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“We were at the peak of our confidence. It felt like there wasn’t anything we couldn’t do”: Queen’s A Night At The Opera and Bo Rhap to get fiftieth anniversary ...

“We were at the peak of our confidence,” adds drummer Roger Taylor, “It felt like there wasn’t anything we couldn’t do, and it shows on that album. A Night At The Opera is such an eclectic album. It’s ...
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"One day everyone will have always been against this": Brian Eno, Eric Cantona, Damon Albarn, Neneh Cherry and many others come together for Palestine

Brian Eno’s Together For Palestine event at Wembley Arena last night was by all accounts a moving and emotional evening. It saw 150 cultural figures from all over the world – actors, sportspeople, ...
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“The Life of a Showgirl takes center stage”: An exclusive paid-for download version of Taylor Swift’s new album has sparked a high-kicking, unexpected iTunes revival

Which means that, to the internet’s excitement, Apple’s long-dormant iTunes X/Twitter account has sprung back to life, with a ...
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“I don’t know what he was thinking, but he went into the little kitchen behind the control room and returned with a carving knife”: How David Byrne, Tina Weymouth and ...

The bulk of the material on the band’s first album Talking Heads 77, which was reissued in a super deluxe edition last year, was written by Byrne alone. But Psycho Killer was a true collaboration with ...
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Teenage Engineering leak appears to reveal dub reggae-themed EP-2350 Riddim Supertone sampler and EP-40 mixer

A spin on the EP-133 K.O. II inspired by Jamaican music, the sampler is joined by a 2-channel DJ mixer and Ting FX microphone ...
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“Look for one that says ‘80’s Icon on the case and another one that says ‘Woke As F**k’”: Johnny Marr says UPS has lost his guitars

Marr can be forgiven for being anxious. When playing a London show with Johnny Marr and the Healers in 2000, his 1964 Gibson SG was stolen. Its estimated value was circa £30,000. The sentimental value ...
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“I used to take pills for fun. Now I take them to stay alive”: Two intimate Ozzy Osbourne documentaries set to drop in early October

It is now set to go out on BBC1 and iplayer on Thursday 2 October at 9pm. The updated synposis for the doc describes it as "candid and moving portrait of one of Birmingham's favourite sons, and the ...
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“It’s pretty rancid! That brain mulching sound they put on vocals makes me feel slightly sick”: The Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon isn’t a fan of modern pop music

He recorded his new album Abbey Road, but says that "I don’t believe that Syd Barrett’s hand is on your shoulder or John Lennon is guiding your fingers across the piano" ...
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“100 per cent tour-worthy right off of the shelf, with bulletproof American construction”: All Rhoads lead to California as Jackson brings one of its most-iconic metal ...

A classic Jackson with a Seymour Duncan JB and ‘59 humbucker pairing, the American Series Rhoads RR24 is equally vicious with or without a Floyd, as Brandon Ellis and Jeff Loomis ...
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“It’s policing Black music… Hip-hop was born from sampling. And now sampling is synonymous with theft”: Lizzo argues that the origins of sampling law are "racially c…

The first time people started sampling was... who? It was rappers in the '80s and '90s. They were sampling records because ...
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“I wanted to design something that would not only be capable of but excel at any tone I might need”: Prog metal trailblazer Misha Mansoor teams up with Neural DSP for ...

Misha Mansoor X collects three amps, virtual stompboxes, from the everyday to exotic granular and pitch-shifting effects, CabSims, EQs and more ...
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“They basically declared war on him after these shows were broadcast”: When John Lennon alarmed the FBI after platforming radical political ideas in a week-long takeover of ...

Lennon’s curated week of programming exposed viewers to some controversial figures - and drew the attention of the US government ...