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harry styles musical inspirations : a compilation of the albums/songs he mentioned in his RS interview.
“It’s my favorite album ever, completely perfect. Madame George is one of my favorites — nine minutes. I’ve got some long songs but not my nine-minute one, it hasn’t quite come through yet.”- harry on van morrison’s astral weeks
‘I was in a big Joni hole, Melody-wise, it’s in their own lane. Joni’s freedom with melodies — it’s never quite what you thought was coming, yet it’s always so great.” - harry about Joni mitchell’s album blue
‘This whole album is perfect. On that record you have ‘I Just Want to Make Love to You’ going which has to be one of the greatest one-twos ever. Her ad libs are so intense. It’s like, ‘Come on, Etta — tell us how you really feel.’ - harry on Etta James debut album ‘At Last’
‘While I was in Tokyo I used to go to a vinyl bar, but the bartender didn’t have Wings records. So I brought him Back to the Egg. ‘Arrow Through Me,’ that was the song I had to hear every day when I was in Japan’
harry arranges to listen at henson studios,which used to be the old A&M Studios, in Studio B.
‘It’s the room where Carole King recorded Tapestry. So Far Away.” How do people make shit like this?” - harry about carole kings Tapestry
‘It’s the room where Carole King recorded Tapestry. So Far Away.” How do people make shit like this?” - harry about carole kings Tapestry
“those harmonies, man, ‘Helplessly Hoping’ is the song I would play if I had three minutes to live. It’s one of my ‘one more time before I go’–type songs “ - harry on crosby, stills and nash
“50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, that’s the greatest verse melody ever written, in my opinion,so minimal,but so good. The Boxer’ is a perfect lyric, especially that first verse, I grew up in a pub for a few years when I was a kid and Simon and Garfunkel were just constantly playing’
“ I think of all the great songwriters I love but they all had their pop songs. Joni Mitchell with ‘Help Me,’ Paul Simon with ‘You Can Call Me Al,’ Harry Nilsson with ‘Coconut.’ You have to conquer the fear of pop.”
“One of my favorite-ever musical memories. We sang ‘Landslide’ as a soundcheck, and that was even cooler for me than the show — just me and her, in an empty Troubadour.That’s my favorite bit,” Harry says. “Practicing the song together. Just the two of us.” - harry on stevie
