Only Love Can Hurt Like This is one of Paloma Faith’s defining songs, even though she did not write it herself. Released in May 2014 as the second single from A Perfect Contradiction, the song was written by Diane Warren, one of the most successful pop songwriters of the last four decades. The track peaked […]
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When Kate Bush released Wuthering Heights in January 1978, it didn’t sound like anything else on the radio. Written by Bush when she was just 18 and inspired by Emily Brontë’s 1847 novel of the same name, the song is delivered from the voice of Catherine Earnshaw’s ghost. That bold choice paid off. The single
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Hideaway by De’Lacy: The House Track That Broke The Rules Some songs just hit differently. Hideaway by De’Lacy did that the second it left the club floor and made its way to the charts. By the time it appeared on Top Of The Pops on 31 August 1995, the track had already been tearing up
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Benjamin Clementine’s London is already a powerful song, but the video gives it a whole other emotional register. Despite the title, it isn’t set in London at all. Director Colin Solal Cardo places Clementine on the rooftops of Paris, the city where he busked, struggled, and slowly found his footing as an artist. The video
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“Murder on the Dancefloor” is a song written by Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Gregg Alexander, produced by Alexander and Matt Rowe for Ellis-Bextor’s debut studio album, Read My Lips (2001). Released on 3 December 2001, the song peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and became a top-10 hit worldwide. “Murder on the Dancefloor” is reported to have been
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“Walk Away Renée” is a song written by Michael Brown, Bob Calilli, and Tony Sansone for the band the Left Banke, released as a single in July 1966. Steve Martin Caro is featured on lead vocals. It spent 13 weeks on the US charts, with a top spot of No. 5. The track returned to
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Blackbirds was first performed by David McAlmont and Guy Davies during a series of live gigs in 2012 when they were promoting their debut EP Smokehouse as ‘Fingersnap’. The track found itself becoming a favourite with audiences. David McAlmont: “I’ve worked hard in recent years to free myself from the despair that increasingly preceded my lyric
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“You Can’t Fix This” is a 2013 song by Stevie Nicks, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, and Rami Jaffee. The song was recorded in Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 and recorded for the soundtrack album Sound City: Real to Reel. The Sound City players performed the song several times at festivals and on The Late Show with David Letterman. The song was written about
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Falling Forward is the fourth album by English singer-songwriter Julia Fordham, released in 1994. The album includes the singles “Different Time, Different Place”, “I Can’t Help Myself”, and “Hope, Prayer & Time”. The title track is my favourite. “I spent a bit of time up front with this record, demo-ing at home beforehand and trying
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‘Rocket’s Tail’ is a song written by Kate Bush. It was originally released on her sixth studio album The Sensual World in 1989. The track features vocals by the Trio Bulgarka and a guitar solo by David Gilmour. “Rocket is one of my cats, and he was the inspiration for the subject matter for the song, because he’s
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