Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
Is Beyonce about to release a rock album with a guest appearance from Stevie Nicks?
Can you handle this?
"It will always be my favourite”: Howard Jones takes you on a tour of the synth he’s owned since 1983
“The way it spits out those notes is incredible,” he says. “The attack… I just miss that on modern keyboards”
“I hired all the musicians and the engineers, and pretty much made the record”: Patrick Leonard on Madonna’s Like a Prayer
"I haven’t listened to anybody’s records… I haven’t listened to any new music in almost 30 years," he says
PinkPantheress on her lightbulb MIDI keyboard moment, and her whirlwind music production journey
"It's sampling, but in terms of what I was doing, I was being quite low-lift with it,” she says of her early music-making efforts
"The greatest recording ever made”: Jack Antonoff on the crazy genius of his favourite Beatles song
"There's nothing like it. There never has or never will be.”
“He thought someone was winding him up": How Rod Temperton ended up writing songs for Michael Jackson
Barry Blue recalls the moment Temperton got the call to go and work on the album that would become Off The Wall
Billie Eilish explains why her brother Finneas had become a "Rapunzel" figure in her touring band
“Finneas and I thought it would be an underrated song. It was one of my favorites, but I was like, ‘This isn’t gonna be the hit"
Prince’s first wife Mayte Garcia has her say on the cancelled Netflix documentary about him
“Mostly I think it should be his music and what a genius he was because he wasn't normal,” she says
How EMF went to No 1 in the US with their debut single, which came with a monster guitar riff
“The guitar riff goes from blues mode to flamenco mode, like the two conflicting sides of my life”
Bruce Hornsby explains why a classic Dire Straits song is a “kindred spirit” to his biggest hit
He also reveals which hip-hop interpolation of The Way It Is he likes the best
Vanessa Carlton explains how her surprise Coachella performance of her biggest hit was almost blown off course
Carlton also says that she went through a "bad period" with the song – "it was like a burden to bear"
"As if she's asking me!”: PinkPantheress responds to Imogen Heap’s request for production tips
“Those gloves are everything. I've always wanted a pair of those – I want to ask her for some”
A decade after her first effort was rejected, Lana Del Rey finally has her Bond theme
First Light is here, but you won't be hearing it in a cinema any time soon
Celine Dion reacts to the release of Prince’s version of With This Tear, the song he gave to her back in 1992
Today marks the 10th anniversary of Prince's death
Sabrina Carpenter sings Like A Prayer with Madonna at Coachella, as cameos abound at Weekend 2
Coachella’s second half definitely wasn’t a B-side
Olivia Rodrigo reveals Robert Smith's Glastonbury prank, and says she didn’t play her Cure-referencing new single to him
“I played him a bunch of other songs on the album – I don’t know why I didn’t think to play this one"
Prince’s Purple Rain co-star recalls the moment he had the idea for one of his greatest songs
10 years after his death, Apollonia Kotero is one of many friends and collaborators who’ve been remembering him
Olivia Rodrigo still has The Cure’s Robert Smith on her mind on new single, Drop Dead
Lyrical reference follows Rodrigo and Smith’s Glastonbury collab last year
David Lee Roth has clarified his creative role in Van Halen (again)
“Our stuff is like West Side Story,” he says of the Van Halen back catalogue
Anne Hathaway on what changed her view of Taylor Swift and how she inspired her in Mother Mary
The movie's soundtrack includes songs written by regular Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX
Dua Lipa’s favourite Britney Spears song was a massive hit, but the writing process was "torture"
“I listened to it and I was like, ‘This is impossible to make a song out of, but I love it!’” says co-writer Christian Karlsson
"I started getting all these Google alerts": Bruce Hornsby on how he first heard about Bon Iver
"His layered vocals are crazy, all the harmonies that he puts together. It’s very special”
Olivia Dean says that her biggest hit “wasn’t supposed to be a single”, and names the Motown legend who inspires her
“I think as a performer, she just brought so much joy, and was just so carefree, feminine and powerful”
