![]() Three years passed before Seal released a follow-up. With his glossy high-tech production values, Horn transformed Seal into an instant star the singer’s debut single, Crazy, shot to No.2 in the UK charts, paving the way for Seal’s self-titled debut album to rocket to the top of the UK albums chart. The single’s success made Seal hot property, resulting in a record-company bidding war to get his signature he ended up rejecting the majors and instead joined producer Trevor Horn’s art-house label, ZTT, which had been home to Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Propaganda and Grace Jones in the 80s. The husky-voiced London singer had first appeared on the pop radar in 1990, when he provided a memorable vocal cameo on Adamski’s chart-topping dance track, Killer. ![]() The Who’s Pete Townsend cringed whenever he heard Pinball Wizard while Oasis’ outspoken singer, Liam Gallagher, loathed his band’s iconic anthem Wonderwall, once confessing to an interviewer: “I can’t fucking stand that fucking song.” And then there is Seal, who has also had an uneasy relationship with arguably his most famous hit, Kiss From A Rose, despite it causing his career to blossom in the mid-90s. ![]() Kurt Cobain ended up detesting Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit, while Led Zeppelin’s frontman, Robert Plant, became weary of Stairway To Heaven. ![]() There’s a long history in rock and pop of artists who grow to hate some of the songs that made them famous. ![]()
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