Latest articles by Joe Bosso
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"
Classic interview: Stevie Ray Vaughan's tech Rene Martinez remembers his boss, a blues guitar legend
Classic interview: "The way he had it configured was so that everything acted like one big gigantic speaker"
Noel Gallagher: "To be honest, I don't consider myself a guitarist, so I don't sit around and think about the whole thing too much"
Plus songwriting, production, upcoming "psychedelic" record
"It went a bit too poppy, a bit too happy… I used to really cringe when I heard it": Def Leppard's Hysteria is a perfect $4.5 million rock album – but guitarist Phil Collen had issues with one of its songs in particular
Classic 2012 interview: Phil Collen talks through every song on Def Leppard's 25 million-selling Hysteria
"I remember him coughing and spitting up blood, probably from smoking too many cigarettes. But in my mind, Jim was indestructible": Robby Krieger looks back on the making of The Doors' LA Woman
Classic interview: Revisiting a 2012 chat on the album where The Doors produced themselves for the first time and Jim Morrison's health decline became clear – "It was a stressful time"
"Hotel California is six minutes, the intro is a minute long, it stops in the middle with no drums, and you've got a two-minute guitar solo at the end. It's the absolute wrong format for a single" – Don Felder on the story of an Eagles classic
The writing, recording of the iconic '70s anthem
"I didn't think it would be the last one. And nothing was said to indicate that, at least not to me": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track
RECORDING WEEK 2023: 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"
Carol Kaye on her 10 greatest recordings: "It wasn’t like we were making doughnuts. We were making records, and a lot of them were hits"
Classic interview: the most recorded bassist in history on here personal highlights
Paul McCartney's 12 greatest Beatles bass performances: "I did get quite proud to be the bass player. Once you realised the control you had over the band... They can’t go anywhere, man. Ha! Power!"
Let's Come Together and celebrate Macca
Classic interview: Lemmy talks rockabilly and picks his 10 essential songs playlist
Over a decade ago MusicRadar chatted with the Motörhead legend about his other musical passion – The Head Cat
Classic interview: David Crosby talks Crosby, Stills & Nash's debut album track-by-track
The folk-rock giant talked us through his band's eponymous debut
“Christine started playing something she had written on the piano one day, and it floored me“ – Fleetwood Mac Rumours track-by-track with co-producer Ken Caillat
Classic interview: Remembering Christine McVie and the masterpiece she played a key role in creating
"I got a fever" - 10 classic tracks that don't need more cowbell
Got a fever? Here's the prescription
Can Auto-Tune make anyone a great singer?
VIDEO: A non-vocalist tests T-Pain's favourite plug-in
"I looked around, and I saw a lot of Peter Pans but no Captain Hook" – Alice Cooper on 12 of his career-defining records
Classic interview: "We acted like rock stars. We were rock stars before we were rock stars"
"Dime's sound was so big, I had to look for ways to fit something inside that wall" –Rex Brown on his top five Pantera basslines
Classic interview: From This Love to Suicide Note Pt. II
The story of Rage Against The Machine's Bulls On Parade: "Our method of working was pretty much; jam, roll the cassette tape, then cut the real track"
As RATM return to the stage, Tom Morello gives an insider's perspective on one of their most incendiary track
George Harrison: his 10 greatest Beatles songs
A video tribute to "the quiet Beatle"
Classic U2 interview: "Edge is very guitar-specific – last night he used 21 different guitars for 24 songs"
To celebrate 35 years since The Joshua Tree, we revisit our 2009 look at The Edge's rig with his longtime tech Dallas Schoo
Classic interview: Alex Lifeson talks Rush Moving Pictures track-by-track
"There’s a brightness about it, which I think is why people respond to it so much"
Lady Gaga producer DJ White Shadow on Born This Way and his new EP
Plus, the gear in his home studio
Metallica The Black Album track-by-track interview with Bob Rock
"I told the guys when we were done that I’d never work with them again. They felt the same way about me.”
