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Portishead and Tricky contest who first sampled Isaac Hayes’s aching strings score
When Tracy Chapman stood in for Stevie Wonder at a televised gig, this song propelled her to fame
Janis Joplin’s telling of the song would be her epitaph; its vocal shot through with all her ‘hurts’ and immense vitality
How a song about trading places revived Kate Bush’s career
From Bryan Ferry to KT Tunstall, how a song about fidelity has been inspiring new interpretations for half a century
The song threw open the possibilities for pop lyrics and kicked off the folk-rock boom
An epic gig brought together agitprop stage business, heart-sore balladry and sprawling jams
Inspired by the film Jerry Lordan wrote an instrumental which he passed on to The Shadows whose rendition became a UK No 1
The Australian band gave a foretaste of their summer festival shows
Written in 2006 by a lonely guy who had retreated from the world, the single has made its way into reality-show auditions
Phil Collins was at the lowest of ebbs. His first wife had left him, so he set up a studio in his bedroom and poured out his pain
Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics to the US’s widely regarded alternative national anthem in response to ‘God Bless America’
The show was a fairly subdued affair until the band started to explore their back catalogue
The Oregon musician looped and layered guitar, violin, piano and vocals to captivating effect
An impressive but off-kilter set of break-up songs, outlandish costumery and not much crowd-pleasing
The Hampshire-born singer’s music was at its best when shorn of bombast
The singer’s pedigree, both rootsy and refined, shone through in this performance
The band impersonated their younger selves while the crowd bounced about to decade-old songs
Treasury committee is told the big five lenders understate the amount stolen by half
The Brighton duo wowed a grizzled north London audience with their satisfyingly spacious riffs
The singer experimented with a range of styles – from trip- hop to disco – in this album preview show
The singer presided over a corny evening of swinging music and gadding about
Long dismissed as the clichéd soundtrack to industrialisation, these musicians face a battle to recruit new members and remain ‘relevant’
The Massive Attack collaborator returns with her first solo album in 18 years, which is a darkly soulful, throbbingly rhythmic affair
The Canadian band were in party mood for this pre-Glastonbury show
