Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”: How a Rhyming Game Became His Only Solo No. 1
How Paul Simon's 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover grew from a drum machine and a rhyming game into his only solo No. 1, with Steve Gadd's famous drum part.
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Pink Floyd’s We Don’t Need No Education: How a 1979 Schoolyard Chant Became a Worldwide No. 1
Pink Floyd's We Don't Need No Education, officially Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2): the Islington children's choir, the chart-topping run and the South African ban.
Sinéad O’Connor’s “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got”: The Unaccompanied Closing Track of the 1990 Album
How Sinéad O'Connor's a cappella title track I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got closed her 1990 album, the dream behind it, how critics heard it, and its reissues.