There was much more to Chris Rea than the hit singles – a multi-talented artist whose first loves were the blues, racing cars, cinema and journalism.

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Massive Attack teamed up with Young Fathers for this creepy tune, with an even creepier video, from their Ritual Spirit EP.

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I’m familiar with Odetta as the voice of the Civil Rights Movement back in the ’50s and ’60s and I know Martin Luther King called her the Queen of American folk music. But I’d never heard this ’til now.

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It’s impossible not to love Snap!’s hybrid of hip-hop, house, soul and a dash of heavy rock. It kicked off the whole dance music scene when it topped the charts in early 1990.

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It was when The Clash invited Joe Ely to join them on tour in 1980 that I began to understand the parallels between punk and rebel country music.

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Here’s UK dubmeister Dennis Bovell making a cameo appearance on fellow dub maestro Elijah Minnelli’s new album, the interestingly titled Clams As A Main Meal.

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Los Pirañas are a Colombian trio who inject traditional Latin American rhythms with elements of psychedelia, afrobeat and rock to spectacular effect.

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Sugababes redefined the girl group when they came along in 2000, injecting RnB into the well-worn pop formula with debut single Overload.

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I vividly remember the first time I heard Public Enemy. It was the most exciting new music since I first saw and heard the Pistols, Ramones and Clash.

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The last hit single of this British pop quintet became the title – and title song – of Edgar Wright’s film Last Night In Soho.

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