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“In the actual song you hear today, the guitars, the riff, the bass, the drums and all the vocals are from those initial takes I did in my bedroom”: Sombr on the making of viral hit Undressed, and his formula for creating "a legendary indie rock song"
By Ben Rogerson published
“I remember playing the guitar riff and thinking, ‘OK, that is great.’ From there, the song just made sense, it flowed"

“I’m just an adventurer coming back to the homeland”: John Fogerty on the long struggle to own his songs again
By Will Simpson published
“I’m just an adventurer, you know, like an explorer coming back to the homeland,” Creedence Clearwater Revival man explains

“I asked if there was another way of expressing whether God was ‘just a slob like one of us’”: Inside a ’90s classic
By Neil Crossley published
"I knew that we were going to be hearing this for the rest of our lives”

Miley Cyrus explains her distinctive singing voice and why it’s preventing her from touring
By Ben Rogerson published
"It's like running a marathon with ankle weights on," she says

“She sang it once. From a vocal standpoint, no one has that much courage”: How Alanis Morissette made You Oughta Know
By Amit Sharma published
"I thought maybe ten people would hear this song,” she said

"OK, let’s have some backstory”: The group songwriting sessions that yielded Lily Allen’s West End Girl
By Ben Rogerson published
“It felt like days I had as a teenager in a band, writing live in the room,” says collaborator Violet Skies

“I would come into the studio and people didn’t want to listen to me”: Avril Lavigne’s fight to create her first big hit
By Amit Sharma published
It also kick-started the career of production team The Matrix

“I wanted to call it Taylor’s Version”: John Fogerty has 'done a Taylor Swift' and rerecorded his hits
By Will Simpson published
Get ready for The Creedence Clearwater Revival revival...
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