The latest installment in this little animal-themed series takes us back to 1981, when the Texan blues-rockers released their last reasonably convincing album before watering down their earthy sound with synthesizers.
Of course, the song ‘Wild Horses’ simply has to be included here. Today, however, it’s not the version by the Rolling Stones or Gram Parsons from the early seventies, but the one by Gino Vannelli, a Canadian rock and jazz musician, who would go on to have his only chart hit with this song in 1987.
And to round off today’s programme, here’s a ska/pop hit by Madness from 1983.
