Classic Album Sundays

On the latest Classic Album Sundays podcast, we step back to Camp Bestival from a few years ago when Nick Drake’s producer Joe Boyd joined us to discuss ‘Five Leaves Left’ in length with Colleen. Alongside Joe’s production the album features Richard Thompson (of Fairport Convention) and Danny Thompson (of Pentangle) as well as the beautiful string arrangements of Robert Kirby. Despite being champi...

Dennis Bovell joins Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy to look back at his incredible career and his new compilation  The DuBMASTER: The Essential Anthology  which charts Dennis’ career from the Seventies up to the present day. Dennis Bovell remains a pioneering artist and popular mainstay in both music and culture. Widely regarded as Britain’s reggae maestro, with a 40 year career that spans a number of musi...

Brian Jackson joins Classic Album Sundays founder Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy for a deep dive into his 1977 collaboration with Gil Scott-Heron  Bridges . Brian will share stories of recording the album and his personal memories of working with Gil Scot-Heron. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com

Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy is joined by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark founder members Andy McCluskey Paul Humphreys for a deep dive into their seminal 1981 album Architecture & Morality. Recorded live at The British Library for a special Classic Album Sundays event, this is a a deep dive into the history, inspirations and legacy of OMD's third album. 'Architecture & Morality' took the elec...

TYSON joins Classic Album Sundays’ Tina Edwards for a deep dive into ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’. Born and raised in London – via Stockholm, Spain and (briefly) New York – to a mixed musical family, singer TYSON had an unusual upbringing on the road. Her music draws from these experiences, the outcome a celestial, interplanetary R&B that is both reflective and soulful, yet futuristic. Re...

Louie Vega, one half of the Masters at Work, the man behind Elements of Life and one of the greatest club DJs in the world joins Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy in conversation at The British Library to discuss his trademark soulful house sound, the jazz and Latin influence of his Bronx upbringing and a playback of his favourite tracks on a world class audiophile soundsystem. Read more about your favourite...

On the latest Classic Album Sundays podcast Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy is focussing on DJ Shadow's classic 1996 album ‘Endtroducing’. Colleen is joined by Mo'Wax label boss James Lavelle for a deep dive into the history, production and legacy of the album. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com

Meet a man who was there at the birth of Ziggy Stardust, legendary record producer Ken Scott who joins Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy to discuss the making of the album that shot Bowie into inter-galactic fame. David Bowie was a musical and cultural phenomenon whose significance only seems to increase with every passing year. He rocketed to stardom 50 years ago, in the summer of 1972, with the release of...

Goldie joins Classic Album Sundays’ DEBONAIR for a deep dive into his groundbreaking album  Timeless . A musician, music producer, DJ, visual artist and actor, Goldie was a pioneer of the 1990s UK jungle, drum and bass and breakbeat hardcore scenes. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com

Classic Album Sundays founder Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy is joined by chart-topping singer-songwriter with the phenomenally successful band Texas, Sharleen Spiteri, at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the National Album Day 2021 celebrations with Bowers & Wilkins. 2021’s National Album Day spotlighted women artists and their huge contribution to music and culture through the art of the album. Shar...

British DJ and journalist Greg Wilson joins Colleen to discuss Wendy Carlos’ score to the film ‘Clockwork Orange’. Wendy Carlos is what you might call a true genius in the world of twentieth century music. She has always been ahead of her time…expanding boundaries and challenging listeners and herself. Her dramatic score for the legendary Clockwork Orange motion picture is an interesting collectio...

For the latest Classic Album Sundays podcast we have a special session, recorded at We Out Here, where Tina Edwards spoke with A Certain Ratio's Martin Moscrop about the album ‘Sextet’, the band's creative process and their influences. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com

Sherelle joins Classic Album Sundays’ Raj Chaudhury to dig deep into Sbtrkt  Sbtrkt . Sherelle is leading a new generation of high-speed ravers who are addicted to jungle, drum ‘n’ bass, footwork and juke. Through her DJ sets, radio shows and record label she gives a platform to both scene elders and new talent and is committed to pushing 160bpm+ dance music into the future. Here, she discusses he...

Featuring influences from a variety of music styles such as 1960s pop, cabaret, folk and electronica, Felt Mountain was described as "simultaneously smarmy and seductive, yet elegant and graceful" upon its release in 2001. While certainly not "poppy," it never has a truly weak moment. And while the songs aren't all that different from one another, the flow from track to track makes perfect sense....

We were lucky enough to be joined by Horse Meat Disco's Luke Howard and Princess Julia for our Grace Jones  Warm Leatherette  album launch party at the all new Eagle London. Grace Jones teamed with the great reggae production duo of Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare on this 1980 album, and made the transition from straight dance and club act into quasi-pop star with reggae and urban contemporary l...

Black Midi’s Morgan Simpson joins Classic Album Sundays’ Raj Chaudhury at The Room Studios to dig deep into D’Angelo’s  Black Messiah. Formed in 2018, Black Midi made an immediate mark on the scene with their blend of experimental rock, math rock, noise rock and post-punk, culminating in a Mercury Music Prize nomination in 2019. Read more about your favourite albums here: https://classicalbumsunda...

The latest Classic Album Sundays podcast is taken from our series of events at Royal Albert Hall when we were delighted to be joined by The Zombies Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone, Chris White and Hugh Grundy to discuss their 1968 classic album  Odessey and Oracle . The album is considered to be one of the most significant British psychedelic records, and including the iconic hit song  Time of the Sea...

Lisa Stansfield joins Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy to celebrate the 30th anniversary release of her debut solo album ‘Affection’ as part of the ‘Venus Unwrapped’ series at Kings Place in London. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com

Turner Prize winning artist Mark Leckey joins Classic Album Sundays’ DEBONAIR for a deep dive into the ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ album musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, on which the 1971 rock opera of the same name was based. Mark Leckey is a British contemporary artist, working with collage art, music and video. His found object art and video pieces, which incorporate themes of nostalgi...

Vince Guaraldi’s music brought the Peanuts to life. He scored 17 animated Peanuts television specials and the first was this Christmas classic, the evocative ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’. Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy and her special guest Guaraldi fan and pianist Neil Cowley tell Vince Guaraldi’s story and his relationship with Charles Schulz’s gang of children who see life through the world-weary eyes o...

The post-minimalist composer and the world renowned conductor discuss the blurring of boundaries between electronic and classical music in conversation with Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy at Spitalfields Music Festival. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com/

Ego Ella May joins Classic Album Sundays’ Tina Edwards as part of our new series ‘My Classic Album’ for a deep dive into Sade’s  Diamond Life . Ego is a songwriter and vocalist. Hailing from South London, she has an all-encompassing love of music, which she channels into her own neo-soul and contemporary jazz compositions. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com/

Check out the full interview as Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy and DJ Yoda dig deep into the most inventive, assured, and playful debut in hip-hop history De La Soul’s  3 Feet High and Rising  which not only proved that rappers didn’t have to talk about the streets to succeed, but also expanded the palette of sampling material with a kaleidoscope of sounds and references culled from pop, soul, disco, and...

Recorded between 1999 and 2000 at Electric Lady Studios in New York and released by Motown Records, Mama’s Gun incorporates elements of funk, soul, and jazz styles. It has confessional lyrics by Badu, which cover themes of insecurity, personal relationships, and social issues. Critics have also noted that while Baduizm contained its share of cryptic lyricism, Mama’s Gun is much more direct in its...

The former Ash Ra Tempel guitarist Manuel Göttsching joins Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy to discuss the creation of an album that almost wasn’t an album, yet went on to inspire influential dance producers such as Sueno Latino, Carl Craig, Juan Atkins and Derrick May. Read more about your favourite albums here: classicalbumsundays.com