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How Guy Fletcher and a classic ‘80s synth became Dire Straits’ secret weapon on Brothers In Arms
“Without him there, we would have probably been completely lost"
Watch Peter Gabriel and futurist Ray Hammond debate the impact of the synthesizer back in 1983
“For me it’s something of a dream machine,” says Gabriel. “I always fantasised about something [with] which you could take any real world sound and manipulate it and put it in your music”
Fresh from covering Radiohead, Billie Eilish has now tackled a Coldplay classic
Plus, check out ‘mid-writing process’ versions of the first three songs from her latest album
The guitarist on Michael Jackson’s I Just Can’t Stop Loving You on his “little earworms”
“It’s more of a keyboard song. It’s not guitar music per se,” says Dann Huff
Jack Antonoff on how he channelled the Beatles and Jeff Lynne on Sabrina Carpenter’s Please Please Please
“It feels like just a band in the room,” he says
“I don't even understand it": Daryl Hall can’t get onboard with the concept of yacht rock
“People misjudged us because they couldn't label us,” he says of Hall & Oates
Tommy Emmanuel plays The Beatles and Oasis as he discusses the glaring gap in his musical knowledge
“I can read a chord chart and follow the chords, but I can’t read notes,” he explains
"They could barely play”: Trevor Horn on the making of Relax, by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
“We thought that all the record labels would be after them. Nobody wanted them”
