Sinéad O’Connor could lend her voice to anything and it would sound beautiful to my ears. Like this collaboration with Asian Dub Foundation and Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien from 2003, produced by the great Adrian Sherwood.

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Neil Young sat on his epic 1988 recording of Ordinary People for two decades before it finally came out on Chrome Dreams II in 2007.

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Iggy Pop returns to what he does best with Strung Out Johnny, a powerful song about addiction, from his 2023 album Every Loser.

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World Domination Enterprises never managed to live up to their ambitious name, but have been posthumously recognised as postpunk pioneers.

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No prizes for guessing why this one popped into my mind this week as Los Angeles battles the terrible wildfires.

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RIP Sam Moore, sole survivor – and soul survivor – of Sam & Dave, the duo known for their two biggest hits Soul Man and Hold On, I’m A Comin’.

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Betty Davis is so hot you might need to stand back. And so is the funky groove of Your Mama Wants Ya Back.

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Frida is the brunette from ABBA and I See Red is a song from her solo album back in 1982, produced by Phil Collins.

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David Bowie foretold his own imminent death in what would be the last song he released in his lifetime, Lazarus. Two days later he was dead at 69.

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