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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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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“If I win, I get to open for you, and if you win, you get to open for me”

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“I was on the road with men for years and years and years and now I live with a house full of women,” she quips

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According to producer Don Was, though, it wasn’t all plain sailing during recording

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Puth says that Loggins came up with the title of their new song, Love In Exile, before they’d even started writing it

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Dean scooped three awards and also performed

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The first single, Days We Left Behind, includes a cryptic reference to John Lennon

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"I thought to myself, I was thinking, ‘God, she's going to be so great,’” she remembers

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“My instinct was to start filming," says the person who captured and shared the clip

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He’s also been addressing the hip-hop feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar

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Watch him doing double duty on trumpet and bass in the company of Jimmy Fallon

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“I think I’d have to spend many a long hour sitting in the studio working with the thing before I take it out on stage,” he admits

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The group also had a huge hit with rave anthem Set You Free

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Rodrigo, meanwhile, says that her new album is 70% done

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Her previous contract expired at the end of 2025, and she says that she now has a feeling “of openness and possibility”

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Cyrus is about to return to the world of Hannah Montana in a 20th anniversary TV special

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After releasing three different versions, Michael would later say that he didn't like the one that reached the Top 5 in the US and the UK

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Both Ableton Live and Logic Pro run just fine, it would seem

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He also looks back on the time he brought Winehouse and Adele together for a performance at the 2008 Brit Awards
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