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“People who grew up in that era know all about turning the volume up at the end of the fade - that's when all the cool stuff starts happening”: Keith Urban explains the lost art of the song fade-out – and its influence on his new yacht rock covers album

"You could just hear the guitarist do something that was so cool, because typically the session players figure, ‘We're out by now, they're not going to use all this, we're just now playing for playing's sake'"

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“The day that I finished learning the last song on the album, I wept. I felt like a bona fide musician”: Amanda Seyfried reflects on her viral Joni Mitchell moment – and the Joni biopic she was preparing for that never happened

She learned to play the whole of Blue and earned praise from Beck

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How to beat writer's block: 11 tips to help you finish that track today

No more staring at a blank screen or endlessly auditioning loops. Here’s how to make that track idea a final, finished reality

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“What a weird song. Weird chord sequences, weird everything. I have no recall of what was going on in my head. For that to be your most streamed song… kind of weird, don’t you think?”: Mick Jagger on The Rolling Stones’ deathless classic

“I wish we could do something like that now”

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“What is the point of this?”: Boy George has released a new AI version of Karma Chameleon, and fans aren't impressed

He’s joined up with new company that aims to help artists ‘reclaim’ their back catalogues

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“All the sonic devastation of its predecessors at roughly half the size”: EarthQuaker Devices unveils compact version of Sunn O))) Life Pedal – and this time the ultimate doom pedal is here to stay

The EarthQuaker Devices' HalfLife is a more compact version of the drone metal pioneers Sunn O))) octave fuzz and boost pedal based on the

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“Thank you for making this week so effin’ amazing!”: Rush thank fans for their support after triumphant comeback shows

Band are on tour until next April

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“The ‘We've gotta hold on’ was the first chorus. Jon was happy with that. I said, ‘No, no, no, that's just the B section. Let's write the chorus now’”: Songwriter Desmond Child had to fight for Livin' On A Prayer's killer chorus – and for the song itself

“Richie and I knew what we had, and at another writing session we got on our hands and knees, literally, and begged Jon to at least try it”

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“I remember when it entered the Billboard charts, when it was number one – then we had champagne in the office the whole day”: ABBA confirm that their ‘fifth member’ Gorel Hanser has died, aged 76

She had worked for the Swedish pop giants since 1969

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"For really just a long time, it was just way too sad for me to make music”: Mike D on his grief at the loss of Adam Yauch

The ex-Beastie Boy releases his solo debut later this summer

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“I don't know any of the chord names. I would describe my guitar playing style as nothing technical. It's technically bad, actually, but it feels correct”: Singer-songwriter Eloise talks voice notes, vocal harmonies and learning guitar by watching YouTube

“I don't write any lyrics down, because I've always had this rule, which is if it's a good song and you have got your feelings right, you will remember it the next day”

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"It’s freedom from that lie that anything was ever under control. You don’t chase the parade anymore”: Dylan publishes his thoughts about ageing

"You’re an old king from some vanished country,” he says

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“It means whatever you want it to be”: The hidden meaning of Earth Wind And Fire’s ‘ba-dee-ya’ September chorus is revealed in new documentary

Questlove-helmed film is out on HBO now

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Do you want to remix faster and better? Here's 6 essential remix skills every producer should know

Get the technical know-how required to make great remixes with these essential techniques

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“I was looking for it and he said, ‘Oh that? I threw it away. It was crap.’ I couldn’t believe it”: How Tony Iommi found the secret to his Black Sabbath tone (and how he lost it)

A moment of madness from an amp tech and Iommi's secret weapon was gone, never to be seen again

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“The only way he could express whatever he was feeling was through his music”: The surprising truth of Stranger on the Shore, with new insight from its inspiration

It was one of the most successful instrumental singles ever released, but few realise that Acker Bilk’s Stranger on the Shore had a very personal origin

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“This track is very much John Deacon world. I don’t think I was on it at all to start off with! He was much more into funk than we were. So it’s his rhythm guitar playing – not mine”: Brian May on the No 1 hit that made Queen the biggest band in the world

“Freddie absolutely adored it – he sang it until he bled!”

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“The best songwriter we ever had, followed closely by Paul McCartney”: Graham Coxon on his influences and why his new album is coming out 15 years late

Castle Park was recorded in 2011

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“Even though words are supposed to kind of be my thing, I will never be able to express my gratitude to you guys for doing that for me”: Taylor Swift pays tribute to her parents at Songwriters Hall Of Fame ceremony

She’s the youngest female to be inducted

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“An immensely powerful tool for recording, live use, rehearsing and practising, teaching, live streaming and more”: Yamaha EAD50 review

Nearly a decade after the release of the EAD10, Yamaha knocks it out of the park with the upgraded EAD50

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"A stunningly good reverb pedal that sounds and operates like one twice the price": Hotone NC-200 Verbera review

With equally good algorithmic and IR convolution reverbs, this is a seriously impressive little pedal

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“It used to be, like, 25 minutes long!”: How Axl Rose took inspiration from Elton John to create a classic Guns N’ Roses ballad that was years in the making

Rose called it “a song about not wanting to be in a state of unrequited love”

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“I didn't even want it to be on the record, honestly. How wrong could I have possibly been?”: How Linkin Park created their biggest song that has now racked up billions of streams

Chester Bennington was a little on the fence as to whether Linkin Park’s most enduring track was strong enough to be on their debut

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“All the notes are different, but the feel of it and the rhythm of it gives that track an extra little kick”: Producer Mike Stock on the secret sauce in Rick Astley's biggest song, why Stock Aitken Waterman was never a 'hit factory', and new music

"It made us sound like a sausage factory – that we were just churning them out – and that couldn't be further from the truth, because we always put the time and the hours and the effort in"

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"I’d imagine James Murphy would think: ‘The kids are coming up from behind – but this one I’m not concerned about actually’…”: The Unofficial Scotland World Cup song is a tribute to LCD Soundsystem

JJ Bull is a bedroom musician and journalist

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