“I’m too nervous to ring him up”: Paul McCartney says he’d like to collaborate with Bob Dylan, but won’t make the first move
Why we still have a bit of a thing for hardware outboard gear: “Why would you want to clean up a signal that sounds so lovely?”
“Michael said, ‘Now, the first thing I want to do is move the start of the game four hours later so that my halftime show will be in the dark’”: The story of Michael Jackson’s game-changing 1993 Super Bowl performance to be told in new documentary
“The perfect pop song is by definition the imperfect pop song”: Jack Antonoff on vintage gear, analogue synths and Taylor Swift’s Midnights
“If you buy one piece of music software this month, make it this one”: 5 plugins you need to know about, from bonkers multi-effects to fat saturators
Why a Led Zep classic has finally been licensed to a film: “It’s an epic song… a song that made sense to introduce the film to the world”
“If you missed a part, Prince would turn round and keep dancing, but hold up five fingers. That was $50”: The New Power Generation’s Levi Seacer Jr on learning songs fast, fines, and how funny his boss was up close
“Ozzy said, ‘It’s not an option. It’s what I want. If I miss a few months of my life, I want to go this way’”: Ozzy Osbourne went against medical advice to play his final show
“New metal has a lot to offer, but you take away the masks, and it’s the same stuff I was listening to in the ’70s”: Recently retired after a remarkable career with Judas Priest, veteran bassist Ian Hill reflects on the enduring power of heavy metal
“I was the first guitar player to play that instrument in public since Hendrix himself”: The time Kenny Wayne Shepherd played Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock Stratocaster
