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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Barry Blue recalls the moment Temperton got the call to go and work on the album that would become Off The Wall

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“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"

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“Mostly I think it should be his music and what a genius he was because he wasn't normal,” she says

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“The guitar riff goes from blues mode to flamenco mode, like the two conflicting sides of my life”

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He also reveals which hip-hop interpolation of The Way It Is he likes the best

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Carlton also says that she went through a "bad period" with the song – "it was like a burden to bear"

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“Those gloves are everything. I've always wanted a pair of those – I want to ask her for some”

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First Light is here, but you won't be hearing it in a cinema any time soon

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Today marks the 10th anniversary of Prince's death

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Coachella’s second half definitely wasn’t a B-side

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“I played him a bunch of other songs on the album – I don’t know why I didn’t think to play this one"

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10 years after his death, Apollonia Kotero is one of many friends and collaborators who’ve been remembering him

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Lyrical reference follows Rodrigo and Smith’s Glastonbury collab last year

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“Our stuff is like West Side Story,” he says of the Van Halen back catalogue

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The movie's soundtrack includes songs written by regular Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX

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“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

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"His layered vocals are crazy, all the harmonies that he puts together. It’s very special”

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“I think as a performer, she just brought so much joy, and was just so carefree, feminine and powerful”

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You wait 30 years to sing one of your biggest hits in the desert, and then this happens

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“I told him: ‘Oh Michael, what do I care? You did it very differently,’” Hall previously said

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It’s almost 20 years since she released Tim McGraw, her debut single

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He says that he’s “touched and encouraged” that so many people are learning the song

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At the time, the legendary sound effects unit was celebrating its 25th anniversary
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