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Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon says that the “golden era” of being in a band is over
“Now, could you say who’s the top band in the world?”
“The first time we played together it was stunning!”: John Bonham's words in Led Zeppelin's new documentary
Becoming Led Zeppelin is due in May 2025
Brian May on how The Night Comes Down was born of depression – and the desire to prove people wrong
With a radically-modded cheapo classical guitar, a head clouded by darkness, May wrote a great Queen epic and tore up the production rulebook that said you can’t mix electric and acoustic
Brian May and Roger Taylor on Freddie Mercury using the studio to become rock's greatest frontman
The making of Queen’s debut album was a learning process for all, none more so than Mercury who used the studio as a tool for radical self-improvement and take full command of his instrument
"If you're not joining in, you're out… I got my P45”: Producer David Batchelor on the difficulty of capturing the Oasis sound
It started with a promise between friends and turned into every producer’s worst nightmare: Inside the aborted first attempt at recording Oasis’s classic debut
“It still buzzes”: Brian May reveals the mods he made to his £10 acoustic for Queen’s debut album
Recently reissued and “rebuilt”, Queen’s 1973 debut was a time of learning and experimentation for the band, with May customising a cheapo acoustic for one of the coolest tones on the record
So Ringo said, 'Why don't we just shoot the cover outside and call it Abbey Road?': Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road
A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again"
Coldplay forced to play a show without one of their members for the first time in their history
Guy Berryman was taken ill in Melbourne
