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“It’s crazy, ambitious and so out of the box. It’s like nothing you’d ever heard before.”: Zakk Wylde picks his favourite Randy Rhoads guitar solo – and explains why Rhoads and Ozzy Osbourne were perfect for each other

Plucked from Quiet Riot, Rhoads was the transfusion of virtuosity Ozzy needed to launch his solo career. But Wylde says it goes both ways, and the Prince Of Darkness was the "perfect foil" for Rhoads' classically trained style

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“We took a demo tape to A&M Records, who didn’t even know we were signed to them – even though we’d done two albums for them!”: How Roger Hodgson and Supertramp fought their way to the top – and how the multi-million-selling band imploded

“Breakfast In America took eight months to finish – some people would call us anal!”

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“Ken, our producer, said ‘Look up there lads, look at the stars’. He literally said ‘Look at the stars’”: The fast-paced making of Coldplay’s first global hit

Coldplay’s first stab at a euphoric crowd-pleaser was a clear indication that a stadium-filling future awaited

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“Ozzy came to see us in Los Angeles and said it was the creepiest thing he’d ever heard, which coming from him is the biggest compliment”: Nina Persson on the Cardigans’ Sabbath covers

Band recorded versions of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Iron Man

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“There was a time I was collecting synths and using as much hardware as possible – maybe it’s a bit weird to downgrade from that”: Ikonika on discovering their voice and going back-to-basics for Sad

In the studio: The Hyperdub artist on going back in-the-box and why they’re ‘trying to avoid Auto-Tune’

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Behringer unleashes the BMX, its $459 clone of the Oberheim DMX

Just a few days after unveiling its Juno-60 clone, Behringer has dropped another affordable recreation of an '80s classic

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"This is not a contest or a gimmick. It's a genuine search for the right voice, presence and authenticity to carry Skid Row forward": Could YOU be the next Skid Row frontman?

Band are now looking for their sixth vocalist

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“I'm like, ‘OK, put the drum machine in.' When I played it, she said, ‘Oh, I like that. I like that.' And she said, 'I want to do a song about the nasty boys’”: How Janet Jackson and Jam & Lewis made Control – with a little help from the Ensoniq Mirage

“We were like, let's make a record like we're making it for a rock and roller or a rap artist. Let's make the beats super hard"

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“A perverse or healthy attraction to crazy ideas”: Soulwax aka 2manydjs are throwing a rave – at Abbey Road Studios

Call the Soulwax rave hotline on 07886 072699

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Not The Same As It Was: Harry Styles announces special one-off Manchester show with cut-price £20 tickets

Fans have to submit ticket requests

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Behringer's "supercharged" Roland Juno-60 clone is now available for pre-order

After teasing the JN-80 at NAMM, Behringer's affordable take on the vintage classic is finally here

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“I had no idea that song would become what it became. There was nothing on the radio like that. And the recording is so raw, it’s ridiculous!”: The hard-rocking Lenny Kravitz hit that’s full of surprises

“I’m singing ‘I am the chosen, I’m the one’, but it’s not about me – it’s about Christ”

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“What the heck were you thinking, dude?”: As Alex Honnold reveals just how much Tool he listened to during his free climb of the Taipei 101 skyscraper, the band’s frontman Maynard James Keenan speaks for all of us

“I just know how long the songs are,” says Honnold. “So it gives you a sense of if you’re going fast or slow”

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"I think it helps to not have too much music theory. Taking inspiration from different genres and being open-minded is important”: Dimmu Borgir’s Silenoz on playing a guitar inspired by a shark – and why you can be black metal and still love the blues

The symphonic black metal trailblazer offers us a tour of his signature Okkultist, expresses a deep appreciation of W.A.S.P. and stakes out the limits of a musical education

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"It ended up as the sound palette for a whole new generation": Inventor of FM synthesis John Chowning honoured with Technical Grammy Award

Chowning's discoveries inspired the Yamaha DX7 and went on to define a new era of popular music

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Can ROLI's new AI Music Coach really match up to a human piano teacher? We get the exclusive first look

ROLI’s AI-powered piano teacher claims to be able to tutor students while keeping an eye on their unique nuances. We got hands-on with this eye-catching innovation at NAMM

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“I’d have to smoke a big joint to be able to listen to all of it, and I haven’t done that in a long, long time!”: Why Fleetwood Mac legend Lindsey Buckingham would prefer to forget some of his own albums

“Roy Thomas Baker spent most of the time just barking orders”

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“They were my favourite band growing up. Dave was my hero, and this was his keyboard": How The Repair Shop restored The Stranglers’ vintage keyboard

It had been originally owned by the late Dave Greenfield

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“This is probably one of the last years where it's only humans on the red carpet... That agent and robot will be here before 2030”: Will.i.am thinks Grammys will be given to bots by the end of the decade

“Level-five artistry” will be robots, he says

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“Eddie was always experimenting. Keyboards entered the mix, but it didn’t sound like a keyboard because Eddie played this cheap little Wurlitzer blazing through Marshalls”: Van Halen's Michael Anthony on the band’s cult classic Women And Children First

Less surprisingly, he said “it was party time in the studio”

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“No other industry would tolerate this level of loss of life and neither should we”: Science indicates that musicians do actually die younger - but why?

Are musicians and other music industry professionals really at greater risk of an early death than the general public? Studies say it’s true

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“I’m just a piano tuner, man”: Could Leo Woodall’s very particular set of pitch identification and safe-cracking skills make Tuner the audiology thriller we never knew we needed?

A perfect pitch for a movie?

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"An extraordinary ability to elevate each project he works on… his creative influence spans every corner of contemporary culture”: Mark Ronson to receive Outstanding Contribution to Music award at the Brits

DJ calls it “the most meaningful honour” of his career

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LALAL.AI brings its AI-powered stem separation into your DAW with its first plugin

The Stem Separator plugin is exclusively available to LALAL.AI Pro tier subscribers

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“I didn’t want something too radical but I also wanted something heavy metal”: Mark Morton and Gibson unveil a signature Les Paul Modern Quilt that brings the fire with a “flamethrower” bridge humbucker

The Lamb Of God guitarist's long-awaited Les Paul features an all-new set of ceramic humbuckers and is limited to just 350 units worldwide

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