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Fagen and Walter Becker lifted the main piano part for their hit from the bass riff in Song for My Father by the jazz artist Horace Silver.

The point expands in the bridge: “You tell yourself you’re not my kind / But you don’t even know your mind / And you could have a change of heart.” The music that serenades these words represents its own sly act of transposition. Allegedly, Donald Fagen wrote his lyric about an evasive girl he knew in college, but lines like: “I thought our little wild time had just begun / I guess you kind of scared yourself / You turn and run,” could just as easily evoke the aftermath of a same-sex fling whose consequences spooked the narrator’s partner to the core. In that spirit, few songs have captured the covert and conflicted nature many gay people experienced in those years more vividly than Steely Dan’s 1974 smash Rikki Don’t Lose That Number. For all that time, the only way to find the meanings we desired in pop songs was to project our situations on to lyrics that weren’t written with us in mind, in the process making us as much interpreters as listeners.

But the sad truth is, the long history of gay people has far more often involved forced repression and engrained shame. Many of the best-known gay songs express liberation and stoke pride. To quote Michael himself, it is “ Fuck off, this is my culture” in a song. Like the most enduring queer pop, Outside never apologises or grovels for acceptance.

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At the centre of it all is Michael in full cop fetishwear, a Castro god swinging a 12-inch truncheon around a light-up dancefloor singing about, ahem, servicing the community. The wonderfully absurd video opens with a 70s German porno set-up and moves to show a smorgasbord of alfresco romping surveilled by the LAPD, trouser fumblers desperate for a sliver of skin. As Fastlove’s pointed yet playful elder sibling, the song is one of Michael’s most ebullient – he is the pope of carnal pleasure, framed by a sweaty bassline, disco (or is that police?) whistles, and strings that cascade like party streamers. Released just six months after his arrest for cruising in a Beverly Hills bathroom, Outside is a jubilant non-apology for having sex in public, and a headrush of pop funk joy. Shaad D’Souza Diana Ross – I’m Coming Out But where the original track is a camp fantasia, Jordan plays it totally straight – finding intense pathos among the chintz. Its genesis is a testament to the gay art of dredging up forgotten pop songs: Forever (Sailing)’s chorus is lifted from You and I, a chintzy 70s pop track by the forgotten Swedish diva Madleen Kane. Forever (Sailing) is the grand, gorgeous centrepiece of the album, an aching power ballad that finds Jordan singing, over grimy trip-hop production, about a relationship too toxic to last: “So much destruction / Look at what we did / That was so real / And you don’t just forget.” Across Valentine, Jordan rarely lets herself combust like she does on Forever (Sailing) – it’s a huge, dramatic sucker punch, a pop-star turn planted right in the middle of an indie record. I think that these cities and these people influenced us to stretch out and explore new territory, without losing our ‘sound’.Valentine, the second album by the Baltimore indie-rock musician Snail Mail, AKA Lindsey Jordan, is a black hole of anxiety and desperation, a record that revels in the seamy, depressive aftermath of a breakup. Speaking about the album, frontman Dave Grohl is quoted as saying: “This album is instantly recognisable as a Foo Fighters record, but there’s something deeper and more musical to it. Nancy and Ann Wilson are set to appear in the series. Each episode culminates with the band performing the track they created in each of the eight cities. Over the course of the series, Foo Fighters visit Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Seattle and Washington DC. The final two episodes will then be shown on BBC Four.Įach episode is set in a different city and studio as the band record a new song for their forthcoming ‘Sonic Highways’ album.

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The eight-episode series will then be split between BBC Four and BBC iPlayer, with episodes three to six available exclusively online. Sonic Highways, the documentary taking viewers behind the scenes as Foo Fighters record their new album in different studios around America, will air in the UK on BBC Four beginning Sunday, October 26.

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