When a teenage Charli XCX was writing Icona Pop’s I Love It in a hotel room, she thought it was going nowhere. But after hitting No.2 in Sweden, it ...
I started talking to BloodPop, the exec producer on the project [Lady Gaga’s Chromatica LP], in late 2018. We’d never met before, but we knew of each other from the ...
I love this song, it’s one of my favourites and I wrote it with a good crew, some friends of mine. I did it with Andrew Wotman, Alexandra Tamposi, Brian ...
Pretty In Pink was a minor hit for The Psychedelic Furs, until a teen movie of the same name led to a transatlantic smash – and nearly split up the ...
Back in 2003, Sean Paul had the floors of every club in the world shaking with his dancehall classic Get Busy. Here, he reflects on its creation and how, much ...
When Tones And I wrote Dance Monkey, it was just another part of her busking set. But that didn’t last long. Here, Toni Watson recalls the birth of a monster ...
When we released Oh No (That’s The Word) in 2000, there were big billboards everywhere, but they didn’t show all So Solid members. That was one of my problems, trying ...
In 1983, Kajagoogoo exploded onto charts all around the world with Too Shy. Here, the group’s frontman Christopher ‘Limahl’ Hamill explains why this infectious song has endured from the 1980s ...
