Sergio!

"Sax solos proliferated outside the jazz world in the '70s and '80s, across a range of different rock styles. The Rolling Stones and Creedence Clearwater Revival used saxes to bluesy, rollicking effect in songs like 'Can't You Hear Me Knocking?' and 'Long As I Can See the Light'—presaging the sax-slathered classic-rock sound Bruce Springsteen would perfect in 1975 on 'Born to Run.' David Bowie, T. Rex, and Roxy Music made the sax almost as indispensable a glam accessory as platform glitter-boots, while King Crimson and Pink Floyd worked the instrument into their high-concept prog-rock. Back in America, Billy Joel and Lou Reed deployed smoky sax solos to evoke seedy urban streets on 'New York State of Mind' and 'Walk on the Wild Side'; below the radar, James Chance and other downtown acts of the No Wave scene delivered disjointed, atonal sax freakouts. In 1985, INXS worked luminous sax peals into 'What You Need,' a throbbing dance jam that still sounds great today.
"So what happened to the sax?"

Jonah Weiner in Slate wonders if the saxophone is returning to contemporary pop music.