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The surprising truth behind one of the biggest-selling instrumental hits of all time
Few realise that Acker Bilk’s haunting Stranger on the Shore had a very personal origin
“This track is very much John Deacon world. I don’t think I was on it at all to start off with!”
“Freddie absolutely adored it – he sang it until he bled!”
“It used to be, like, 25 minutes long!”: The classic Guns N’ Roses ballad inspired by Elton John
Rose called it “a song about not wanting to be in a state of unrequited love”
How Linkin Park created their biggest song that has now racked up billions of streams
Chester Bennington was a little on the fence as to whether Linkin Park’s most enduring track was strong enough to be on their debut
How Mark Knopfler combined sublime fingerpicking and Shakespearean tragedy in a Dire Straits classic
The early ’80s hit featured his iconic National Style O resonator guitar
Misstra know it all? It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #9
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UVI's Rumble reinvents bass sound design by sculpting subs, mids and highs as separate instruments
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The first standalone soft synth from UVI since Falcon, this innovative plugin splits bass into three layers to create room-shaking low-end that hits on a different level
“He had to have his privacy, to be completely alone”: How Prince created a masterpiece in isolation
The song was a sparse, stripped-back amalgam of electro-funk, soul, psych-pop, blues and rock
