Recorded, goes the myth, in the darkest days of Bowie’s LA drug phase, the track is a magisterial eulogy for the Europe he had abandoned and which he would soon return to for his Berlin period.

EP, “She done it with a doctor on a helicopter/ She's sniffin in her tissue/ Sellin' the Big Issue.” There is shameless revisionism and then there is claiming that Noel Gallagher is a great lyricist. EP, "You're like my yo-yo/ That glowed in the dark/ What made it special/ Made it dangerous/ So I bury it/ And forget."

The most insightful comments on all subjects will be published daily in dedicated articles. They boiled over at a joint Rolling Stone photoshoot during which Rufus had joked that his dad needed him to get into Rolling Stone and his father had not taken the insult lying down. They also recognise music creators for their wider contribution to UK music. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. The pain of the separation is laid out nakedly on the title track, where he unflinchingly chronicles the dissolution of the relationship. Are We There. Shortly beforehand he wrote to her his final farewell – a coda to the ballad that had come to define her in the wider world. RO, “In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey / Butane in my veins so I'm out to cut the junkie.” “Man I’m the worst rapper in the world – I’m a loser,” Beck is reported to have said upon listening back to an early demo of his break-out hit (before it had acquired its iconic chorus) .
St Vincent – aka Texas songwriter Annie Clark – was singing about how social media fed our narcissism and gave us a fake sense of our place in the world. But Arcade Fire articulated the frustrations and sense of something better just over the horizon that will be instantly familiar to anyone who grew up far away from the bright lights, “Sprawl II”’s keening synths gorgeous counterpointed by Régine Chassagne who sings like Bjork if Bjork stocked shelves in a supermarket while studying for her degree by night.

EP, “Take me out tonight/Take me anywhere, I don't care/I don't care, I don't care.” As with Leonard Cohen, you could spend the rest of your days debating the greatest Morrissey lyrics. The Ivor Novello 2019 awards winners Ivor Novello awards 2019: The 1975 and Wiley triumph at ceremony. Additionally, two composers were recognised for their wider contribution to music through the presentation of Ivor Novello Awards for Innovation and Lifetime Achievement. Coming out of his experiences as a too-cool-for school DJ in New York, the song functions perfectly well as a satire of Nathan Barley-type trendies.

The stream of consciousness lyrics cast a spell even though they don’t make much sense – ironic as Beck was setting out the emulate the hyper-literate Chuck D. EP, Written by Julian Bunetta, Dan Caplen, Macklemore, John Ryan and Jamie Scott, Performed by Rudimental ft Jess Glynne, Macklemore and Dan Caplen, Published in the UK by Big Deal Music – Peermusic UK, BMG Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing and EMI Music Publishing, Written by George Daniel, Adam Hann, Matthew Healy and Ross MacDonald, Published in the UK by Good Soldier Songs, Written by Jonathan Beavis, Mark Bowen, Adam Devonshire, Lee Kiernan and Joseph Talbot, Published in the UK by Kobalt Music Publishing, Published in the UK by Warner/Chappell North America Limited, PRS FOR MUSIC SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL AWARD, Composed by Natasha Khan and Dominik Scherrer, Published in the UK by BMG Rights Management, Du Vinage Publishing and Sony/ATV Music Publishing, Published in the UK by Warner/Chappell Music Publishing Limited, George Daniel, Adam Hann, Matthew Healy and Ross MacDonald (The 1975), Ritchie Blackmore, Ian Gillan, Roger Glover, Jon Lord (posthumous) and Ian Paice (Deep Purple – mark II line-up), PRS FOR MUSIC OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO BRITISH MUSIC. EP, "Up for air from the swimming pool/ You kneel down to the dry land/ Kiss the Earth that birthed you Gave you tools just to stay alive/ And make it up when the sun is ruined." The gordian mystery of Bewlay Brothers? Loudon III, a cult folkie in his own right walked out on the family when Rufus was a child and the simmering resentments had lingered on. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? “So Long, Marianne” was devoted to his lover, Marianne Jensen, whom he met on the Greek Island of Hydra in 1960. The uncanny last will and testament that was the entirety of Blackstar – a ticking clock of a record that shape-shifted into something else entirely when Bowie passed away three days after its release? The 1975 and Wiley were among the winners. EP, (Photo by Brian Ach/Getty Images for Bob Woodruff Foundation), “He says he reckons I'm a watercolour stain/ He says I run and then I run from him and then I run/ He didn't see me watching from the aeroplane/ He wiped a tear and then he threw away our apple seed.” The daughter of a strict baptist preacher, Amos constantly wrote about her daddy issues. The … ‘In the Decolonise Fest collective we're all just trying to see create the space all of us needed when we were teenagers. RO, “People say I'm a one-hit wonder/ But what happens when I have two?/ I washed your dishes, but I shit in your bathroom.” The breakdown of a 10 year relationship informed some of the hardest hitting songs on the New Jersey songwriter’s fourth album.