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“I said, ‘I tell you what. I will give this song to the group – just put it on the album’”: Commodores bassist Ronald LaPread, who has died at the age of 75, said that one of his greatest basslines might never have been heard

“They said, ‘oh man, it’s too black’”

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“They all got around in a circle around me and sang the vocal. It was riveting, all these voices that I’ve heard on the radio for all these years”: When Winger and Whitesnake guitarist Reb Beach played on an ’80s Bee Gees classic

In the mid '80s, Reb Beach was Atlantic's go-to rock guy, ripping solos for Chaka Khan, learning from Marcus Miller, and being serenaded by the brothers Gibb

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“People are still trying to learn Free Bird and how to play like him. But he never got to hear all the praise about his playing”: Lynyrd Skynyrd legend Gary Rossington’s memories of his fellow guitarist Allen Collins and the band’s heroic ’80s comeback

“He should have known that so many people were influenced by him”

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“What was presented to us as a celebration of our country has evolved into something much more divisive than what I agreed to be a part of”: Bret Michaels is the latest performer to excuse himself from Trump’s ‘Great American State Fair’

But you can see Milli Vanilli

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“Make no mistake, it could grace any professional stage with its superb range ofsounds, rugged build and great flexibility”: Fractal Audio Systems AM4 review

Fractal’s AM4 aims to make the company’s prestigious amp and effects modelling accessible to a larger audience

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“I'm really hoping that they will travel to California. Number 1, it's sunny, and number 2, I'm here. What more could you want?”: How Vince Clarke, Neil Arthur and Benge made their Doublespeak synth-pop covers album without ever being in the same room

You've never heard ABBA, The Carpenters or David Essex quite like this before...

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“You have no excuses to have bad technique nowadays”: Has Matteo Mancuso arrived as the world’s greatest guitar player?

The fusion maestro says we might be living in golden age of guitar virtuosity but this is not time for “guitar battles”

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“The very essence of the Fender aesthetic… It reigns supreme for its no-nonsense approach to a dual-channel, giggable package”: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe IV 30th Anniversary review

The ubiquitous Hot Rod Deluxe celebrates its 30th birthday with a snazzy new look and some subtle sonic enhancements

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“At the moment, it’s probably better than it’s been all my life... I can still hit a high D, which is higher than Pavarotti singing the end of Nessun Dorma in full voice. I mean, it’s extraordinary": Roger Daltrey says that his voice is as strong as ever

"I’ve always said, ‘Use it or you lose it,’" he says. "But you can use it too much and once people do that, I wish they’d shut up, and there are a few out there who should”

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“I would be allowed to enjoy it so much more if I was thin”: CMAT confronts body-shaming social media abusers in a candid, emotional post

Singer says: “Every environment I am placed in becomes more hostile”

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“It’s therapeutic because when you’re working with power tools, you’re feeling all kinds of different emotions”: Jack White returns to his furniture-making roots with a new exhibition of his ‘hardware store art’

Includes his ‘sonic bench’ you can plug a guitar into

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“Neil sat in the control room and played it. We looked at each other and we both knew it was a number one record. It was incredible”: How Neil Young created his biggest hit – with love in his heart and an ache in his back

“Two passes, and it was finished. It took less than two hours to record that song”

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“I don’t know. I tried to not let it get to me or upset me. I think I just try to keep it trucking”: Five years on from their songwriting credit drama, Olivia Rodrigo responds to being asked if she has a frosty relationship with Taylor Swift

“I just try to make songs that I love and try to be kind and good to other people and supportive of other people, and I’ve always like tried to be like that," she says

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“John, Paul and George looked like they had gone back in time, like they were kids again, playing together for the sheer enjoyment of it”: The joyful making of The Beatles’ life-affirming finale

The three-track cycle that concluded Abbey Road was structured to be a wrap-up of all they had achieved as a band

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“I have to think, ‘Wait a minute, everyone misses them.’ It’s not just me. So that makes me feel a bit better”: Paul McCartney on loss, early memories, cookies and his favourite emoji...

And the radio play that inspired Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

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It's that time again… Test your knowledge of this week's music news with our fiendish top 10 quiz

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“It comes across as a song about peaceful love and hippie stuff, but it was a protest song”: The story of Hold My Hand, the single that launched Hootie & The Blowfish, the most unlikely mega-selling band of the 1990s

Their debut album sold 22 million

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“Felder and Walsh were in the control room, one to the right, one to the left, like gunfighters! Felder was the ultimate technician. Walsh was the ultimate ‘feel’ guy. Together they were phenomenal”: The making of the Eagles’ masterpiece

“It was obviously our creative peak. Every band, every artist, has one”

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“Sets an entirely new benchmark for portable, affordable audio interfaces”: SSL just released its cheapest audio interface yet

The SSL 1 is a 2-in/2-out device that comes at a very tempting price

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“I bought one in 1984 – I'm looking at it now, still the same one. I plugged it in the other day, bracing myself, and the bloody thing was in tune! I couldn't believe it. Amazing!”: Vince Clarke reveals his favourite synth of all time

Plus, why he disagrees with former Depeche Mode bandmate Martin Gore about Eurorack

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Stompbox stalwarts Morley and DOD team up for a "WTF" 3-in-1 pedal with stackable fuzz wah and octave effects – and it glows in the dark

The Wah-ocTo-Fuzz combines the '80s analogue octave sounds of the DOD FX35 with '70s- Morley Power Wah and Power Fuzz circuits

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“I could make it into something really good”: Paul McCartney wants to get his hands on Prince’s unearthed cover of a classic Beatles song, but there could be a problem with that

Back in 1998, Prince said that reviving an artist's voice after their death is "the most demonic thing imaginable"

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Thom Yorke joins Flea for 10-minute Marvin Gaye jam at Chili Pepper’s only solo UK date

They played Got To Give It Up

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Gibson brings back the legendary pickup used by Angus Young, BB King, Pete Townshend and more – and it just might suit your guitar down to a T

The signs were there that the T-Top was making a return when Michael Schenker's Murphy Lab Flying V shipped with a pair. Now it's officially available from the Gibson Pickup Shop

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“I don't think there's any other 16-year-old producer for Drake right now. So it’s an odd experience, but it's crazy”: Meet AP Melodies, the teenage producer who’s ended up with production credits on two new Drake songs

“Everyone’s all like, ‘How did you do this?’ The whole school is just hyped"

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