You know how sometimes you put on a coat you haven’t worn for a while and discover a tenner in the inside pocket (great feeling), some artists get into such a fruitfully creative run in their career that they have classics lying about all over the place. You could say it’s the true mark of generational artists, shopping out era-defining hits to their peers because, well, ‘We’re just stacked over here, we haven't the space’.
It's a shame this act of generosity seems to have dried up a little of late. The last notable gift could well be Coldplay saving the career of post-Britpop also-rans Embrace by giving them the Top Ten hit Gravity, but no-one wants to read a list of ten classics that features a song by Embrace, that would be mad. Instead, here are ten given-away masterpieces that will last for the ages…
