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“I just had to sit there, drink a bit, have a cigarette, wink at the band”: Why David Bowie ditched promoting Low and instead became Iggy Pop’s keyboard player

Bowie put helping his Berlin flatmate Iggy Pop first, with promo for one of his greatest ever albums falling by the wayside

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"We had no idea that what we were doing was groundbreaking or revolutionary": Read our classic interview with Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine

"We got the job done, and we made a hell of a lot of money doing it"

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Praise indeed for Jimmie Rodgers

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“It’s just a little bit embarrassing that it became as big a hit as it did”: The joyful REM classic that many believe contains a darker meaning

The song was inescapable in the early 1990s, yet the shifting dynamics and sunny lyrics of REM's upbeat smash continue to provoke questions about its subtext

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What These 35 Celebs Looked Like In Their 20s, Before They Became Legends

Some of the faces on TV and the big screen are veterans, legends, and household names — and for good reason. They’ve been acting for decades, carving out reputations that their greying hair and mature features testify to. Names like the multi-genre Meryl Streep, funnyman Steve Martin, and the deep,…

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“They said, 'how can you possibly do this, Brian?' I said, 'something got inside of me - I had to do something'”: Unpicking the Beach Boys' classic that confirmed Brian Wilson’s creative genius

Conceived as an all-in-one ‘pocket symphony’, Good Vibrations was thematically triggered by the notion that dogs could sense the positive or negative energies of humans

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How visionary Beach Boys songwriter Brian Wilson changed music – and my life

Brian Wilson, leader, songwriter and producer of the Beach Boys, has passed away at age 82.

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“When asked about his family, Jim would often explain that his parents – still very much alive – were dead”: How The Doors’ Jim Morrison went from from drunken teen rebel to leather-clad 60s rock god

Drunkenness, arrests, ambition – Jim Morrison’s wayward childhood paved the way for the future

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“Van Halen were opening for us and they were killing us every night. But they were making us be a better band”: How Journey found Steve Perry and made Infinity, the album that set them on the road to superstardom

Journey were a noodling jazz-rock band with a cult following – until they discovered Steve Perry and made 1978’s Infinity

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The man Neil Peart called his "six favourite drummers": Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine

"We got the job done, and we made a hell of a lot of money doing it"

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“Just like that it came to him”: Why Fleetwood Mac’s most iconic riff is one of music’s greatest ever moments

That thrilling and inspired John McVie bassline steered the band to create one of its most captivating songs

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“We went down the sheep-dip in the 80s. They douse you with pesticide, and then you’re lucky to make it out alive”: The rollercoaster story of Heart, the 70s rock icons who survived MTV, grunge and each other

Ann and Nancy Wilson look back over the rise, fall and resurrection of Heart

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"Ted Nugent came down to the dressing room and said ‘Guys! You have to calm down!'": The turbulent story of the Scorpions

Whether it’s almost changing their name to Stalingrad or filling their biggest hit with whistling, there’s always a sting in the Scorpions' tale

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“Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to talk to me. They thought I would be right for the part of The Terminator”: WASP frontman Blackie Lawless’ wild tales of Lemmy, Gene Simmons and The Village People

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"I knew the MC5 was telling the truth; There were dangerous truths that needed to be revealed": The last stand of rock's great revolutionaries

In 1968 the MC5’s Kick Out The Jams album was a grenade thrown into the music scene. Wayne Kramer acted as guardian of the band’s legacy until he died earlier this year, after making one final album

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"You're caught up in the tornado, and you see the cow fly by, and there goes the tractor": The Wilson sisters reflect on Heart's 50-year roller-coaster life

Heart's long and eventful career has taken the Wilson sisters to thin-air highs and crushing lows in a real rock’n’roll saga

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"We got the job done, and we made a hell of a lot of money doing it": Words of wisdom from Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine, Neil Peart's "six favourite drummers"

Drum Heroes: "Doing a TV show in the morning, a Beach Boys track or a Phil Spector session in the afternoon, then working with Frank Sinatra or Simon & Garfunkel after that – that was normal to us"

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Paul McCartney on bass: "When we met Elvis, I was like, ‘You’re trying to learn bass, are you, son? Sit down, let me show you a few things’"

Classic 1994 interview: "Once I got over the fact that I was lumbered with it, I did get quite proud to be a bass player"

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“Christine had been killed. The studio was somewhere I could go where I’d feel something other than lost”: how David Crosby turned grief into hazy magic on his solo masterpiece If I Could Only Remember My Name

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Len Chandler obituary

American folk singer and civil rights activist who performed with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger

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Ray Hildebrand obituary

Singer and writer of Hey Paula, a US chart-topper in 1963 that appealed to teenagers around the world

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"Van Halen could do nothing, night after night, to stem the charge of this Godzilla": How 1988's Monsters Of Rock tour was the making of Metallica

In 1988 Metallica released ...And Justice For All. Then they went out on the road to claim the throne of modern metal

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'Knowledge of self': How a key phrase from Islam became a pillar of hip-hop

I was 9 years old when Eric B. and Rakim’s “Paid in Full” dropped. I have vivid memories of the bass-laden track booming out of car stereos and hearing it on Black radio, like Kiss FM’s top eight at 8 p.m. countdown.

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11 saxophonists, 4 re-recordings and a £17,000 haircut… The tortuous tale of George Michael's Careless Whisper: "I wrote it totally in my head. I worked on it for about three months in my head"

There’s much more to the Wham!-man's modern classic than meets the ear

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"Success certainly beats obscurity. I have an incredible life, and I know it" - the epic journey of Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt has played with everyone, from Ray Charles to Bruce Springsteen to Elton John and Aretha Franklin - and she's still winning awards

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