Adrian Belew

It started as an invitation to have fun in an Italian studio. After 10 days it had become a real musical force. All it took was accents, tequila, horses and the Police drummer’s act as Darth Vader in a good mood

King Crimson offshoot Beat leader and Bowie, Shatner and Hancock collaborator has long been confident that the future is secure on the road – which pleases him because he loves it

Tension drowned the post-punk art quartet’s creative powers. But they point out that no one died in the making of their records

With input from Brian Eno and Adrian Belew, the creatively explosive 1980 album was a turning point for the American band – and many other artists

When Adrian Belew failed to persuade the 80s line-up to reunite, he had to come up with another way of bringing that decade’s three albums back to life – and he did it