Bill Nelson ‘Chimera’ (Mercury, 1983)

Given the world we live in now, you might think an album called ‘Messy Century’ would be a prescient political statement.

The track titles alone sound like long-lost episodes of early 1970s ‘Doctor Who’.

It was quite remarkable. It still is.

"I’d become a Nitzer Ebb fan on the release of 1992’s Alan Wilder-produced ‘Ebbhead’, a frustrating time to become a fan of the band because they went on a three-year hiatus pretty much straight after they released that record."

Leila Arab was born in Iran, but moved to Britain at an early age, her family forced to flee the country’s Islamic Revolution because of her father’s ties with the ousted Shah