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“It was a terrible record to make. The arrangement’s so weird. It’s not very musical”: The American anthem that hit No.1 and made a star of John ‘Cougar’ Mellencamp – with help from a Bowie sidekick and inspiration from a Phil Collins classic

His motto: “Write about something that matters to people, man!”

“For about three days, just listening to this thing, I was looking at Kevin and the other two guys saying ’What have we created? This is brilliant’“: The difficult bossa nova birth and enduring brilliance of 10CC’s I’m Not In Love

“For about three days, just listening to this thing, I was looking at Kevin and the other two guys saying ’What have we created? This is brilliant’“: The difficult bossa nova birth and enduring brilliance of 10CC’s I’m Not In Love

10cc’s classic turned fifty this year

“I turned to my assistant and said 'Man, this sounds like it's going to be big’”: Shakira and Wyclef Jean reunite for a 20th anniversary performance of Hips Don’t Lie, a song that began life in the Dirty Dancing movie that you’ve never seen

“I turned to my assistant and said 'Man, this sounds like it's going to be big’”: Shakira and Wyclef Jean reunite for a 20th anniversary performance of Hips Don’t Lie, a song that began life in the Dirty Dancing movie that you’ve never seen

“Shakira had a big influence on where she wanted the record to go,” recalled recording engineer Serge Tsai in 2007

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“I was thinking at the time, if anyone wants to try and copy this video, good luck to them!”: How ’60s soul music, African rhythms and a groundbreaking video fuelled Peter Gabriel’s biggest hit

Gabriel had to lie under glass for a total of 16 hours

“There was a full moon and the curtains were open. Every time I looked up for ideas, I looked at the moon”: How teen prodigy Kate Bush created her timeless classic Wuthering Heights

“Those shrieks and warbles are beauty beyond belief,”said John Lydon

“We did turn a corner. But it must have been the biggest corner in the universe, ‘cos it took ages to turn it”: Inside the protracted creation and glorious guitar work of The Stone Roses' Second Coming

It took the band 347 ten-hour days in the studio to produce 75 minutes of music, but the definition of difficult second album saw a darker Zeppelin-esque Les Paul-toting John Squire emerge

“He remembers my guitar sound clearly, end of story”: Dave Davies rejects Eddie Kramer’s Jimmy Page overdub claims and insists that he alone played all guitar parts on You Really Got Me

The Kinks guitarist has responded to recent quotes concerning the recording of the 1964 hit

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How Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head was written in a couple of hours and took most of its sounds from the Korg Triton

How Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You Out Of My Head was written in a couple of hours and took most of its sounds from the Korg Triton

As the star rides high again with Padam Padam, we look back at the writing and recording of one of her biggest hits

40 years of Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams, the 'home recording' that took the world by storm

40 years of Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams, the 'home recording' that took the world by storm

The story behind Eurythmics' 1983 smash hit single Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) starts, in some ways, in a hotel room in Wagga Wagga.

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