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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"
By Ben Rogerson published
“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!
By Paul Elliott published

“After Smells Like Teen Spirit, there was no place for bands like us”: The life and death of a hair metal band
By Paul Elliott published
Two top 10 hits and two million album sales couldn't save them

“It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable”: The ballad that sparked the breakup of The Beatles
By Neil Crossley published
Featuring "atrocious" bass-playing by John Lennon

"We all adored BB, and he asked us to write something for him": The song that Whitesnake wrote for the King of the Blues
By Paul Elliott published
And they later did the same thing with Tina Turner

“I’m just an adventurer coming back to the homeland”: John Fogerty on the long struggle to own his songs again
By Will Simpson published
“I’m just an adventurer, you know, like an explorer coming back to the homeland,” Creedence Clearwater Revival man explains

“We could have been as big as Led Zeppelin”: The heavy rock innovators whose drummer was a star before John Bonham
By Andrew Daly published
“There was always friction – but it all worked for the creation of what we had"

“I asked if there was another way of expressing whether God was ‘just a slob like one of us’”: Inside a ’90s classic
By Neil Crossley published
"I knew that we were going to be hearing this for the rest of our lives”
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