Features

The song John Lennon called “the best I've ever written” – and Yoko Ono’s uncredited contribution

By Neil Crossley published 3 April 26

“A lot of it – the lyric and the concept – came from Yoko”

“John Lennon said that it’s the one song he wished he would have written”: The disco classic that influenced songs by Lennon and ABBA

By Paul Elliott published 31 March 26

How the leader of KC And The Sunshine Band created a perfect floor-filler

“David didn’t seem happy about it”: Tony Visconti reveals Bowie's reaction to Holy Holy

By Jamie Sefton published 31 March 26

Visconti joins us to talk Holy Holy's farewell tour, working with Paul McCartney and why AI is "clogging the arteries" of the music business

“It’s essentially a ballad, but we put a pounding beat to it”: The classic ’80s No 1 by A-ha that inspired a U2 anthem

By Paul Elliott published 30 March 26

“The melody line must have been lying in Bono’s subconsciousness”

“They describe themselves as a Mantra-Rock Dada Pythago-Cubist Orchestra, and the band name translates to ‘angina of the chest’”: The microtonal music theory behind viral math-rockers Angine de Poitrine

By Ethan Hein published 30 March 26

Our resident music professor breaks down the experimental tunings and time signatures behind the costumed Québécois duo breaking the internet

Geddy Lee on the making of Rush’s 1984 classic Grace Under Pressure

By Jonathan Horsley published 30 March 26

How the trio battled cabin fever in the depths of winter in search of a sound that had more of Alex Lifeson's guitar, more cutting-edge synths, "more of everything!"

The story of the Beastie Boys' incendiary Sabotage

By Andy Price published 28 March 26

Its legendary DIY video was hugely influential, but few realise that the fury of the Beastie Boys’ Sabotage was triggered by real studio pressure

“I’ve got to compete with Bach and Beethoven and Mozart and The Beatles!”: Inside the mind of guitar hero Paul Gilbert

By Jonathan Horsley published 28 March 26

Featuring: his “mouse” heartbeat, the jazz pianist so good he's “inhuman” and the most courageous thing a shredder can do

“Almost as if he had a premonition”: The story of Riders On The Storm, the Doors' beautifully bleak masterpiece

By Beth Simpson published 28 March 26

It was the last track Jim Morrison recorded

“Bon liked a drink, but he wasn’t just a wild man”: The life and times of legendary AC/DC singer Bon Scott

By Paul Elliott published 27 March 26

As Angus Young said: “Bon joined us pretty late in his life. But that guy had more youth in him than people half his age”