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“Mickie says, ‘Jeff – where's your guitar?’ ‘Oh, it's on its way to Leeds!’”: When Donovan and Jeff Beck made magic
By Paul Elliott published
“We knew that people were gonna go crazy listening to this amazing thing”

PinkPantheress, Billy Bragg, Jamie Cullum and more to spill hitmaking secrets at Anti Social Camp
By Harry Bowden-Ford published
Songwriting workshop festival makes UK debut this November
![A composite image of Vernon Reid and D'Angelo. Reid [right] cups his fingers to his ear as he performs with his PRS signature model. D'Angelo holds both hands on his mic stand and wears a black sleeveless T and black headband.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Xh9isFyYgH7eU7S24hpw3U-320-80.jpg)
Vernon Reid on D’Angelo’s everlasting influence and the deep roots of the late neo-soul trailblazer's sound
By Jonathan Horsley published
Reid says his mind was blown by D’Angelo’s virtuoso command of rhythm and just how far he could stay behind the beat, and recalls the bluesy track they made together for a Queen Latifah movie

"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

“This is what it feels like to be hunted by something smarter than you”: Grimes’ new track is from the perspective of AI
By Will Simpson published
It’s her first single for nearly four years
“I went to the label and said, ‘This song sucks. This is not the song I wrote.’”: The war over a ’90s anthem
By Neil Crossley published
An idiosyncratic and insanely catchy rock-pop classic

“There is no possible way that I would do that”: David Gilmour shuts door on idea of ever performing with Roger Waters again
By Will Simpson published
Plus his wife Polly Samson reveals why she condemned Waters as “anti-Semitic” on X

“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
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