Latest about Music Theory And Songwriting
Greg Lester on how he crafted the classic nylon-string guitar solo in the Spice Girls’ 2 Become 1
“It was actually very well conceived but it didn't sound guitaristic at all,” he says of the original demo
The fascinating music theory behind the kicked-around track that Prince shaped into a hit
What happens when you write a hit for another band, but you want it back? We find out as we trace the complicated history and intriguing theory behind an iconic Prince classic
The band hated the English lyrics and the record company didn't want to release it: How a song with no chorus became a no.1 hit
UFOs, Mick Jagger, and cold war paranoia: Nena on the bizarre origins of 99 Luftballons (aka 99 Red Balloons)
"I sort of felt like I was squeezing blood from a stone”: Charli XCX reveals her post-Brat creative comedown
“I had this feeling that I wouldn’t be able to make music anymore," she says
"It made me cry”: Charli XCX on how she ended up collaborating with the Velvet Underground’s John Cale
House was released on Monday 10 November
Fine Young Cannibals confirm that She Drives Me Crazy was recorded at Paisley Park using Prince’s gear
Its snare sound went on to inspire Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff on a song from the 1989 album
"OK, let’s have some backstory”: The group songwriting sessions that yielded Lily Allen’s West End Girl
“It felt like days I had as a teenager in a band, writing live in the room,” says collaborator Violet Skies
Boy Meets Girl on how having one song rejected led to them writing Whitney Houston’s biggest ‘80s hit
They even ended up having a hit of their own with the song that Clive Davis didn’t want Whitney to record
