Latest articles by Matt Frost
Bonamassa was one of many who paid tribute to Curry after the actor's death was confirmed yesterday
Legendary keys player Barry Goldberg on the sessions that spawned the band's biggest UK hit
Co-writer Espen Lind on how he got the ukulele back into the charts – after saving the song with it
"I remember we did vocal overdubs in an eight-track studio in Vancouver where they didn’t even have proper headphones. Can you imagine that?"
The classic opener to Disraeli Gears was never a favourite of Cream's members, and this is why
“Epic flat-out rejected it and sent me an insulting letter!”
“It was one of those things that just sort of fell off my fingers”
"I do think Koss’s sound was a big part of it"
"It was essentially the same solo that’s on the finished version Noel always plays live, but when it went high on the second half all I could think of was Slash in leather kecks with a wind machine on the Grand Canyon"
"The downdraft from the mountains caused the smoke to blow across Lake Geneva, like a film set or dry ice on a stage show. At this point, Roger wrote the words ‘smoke on the water’ on a napkin”
In 2011 the acclaimed engineer revealed some of the realities behind making Led Zeppelin IV: "John’s got his hi-hat nearly all the way open and that was bleeding all over the place"
Producer John Leckie: "It sounded instantly like a big track"
"As the taxi driver's talking to me, I suddenly made a riff in my imagination"
"Pagey was going on about seeing ghosts on the stairs and we were like, ‘Oh yeah right, Jimmy!’"
"I sat the guitar on my lap and I was kind of bent over it and I looked inside the sound hole on the guitar and it said, Nazareth, Pennsylvania"
The birth and recording of a British classic
Tea For The Tillerman producer and former Yardbirds bassist Paul Samwell-Smith on the recording of an acoustic classic
Legendary keys player Barry Goldberg on the sessions that spawned the band's biggest UK hit
“I’m sure the backing track was done in one go”
Insight from co-writer Bill Dees and guitarist Wayne Moss on Orbison's greatest hit
“Iggy recorded it on his mono battery cassette player with me playing it unplugged on the Strat"
The insider perspective on Carlos in peak form: "His headphones actually ended up on the ground. He was so engrossed in what he was playing and we only stopped it when he finally lost it"
“Jailbreak was actually going to be the beginning of the concept album”
