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“He listened to the song and said, ‘Total crap!’”: How a classic ballad was rejected by one singer before Journey transformed it into a monster hit
The inside story - told by Journey guitarist guitarist Neal Schon
Billie Eilish and Finneas just enlisted a class of elementary school kids to co-write their next hit
Expect I’m Just A Polar bear to provide the songwriting siblings with their next Grammy
The most-learned guitar and piano songs of 2024 have been revealed
It turns out that The Eagles are still pretty popular, too…
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Tim Pierce on why Jon Bon Jovi was destined for superstardom, and how he nailed his Runaway solo
Sometimes rock history is settled by the fickle finger of fate. When Pierce was asked to help a young Jon Bon Jovi track his 1981 demoes, he ended up playing guitar on a Bon Jovi classic – a song that set its frontman on his way to the top
Haemorrhaged vocal cords force Sam Fender to scrap rest of UK tour, including Newcastle homecoming Christmas gig
It’s not the first time that the star has had to put his health first and been forced to let down fans
Keane’s Tim Rice-Oxley on keeping the "character" of his Yamaha CP-70 and the ups and downs of being in a band
“Putting it simply, we’d sort of split up. We no longer felt we were on the same page musically and it looked highly unlikely that we’d ever be celebrating any kind of 20th anniversary”
“People saying, ‘Good album, good songs.’ That hadn't happened to me before”: David Bowie on his first classic album
“The whole album is so unusual,” says Bowie fan Boy George
Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan producer Dan Nigro on why solo artists have replaced bands
"People are just less inclined in general to get together to make music, cause you don’t have to," he argues
