On the 29th of July 1966 Bob Dylan was speeding through the backroads of Woodstock, New York on his T100 Triumph motorbike. In an instant he lost cont...

Before their 4th album The Smiths had signed for a major record label, the future looked bright for a band that had become indie icons with a series o...

On the 4th September 1995 Radiohead spent 5 hours in a studio with producer Nigel Godrich recording a song called Lucky for a charity album.  They did...

On the 8th of January 2016, David Bowie released his 25 studio album, 2 days later he was dead.‬ ‪The album acts partly as a diary and partly as a goo...

‪With their fourth album Oasis hired a big pop producer and adopted a new sound to regain their title as the biggest band in the world. ‬ ‪It didn’t w...

‪In the spring of 1970 Joni Mitchell took a break from music to travel to Crete, she would return to the US with a masterpiece.‬ ‪This is the story of...

For their fourth LP (and after a mini crisis for the band) Led Zeppelin stripped everything back and let the music do the talking.   This is the story...

With their 3rd album Vampire Weekend left the collage campus and ventured out into the real world, they would never be the same again.  This week we l...

In the second episode of Long Player we take a look at an album that divides opinion and rightfully so.  We're on twitter: @longplayerpod // @benburre...