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Classic Album
Subsidised with the proceeds of an 80s novelty hit, the eccentricities, the vision and ambition of KLF, combined with their taste for acid house and anarchy, resulted in The White…
Making Depeche Mode – Songs Of Faith And Devotion
Following up the enormous success of Violator almost broke Depeche Mode. But despite Dave Gahan’s heroin addiction and inter-band fighting, with Songs Of Faith And Devotion they eventually created a…
Making The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses rescued indie rock from shambling student bands and fired Manchester into a bright new musical future. Michael Leonard charts the making of a one-off album that, according…
Making Pet Shop Boys – Actually
We look back at how the Pet Shop Boys’ second album Actually was informed by Thatcherism, a 60s singer living in a hotel, Catholicism… and ZZ Top. By Oliver Hurley…
Making George Michael: Faith
Shedding his past for Faith, George Michael ditched the fun and sunshine of Wham!, looked inwards for inspiration and bared all in order to create his first true masterpiece… It’s…
Making Talk Talk – The Colour Of Spring
After starting life as one of many bands cynically marketed by record companies to cash in on the New Romantic scene, on third studio album The Colour Of Spring Talk…
Making Vienna – Ultravox
John Foxx was out, Midge Ure was in for Ultravox: Vienna… By Mark Lindores Were it not for Ultravox: Vienna sleeve designer Glenn Travis’ bold typography reassuring fans that the…
Making Janet Jackson’s Control
Emerging from the shadow of her big brothers, the third album by Janet Jackson, Control, saw her present a set of anthems on which she displayed independence, strength and self-worth.…
Making Neneh Cherry’s Raw Like Sushi
Raised on the peripheries of jazz and punk, Neneh Cherry began her career with a pledge that she would always dance to the beat of her own drum and with…
Making Prince’s Sign O’ The Times
After disbanding The Revolution in 1986, Prince returned as a one-man-band with a double album – Sign O’ The Times – bristling with ideas, experimentation, eclecticism and superb musicianship, which…