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“A testament to the essential goodness of humanity”: The story of Be My Baby, the emblem of pop’s lost age of innocence
By Beth Simpson Published
The last surviving Ronette Nedra Talley Ross passed away this week

“I hired all the musicians and the engineers, and pretty much made the record”: Patrick Leonard on Madonna’s Like a Prayer
By Ben Rogerson Published
"I haven’t listened to anybody’s records… I haven’t listened to any new music in almost 30 years," he says

PinkPantheress on her lightbulb MIDI keyboard moment, and her whirlwind music production journey
By Ben Rogerson Published
"It's sampling, but in terms of what I was doing, I was being quite low-lift with it,” she says of her early music-making efforts

"The greatest recording ever made”: Jack Antonoff on the crazy genius of his favourite Beatles song
By Ben Rogerson Published
"There's nothing like it. There never has or never will be.”

“He thought someone was winding him up": How Rod Temperton ended up writing songs for Michael Jackson
By Ben Rogerson Last updated
Barry Blue recalls the moment Temperton got the call to go and work on the album that would become Off The Wall

Mike Dean shows off his "crazy rare" wavetable synth that everyone wanted in the '80s
By Matt Mullen Published
The super-producer and analogue aficionado praises the "messed up" sound of the PPG Wave 2.3, one of the few digital synths in his extensive collection

Jimmy Jam on sampling, AI and his new EastWest drum machine plugin
By Daniel Griffiths Published
Alongside co-producer Terry Lewis, Jimmy Jam shaped the sound of the '80s and '90s. Now he’s got the future in his sights

Boards Of Canada confirm first new album in over a decade
By Beth Simpson Published
Duo had teased it via mailouts of VHS tapes
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