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November 2026

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November 9
- “I had impostor syndrome - people would be telling me how great the mix is and in my mind I’m thinking… it’s definitely just Logic plugins”: Unplayable chords in the key of ‘banger’ – how Disclosure crafted their biggest hit
November 8
- “They made all these different bits up, not thinking in terms of verse, chorus, bridge or what was going to go where”: The “punk rock” making of the Spice Girls’ debut hit which academics have proved is the most recognisable song ever
November 7
- “There’s something inherently sexy about the sight – something primal, as if the wind were making love to the barley”: Sting admits that his country house is a rock star cliché – but it inspired one of his best-loved songs
- Elton John’s guitarist Davey Johnstone recalls the bittersweet triumph of that legendary Dodger Stadium show in 1975: “I must admit, when we were at Dodger Stadium I kept thinking, ‘It should be Dee and Nigel doing this’”
November 6
- How John Lennon created a transcendental Beatles classic – with a little help from Donovan, but not from Ringo: “That was the competition in Maharishi’s camp – who was going to get cosmic first. What I didn’t know was that I was already cosmic”
- This Quiz How We Do It: It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #29!
November 5
- Splice’s new AI DAW feels like a cheat code for music production – but it left us with one big question
- “Eric Clapton walks into our dressing room and says to Paul, ‘Show me how you do that vibrato.’ Paul says, ‘You got to be kidding me!’”: Legendary Free drummer Simon Kirke recalls the night when Clapton learned a trick from an 18-year-old Paul Kossoff
November 4
- “We don’t use clicks. We don’t edit. We go into each take knowing 60 or 70 per cent of what we’re gonna do, so there’s 30 per cent with no net”: QOTSA's Troy Van Leeuwen and Jon Theodore on cheating death and learning to love mistakes
November 3
- "We weren’t going to make just another reverb – that would be boring": We tested 7 of the weirdest reverb plugins
- “He said, ‘It’s a country song that used to be in 3/4, and I think we can play it in a straight 4/4.’ I said, ‘Are you sure you know where you’re going with this?’”: Carl Palmer on Asia’s classic ’80s hit – and how they were tricked into recording it
November 2
- “She had her head down on the desk, and I was kind of terrified. When the song was done, she looked up, beaming, and said, 'Okay, you can leave it in'”: The making of the poignant Amy Winehouse masterpiece that Prince loved