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Joey Santiago

Joey Santiago on his top 5 Pixies guitar performances: “The only rule we had was to try and get away from the 12-bar blues framework. I love the blues, I love AC/DC, but music is allowed to do different things”

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“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”

Alexander O'Neal

Alexander O’Neal on being fired by Prince, rising again with Jam & Lewis and his 5 career-defining records

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“Prince was from another planet. Whatever you can imagine musically and whatever you can imagine creatively, he could do it”

Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Hornsby - the 10 albums that changed my life: “Elton John burst into the room wearing a Tina Turner wig”

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Classic interview: “It’s amazing how much impact one song can have”

Kiefer Sutherland

Kiefer Sutherland on gigs, playing guitar and 6 songs he fell in love with: “This interview is doing nothing for my reputation, is it?”

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“We all know the stigma that’s attached to an actor who decides to make music”

Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey: “I got a tremendous amount of pleasure out of listening to the Buzzcocks or the Clash, but playing the piano gave me the same sort of thrill”

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The mirth-making multi-instrumentalist takes us on a tour of his musical toolbox

Carl Palmer

Carl Palmer: “As a kid, I found it easier to play drum solos than I did keeping time”

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The prog legend picks three drummers and singles that changed his life

Roger Taylor Queen

Roger Taylor on his 5 favourite Queen drumming songs: “Will we ever do another Queen album? I don’t see why not”

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“C’mon, let’s face facts, here. Drummers are the most talented, most humble, best-looking members of any band”

Nick Rhodes

Nick Rhodes on his top 5 synths: “I’ve got nothing against digital synths, but I just happen to prefer the real thing”

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The Duran Duran man and Wendy Bevan discuss their brooding electronic project, Astronomia

Dave Ball Soft Cell

Soft Cell’s Dave Ball: “To my mind, Kraftwerk are as influential as The Beatles”

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The synth-pop veteran on synths, production and keeping things simple

Zero 7

Zero 7: “Trip-hop became a dirty word for some people - they called it background music”

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“For a while, we just kept asking, ‘Why us? How did we sell this many records?’”

Chris Difford

Squeeze’s Chris Difford - 10 albums that changed my life: “C’mon… who wouldn’t want to be in a band like The Who?”

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“Some people see songwriting as a technical process, constructing a song like an Airfix model. That doesn’t really interest me.”

Nik Kershaw

Nik Kershaw - 10 songs that changed my life: “It suddenly occurred to me that I was listening to the perfect pop record”

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“The One and Only wasn't written for anything specific… Ches happened to wander by and snapped it up”

Rick Wakeman

Rick Wakeman on his top 5 synths: “I suddenly had an instrument that could give the guitar a run for its money”

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“Without synths, I wouldn’t have been able to play the music I wanted to play”

Tangerine Dream’s Peter Baumann: “There was no preparation. We just switched on the synths, smoked a joint and made some noise!”

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The electronic pioneer on the making of the band's classic 'Virgin Years' albums

Gene Simmons: the 10 tracks that blew my mind

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The God of Thunder on the songs that changed his life forever

"Everyone understand the music because that bass and those drums say more than a 1000 words ever could."

UB40's Ali Campbell: my top 10 crucial reggae albums

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"I guess that's the thing about reggae; it's a never-ending story."

Wolfgang Flür talks Kraftwerk, his youth and debut album

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Former Kraftwerk percussionist sees himself as a presenter of music rather than a DJ

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