“With my wrist, the arthritis and everything, that would be very challenging.” Jake E. Lee says he may be unable to play his biggest hit with Ozzy at Back to the Beginning
“Warner Brothers wanted another Layla. I thought, ‘well, if you sit down and write a song in a formatted way, it’s not so hard’”: The Grammy-winning hit that Eric Clapton wrote to order, with a little help from Foreigner’s Mick Jones
“Sly turned his back on me in the control room, giving a shout whenever he heard something he liked”: How Larry Graham’s hand-picked replacement supercharged this 1973 hit for Sly & The Family Stone with an iconic bassline
in Artists, Gigs & Festivals, Singers & Songwriters “I booked an arena tour and a lot of those shows were, like, half full. There were some nights where I was like, ‘This is awkward’”: Lorde reflects on the “damage” she suffered when her Melodrama tour was hit by low ticket sales
in Artists, Gigs & Festivals, Tech “After I’d finished with the food mixer, I threw it over the balcony and it hit some kid on the head – he found me afterwards and said ‘can you sign this’”: How Aphex Twin almost knocked out a fan at his weirdest gig ever
in Artists, Music Theory And Songwriting, Singers & Songwriters, Tutorials “I said, ‘I have this other idea!’ and that I wanted to work on this song with guitar. They were just like, ‘Let’s do it’”: Natasha Bedingfield on how she made the 2004 hit that became a viral sensation 20 years later
in Music “The intro guitar sound was somewhat of an accident.” Mark Knopfler’s now-famous tone on a Dire Straits monster hit was all down to dumb luck
in Artists, Bands “It’s always a guy… It’s like, we’re playing with wireless. Are you an idiot?”: Haim hit back at keyboard warriors who accuse them of not playing their instruments live on stage, and the rock establishment’s refusal to accept them
