W-When I premiere?” Prophetic and perfect. One of the band’s two lead singers, Miles Kane, lends his sax-playing skills to the track, having learned the instrument as a child before picking up the guitar. EH, The cover of Bill Ryder-Jones’ ‘West Kirby County Primary’ shows the prolific producer and former Coral member caught unawares in the bath and, on record, he’s similarly nakedly honest. The whole point of this song was to be smooth; it was even in the title! The record is being heralded as career best work from the Virginia-based band. The Grammy-winning ‘Redbone’ was  the jewel in that eclectic record’s crown. 5. Dance/Pop song mainly saxophone from around 2010 or 2011. ‘My Number’ was the sound of them laying the funk on nice and thick, becoming the arena band they’d always threatened to be without losing their inherent weirdness. AT, After building a cult following over two psych-drenched albums, Tame Impala defied expectations when they returned for album three with ‘Let It Happen’. Nearly every track features at least a cameo from the sax, with acclaimed jazz saxophonist Donny McCaslin lending his trade to the album. RD, ‘Can’t Feel My Face’ was a bold move for The Weeknd – though not because it took risks musically. This was the final one from the Canadian band’s stellar third album ‘The Suburbs’ and launched the band into stunning new directions. Blimey. The sax. ‘Shutdown’ became the grime anthem for all tracksuit menaces that practised what we preached. DS, Ariana Grande’s first release after the tragic terrorist attack at her Manchester concert in 2017 set the tone for her next two years. 2011 was a big year for sax. JB, Whoever said grime was dead? On her debut ‘Pure Heroine’, Lorde captured the banality of a torn-up town “with no postcode envy” – and her longing to escape it. Despite the horrors referenced on this track – the death of three-year-old Syrian refugee Alan Kurdi, the loss of Lil Peep – it prevailed with a note of hope. There was a running theory back in 2013 that moving to LA had fundamentally changed Alex Turner. TS, It takes a certain kind of bravery to unleash on the world a pop song as utterly joyful as ‘Shake It Off’, a track with a shameless onslaught of horns, key changes, acrobatic vocals and – yep – even a Swifty rap. On first listen you might easily have mistaken this for a woozy, seductive drinking song designed to soundtrack a thousand nights out and wild parties, but if you paid full attention it soon became clear Lamar was satirising exactly that sort of vacant scene, and warning of the disastrous siren call of alcoholism. Nevertheless, Fitz and The Tantrums' James King wailed away. Alex Turner went full crooner, pouring lounge singer theatrics over pumping Steinway chords. Although we didn’t know it at the time, Lana Del Rey’s debut single was a signpost for her career to come. A portion of Little Britain grows louder every day in its venomous attitudes towards immigrants. The 2010s saw a strong comeback for the saxophone in pop music, thanks to Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. But, following Jamie xx’s solo album ‘In Colour’, ‘On Hold’ saw them swapping those hues for a palette far warmer and a little brighter. RD, Feeling chilly? RD, Appearing on their masterful debut ‘The Bones Of What You Believe’, this track saw Scotland’s Chvrches achieve synth-pop perfection. KP, Australia’s wittiest slacker-rock star broke out with this darkly funny, charming and whip-smart tale about ending up in an ambulance after a panic attack. It was also a perfect example of one of the things that made Lamar the decade’s most compelling rap lyricist: his ability to simultaneously embrace and subvert musical clichés. But it’s also so, so much more than that. One of the more fleeting sax appearances on this list, the millennial supergroup didn’t have to look far to find someone who could contribute that extra layer of sound on Pattern. In a nutshell: it’s perfection. Every middle school dance in America played … Even the then-President called him a “jackass”, a fact Kanye acknowledged on ‘POWER’: “They say I was the abomination of Obama’s nation / Well that’s a pretty bad way to start the conversation.”, Yet this unchained track saw him puff out his chest, take the flak and vow to honour the childlike naivety that super-charges his creativity and also makes him act like, well, a jackass. The debut single from Paul Dempsey’s second record features both tenor and baritone sax pretty much the whole way through, adding to the track’s dense texture and seemingly inexorable momentum. JB, The “best boyband since One Direction” had a particularly prolific year in 2017, releasing all three records from their ‘Saturation’ trilogy in rapid succession. "True" by Spandau Ballet. dont give up. On this sparse and lilting acoustic track he intoned: “I think I finally / Found a way to forgive myself.” JB, ‘Everything Is Embarrassing’ was as simple as a pop song can be, but also as stunning. No wonder it’s become a cultural reference point. Songs With Epic Sax Solos By kellaroot. SM, On their first two albums, The xx existed in a fairly monochrome space. 3. “I can’t give you my soul / Because we’re never alone,” Healy sings, the eyes of tabloids inevitably peering over his shoulder. To his credit, Glenn Frey of The Eagles had a pretty good '80s track record when it came to the presence of saxophone in his songs. 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