Elton John (and band) - Funeral for a Friend/ Love Lies Bleeding (1973)

Another (long) clip from the Classic Albums series from Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Some nice solo piano from Elton at the beginning of the clip, but then there's a breakdown of the mix, at the desk, at around the 7 minute mark, with a hint of the vocal harmonies just after.

This song shifts from a its first section - an elegy - to something angrier: like the work of mourning in reverse. I suppose it made sense of the world in 1973 when the Fordist/Keynesian/welfare-stateist system collapsed and was lost as the post-war boom whimpered off stage.

Acapella Dreams - Fleetwood Mac 1977

This is a long clip from the Classic Albums series, on the making of Rumours. There were two couples going into the recording, neither of which survived it. In this clip you get some sense of the relationship drama that is imprinted on the final mix when the engineer describes how physically close Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham were as they sang harmonies, on songs like Dreams; especially as they sung a line like "players only love you when they're playing" - which must have been directed at Buckingham.

You need to go to about the 5:20 minute mark on this clip to get to the 'acapella' section, but to hear the three voices (and one overdubbed Stevie Nicks) together is worth it.