Chancing across a book, The Primal Scream, by US psychologist Dr Arthur Janov, the Beatle embarked on a lengthy course of therapy which involved confronting his childhood traumas and, mainly, crying and screaming for his parents. John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band album cover.įollowing the official split of The Beatles, John Lennon tussled with heroin addiction, drug busts, miscarriages and the public's general hatred for his new wife Yoko Ono. This is one of them - best known for the title track's memorable use in the film Trainspotting, but it also sports another fine tune, The Passenger. Once free of the drug-fuelled craziness of The Stooges, Iggy hooked up with his New Best Friend David Bowie, headed to Berlin, cleaned up and made two ace records in one year. My Sweet Lord was a huge No 1 hit, while Isn't It A Pity pretty much invented Oasis.
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So much material, in fact, that his debut outing was a three disc set, full of gems. So when The Beatles split, George Harrison found himself with a huge backlog of songs that found themselves getting bumped from Fabs albums. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass album cover artwork.īeing in a band with John Lennon and Paul McCartney must have been tough for an aspiring young songwriter. The LP featured such classics as Human Behaviour, Violently Happy and Big Time Sensuality. She'd had a couple of solo albums out as a child star, but Debut marked her first adult outing and saw the beginning of her collaboration with producer Nellee Hooper. Hard to believe now, but at one time Bjork was a member of a band - The Sugarcubes. It even has a cover painted by Peter "Sgt Pepper" Blake. Here are the best examples of going it alone.Īfter The Jam and The Style Council, The Modfather finally went properly solo in 1990, but it's '95's Stanley Road that is a stone-cold classic, coming at the time of Brit Pop and featuring such hits as The Changingman, You Do Something To Me and Out Of The Sinking.
Whether the band have split, or this is just a "side project", the solo album is a wonderful thing.
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