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“Prince was always borrowing my car because it was awesome. I imagine he was making out in the back seat when he got the seed of the idea. But it's not a red Corvette – it's a pink Mercury!”: The inside story of Prince's first major hit

One of the most sexually explicit songs ever to appear in the mainstream pop charts

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“We were at the peak of our confidence. It felt like there wasn’t anything we couldn’t do”: Queen’s A Night at the Opera and Bo Rhap to get 50th anniversary reissues in October

“It was a watershed album for us” remembers Brian May

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"One day everyone will have always been against this": Brian Eno, Eric Cantona, Damon Albarn, Neneh Cherry and many others come together for Palestine

Evening includes moving performances by Portishead and Annie Lennox

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“The Life of a Showgirl takes center stage”: An exclusive paid-for download version of Taylor Swift’s new album has sparked a high-kicking, unexpected iTunes revival

But don’t worry - she’s not ‘doing a U2’...

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“Clearly the M-10 is not tuned for this type of music”: V-Moda M-10 review

If you like your headphones to be loud and punchy, then this stylish design could be for you

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“I don’t know what he was thinking, but he went into the little kitchen behind the control room and returned with a carving knife”: How David Byrne, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz created a sinister new wave classic

With some help from a carving knife

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“We got about an hour in, and I was like, ‘I haven’t even pulled the slide out of my pocket yet!’” Derek Trucks is one of the greatest slide guitar players of all time but sometimes forgets he even has one – here’s how he decides when to use it

Trucks says you can be just as lyrical playing fretted – just look at what Jeff Beck did with his Strat

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Teenage Engineering leak appears to reveal dub reggae-themed EP-2350 Riddim Supertone sampler and EP-40 mixer

A spin on the EP-133 K.O. II inspired by Jamaican music, the sampler is joined by a 2-channel DJ mixer and Ting FX microphone

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“Look for one that says ‘80’s Icon on the case and another one that says ‘Woke As F**k’”: Johnny Marr says UPS has lost his guitars

The indie guitar icon takes aim at the courier company on Twitter/X

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“He says to Mick Jagger backstage ‘They hate me!’ Mick told him, ‘if you’re going to play to a crowd this big, you have to have a rock band. You have to have a big sound’”: Did Prince’s "humiliating" Rolling Stones experience inspire his later success?

Producer Andrew Watt recalls what Jagger told him when he happened to be wearing a Prince T-shirt in the studio

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“I used to take pills for fun. Now I take them to stay alive”: Two intimate Ozzy Osbourne documentaries set to drop in early October

BBC doc now confirmed for October 2

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“It’s pretty rancid! That brain mulching sound they put on vocals makes me feel slightly sick”: The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon isn’t a fan of modern pop music

He recorded his new album Abbey Road, but says that "I don’t believe that Syd Barrett’s hand is on your shoulder or John Lennon is guiding your fingers across the piano"

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“100 per cent tour-worthy right off of the shelf, with bulletproof American construction”: All Rhoads lead to California as Jackson brings one of its most-iconic metal guitars home for a high-end upgrade

A classic Jackson with a Seymour Duncan JB and ‘59 humbucker pairing, the American Series Rhoads RR24 is equally vicious with or without a Floyd, as Brandon Ellis and Jeff Loomis demonstrate...

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“I wanted to design something that would not only be capable of but excel at any tone I might need”: Prog metal trailblazer Misha Mansoor teams up with Neural DSP for Archetype plugin suite that nails his Periphery tone – but does so much more

Neural DSP's most ambitious plugin yet? Archetype: Misha Mansoor X collects three amps, virtual stompboxes, from the everyday to exotic granular and pitch-shifting effects, CabSims, EQs and more

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“It’s policing Black music… Hip-hop was born from sampling. And now sampling is synonymous with theft”: Lizzo argues that the origins of sampling law are "racially charged"

“The first time people started sampling was... who? It was rappers in the '80s and '90s. They were sampling records because they didn't have access to big studios"

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“They basically declared war on him after these shows were broadcast”: When John Lennon alarmed the FBI after platforming radical political ideas in a week-long takeover of American TV

Lennon’s curated week of programming exposed viewers to some controversial figures - and drew the attention of the US government

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“I was having some issues with three-hour shows and constant touring and stuff": Matt Cameron explains why he left Pearl Jam and insists that the final Soundgarden album is coming... but not yet

It'll have to wait until after the band's induction into the Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame at least

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Raw and crunchy loops and toplines, wild and wacky percussive FX and semi-modular madness from the Korg MS-20

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“When we went to record it, the record company said, ‘Man, they won’t play that, it’s too long.’ But we said, ‘We don’t care!’”: How the young Lynyrd Skynyrd turned a simple love song into a southern rock epic

"Ronnie said, 'Just go till I tell you to quit!'"

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With A Little Help From His Friends: Jack White joins Ringo Starr on stage for a performance of a Beatles classic after going Toto with Steve Lukather

Do you need anybody? Some famous friends, it turns out

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“The whistling was a result of me having no guitar when I was writing it. The record company called me and said: 'You have to take the whistle out.' I said: ‘No way’": The Scorpions' Klaus Meine on the making of Wind Of Change

"When the song went through the roof, the same guy came to me, bending over and saying: ‘Klaus, I was wrong. Please forgive me – you can kick my ass!’”

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"It’s been such a privilege to work with Daphne’s sounds": Daphne Oram's centenary celebrated in compilation featuring previously unheard archival material

The album features original compositions based on samples of Oram's work by Cosey Fanni Tutti, Marta Salogni, TAAHLIAH, Arushi Jain and more

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"You’d be like, ‘Nah. I like him a lot, but I don’t love him.’ That would be the messaging if I didn’t play left-handed": Actor Paul Mescal reveals the lengths he's going to to perfect his portrayal of Paul McCartney in the upcoming Beatles biopics

He says that meeting the former Beatle and playing Blackbird with him was like "having an out of body experience"

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“Players have asked us to push further – into more adventurous, exploratory delay and reverb”: Source Audio dials up the ambience with the Encounter – six reverbs, six delays, one tricked-out pedal for “deeply immersive soundscapes”

Not your garden variety delay/reverb, Encounter is described as a "fully-loaded vessel of atmospheric discovery" with presents players with presets, tap tempo, deep edits via the app and more

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Music studio complex opens in former nuclear bunker in The Hague

Subterra has transformed the Cold War-era bunker into a "cultural hub for upcoming and established musical talent"

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