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“You can say, ‘This isn’t real rock ‘n’ roll.’ Or look at it another way”: Joe Perry on Aerosmith's collab with Yungblud
By Andrew Daly published
“Music has changed so much,” Perry says

“I remember saying to Clapton, ‘You try playing that one riff for eight minutes!’”: The secret to Status Quo's riff power
By Paul Elliott published
"That song is where the Quo twelve-bar boogie shuffle came from"

“John said we were the best stuff he'd heard since the Beatles”: Davey Johnstone on Elton John’s collab with John Lennon
By Jonathan Horsley published
How a visit from John Lennon during the sessions for Elton John’s 1975 masterpiece Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy yielded an impromptu Beatles cover and another number one hit

“Suddenly we were presented with this gift”: How One saved Achtung Baby and saved U2
By Will Simpson published
Track was written in just 15 minutes

“We could have been as big as Led Zeppelin”: The heavy rock innovators whose drummer was a star before John Bonham
By Andrew Daly published
“There was always friction – but it all worked for the creation of what we had"

I went to the Kraftwerk auction to buy their chairs, but came back with a studio's worth of gear instead
By Andy Jones published
To say I got a little overexcited is an understatement - here are the hard lessons I learned so you don't have to

Geoff Barrow on pigeonholing, production and beating imposter syndrome to become a film soundtrack composer
By Danny Scott published
“I sat back and thought, 'What are you playing at? You can’t write a movie score! You’re not even a real musician'"

"It just shows the power of community skills and generosity": Local repair cafe save hip hop legends' gig
By Will Simpson published
The band’s sampler had packed up
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