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"We realised there was something very special happening," says collaborator Paul Muldoon

The British session ace on being asked to audition for the Rolling Stones, producing the Sex Pistols’ early demos and recording Robert Gordon’s final album

Here’s a look back at some of her most notable musical moments ahead of Barbie-fever well and truly landing

Snail bolognese and goat’s milk ice cream pep up Richard Corrigan’s upmarket brasserie menu at The National Portrait Gallery, writes Lucy Thackray

Delving into some of the best low-end tones of all time

Paul McCartney “was always the most surprising Beatle”, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Despite his reputation as a “cheerful, garrulous mop top”, he was the closest thing the group had to a “Renaissance man”: while his bandmates “retreated to mansions in the stockbroker belt” at the height of their mid-1960s fame, McCartney immersed himself in London’s counterculture,…

Dirty Honey's Justin Smolian opens up on touring with Guns N' Roses, and why Paul McCartney is still a bass playing genius

The birth and recording of a British classic

Yanovsky brought the weird, wonderful and the none-too-serious to Good Time Music, and was a genius player, but did he get the credit he deserved?

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"

77-year-old Dolly Parton has opened up about her latest album Rockstar and working with musical legends including Sting, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Stevie Nicks, Mick Fleetwood, Sheryl Crow and Debbie Harry