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The devastating personal pain behind one of Radiohead’s most affecting songs
The melancholy masterpiece was a highlight of the group’s last album to date, and was accompanied by a surreal Paul Thomas Anderson-directed video
“I remember saying to Clapton, ‘You try playing that one riff for eight minutes!’”: The secret to Status Quo's riff power
"That song is where the Quo twelve-bar boogie shuffle came from"
“I got woken up at 3 AM by a fan spamming my DMs. I’m still in disbelief”: UKG phenom MPH on featuring in Thomas Bangalter’s comeback DJ set
MPH is at the forefront of a new wave of producers reshaping UK bass. He joins us to talk about the making of third album Substance, his stripped-back studio set-up and how it feels to get a cosign from one half of Daft Punk
“John said we were the best stuff he'd heard since the Beatles”: Davey Johnstone on Elton John’s collab with John Lennon
How a visit from John Lennon during the sessions for Elton John’s 1975 masterpiece Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy yielded an impromptu Beatles cover and another number one hit
“Suddenly we were presented with this gift”: How One saved Achtung Baby and saved U2
Track was written in just 15 minutes
“We could have been as big as Led Zeppelin”: The heavy rock innovators whose drummer was a star before John Bonham
“There was always friction – but it all worked for the creation of what we had"
“If you’re fully naked on the street anywhere in America... jail:” Alanis Morissette's spiritual anthem and risky video
“I thought that fame and success would solve your problems"
How the rigid limitations of basic audio editing software were key to the magic of Burial’s greatest album
A prime example of how the less-is-more philosophy can fuel creativity, Burial’s extraordinary 2007 masterpiece Untrue was created entirely within Sony’s antiquated Sound Forge
