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Trevor Horn joins rising star Sophie Grey for a performance of Buggles hit Video Killed The Radio Star
By Will Simpson published
Grey has also released a cover of the song

"People have this idea of how records are made – it's mostly rooted in misogyny": Jack Antonoff on the misconceptions surrounding his collaborative process
By Matt Mullen published
"One of the funniest things about my job is this total distortion of how it works. It’s so odd to me how everyone has such a clear assumption on how it happened, and they weren’t there. No one was there"

"I'm a maximalist": Raye breaks down the head-spinning vocal arrangement in Where Is My Husband!
By Ben Rogerson published
She also explains why she might be set to make more tweaks to the mix before the song appears on her album

“She had nailed her interpretation of that song before she came to the studio”: When Heaven 17 revived Tina Turner’s career
By Will Simpson published
The soul legend recorded Let’s Stay Together in one take

How Prince embraced The Beatles and recorded one of the most vulnerable ballads of his career
By Ben Rogerson published
“He’d moved past the pop simplicity of Purple Rain - this was Gershwin-esque," says drummer Bobby Z

"It saves us 900 hours digging through crates”: Justice on why they gave up sampling
By Ben Rogerson published
“Sampling the traditional way gets frustrating fast: bad tuning, rigid tempos, weird textures that don’t bend,” says Xavier de Rosnay

Adam F on making '90s DnB classic Colours – and why he’s re-recording it for 2025
By Si Truss published
“We went to the Hit Factory in New York, which was 10 or 15 grand a day. I preferred the mixdowns that I did in my bedroom in Watford”

It took an intervention from Paul McCartney for Mick Jagger to offer Andrew Watt a job with the Rolling Stones
By Ben Rogerson published
“This is some crazy dream as a kid with a guitar to have those names talking about you,” says Watt
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