Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
Phil Collins thinks he might know why Noel Gallagher once called him “the antichrist of music”
Could a scary experience at a Genesis gig have inspired the insult?
Could a Fleetwood Mac Sphere residency be on the cards? Lindsey Buckingham isn’t ruling it out
The possibility of playing there was raised while Buckingham was sharing his admiration for John Mayer
Este Haim says sibling rivalry, Princess Peach and Tina Weymouth led her to the bass guitar
"I was moping around, like, ‘I don't have any talent. What is my place in the world?’ At eight years old! Existential crisis. So my dad was like, ‘I got an idea’”
Mick Jagger had to check that Paul McCartney's bass playing was "punk" enough for new Rolling Stones song
“I said to Andy, ‘Is he into this?’ Because it's really a punk tune, and it's going to go really fast," remembers Jagger
I’m so obsessed with your sets: Olivia Rodrigo’s new LEGO collection includes a 'dual guitar'
“I’ve always loved hiding little details and meanings in my music and videos, so working with the LEGO team to bring something that fans can actually build and explore together has been so exciting,” she says
Producer Stuart Price discusses his working relationship with Madonna
Price's first role was as musical director on her 2001 Drowned tour, but he says he initially tried to turn it down
Alanis Morissette reflects on how the music industry has changed for women since Jagged Little Pill
“I was kind of crafting my own scaffolding the whole time, and it was cardboard and water,” she says
The story of the classic yacht rock single that Clive Davis rejected but the world fell in love with
"He goes, ‘Yeah… you guys look good, you sound good, but I don’t hear a hit,’ and so that was the end of our chances with Clive Davis," says co-writer and singer Peter Beckett
There's no Glastonbury this year, but this movie is here to show you what it looked and sounded like in 1993
You can also watch more recent Glastonbury sets on the BBC iPlayer
Sombr reflects on being asked to perform in honour of Taylor Swift after she called him "the future"
“I picked two songs, and I suggested them to her and she was like, ‘Perfect.’ So, I was like, ‘OK’”
“I have vocal nodes": Breakout star Sienna Spiro's distinctive singing voice comes at a cost
"I never really had any proper singing lessons growing up… so technically, I'm actually a terrible singer," she says
Olivia Rodrigo on the making of Stupid Song – and an unlikely artistic inspiration
She's also announced a new music festival with an impressive all-women line-up
Rob Thomas explains the genius of Clive Davis and his influence on Santana's Smooth
Even if everybody around him said, ‘I don’t get it,’ he would say, 'You don’t have to get it’”
"He doesn’t know nothing”: Finneas is as confused by Rick Rubin’s production claims as the rest of us
"What I assume he means by that, and I respect this, is similar to what I’ve said before: there are a lot of people that know a lot more than I do"
Charli XCX reflects on the reaction to her 'dancefloor is dead' lyric
“I don’t even know what the genre is. It’s just me and A G Cook and Finn Keane, doing our thing"
Here's why the producer of Ricky Martin's Livin' La Vida Loca made recording history
“It was like, you know, Thomas Edison or something," says Desmond Child. "We made it all the way to number one in a completely digitised format”
Taylor Swift appears to confirm that I Knew It, I Knew You was written, recorded and produced in around eight hours
Swift by name…
Beck says that he was "a little embarrassed" by his debut hit, which had “the most simple slide guitar riff"
He's been breaking down the making of it for Mix With The Masters
Jon Bon Jovi says he’s now “fully recovered” from his vocal cord surgery
"It was longer than I’d ever expected, but it had to be right. We never lost faith”
The MU-1 mic promises to make the much-loved ribbon-and-condenser recording trick way more accessible
It promises to combine a classic dual-mic studio technique into one product
"That's when all the cool stuff starts happening”: Keith Urban on the lost art of the song fade-out
"You could just hear the guitarist do something that was so cool, because typically the session players figure, ‘We're out by now, they're not going to use all this, we're just now playing for playing's sake'"
Songwriter Desmond Child had to fight for Livin' On A Prayer's killer chorus – and for the song itself
“Richie and I knew what we had, and at another writing session we got on our hands and knees, literally, and begged Jon to at least try it”
Singer-songwriter Eloise talks voice notes, vocal harmonies and learning guitar by watching YouTube
“I don't write any lyrics down, because I've always had this rule, which is if it's a good song and you have got your feelings right, you will remember it the next day”
