Van Morrison looks longingly back to the city of his birth, Belfast, in one of the most classic albums of all time and a mystical journey from start to finish. Jimi Hendrix takes control on his third ...

Recent OBE nominee Skin joins Classic Album Sundays founder Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy to discuss the inspirational Nina Simone and Etta James – their lives, legacies, music and their many Montreux Jazz ...

As the 1980s drew to a close, hip hop had reached a pivotal moment. Whilst a potential for empowerment in mainstream rap had so far remained largely un-tapped, in favour of escapist music built for ...

“If I’m going to sing like someone else, then I don’t need to sing at all.” – Billie Holiday Why is Billie Holiday still considered as one of the greatest jazz voices of all time? Throughout her ...

Grace Jones has remained an active and flamboyant performer who refuses to conform to our preconceptions of a septuagenarian. As the boundaries between gender and sexuality are broken down her career ...

Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy celebrates the incredible polymath, innovator and musical thinker Brian Eno for the 30th anniversary of his experimental album, Nerve Net. In this never-before-broadcast ...

Named after Yoshimi P-we, the drummer of Japanese band The Boredoms (who appears throughout the album), Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots sought to capture the delicate duality of life and death, ...

Slave to the Rhythm is an audio biography of Grace Jones produced by Trevor Horn, it’s a sonic treat along the lines of Yes’s 90125 or Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s first album. The music ranges from ...

Music journalist Steven Ivory recalled, “Even the Jacksons had ideas about who should produce Michael’s solo album. They felt they should do it, and told Michael as much in front of me one afternoon ...

Life in Queensbridge, NY, was always going to be the beating heart of Illmatic. Although still in his late teens, Nas had already experienced more than his fair share of traumatic, life-changing ...

At the beginning of the ‘70s the Grateful Dead were on a roll, and with this new found momentum the band were back in the studio within months to record a followup to the celebrated Workingman’s Dead ...

John Leckie has produced classic albums by Radiohead, The Stone Roses, Pink Floyd, Magazine and many more. He sent his top five albums of all time to Classic Album Sundays. “A record that has its own ...