Full audio of Genesis single from 1981, featuring classic keyboard riffs. Named according to it's original A-B-A-C-A-B structure, however this is not the structure of the final recording!

Get down with Mali's blind couple of song, Amadou and Mariam, in this vibrant concert film recorded on a stormy night in one of Paris' most multicultural neighbourhoods. An excellent example of rock with it's roots in African music. Producer: Link Media, Inc.

Full audio of song from Billy Idol's self titled album. Released in 1982.

Written in 1972 and featyring one of the most well-known and often-played guitar riffs in rock history.

Classic rock guitar riff characterizes this track from Sabbath's second studio album Paranoid released in 1970, also features interesting tempo & rhythm shift for guitar solo.

From Bowie's 1969 album of the same name, an example of music inspired by a space theme (in this case Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey) for KS2 space theme.

Green Day's most popular single from their early career, When I come around reached number 6 in the US and number 3 in the UK in 1993. A good example of Rock music during the 90s.

1960s number 4 hit by US Rock, Pop and Country singer Brenda Mae Tarpley, alsoe known as Little Miss Dynamite, due to her height of just 4 ft 9 inches and 1957 single 'dynamite'.

1970 number 2 single in the UK and an early example of four track studio recording, heavy on the multi-layered drums that dominate over the very quiet vocal track.

Bowie's 1980 revisit of his Major Tom from a Space Oddity.

KS3 idea: may be interesting to compare the two songs and notice the difference between the two in instrumentation, specifically the use in this song of synthesisers and funk or 'slap' bass, some characteristic sounds from pop music developed during the 70s decade.