Bob Dylan’s Desire is a fever dream of an album. Released in 1976, it drips with mystery, lust, and longing, none more so than “One More Cup of Coffee (Valley Below),” a track that feels like a whispered secret from another world. Equal parts folk ballad and gypsy lament, the song is a smoky swirl of imagery and sound, tethered by Dylan’s urgent delivery and the ghostly harmonies of Emmylou Harris.
Palmer mostly grew up in Malta, where his father served in naval intelligence—a stranger fact than it seems. This background meant he listened to music on American Forces Radio rather than the BBC.
The Style Council were an English band formed in 1983 by Paul Weller, the former singer, songwriter, and guitarist with the punk rock/new wave/mod revival band The Jam, and keyboardist Mick Talbot, previously a member of Dexys Midnight Runners, The Bureau and The Merton Parkas. The band enabled Weller to take a more soulful direction with his music.
