Ben Rogerson
I’m the Deputy Editor of MusicRadar, having worked on the site since its launch in 2007. I previously spent eight years working on our sister magazine, Computer Music. I’ve been playing the piano, gigging in bands and failing to finish tracks at home for more than 30 years, 24 of which I’ve also spent writing about music and the ever-changing technology used to make it.
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“I saw the classical music as my way to get good at playing the pop and rock stuff,” he says

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Plus, he’s been sharing his thoughts on Olivia Rodrigo’s ability to make rock music

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New feature was announced last year and is currently in beta

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“At the five minute 18 second part, Prince transforms this song, and at the time, I didn't realise what he was doing”

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“The vocal on it is the vocal we recorded on the day on an SM7, realtime AutoTune, on the couch. I just left it on the track and that was it”

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Could a scary experience at a Genesis gig have inspired the insult?

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The possibility of playing there was raised while Buckingham was sharing his admiration for John Mayer

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"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’”

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“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

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“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

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Price's first role was as musical director on her 2001 Drowned tour, but he says he initially tried to turn it down

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“I was kind of crafting my own scaffolding the whole time, and it was cardboard and water,” she says

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"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

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You can also watch more recent Glastonbury sets on the BBC iPlayer

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“I picked two songs, and I suggested them to her and she was like, ‘Perfect.’ So, I was like, ‘OK’”

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"I never really had any proper singing lessons growing up… so technically, I'm actually a terrible singer," she says

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She's also announced a new music festival with an impressive all-women line-up

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Even if everybody around him said, ‘I don’t get it,’ he would say, 'You don’t have to get it’”

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"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"

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“I don’t even know what the genre is. It’s just me and A G Cook and Finn Keane, doing our thing"

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“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”

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Swift by name…

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He's been breaking down the making of it for Mix With The Masters
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