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- August 11
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- “Everybody used to say how great Clapton was, but I remember saying to Eric, ‘You try playing that one riff for eight minutes!’”: How rock legends Status Quo stole a riff from The Doors and built an entire career out of it
- "Every time I played it, I got phone call after phone call. I thought I'd get howls of protest, but that wasn't the case. Listeners were actually moved by it": The story of William Orbit’s rework of Adagio for Strings and its chart-smashing trance remix
- “I’m still disappointed when people hear the chorus line as ‘got to’ rather than ‘get to’”: How One rescued Achtung Baby and saved U2
- “The first three times I performed it in public, I burst into tears – because it brought back the intensity of the experience”: How Joni Mitchell wrote Woodstock – an era-defining song that spoke to a generation
- August 10
- August 8
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- “I think the song seems more relevant than ever, especially in the US, with the ICE raids and all that”: How David Byrne and Brian Eno anticipated a darker tomorrow on Talking Heads’ 1979 masterpiece
- “It’s a strange little song - even for a ska song. It has a different kind of rhythm”: We chat with The Selecter’s Pauline Black about their breakthrough 1979 single
- August 7
- August 6
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- We speak to the noise music creatives pushing out at the extremes of sound: “It's somehow a kind of fetish”
- “It feels like the most ‘us’ thing we’ve ever done – Suno isn’t coming up with that anytime soon”: Sylvan Esso on the making of Ow ∞, their self-built Betty's studio and why they pulled their music from Spotify