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"Makes the case that you might never need anything else": Neural DSP Quad Cortex review
By MusicRadar last updated
Neural reaches the next frontier of amp modelling with a unit that might just change everything

“I lay on my floor one night and wrote the whole thing": 40 Years On – The Making of West End Girls
By Daniel Griffiths published
From Lake Geneva to the Finland Station… Here's all the ups, downs, history, mystery, studio secrets and more of Pet Shop Boys' biggest hit

“It was a challenge to myself: ‘I’m not gonna have a chorus in this song’”: How Jack White created the riff of the century
By Stan Bull published
"It's the kind of riff you figure out when you're learning how to play guitar"

“It was too dark, too personal, too risky, not commercial”: The story of Lana Del Rey’s breakthrough hit
By Neil Crossley published
And as soon the adulation began, a backlash kicked in…

“Miles said, ‘Play it like you don’t know how to play the guitar!’”: John McLaughlin's baptism of fire with Miles Davis
By Andrew Daly published
He cut his teeth with Miles on the classic In A Silent Way

Back in 1999, Prince offered his opinion on the new generation of DAW-based musicians and producers
By Ben Rogerson published
“If they didn’t take the time to learn their instrument and their scales and to actually speak the language of music then they can’t play… all they can do is watch,” he argued

“I can sing it in the original key, with no backing tapes at all”: The smash hit ’80s power ballad that wouldn’t die
By Andrew Daly published
And after 30 years, the singer is still waiting for a reunion with his old band

“I have to be careful what I say": Pete Townshend on Zak Starkey’s protracted dismissal from The Who
By Ben Rogerson published
“He’ll be sacking me next,” quips the guitarist, “but that’s not to say that he sacked Zak”
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