10cc – I’m Not In Love
In the spring of 1975, 10cc built "I'm Not in Love" at their own Strawberry Studios in Stockport, mostly from tape loops of their voices.
Lenny Kravitz – Fields Of Joy
Fields Of Joy starts Mama Said on a steady, moderate rock pulse and a lyric about walking out of trouble into open ground. Lenny Kravitz did not write it. Michael Kamen and Hal Fredric…
Sting – Fragile
Sting wrote Fragile in 1987 after Ben Linder was killed in Nicaragua, and he played the nylon-string guitar himself.
L’homme à tête de chou – Marilou concept with Vannier’s shadow
In November 1976 Serge Gainsbourg released L'homme à tête de chou on Philips, a Marilou concept album cut at Mercury Studios in London with Philippe Lerichomme producing.
Lenny Kravitz – It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over
In June 1991 Lenny Kravitz issued It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over from Mama Said: Philly-soul strings, quiet breakup lyric, Hot 100 No. 2.
Sting – If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
In 1992 at Lake House in Wiltshire, Sting and Hugh Padgham cut If I Ever Lose My Faith in You with the touring band in the room.
Fine Young Cannibals – Johnny Come Home
In 1985, Fine Young Cannibals from Birmingham opened their debut with Johnny Come Home. The London Records single reached UK No. 8 after a spot on The Tube.
Michael Jackson – The dancer who rewrote the charts
Off the Wall came out in 1979, produced by Quincy Jones at Allen Zentz and Westlake in Los Angeles. Jackson sang as a solo adult, not as the youngest Jackson 5.
Sting – Fields Of Gold
Sting wrote Fields of Gold from the barley around Lake House, and Kathryn Tickell's Northumbrian smallpipes answer the vocal at the end of the first and third verses.
Icona Pop – I Love It
On 9 May 2012, Icona Pop released I Love It in Sweden, a two-minute-37 song Charli XCX had written in about half an hour and then set aside.