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“I have to be careful what I say": Pete Townshend on Zak Starkey’s protracted dismissal from The Who
“He’ll be sacking me next,” quips the guitarist, “but that’s not to say that he sacked Zak”
“I didn’t even want it on the album”: How Alanis Morissette created her biggest hit
“I see words as paint, so I play with them," she said
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“I was the first person to actually have a Super Fuzz Big Muff”: How Courtney Love created a grunge classic
Hole’s song Violet came out just a week after Kurt Cobain’s suicide
“When Ronnie sang about Neil Young that was kind of a joke”: The true story of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Sweet Home Alabama
"Neil wanted to play the song with us!"
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“In the actual song you hear today, the guitars, the riff, the bass, the drums and all the vocals are from those initial takes I did in my bedroom”: Sombr on the making of viral hit Undressed, and his formula for creating "a legendary indie rock song"
“I remember playing the guitar riff and thinking, ‘OK, that is great.’ From there, the song just made sense, it flowed"
“Eddie told me, ‘Roth is driving me nuts'": When Eddie Van Halen asked to join Kiss — and they turned him down!
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“It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable”: The ballad that sparked the breakup of The Beatles
Featuring "atrocious" bass-playing by John Lennon
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"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
