Ringo Starr 'quite capable of making a satisfactory employee' in school records Auction includes a Dingle Vale Secondary record card, with Ringo’s personal information and test results Liverpool Echo · Jun 9, 2023
Tom Hamilton: "I thought, I'll be damned if I'm going to play eighth-notes on the root all my life!" Aerosmith’s long-serving bassist reflects on becoming a "music-book junkie", channeling John Paul Jones and "smoking a bowl" before writing Sweet Emotion Guitar World · Jun 9, 2023
“We’re going to live in a world where you can’t differentiate The Beatles from the AI Beatles,” says Janelle Monae, as she reveals the advice that Prince used to give his band As she releases new album The Age Of Pleasure, the star has been chatting - and jamming on guitar - with Zane Lowe MusicRadar · Jun 9, 2023
George Harrison's My Sweet Lord: the love song to a higher power that spurred a $1.6m lawsuit "I anticipated that a lot of people might get weird about it" - George Harrison on My Sweet Lord, his love song to The Creator Louder · Jun 9, 2023
Exhibition on migration to the UK and France from the Caribbean opens in June An exhibition exploring the stories of people from the Caribbean who migrated to the UK and France comes to Liverpool Liverpool Echo · Jun 8, 2023
Paul Weller: “People should check out some of my bass playing on that first solo album” The former Jam frontman lifts the lid on his bass playing career saying: “I’ve written some great bass parts” Guitar World · Jun 7, 2023
"Without Pet Sounds, The Beatles wouldn’t have made Sgt Pepper": Giles Martin on mixing The Beach Boys’ masterpiece in Dolby Atmos Giles Martin's seasoned ears have brought The Beach Boys' hallowed Pet Sounds into the spatial audio realm with astonishing results. We spoke to Giles to learn more… MusicRadar · Jun 7, 2023
‘I was living in a fool’s paradise’: Adrienne Kennedy on meeting the Beatles and losing control of her play The great American playwright, who made her Broadway debut last year aged 91, recounts what happened when she adapted a John Lennon book for Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre The Guardian - UK · Jun 6, 2023
Clarion call: recorder fans warn instrument heading for extinction Top UK music school says pandemic has hastened decline in pupils playing Marmite of woodwind world The Guardian - UK · Jun 5, 2023
Is this the guitar Keith Richards used at the Rolling Stones’ first-ever gig? Many British guitar heroes of the ’60s started out on budget archtops that retain nostalgia value today. But what if you thought you had found Keef’s actual guitar? Guitar World · Jun 5, 2023
Here Comes the AI: Fans rejoice in 'new' Beatles music WASHINGTON: When the Beatles broke up more than 50 years ago, devastated fans were left yearning for more. Now, artificial intelligence is offering just that. Bangkok Post · Jun 5, 2023
The rhythmic bounce of "Eleanor Rigby" In this episode of "Everything Fab Four," Ken and the acclaimed jazz guitarist talk Beatles arrangements and more Salon · Jun 3, 2023
"Pet Sounds" soars to new heights This Dolby Atmos mix compiled by Giles Martin is the best version yet of this classic pop album Salon · Jun 3, 2023
The feelin’ was right: how the Bee Gees ruled late 70s pop Their Saturday Night Fever soundtrack commanded the charts, but beyond that, notes Bob Stanley in an extract from his new book, their golden touch was audible everywhere from Grease to Sesame Street The Guardian - UK · Jun 2, 2023
Louder · May 31, 2023 Karl Bartos and Kraftwerk: "The endless cycling didn’t help invent new music!" The former Kraftwerk musician and composer looks back over his career and discusses working with 'his former partners'!
Creative Bloq · May 31, 2023 From Katy Perry to The Beatles: these AI album covers are mesmerising Adobe Firefly continues to impress.
Metal Hammer · May 30, 2023 We got Tenacious D to interview Ozzy and it turns out even Jack Black gets star struck Metal, movies and Randy Rhoads – this is what happened when Tenacious D interviewed Ozzy Osbourne
Guitar World · May 29, 2023 How to solo over relative major and minor chords It's one of the oldest tricks in the book, used by everyone from the Beatles to Neil Young and Pink Floyd, but playing around the major and minor tonalities can produce melodies that stick in the mind forever
The Guardian - UK · May 29, 2023 ‘I’ve followed Radiohead from the start – I recognise genius when I hear it’: Rickie Lee Jones’s honest playlist The American singer loves dancing to Marvin Gaye and cleaning the yard to Bruce Springsteen. But which big shot singer-songwriter can’t she stand?
Creative Bloq · May 28, 2023 That horrendous AI John Lennon is completely tone deaf Someone actually thought this was a good idea?
The National (Scotland) · May 28, 2023 10 things that changed my life: Tide Lines frontman Robert Robertson 1 The accordion
Daily Mirror · May 27, 2023 Drug busts, huge tours, and a litany of lovers - 60 years of the Rolling Stones The world’s longest performing rock group’s three surviving members underwent a huge anniversary Sixty Tour last year, despite having a combined age of 233
MusicRadar · May 27, 2023 “Nebraska was cut on crap equipment…” How Bruce Springsteen made his most important album in his bedroom with just a Gibson J-200 and a TEAC 144 Back in 1981, Bruce Springsteen started recording two albums: one was a state-of-the-art gamechanger that influenced the production sounds of the 80s and made him an international superstar. The other was better than that…
MusicRadar · May 26, 2023 Mick Hucknall on the 10 songs that changed his life: “The Beatles changed the way music sounded, but the Stones were the world’s greatest rock band” “I know my musical history,” says The Simply Red frontman, as he discusses new album, Time, and his lost afternoon with Keith Richards
Guitar World · May 25, 2023 In 1965 Elvis Presley was playing bass guitar, with a little help from Paul McCartney Paul McCartney: “He was trying to learn bass, so I was like, ‘sit down, let me show you a few things’”