirk, same dance vocabulary, decade after decade, while the culture turned around her like weather around a statue.
Supertramp – Keys, Strings, and Saxophones
Supertramp emerged in London in 1969 when keyboardist Rick Davies, encouraged by a Dutch benefactor, brought together a group of musicians to explore new paths in rock
Music – John Miles
When Music came out in 1976, it sounded like an anthem rising from a cathedral of light