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The intricate music theory and lyrical weight of a Tears for Fears classic
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“This one hurts my brother”: Fugees and Wyclef Jean collaborator John Forté has died
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“I’d rather go in and just be Jaco”: The genius of Jaco Pastorius in one of the greatest jazz songs of all time
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Jared James Nichols on why he took his Klon off his pedalboard – and what players get wrong about drive pedals
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“Have we done anything that would create such a horrible atmosphere that a fan would take their own lives?”: Judas Priest’s darkest days
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“The SG that I had at the Ozzy gig, that guitar needed a louder pickup but I still wanted that true-to-life guitar sound that I like”: Slash and Seymour Duncan dial up the raunch with the Guns N’ Roses legend’s signature 3.0 humbuckers
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“When we were working together, he was on. He was so focused”: Emmylou Harris on working with Gram Parsons
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“This one hurts my brother”: Fugees and Wyclef Jean collaborator John Forté has died
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“I’d rather go in and just be Jaco”: The genius of Jaco Pastorius in one of the greatest jazz songs of all time
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“Have we done anything that would create such a horrible atmosphere that a fan would take their own lives?”: Judas Priest’s darkest days
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“People who like that song aren’t actually fans of The Cure”: How Robert Smith created one of The Cure’s greatest hits
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“I remember thinking, ‘This is the kiss of death!’”: The singer who had a bad feeling about a song – before it hit No.1
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"There is no final curtain here, not really": Bob Weir, Grateful Dead co-founder, dies aged 78
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"Did not establish they ever owned the copyrights to their sound recordings": Salt N Pepa lose legal battle with Universal
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“In the classic tradition…”: Pat Smear is out of upcoming Foo Fighters dates after “bizarre gardening accident”
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“In 2027 you will get the best Killers record”: Brandon Flowers is concentrating on solo activity this year
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Back in 1999, Prince offered his opinion on the new generation of DAW-based musicians and producers
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“It is thoroughly road tested and fit for purpose”: Fatboy Slim’s Satisfaction Skank bootleg is finally released
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"This record shouldn’t, strictly speaking, be possible at all”: Here's Autechre – reinterpreted on acoustic guitar
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“Got many requests for this one from a few years back”: Aphex Twin uploads new tracks to his Soundcloud page
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Is God a DJ? Pope makes appearance at religious rave in Slovakia
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UK electronic musicians aren't getting the royalties they deserve, according to a new report
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“One of the greatest electronic music songs of all time”: Disclosure officially release their edit of a ‘90s club classic
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“I feel a freedom behind the piano”: Armin Van Buuren on his surprising new musical direction
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"It saves us 900 hours digging through crates”: Justice on why they gave up sampling
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“I have to be careful what I say": Pete Townshend on Zak Starkey’s protracted dismissal from The Who
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“It had a swing that can’t be duplicated”: Ex-Guns N’ Roses drummer Josh Freese says nobody can play like Steven Adler
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“It was all done on GarageBand – it’s live drums, but over this goofy funk drum loop I’d done on my laptop out on tour”
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“People said, ‘Hey, I saw you’re on that Avril Lavigne record.’ I went, ‘Nah!'”: The drummer who’s played on 400 albums
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“Tim wasn’t feeling good, and then Jeff said something derogatory, and Tim just punched him in the face!”
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“I got a hacksaw, chopped down the stand and put the hi-hats down there”: How Simon Phillips learned to play left-handed
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“You’d go round the house and Johnny would play some riff in his jimmy-jams”: Mike Joyce remembers the early days of The Smiths
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“I said, ‘Oh, man, we’re gonna kick some ass on a Pink Floyd record!’": The drummer who substituted for Nick Mason
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“I didn't replace Keith Moon – I replaced Kenney Jones!”: When Simon Phillips became The Who's third great drummer
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“When we were working together, he was on. He was so focused”: Emmylou Harris on working with Gram Parsons
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How Prince and The Revolution turned the bare bones of Purple Rain into a lighters-in-the-air epic
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“In the classic tradition…”: Pat Smear is out of upcoming Foo Fighters dates after “bizarre gardening accident”
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“It’s not ‘puppet show Megadeth’”: Dave Mustaine says he doesn't want guesting ex-members on Megadeth’s final tour
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“I turn and I'm, like, 'Hey.' It's Lars, it's Kirk, it's Jason Newsted'”: Daron Malakian recalls the time he fronted Metallica
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“I wasn’t planning on working tonight”: Billy Joel makes surprise return to live performance
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D’Angelo was so in awe of Prince that he refused to play his guitar on the one occasion they shared a stage
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Thomann are giving away a pair of free tickets to next year’s Montreux Jazz Festivals
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“We have come together one last time to resolve our differences”: Peace breaks out between Perry Farrell and Jane's Addiction
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Jared James Nichols on why he took his Klon off his pedalboard – and what players get wrong about drive pedals
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“The SG that I had at the Ozzy gig, that guitar needed a louder pickup but I still wanted that true-to-life guitar sound that I like”: Slash and Seymour Duncan dial up the raunch with the Guns N’ Roses legend’s signature 3.0 humbuckers
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"There is no final curtain here, not really": Bob Weir, Grateful Dead co-founder, dies aged 78
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“I had no idea that he was that good”: Mark Tremonti on Alter Bridge’s “secret weapon” and his soloing strategies
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“I had such a connection with it”: On his 26th birthday, Jimmy Page played his beloved Les Paul Black Beauty in a legendary Led Zeppelin show
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![Buddy Guy [left] smiles as he takes a solo on his Fender Stratocaster. He wears a red jacket and black hat. Billy Gibbons [right] wears shades, a wide-brimmed hat and a red blazer as he plays his custom SG-style electric with the V-style headstock.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/76UyXk5sHdLGiSWvdTexbA-450-80.jpg)
Billy Gibbons on the tip Buddy Guy gave him after they jammed a T-Bone Walker classic
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“In the classic tradition…”: Pat Smear is out of upcoming Foo Fighters dates after “bizarre gardening accident”
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Ted Nugent has only qualified praise for Jack White, Green Day and Tom Morello, but calls Yungblud "the real McCoy"
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![Brian May [left] leans back and feels a chord as he performs live with his Red Special. Steve Vai [right] wears a ballcap and looks pleased as punch as he shows off his custom 'Green' Red Special that May had built for him.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iDnBpLna8mmLjc7LM4CpmU-450-80.jpg)
Steve Vai once played Brian May’s guitar “like a baby giraffe on roller skates” – now the Queen icon has gifted him his own ‘Green’ Red Special
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![Buddy Guy [left] smiles as he takes a solo on his Fender Stratocaster. He wears a red jacket and black hat. Billy Gibbons [right] wears shades, a wide-brimmed hat and a red blazer as he plays his custom SG-style electric with the V-style headstock.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/76UyXk5sHdLGiSWvdTexbA-800-80.jpg.webp)
![Brian May [left] leans back and feels a chord as he performs live with his Red Special. Steve Vai [right] wears a ballcap and looks pleased as punch as he shows off his custom 'Green' Red Special that May had built for him.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iDnBpLna8mmLjc7LM4CpmU-800-80.jpg.webp)
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“Quiet, intense, intuitive, constant and hugely creative": Perry Bamonte, of the Cure, dies aged 65
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"The most unbelievable thing I’d ever seen": Synth player Steve Porcaro on writing with Michael Jackson
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"I still seem to be very capable of hitting the odd wrong note”: Rick Wakeman shares positive health update
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“A unique, talented, and innovative musician”: Tributes paid to Blancmange's Stephen Luscombe
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Cradle of Filth guitarist Ashok fired mid-tour, days after keyboardist wife quits citing low pay and “toxic” atmosphere
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Kylie Minogue’s Tension tour keyboard player reveals the compact synth she relies on
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Eric Clapton pays tribute to Bobby Whitlock, his Derek and the Dominos bandmate, who has died, aged 77
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How Billy Joel ended up joining the ‘60s band that gave him his break as a recording artist
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Ezra Collective’s Joe Armon-Jones on the imagined musical apocalypse that inspired All The Quiet
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Producer Mike Sabath reveals the surprisingly limited instrumentation in Raye's Where Is My Husband!
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Back in 1999, Prince offered his opinion on the new generation of DAW-based musicians and producers
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The 'secret sauce' that creates Dijon’s distinctive vocal sound isn't what you thought it was
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How Wendy Melvoin’s bass playing became the “secret weapon” on Sombr’s 12 to 12
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“It’s faster, more spunky”: Steve Lillywhite on what he did to brush up a new live version of Fairytale Of New York
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Mastering engineers reflect on the loudness wars, and ponder whether they really are over
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'Immersive first' electronic musician Halina Rice on creating unique live experiences and new album, Unreality
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Dan Nigro says that he always knew that Chappell Roan’s Pink Pony Club was something special
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Greg Lester on how he crafted the classic nylon-string guitar solo in the Spice Girls’ 2 Become 1
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“When we were working together, he was on. He was so focused”: Emmylou Harris on working with Gram Parsons
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“It’s a song that I love, because I didn’t compromise when I wrote it at all”: The making of Lana Del Rey’s sleeper hit
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“Releasing the same song for the past 10 years”: Bruno Mars bites back at critical social media user
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How Prince and The Revolution turned the bare bones of Purple Rain into a lighters-in-the-air epic
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“I actually cried when I heard his version of this song”: Olivia Rodrigo on David Byrne's cover of Drivers License
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Producer Mike Sabath reveals the surprisingly limited instrumentation in Raye's Where Is My Husband!
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Ted Nugent has only qualified praise for Jack White, Green Day and Tom Morello, but calls Yungblud "the real McCoy"
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“I thought: ‘I will be so famous with this crash'”: Sebastian Tellier on the time he entered the Eurovision on a golf buggy
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“Driver’s License Application for Renewal”: Fans speculate on the meaning of the cryptic front page of Olivia Rodrigo’s website
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“Releasing the same song for the past 10 years”: Bruno Mars bites back at critical social media user
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“I actually cried when I heard his version of this song”: Olivia Rodrigo on David Byrne's cover of Drivers License
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“In 2027 you will get the best Killers record”: Brandon Flowers is concentrating on solo activity this year
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“Driver’s License Application for Renewal”: Fans speculate on the meaning of the cryptic front page of Olivia Rodrigo’s website
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“One of the greatest voices in the history of music": Billy Corgan heaps praise on Yungblud
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“It was a terrible record to make. The arrangement’s so weird”: How John ‘Cougar’ Mellencamp created a classic '80s No.1
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“My album is done”: Bruno Mars confirms that his fourth solo record is ready to go
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“We are sliding into a period of transition like no other”: Peter Gabriel to release follow up to i/o this year
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“Suddenly we were presented with this gift”: How One saved Achtung Baby and saved U2
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“When we were working together, he was on. He was so focused”: Emmylou Harris on working with Gram Parsons
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“People who like that song aren’t actually fans of The Cure”: How Robert Smith created one of The Cure’s greatest hits
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Gibson surprise launches $19,999 Keith Richards Collector’s Edition 1960 ES-355, signed by the man himself
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