Shiny Happy People
Kate Pierson's guest vocal, Mark Bingham's waltzing strings, and R.E.M.'s only top ten hit in both Britain and America.
Kate Pierson's guest vocal, Mark Bingham's waltzing strings, and R.E.M.'s only top ten hit in both Britain and America.
Hackford asked for a title theme; Richie handed him this instead, cut mostly in his own living room.

Rick Rubin's arrangement leaves it bare, and Cash, his voice thinned by illness, turns U2's Berlin song into a reckoning.
Forty-odd stars filed past a sign reading "Check your ego at the door," and Quincy Jones got them singing together.

Stalled at sixty-two in 1967, then a brotherhood radio spot pushed the reissue to number five two years later.

Bill Bottrell played the riff everyone credits to Slash, then rapped the verse himself after eight months of searching.

Clinton, Shider and Junie Morrison cut it at United Sound; six weeks at R&B number one, 1978's longest run.
A 1965 Studio One ska tune rebuilt for Exodus, with Mayfield credited to keep the borrowing legal.