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“They didn’t like his bikini underwear”: Prince’s support sets for the The Rolling Stones remembered
By Ben Rogerson last updated
“Prince got freaked and cut the set short. The rock stations reported that we got booed off the stage, but that wasn’t true,” he says

How Green Day exceeded expectations with their most ambitious song
By Andy Price published
The sprawling 2004 epic reflected Billie Joe Armstrong’s own lived experiences - and was the cornerstone of American Idiot

“I have an original 909 – every time I use it I feel like I’m ruining it”: Riva Starr's studio essentials
By Si Truss published
The prolific Italian house and techno producer shows us the gear behind Keep Me on the Dancefloor

“I feel like that song had everything we needed to come back with”: Bring Me The Horizon’s Lee Malia on Shadow Moses, its riff and the secrets behind its tone, and why it was the right anthem at the right time
By Jonathan Horsley published
How Terry Date, a killer riff and a videogame helped bring BMTH's major label debut into focus with a track that officially opened a new chapter – and the pit – for the Sheffield metal frontiersmen

“I said, ‘Are we sure we can write a song about death?’”: The story of Mike + The Mechanics' The Living Years
By Neil Crossley published
"If we’d got it wrong, it would’ve been very schmaltzy"

Elton John and Brandi Carlile are reviving the lost art of the long song intro
By Ben Rogerson published
“No one starts an album like that anymore!” says Carlile

“The verse tricks you": Charli XCX’s Brat collaborator Jon Shave on creating Sympathy Is A Knife
By Ben Rogerson published
"With Brat, Charli had put so much thought into it before we even got in the studio," he says

“The flute just looked nice and shiny!”: How Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson became rock’s leading one-legged flautist
By Paul Elliott published
“At first I couldn’t get a note out of it,” he said
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