Latest articles by Danny Scott
“I sat back and thought, 'What are you playing at? You can’t write a movie score! You’re not even a real musician'"
The late synth-pop veteran on synths, production and keeping things simple
“I like to keep busy,” says the legendary artist and producer
“There’s not much more I can say,” he says of his work on the Meat Loaf classic
"Yacht Rock! When I first heard that phrase, I groaned. But then I thought, ‘Who cares what it’s called? If it keeps people listening to some great music, I’m happy!'"
“How much is it worth? Ha! Don’t even ask!”
“I could never see the connection with the Verve, really," says McCabe. "I had nothing against Britpop at all and there was some amazing music that came out of it, but it wasn’t the sound that we wanted to make"
“Putting it simply, we’d sort of split up. We no longer felt we were on the same page musically and it looked highly unlikely that we’d ever be celebrating any kind of 20th anniversary”
“Neil’s got a songwriting credit on an Oasis track? I can only assume I was on one of my big trips at the time but it just shows you how good his music was,” he says
“Every day I walked up those famous Abbey Road steps and opened the door felt like I was stepping into a magic kingdom," he tells us. "There really is something very special about that building”
Plus, he picks his top 5 lyrics by other artists
“Everything you hear at one of my shows is 100% live, played by the most amazing bunch of musicians”
Plus, the 5 songs that changed his life
“There are all sorts of technical gizmos you can get these days, but I still prefer a notebook and pencil,” says the performance poet
As he releases a new album with experimental chamber ensemble, yMusic, the singer-songwriter and pianist looks back on his storied career
“If I would ever think of calling myself a musician, it would be a pretty rubbish one,” says the leader of The Horne Section
Meet the Canadian producer adding a strange, techno twist to neo-soul with new album Love Hallucination
“I know my musical history,” says The Simply Red frontman, as he discusses new album, Time, and his lost afternoon with Keith Richards
Sheffield’s most stylish lead singer looks back on a career-defining record and how it came to be
“It would have been great to be one of those million-notes-a-second guys like Blackmore or Eddie Van Halen, but I loved how George Harrison could add so much to a song without all the ego stuff”
“Prince was from another planet. Whatever you can imagine musically and whatever you can imagine creatively, he could do it”
Classic interview: “It’s amazing how much impact one song can have”
“We all know the stigma that’s attached to an actor who decides to make music”
