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“I remember asking if there was another way of expressing whether God was ‘just a slob like one of us’ but he insisted that line would grab people’s attention”: How a catchy and idiosyncratic track became a ’90s classic covered by Prince

"I knew that we were going to be hearing this for the rest of our lives”

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“In the ’80s, everybody came out with a power ballad – and we had a great one. It was never a No.1 record, but it’s a song that defines that whole era”: How an incredibly unlucky band finally got a break with a soft rock classic

But was that song really about a nun who sells dope to school kids?

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“Offers excellent input flexibility, remote control and tank-like construction”: Fiio SP5 review

These flexible desktop speakers could be just what you need to up your game

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"The greatest pop record ever made. A record that never dates, because it lives outside time”: How The Beatles created Strawberry Fields Forever – the experimental masterpiece that John Lennon regarded as the best song he ever wrote for the band

Lennon called it “psychoanalysis set to music”

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“I threw a party for John Lennon one night, and he sat there at the Moog for four hours making flying saucer sounds”: They set the boyband template, but also introduced the world to the synth

People initially labelled them a fabricated band, but we’ve got the Monkees to thank for being pop's first ever synth players

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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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“Built upon the strengths of the original, it takes this vintage classic to contemporary heights”: Cherry Audio Mercury-8 review

Completing the Mercury trilogy, Cherry Audio answers the prayers of its user base, with a recreation of the mightiest of ’80s polysynths

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“Quiet, intense, intuitive, constant and hugely creative": Perry Bamonte, of the Cure, dies aged 65

Guitar and keyboard stalwart passes away

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“I had a No 1 single with a song about a robot prostitute and no one knew”: You’ll never listen to this Gary Numan classic in the same way again

The true meaning and dense theory of one of Gary Numan’s most beloved tracks

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“I have this very large polyp on my vocal cord, which has given me a lot of the tone and the texture that has made me who I am, but it's extremely difficult to perform with”: Miley Cyrus on her distinctive voice and why it’s preventing her from touring

"It's like running a marathon with ankle weights on," she says

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“She sang it once. That was it. That’s the record, that’s the vocals. From a vocal standpoint, no one has that much courage. And of course it was spectacular”: How Alanis Morissette made You Oughta Know – with a little help from two Red Hot Chili Peppers

"I thought maybe ten people would hear this song,” she said

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“Lily arrived with the song titles, which is really unusual. She would come in and say, ‘I want to write a song called Dallas Major,’ and we’re like, ‘OK, let’s have some backstory”: The group songwriting sessions that yielded Lily Allen’s West End Girl

“It felt like days I had as a teenager in a band, writing live in the room,” says collaborator Violet Skies

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“It’s jokingly the worst rap album in history because there are no lyrics on it at all”: There’s a reason why André 3000 turned up at the 2025 Met Gala with a grand piano on his back

After the flutey New Blue Sun we now have 7 piano sketches

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“I would come into the studio with my guitar and notepad and people didn’t want to listen to me. They tried to just give me songs – and I hated that”: Avril Lavigne’s fight to create the smash hit that would inspire Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish

It also kick-started the career of production team The Matrix

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“I don’t want to talk about it anymore, if that’s all right. I feel like the dust hasn’t settled”: The devastating personal pain behind one of Radiohead’s most affecting songs

The melancholy masterpiece was a highlight of the group’s last album to date, and was accompanied by a surreal Paul Thomas Anderson-directed video

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“I think we’re on the cusp of something exhilarating and terrifying”: When David Bowie predicted how the internet would change the state of music and content forever

Bowie’s staggeringly prophetic 1999 Newsnight interview revealed his astute awareness of how the internet was on the verge of irreparably changing popular culture

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“I wanted to call it Taylor’s Version. I lobbied very much to the record company”: John Fogerty has 'done a Taylor Swift' and re-recorded 20 of his greatest songs, note-for-note

Get ready for The Creedence Clearwater Revival revival...

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"The answer might sound a little boring, but it's probably my iPhone": Modeselektor on their go-to instrument, this year's DJ-Kicks mix and why the 808 is still the "sexiest drum machine ever built"

Based in a new studio, Berlin’s favourite sonic troublemakers crash the DJ-Kicks series with a shape-shifting techno-industrial mix. We sit down with Sebastian Szary to find out more

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"There is no getting around the fact that he repeats the phrase 'simply having a wonderful Christmastime' 17 times": A music professor breaks down the theory behind Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime

Our resident music professor takes on McCarney's divisive festive classic

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“The greatest rock ballad of all time!”: The classic song that set a record by holding the number two spot in the US for 10 weeks without ever hitting the top

But at least the album made it to the top

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“There’s something to that song that touches people. I don’t know what it is but I’m really glad it happened”: The classic Fleetwood Mac hit that Stevie Nicks wrote in just 10 minutes!

Nicks’ performance of the song on stage every night “was like an exorcism”

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“He said ‘Look, I want you to take all those albums and destroy them'”: Why did Prince abruptly retract his new album days before release in 1987?

A record allegedly driven by supernatural forces, Prince swiftly disowned the stark funk of the Black Album - but what caused him to pivot so dramatically?

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“Right in front of his keyboard rig was the big symbol guitar. He looks at me, he points at it. I'm like, 'Hell no! I'm not touching that thing!”: D’Angelo was so in awe of Prince that he refused to play his guitar on the one occasion they shared a stage

Newly released audio features D’Angelo discussing the show, which took place in 1997

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“In operas, if you have a double aria, it's what the woman does that really matters. The man lies, the woman tells the truth": The story of Fairytale Of New York

MusicRadar looks back on one of Shane MacGowan's most enduring and beloved achievements

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“I have only flashes of making it. I was personally going through a very bad time”: How a disillusioned and drug-addicted David Bowie reinvented his music with a groundbreaking song he could barely remember recording

A dazzling epic that ushered in Bowie’s new persona, the Thin White Duke

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