The prices match the outrageous history though: rooms from $415 plus tax to $4,500, +1 323 656 1010, chateaumarmont.com "I am a Golden God!" It is 1975, the height of rock's heyday, and Robert Plant, Led Zeppelin's debonair vocalist, declares his rock star status from his hotel balcony.
That's one for every man, woman and child featured as a guest vocalist on Calvin's album.
Hayden Thorpe (vocalist, Wild Beasts) Luke Abbott Holkham Drones "This has everything I felt was missing in most recent electronic music: it sounds old (in a good way); it doesn't sound like it was made on a laptop and conjures emotion in the listener.
Similarly, folk rock fan-turned-journalist-cum-PR-turned-biographer Mick Houghton takes as his subject Sandy Denny, leading light of the British folk-rock movement of the late 1960s and – trivia alert – the only guest vocalist ever to record with Led Zeppelin.
Reed invited Hegarty to join him as a backup vocalist on his Animal Serenade tour, and the pair have been friends and occasional collaborators ever since (Hegarty is hoping that Reed and his partner Laurie Anderson, of O Superman fame, will both return the compliment and appear at Meltdown).
For example, Nick Cave and fellow Bad Seed Warren Ellis have been spotted eating lunch here, while noise-rocker Bradford Cox (vocalist for Deerhunter) and instrumental experimentalists Explosions in the Sky have also been seen loitering in fashionably cool repose.
Faris Badwan (vocalist, the Horrors and Cat's Eyes) Erland and the Carnival Nightingale "They are really doing something new.
Although singer Omara Portuondo and guitarist and vocalist Eliades Ochoa remain, for the past few years the group has toured as the Orquesta, with a shifting lineup.
Featuring vocalist Kyan, it's got all the sonic flourishes you'd expect from a Madeon song – chopped-up and filtered vocals, big spacious synth riffs, a huge drop – but comes enveloped in a sky-scraping chorus that should help it find a nice home on the Radio 1 playlist.
Largely that's as a result of vocalist Harry Burgess, whose vocal lines veer from languid tenor croon to something resembling a wasp bobbing about on a string, though he's matched step-for-step by skittering, spindly guitar lines and a restless rhythm section.
"When I formed a rock group back in my teens," says Primal Scream vocalist Bobby Gillespie, "it really was all or nothing.
