Andy Price

Bowie’s staggeringly prophetic 1999 Newsnight interview revealed his astute awareness of how the internet was going to change music and content forever

At the very heart of the White Album, this tender Beatles masterpiece pulled from the classical music tradition and empathised with the American civil rights movement

Marking an album that foresaw the 21st century’s computer-addicted society, Kraftwerk dropped their own branded handheld synth decades ahead of the trend

Waits’ gritty Rain Dogs depicted a dark vision of New York’s underbelly, and was shaped by its ‘junkyard orchestra’ of inventive instrumentation

Only two tracks have ever been heard from what could have been Pink Floyd's most divisive record

The smash hit song reflected both the decade's geopolitical tensions and the era's underlying optimism

It might seem an obvious winner now, but Madonna’s Vogue was at first the speedily and cheaply-built flip side to an entirely different single

It was sadly to be Freddie’s last single with Queen before he passed away just six weeks after its release

Beck’s surprising 2002 pivot was defined by its immaculately-recorded acoustics, and is often cited as a choice reference test by audio enthusiasts

One of Bowie’s highest watermarks, Heroes continues to sound utterly timeless due to its layered production and passionate vocal performance

Chester Bennington was a little on the fence as to whether Linkin Park’s most enduring track was strong enough to be on their debut

Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal would acrimoniously split shortly after the release of their most musically inventive record

The opening to Sgt Pepper’s second side underlined just how boundless the Beatles’ musical scope had become

Interpol’s blistering breakthrough soon became a pulse-pounding indie staple

Lennon’s curated week of programming exposed viewers to some controversial figures - and drew the attention of the US government

It’s perhaps Boards of Canada’s most well-known track, serving as many a newcomers' route into their nostalgia evoking universe

One of most euphoric tracks of the 2010s, The Nights has now racked up billions of streams

The innovative machine also received its own platinum record for its painstaking drum replacement

Bowie put helping his Berlin flatmate Iggy Pop first, with promo for one of his greatest ever albums falling by the wayside

It’s one of the best drum recordings in history, but the resulting sound was just as much a feat of engineering as it way playing

It was the song Thom Yorke just couldn't get right, but a stellar Jeff Buckley gig unlocked the missing ingredient