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“Suddenly the sun shone and it was, ‘Wow!’”: How ELO’s Jeff Lynne created his masterpiece Mr. Blue Sky - and how a little joke at the end of the song was misheard by millions
Inside the making of a miniature pop symphony
“If you'd suggested this in 2015, you'd have been laughed out the room”: Music is bigger than cinema
Best of 2024: Former Spotify and PRS Chief Economist Will Page has run the numbers on music copyright, with some surprising results
The story behind Summer Of ‘69, a soaring, carefree pop-rock anthem with killer hooks
With Summer Of '69, Adams created an evergreen hit that defined the era and became a rite of passage for generations of guitarists
"It was a fair fight that I got thrown out of the band for, because Moon came for me with a tambourine": When Roger Daltrey was fired from The Who at the worst possible time in 1965
Best of 2024: "When they got on amphetamines the music just turned to a load of crap," reflected the singer
Gwen Stefani on the No Doubt song that “changed everything” after it became their biggest hit
Best of 2024: She says she had “absolutely no idea” that it would become so successful
Was Prince’s While My Guitar Gently Weeps guitar solo played in anger?
Best of 2024: The magazine had omitted him from its list of the greatest guitarists of all time
Beabadoobee on her unorthodox guitar style and how it helped her to gel with Rick Rubin
Best of 2024: “I think what I really go off with, and what Rick really goes off with, is what you feel and the vibe and what you hear,” she says
"Kurt kissed me and said, 'now I don't have to be the only songwriter!'”: Dave Grohl's evolution as a songwriter
Best of 2024: “I was in a band with one of the greatest songwriters of our generation, so I didn’t really want to rock the boat”
