"The most highly sampled bands and the good, bad and ugly tunes that resulted."
People have been 'inspired' by other people's music ever since human beings first started making beats by bashing skulls with bones. But the art of actually lifting another person's recorded work and using it in your own has only been with us since the dawn of recorded tape and, really, from when digital sampling made it all too easy and cheap to lift other people's riffs and beats during the 1980s and 90s.
In this series, we're exploring some of the most highly-sampled bands and the good, bad and sometimes ugly results that came from those who sampled them. And we'll start with none other than Pink Floyd, probably the greatest – and most sampled – band of all time.
