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"Reggae is more freeform than the blues": Bob Marley and the Wailers' Catch a Fire, track-by-track
Seminal reggae breakthrough broken down, plus listen to crucial live versions of extra track
“Part of a beautiful American tradition”: A music theory expert explains the country roots of Beyoncé’s Texas Hold ‘Em, and why it also owes a debt to the blues
The lead single from Cowboy Carter, Beyoncé’s Grammy-nominated country album, goes under the musical microscope
![Joe Bonamassa [left] plays his Epiphone 1955 Les Paul Standard and wears a bright blue suit and polka-dot; Sammy Hagar [right] wears shades, a black Cabo Wabo T-shirt and plays his red Gibson Explorer with white pickguard.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mJhoR4YDuLs9qkUkeyS3vK-840-80.jpg.webp)
“The track is a monster!”: Joe Bonamassa and Sammy Hagar have got the Fortune Teller Blues
Bonamassa played the entire track with an Ovation acoustic through an overdriven amp
A music professor breaks down the theory behind Prince's When Doves Cry
Best of 2024: As Purple Rain celebrates its 40th anniversary, we put one of Prince's best-loved songs under the musical microscope
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
“One of the few songs that reduces me to tears every time I hear it”
Best of 2024: How Brian Wilson hooked up with an LA advertising executive to pen one of the most majestic and moving pop songs ever created
New book Dust & Grooves Vol.2 tells the tall tale of the scam records that could make collectors a fortune
Some of today’s most in-demand rare records actually weren’t meant to be bought at all…
![Session guitar ace Tim Pierce wears a ballcap and poses with a Powers Electric guitar [left]; a young Jon Bon Jovi rocks Super Rock 84 on Bon Jovi's first tour of Japan. His shirt is open. His hair is big. And he has a red Fender Stratocaster slung low by his hip.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hcRVrVWpPRxr5HrsXuDAxW-840-80.jpg.webp)
Tim Pierce on why Jon Bon Jovi was destined for superstardom, and how he nailed his Runaway solo
Sometimes rock history is settled by the fickle finger of fate. When Pierce was asked to help a young Jon Bon Jovi track his 1981 demoes, he ended up playing guitar on a Bon Jovi classic – a song that set its frontman on his way to the top
