Van Morrison looks longingly back to the city of his birth, Belfast, in one of the most classic albums of all time and a mystical journey from start to finish. Jimi Hendrix takes control on his third ...

Badarou's 1984 solo LP features club classic ‘Chief Inspector’ and ‘Mambo’ sampled by Massive Attack on ‘Daydreaming’. One of The Specials founding members, bassist-turned-artist Horace Panter ...

Still creating waves after 30 years, we take a journey through the music that has been inspired by the sound of Sade featuring Solange, Goapele, The Internet, Erykah Badu and more. The album is ...

As the 1980s drew to a close, hip hop had reached a pivotal moment. Whilst a potential for empowerment in mainstream rap had so far remained largely un-tapped, in favour of escapist music built for ...

Named after Yoshimi P-we, the drummer of Japanese band The Boredoms (who appears throughout the album), Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots sought to capture the delicate duality of life and death, ...

Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy celebrates the incredible polymath, innovator and musical thinker Brian Eno for the 30th anniversary of his experimental album, Nerve Net. In this never-before-broadcast ...

Slave to the Rhythm is an audio biography of Grace Jones produced by Trevor Horn, it’s a sonic treat along the lines of Yes’s 90125 or Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s first album. The music ranges from ...

At the beginning of the ‘70s the Grateful Dead were on a roll, and with this new found momentum the band were back in the studio within months to record a followup to the celebrated Workingman’s Dead ...

Music journalist Steven Ivory recalled, “Even the Jacksons had ideas about who should produce Michael’s solo album. They felt they should do it, and told Michael as much in front of me one afternoon ...

Paco de Lucia was a huge influence on me as a guitarist and artist as a whole. Besides his superhuman ability to astonish any crowd with his virtuoso technique, he was a phenomenal composer with a ...

After a two successful studio albums with Rough Trade Records, the then-leading record label of indie rock in Great Britain, fans and critics alike saw The Smiths to be at the top of their game in ...

Take a journey through our playlist of tracks that inspired Marvin Gaye featuring artists such as The Five Keys, Clyde McPhatter, Little Willie John, Smokey Robinson, Curtis Mayfield and many more.