Latest about Music Theory And Songwriting
"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
"It made me cry”: Charli XCX on how she ended up collaborating with the Velvet Underground’s John Cale
House will be released on Monday 10 November
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
Olivia Dean on writing Man I Need and the Michael Jackson hit that helped to inspire it
“I just remember driving to and from the studio and I just played it again and again. And I was like, ‘OK, well if I can listen to this again and again, I think other people might want to”
New book claims that Michael Jackson "trashed the studio" as he was forced to re-record lines in a 1996 hit single
The original lyrics in They Don’t Care About Us had caused a media firestorm
"I'm a maximalist": Raye breaks down the head-spinning vocal arrangement in Where Is My Husband!
She also explains why she might be set to make more tweaks to the mix before the song appears on her album
When Steven Spielberg heard the Jaws theme for the first time he thought it was a joke
Pretty soon, though, the director realised that composer John Williams had "found a signature for the entire movie”
“In the hands of lesser musicians, this would simply sound sloppy”: A music professor breaks down the genius of D'Angelo
"He only recorded three albums and a handful of guest vocals, but those recordings possess extraordinary musical depth"
