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“That song was a game-changer for me”: How a guest spot on a ’90s banger was a the salvation of a rock legend
“They took me into the vocal booth, and said, ‘Be Glenn Hughes!’"
The struggle to make the Tears for Fears masterpiece that closed out the '80s on a creative high
Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal would acrimoniously split shortly after the release of their most musically inventive record
One year on, I’ve finally clicked with Ableton Move – all because I’ve stopped trying to make music with it
We revisit Ableton's mini standalone sketchpad following 12 months of refinements and firmware updates
"We all adored BB, and he asked us to write something for him": The song that Whitesnake wrote for the King of the Blues
And they later did the same thing with Tina Turner
“"There is something magic in that instrument”: Billy Gibbons on why Pearly Gates is one of the greatest Les Pauls ever
All Gibson Les Paul Standards from 1959 are special but what is it about the ZZ Top frontman's Pearly Gates that makes it so unique? As Gibbons says, it might be something entirely supernatural
“It gave us a pathway of how to do it”: Sixty years of The Last Time – the Stones’ big breakthrough
It was the group’s first self-penned Number One
The genius of the profound 1967 Beatles song that John Lennon held up as George’s greatest
The opening to Sgt Pepper’s second side underlined just how boundless the Beatles’ musical scope had become
The making of Enya's Orinoco Flow, the unexpected No. 1 hit that created a New Age superstar
In memory of Enya's longtime producer Nicky Ryan, we take a backwards glance at the ethereal earworm that launched her career
“That actually came from me and Oz jamming on the piano in my apartment in North Hollywood”: From Ozzy Osbourne to Papa Roach, Fleetwood Mac to George Harrison, here's 5 career-defining songs you didn’t know were written on the piano
We take a deep dive into classic guitar-driven songs that actually started life on the piano
Greg Mackintosh on the secrets behind the Paradise Lost sound and why he is still trying to learn Trouble’s tone tricks
The Paradise Lost guitarist on how '80s nightclubs shaped his style, writing guitar as a vocals, and how an old overwound Ibanez Iceman pickup was the holy grail tone on new album Ascension