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HISTORICAL FACTS: Decca - The Untold Story

“His songs remain timeless. His bass lines still burrow deep into the ear – and the heart”: Moody Blues icon John Lodge Remembered

His unique voice and playing helped shape the band’s pioneering progressive approach, and he kept the flame burning long after they’d stopped touring

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"Dressed to kill, all unbridled energy." Some of Small Faces' greatest songs – and a managerial battle – documented on Decca Singles 1965-1967

Still small but perfectly formed after all these years

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‘Music was my first desire’: Anthony Hopkins to release first album aged 88

‘I’ve been composing music all my life,’ award-winning actor said

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Sir Anthony Hopkins signs recording contract and drops first single at 88

“Music was my first desire, my first wish,” Hopkins said in a statement. “I’ve been composing music all my life."

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Anthony Hopkins launches music career aged 88

Sir Anthony Hopkins, 88, has launched a music career as a classic composer by releasing his first single, Bracken Road, ahead of his debut album Life Is a Dream.

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‘Music was my first desire’: Anthony Hopkins releases single

Hollywood actor signs recording deal with Decca after decades of composing pieces inspired by his Welsh childhood

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Sir Anthony Hopkins achieves ‘first desire’ of signing record deal as a composer

The 88-year-old said he had been composing all his life.

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"We were playing to capacity crowds, six or seven nights a week, everywhere we went. So we figured something was about to happen." The story of 1966, the year that built rock

Before 1966, the blues was tired, worn out and unsexy. But then Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Jimi Hendrix created the modern guitar hero too

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Luciano Pavarotti World Cup football shirts to celebrate singer’s 90th year

Both shirts feature the closing line of Nessun Dorma.

Evening Standard

"It was an embarrassment, but we were desperate for the cash."How Thin Lizzy saved their career by recording an album of Deep Purple covers

It's late 1972, and Thin Lizzy are about to lose their record contract - then along comes an offer they can't afford to refuse

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“I listen now and think, ‘This is a young man’s game!’ I’m proud of the albums”: How future members of Marillion, Soft Machine and Caravan got their start via Darryl Way’s Wolf

The violinist’s post Curved Air band only lasted two years, but released three compelling albums in that time, and set his colleagues on course for prog greatness

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From David Bowie to Fleetwood Mac and Eric Clapton, Mike Vernon’s ear was invaluable to British pop and blues

The musician, producer and label head, who has died aged 81, turned his boyhood passion for blues into a hugely impactful career

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"All of a sudden, she started biting my tongue and wouldn't let go. There was blood everywhere. Then she went for my forehead": How Thin Lizzy made the albums that saved them, only to be plunged into chaos

Thin Lizzy went from being stone broke to recording the two albums that came to define their career, but bad luck always seemed to be lurking in the shadows

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“We were absolutely convinced we were gonna just kill in the US. Then Phil gets hepatitis and – boom! – the tour just stopped there”: A metal fan’s guide to Thin Lizzy, the hellraising 70s rock icons who inspired Metallica and Megadeth

The late, great Phil Lynott and his band inspired many modern metal icons

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"The bank robber seemed like a nice bloke. Said he had all my albums": The story of the wild tour that sent Joe Cocker over the edge

The Beatles queued up to give Joe Cocker their songs, but drink, drugs and wild times on the infamous Mad Dogs & Englishmen touring circus almost finished him off

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“Robert Fripp is a really diddly-diddly man, all the riff stuff, and that works to an extent. But you need to put that in a context to make it accessible”: The secret to making King Crimson work by Peter Giles, the bassist who helped make it happen

He recalls The Cheerful Insanity Of Giles Giles & Fripp and the Brondesbury Tapes to 21st Century Schizoid Band, making music with his wife and winning athletics medals at 80

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“We were virtually given free rein. In fact, they spent so much money on studio time, there was very little left for promotion”: How Caravan’s In The Land Of Grey And Pink became an unheralded prog classic

The leading lights of the Canterbury Scene’s third album is a genuine masterpiece – but pitifully few people heard about it on its arrival

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"One song took about seven weeks to do. It was insane": The Moody Blues on their best and worst albums, Charles Manson, and the mood-altering magic of Nights In White Satin

The Moody Blues were just another British R&B band. Then they got into some old clothes, mind-expanding drugs and lashings of Mellotron… and helped invent prog rock

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Tchaikovsky: The Seasons album review – exemplary playing but Yunchan Lim’s take is strangely sombre

(Decca)The young Korean gives these 12 miniatures more gravitas than most pianists

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Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 3 album review – hear the performance that made Yunchan Lim a star

The prodigious South Korean talent won 2022’s Van Cliburn piano competition with this performance; his version deserves a place alongside Argerich and Rachmaninov himself

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Roy Thomas Baker obituary

Record producer, songwriter and arranger whose work on Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody took the single to the top of the charts around the world

The Guardian - UK

Clodagh Rodgers obituary

Singer from County Down who represented the UK at the Eurovision song contest in 1971

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"It seemed like the Beatles were in the room”: Canadian record shop owner finds mint condition 15-track version of The Beatles first Decca demo tape

It’s pretty much the holy grail of any possible Beatles recording, and fans are falling over themselves for more

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"The quality is unreal. How is this even possible to have?" Record shop owner finds 1962 Beatles' audition tape that a British label famously decided wasn't good enough to earn Lennon and McCartney's band a record deal

Listen to The Beatles, with Pete Best on drums, play Money on a newly discovered 1962 audition tape

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Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen to release new opera recording while awaiting birth of twins

Lise Davidsen, one of opera’s biggest names, is preparing to leave the stage for a few months to give birth and spend time with twins

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