Bill Nelson ‘Chimera’ (Mercury, 1983)

Robert Palmer passed away in 2003 at the shockingly young age of 54. A massively underrated artist who wrote and produced so many great songs, the fact that he died without much comment or celebration of his life was a crying shame.

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

Without any announcement at all, Alta Plana appeared in 2005 as a digital-only release and promptly disappeared.

It all began with a black and white photo, chanced upon in a book on the history of 20th century music.