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“We wrote the biggest-selling single that Rod ever had, and it took us an hour”: Rod Stewart's controversial disco hit
It all started when Rod said, "I want something like Miss You by the Stones"
“This is a step in the right direction”: Ed Sheeran gives thumbs up to government’s national curriculum changes
Singer had called on PM to put resources into music education
“Hell if I know": Lindsey Buckingham claims not to know if Fleetwood Mac have played Glastonbury
Could that be a subtle indication that plans are afoot, or are we reading too much into it?
Boy Meets Girl on how having one song rejected led to them writing Whitney Houston’s biggest ‘80s hit
They even ended up having a hit of their own with the song that Clive Davis didn’t want Whitney to record
“I truly couldn’t have enjoyed working on it more.”: Finneas writes new three-second ‘mnemonic’ for Apple TV
Sound will be before the start of every show on the platform
“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”
“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
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”
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