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"When culture is allowed to move freely, people discover that their common ground is far wider than the borders that divide them": Level 42's Mark King, Jools Holland and Dame Evelyn Glennie join alliance to remove barriers to UK-EU touring
By Harry Bowden-Ford published
Barriers include rising costs and lengthy visa processes

Fender and Jackson celebrate 50 years of Iron Maiden with limited run signature collection
By Jonathan Horsley published
Choose your fighter, Maiden fans, with four variations on the archetypical Superstrat including a Custom Shop doozy... And it is foot on the monitor time with that Harris P-Bass

Greg Lester on how he crafted the classic nylon-string guitar solo in the Spice Girls’ 2 Become 1
By Ben Rogerson published
“It was actually very well conceived but it didn't sound guitaristic at all,” he says of the original demo

Nuno Bettencourt on why he handed Shot Of The Dark over to Jake E Lee at Ozzy's farewell show
By Jonathan Horsley published
Bettencourt says Lee was far too humble and had to remind him that he had done the impossible by not only replacing Randy Rhoads but taking Ozzy Osbourne to “another place”

Brian Wampler just reimagined a bona fide modern classic with The Compulsion Drive – but is this OCD-inspired dirt pedal an overdrive, distortion or both?
By Jonathan Horsley published
The TCD Compulsion Drive from Wampler Pedals is a love letter to the Fulltone OCD, expanded with 3-band EQ, switchable clipping four modes, and all that enigmatic dirt that is at one with your amp

"They appeared to revel in the confusion that has been created”: Jorja Smith’s label claim royalties on AI track
By Will Simpson published
I Ran was created using Suno

Jon Batiste describes his “gloriously awkward exchange" with Prince at a jam session
By Ben Rogerson published
"I remember, he came up to me and he didn’t talk," he says

We catch up with the man who rewired the charts in 1979 - and is now blowing up on TikTok - with Pop Muzik
By Jim Ottewill published
Songwriter, producer and creative artist Robin Scott is the man behind M and the huge hit Pop Muzik. Over 40 years later, he shares the story of the iconic track and why he’s brought this moniker back on his new album
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