Pharrell Williams: 10 Favorite Jams

A perfect weekend playlist, noted down on a Miami Beach hotel balcony in 2005

Once upon a time, back in the golden days of music journalism, I went to Miami to meet Pharrell Williams.

This was in autumn 2005 – long before “Happy” and “Get Lucky”, long before The Voice and the Adidas deal.

Pharrell wasn’t a global celebrity yet, but an in-demand hitmaker.

Together with Chad Hugo, his partner in The Neptunes, he’d co-produced smashes…