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“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

“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

The Primitives' PJ Court on his live TV guitar tone fail during a performance of hit single, Crash
By Beth Simpson published
The song had a "second life" after it was reworked and included in Dumb and Dumber

What on earth is Fremmede Sprog and what has it got to do with the Rolling Stones?
By Beth Simpson published
Answers on a billboard...

"I thought the melody was so beautiful": So what unexpected cover has Paul Weller included on his new compilation?
By Beth Simpson published
It came from a recent BBC Radio 2 session

“It was like an acid trip that kept coming back to him”: The torturous - and ironic - story of There She Goes
By Beth Simpson published
"He had this blueprint in his head for the record, but it was like an acid trip that kept coming back to him, and it would mess him up"

How EMF went to No 1 in the US with their debut single, which came with a monster guitar riff
By Ben Rogerson published
“The guitar riff goes from blues mode to flamenco mode, like the two conflicting sides of my life”

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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