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"The crowd erupts every time": The Killers' Dave Keuning on the birth of the band's signature tune
How a cosy closet and experimenting with voicings birthed Mr Brightside
“It was actually going to be ‘Set Us on Fire’": The making of Kings of Leon's global smash hit
"One of the sound mixers walked in and said, ‘Sex on Fire', huh? And it just became a running joke..."
"I always think this is the closest anyone has ever come to making the perfect record": The story of The Undertones' punk classic Teenage Kicks
Guitarist and songwriter John O’Neill on how a young band from Derry created a classic: "I can’t believe someone didn’t come up with it before me"
"An effortless command of musical time”: A music professor breaks down Amy Winehouse's Back to Black
With Winehouse's biopic in the cinemas, we put her best-loved song under the musical microscope
Let It Be director Michael Lindsay-Hogg on that Paul vs George row and his restored "break-up" movie
"For them it was business as usual"
"Rap purists wouldn't dig us as we weren't straight-up rap. We weren't an indie group, or a rock group": Stereo MC Rob Birch on the making of classic '90s album Connected
Connected was the sound of the Stereo MCs' summer, but it became the soundtrack to dance music's year
Dweezil Zappa to finish all-star guitar track featuring epic “greatest hits” Eddie Van Halen solo
Zappa has been working on this instrumental piece for over 30 years and it features Joe Walsh, Eric Johnson, Angus and Malcolm Young and more, and two solos from Eddie Van Halen
The contender for instrumental guitar album of the year is arriving on 1 May
Nashville stringers Tom Bukovac and Guthrie Trapp together on record at last – "We kept a lot of first takes"
"Plugins get tricky because you start to hear with your eyes. Some of them have flashy interfaces - they make you think they’re doing more than they’re actually doing": St. Vincent on self-producing All Born Screaming
As Annie Clark releases her seventh album, Kate Puttick learns why the studio is both her heaven and her hell, and why there’s still a place for drum machines even when you’ve got Dave Grohl to hand
