The son of conductor David Campbell and Warhol acolyte Bibbe Hansen, Beck emerged as one of the most creative, inventive and downright eclectic characters to have emerged in the 1990s. Blending pop, folk, hip-hop, psychedelia, funk, jazz, tropicalia, rock and anything else that was hand, Beck has created a body of work that’s fantastically unpredictable and never dull.

Following an attempt to crack New York’s anti-folk movement, Beck relocated to Los Angeles in 1991 were he was discovered and nurtured by the Bong Load label. Fusing folk with delta blues, hip-hop and a sample of Dr John’s Walking On Gilded Splinters, Beck released the single Loser to such great acclaim and demand that the label had problems keeping up with demand.

His debut Mellow Gold was a modest hit but his next album, the Dust Brothers-produced Odelay became one of the high-water marks of the 1990s as it went on to top many polls on both sides of the Atlantic.

The success of Odelay saw Beck retreating to his folk roots with 1998s acoustic Mutations album but just over a year later he was grooving once more with the R’n’B infused Midnite Vultures. The break-up with his girlfriend inspired the gorgeously introspective Sea Change album before re-uniting with the Dust Brothers for 2005’s beats-filled Guero

Where he goes to next is anybody’s guess but it’ll be far from boring.

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It could have turned out so wrong. Born and raised by a single mother on an East End council estate, Dylan Mills aka Dizzee Rascal was getting himself into trouble by robbing pizza deliveries and indulging in joyriding when not being expelled from a succession of schools.

One class, however, provided him with the nurturing that he needed. Supported by a sympathetic teacher, Mills began making music on the classroom computer and soon began to develop the style that would suit his idiosyncratic delivery. Taking more of an introspective lyrical stance than that of his peers,

Mills rapidly stood apart from the empty and brash boasts that characterised many of his peers. By the time his white label single I Luv U hit the streets, Mills was already making a name for himself as a member of Roll Deep but it was his debut album Boy In Da Corner that saw Mills go overground. Winning praise form critics and fans alike, the album not only secured a Mercury Prize nomination but ended up as outright winner.

Following a violent altercation in Ayia Napa, Mills guested on Basement Jaxx’s Kish Kash album before returning to work on his second album, Showtime

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