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“I was not always the most pleasant person to work with”: David Byrne admits he was a ‘bossy pants’ in Talking Heads
He says his social skills back then were “limited”
Just what was the Radiohead Binary Code theory - and was there any truth in it?
Were hints that OK Computer and In Rainbows should be listened to as one monster record deliberately seeded by the band?
“I was just doing this because it was fun”: Paul McCartney on how he kickstarted his solo career in a remote Scottish farmhouse
With just a guitar and a four-track
“I don’t exist if I don’t have a record in the charts”: How John Lennon created one of his last and most poignant songs
After the turbulence and emotional trauma of his past, the song had a sense of reflection and calm
“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
His memoir, The Drums, is out this week
Olivia Dean on writing Man I Need and the Michael Jackson hit that helped to inspire it
“I just remember driving to and from the studio and I just played it again and again. And I was like, ‘OK, well if I can listen to this again and again, I think other people might want to”
Ambient maestro Steve Hauschildt on the obscure plugins, generative tools and '00s digital synths behind Aeropsia
Following a relocation to Tbilisi, Steve Hauschildt’s eighth album finds him channelling a period of profound personal change through hallucinatory electronic explorations
When David Bowie gave an amazingly accurate prediction of how the internet would change the world
Bowie’s staggeringly prophetic 1999 Newsnight interview revealed his astute awareness of how the internet was going to change music and content forever
Davey Johnstone on the making of Elton John’s 1975 masterpiece, Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
It began aboard the high seas, a concept record about Elton John and Bernie Taupin's early days, and when the band got to Caribou Ranch, they'd turn out one of the greatest albums of the '70s
