
The Bends
They were exhausted and sick of being the Creep band, and nearly fell apart making it. Nothing on it sounds anything like Creep.

They were exhausted and sick of being the Creep band, and nearly fell apart making it. Nothing on it sounds anything like Creep.

Noel Gallagher wrote most of these songs in a fortnight. A year later, two and a half million people applied to see the band at Knebworth.

Dialogue from a dubbed samurai film runs between the tracks, spoken by a child, which is where the record gets its atmosphere.

He was in prison when it reached number one, the first artist that had ever happened to. He recorded it before going in.

It came out on a purple cassette, and Ghostface Killah appears on so much of it that people argue whose album it really is.

Havoc and Prodigy were nineteen when they made it. Q-Tip helped with the production and is credited on the sleeve under a false name.