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“It became a wedding song. ‘Hey, did you listen to the lyrics?’”: The hit with a sting in its tail
And with the money it made, the band bought an oil well!
Best Holiday Gift for 2024 - Sennheiser MD 421 Kompakt Recording Microphone
Four good reasons to give the gift of great sound with the Sennheiser MD 421 Kompakt
7 festive free plugins we found under the Christmas tree
We've rounded up a selection of festive freebies to save you some much-needed Christmas cash - and keep you busy while the rest of the family argues over who burned the turkey
Music = Science and Einstein + Jazz = Genius: Stuck in a musical rut? Give the ‘Coltrane Circle’ a spin?
Jazz legend John Coltrane penned his famous circle in 1967 and musicians have been pondering it ever since
“It’s better in every way. The second version took what the first could do and made it five times as useful”: Waleed on Digitakt II, Ableton Live and overcoming creative block
Waleed's 2021 debut was championed by the likes of Four Tet and Ben UFO. After wrestling with the pressure of a follow-up, he's rediscovered the joy of music-making and released an EP that's one of this year's best
![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
“Because the guy’s got a knife, he’s fairly persuasive!”: How Paul McCartney survived a mugging - and a mutiny - to create his solo masterpiece
The full, amazing story of Band On The Run
The top music documentaries to watch this Christmas (and where to find them)
Give Christmas Top of the Pops and The Two Ronnies the swerve this year with our pick of essential festive music viewing
A music professor breaks down the theory behind Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmastime
Our resident music professor takes on McCarney's divisive festive classic, a Christmas song curiously "built around the most advanced synthesizers available in 1979”
"Is it actually overpriced or is there something I'm missing?": Why is the Teenage Engineering OP-XY so expensive?
Teenage Engineering provoked the wrath of the synth community with the release of its $2299 OP-XY. We take a look at why people are so enraged, why the device is priced so highly, and whether it's actually worth the cash