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“I created the guitar parts. I was super jet-lagged and loopy, but I was able to focus, and we created the song. Natalie’s version is extremely similar”: How Paul McCartney’s guitarist Rusty Anderson helped to shape the sound of a classic ’90s hit
Plus: Rusty's early years with Van Halen, the Bangles and more
“He wrote some of the best parts of Hotel California and Desperado”: Don Henley’s praise for his Eagles bandmate Glenn Frey
“We wrote the soundtrack to a lot of people’s lives”
We speak to The Smiths’ producer Stephen Street and learn how their most beloved song came to be
There Is a Light That Never Goes Out remains one of The Smiths’ most heartbreaking songs - a near-perfect example of the potency of Marr and Morrissey’s songwriting partnership
“When that song came out, it changed everything”: How Stone Temple Pilots created one of the great alternative rock anthems
Singer Scott Weiland called the track “a metaphor for a lost, obsessive relationship”
How to replicate the sample-based sonics of a gnarly Prodigy classic
Dissecting one of the big beat heavyweights’ most iconic bangers, and learning how to recreate its sound ourselves
“When Tarantino first sent me the script I hated it”: Why Neil Diamond refused to have his song used in Pulp Fiction
The legendary singer-songwriter also turned down Jay-Z
“I thought Motörhead was just a load of noise – but good noise”: A classic interview with former Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell
His motto: “Never interrupt an old woman playing bingo”
How Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke bottled the sound of heartbreak with Only You
Clarke had created Just Can't Get Enough with Depeche Mode, but Only You would be his most important song
“All I hear is ‘Auto-Tune sucks’ and 'drum machines have no soul'”: Flying Lotus on the backlash against AI music
FlyLo weighs in on Suno and talks us through the making of BIG MAMA, a chaotic speedrun of an EP that zooms through chiptune, breakcore and jazz fusion without looping a single bar
