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“I think that’s what grabbed people – the real moments of humanity in it”: The story of Cyndi Lauper’s first No.1.
She delved deep into her personal life to create four minutes of pop brilliance
“We wrote the biggest-selling single that Rod ever had, and it took us an hour”: Rod Stewart's controversial disco hit
It all started when Rod said, "I want something like Miss You by the Stones"
Inside the towering M83 monolith that left its creator with mixed feelings
Midnight City's distinctive lead sound was created out of distortion-soaked vocals
“No Pro Tools, no tricks. We helped change the production of heavy metal records”: Pantera's revolutionary anthem
And the solo from Dimebag gave the world its first taste of a new guitar hero
Just what was the Radiohead Binary Code theory - and was there any truth in it?
Were hints that OK Computer and In Rainbows should be listened to as one monster record deliberately seeded by the band?
“I don’t exist if I don’t have a record in the charts”: How John Lennon created one of his last and most poignant songs
After the turbulence and emotional trauma of his past, the song had a sense of reflection and calm
Ambient maestro Steve Hauschildt on the obscure plugins, generative tools and '00s digital synths behind Aeropsia
Following a relocation to Tbilisi, Steve Hauschildt’s eighth album finds him channelling a period of profound personal change through hallucinatory electronic explorations
When David Bowie gave an amazingly accurate prediction of how the internet would change the world
Bowie’s staggeringly prophetic 1999 Newsnight interview revealed his astute awareness of how the internet was going to change music and content forever
Davey Johnstone on the making of Elton John’s 1975 masterpiece, Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy
It began aboard the high seas, a concept record about Elton John and Bernie Taupin's early days, and when the band got to Caribou Ranch, they'd turn out one of the greatest albums of the '70s