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Van Morrison’s music maestro steps out of the shadows

EXCLUSIVE: Child actor turned guitarist, musical director and composer Ronnie Johnson has spent half a century backing the rock ‘n roll greats. In an exclusive interview with Simon Walters, he reveals why he is launching his own new band – and the unlikely reason Van Morrison says he employed him.

The Independent UK

‘I’m an ever-changing vessel’: Erykah Badu on defying definition, life as a birth and death doula and her first album in 11 years

Why do the Texan innovator’s records take so long to make? ‘It’s important to gather the data,’ she says: the death, dating and dopamine behind her exquisite comeback alongside the Alchemist

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‘Have I tried having sex to my own music? God, no!’: Natalie Imbruglia’s honest playlist

The singer was wooed with some knocked-off Joni Mitchell and might even be persuaded to sing Torn at karaoke. But what fan comment winds her up the most?

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“The first three times I performed it in public, I burst into tears – because it brought back the intensity of the experience”: How Joni Mitchell wrote Woodstock – an era-defining song that spoke to a generation

An anthem inspired by the legendary music festival – by an artist who wasn’t actually there

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The award-winning teen who found herself by getting lost in the music

The career of Lake Macquarie's Lucy Beveridge is rapidly rising.

Newcastle Herald

“I wrote those songs before she died – with the exception of Sleep’s Dark And Silent Gate. That was written after. I guess that song could be considered cathartic”: Jackson Browne on his classic album The Pretender and its tragic backstory

“Her death was a total surprise. Maybe it should not have been, but it was”

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"I was writing with all these rock bands because that's who wanted to hire me. I did OK with that." The 10 songs that influenced Desmond Child the most

Desmond Child sold millions with Aerosmith, Kiss, Bon Jovi and more – and his new live album, recorded in an ancient Greek amphitheatre, is a celebration of those songs

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“When Jaco and I first worked together there was nobody I’d rather hang with. There was an appreciation, a joie de vivre, a spontaneity”: How Joni Mitchell combined with Jaco Pastorius to create her sophisticated jazz-infused masterpiece Coyote

The song emerged from the hedonism and chaos of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue tour

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Bruce Springsteen praised for ‘beautiful’ funeral tribute to legendary music exec Clive Davis

Dionne Warwick, Barry Manilow and Alicia Keys also spoke at the memorial service, which featured performances from Kenny G and Jennifer Hudson

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"The record company was terrified of You Oughta Know. But every woman I knew was pissed." Alanis Morissette on the "patriarchal" criticism of her 33-million-selling album Jagged Little Pill, and harsh words from female artists she admired

"I had these fantasies that I would be snuggling up with Annie Lennox, and Joni [Mitchell] would be massaging my feet"

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"It’s about a beautiful moment between a man and a woman. It’s about peace." How Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's vision of domestic bliss emerged when the USA was imploding under the stress of the Vietnam War

This single from their album Déjà Vu was just what America needed in 1970, reckons songwriter Graham Nash

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“The day that I finished learning the last song on the album, I wept. I felt like a bona fide musician”: Amanda Seyfried reflects on her viral Joni Mitchell moment – and the Joni biopic she was preparing for that never happened

She learned to play the whole of Blue and earned praise from Beck

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"I remember looking at him and thinking: 'This guy's gonna die.'" Robben Ford's wild tales of Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Kiss, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison and more

Session guitarist extraordinaire Robben Ford got high with George Harrison, hit on by Barry Manilow, yelled at by Miles Davis, blanked by Bob Dylan and headhunted by Gene Simmons... and these are his stories

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"When he died, I cried. And I actually jumped into the ocean at San Francisco. And let me tell you, the ocean at San Francisco is cold": Bass legend Jaco Pastorius

We salute a true bass guitar virtuoso

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"I and everybody else were old farts in her opinion." Roger Waters on the night Sinéad O'Connor sang her spellbinding version of Pink Floyd's Mother

To mark the fall of the Berlin Wall, Roger Waters invited a stellar cast to Berlin for a restaging of Pink Floyd's The Wall - including The Scorpions, Joni Mitchell and Sinéad O'Connor

Guitar World

“Reminiscent of Joni Mitchell’s jazzier moments… but no strings were retuned to create it!” 5 chords that sound like they’re in an open tuning (but aren’t)

Because sometimes retuning your guitar is, well, a pain in the backside – and there are workarounds

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"I learned this note-for-note because it really touched me emotionally; it was so vulnerable." The eight songs that fuelled Steve Stevens' teenage rock'n'roll dreams

Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens recalls the songs that rocked his world during his formative years

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Lily Allen’s ‘revenge’, Harry Styles’ Dorothy and Debbie Harry’s T-shirt – 20 onstage dresses ranked!

To celebrate the release of the film Mother Mary, starring Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel, in which a fashion designer creates a comeback dress for a pop star, we weigh up the best performative looks

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Jack Nicholson celebrates his birthday in rare public photo of Hollywood legend

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"I didn't want to be like stage dad." Dave Grohl shares his pride in his daughter Violet's emergence as a star on her own terms

Dave Grohl reveals the guidance he's offered his daughter Violet as she launches her own career

The Independent UK

Jack Nicholson, 89, delights movie fans with rare new photo alongside Joni Mitchell

‘I appreciate the family sharing Jack with all of us,’ one person replied

Guitar World

“Nostalgia for a time when digital was still new”: How Mk.gee is bringing back a ’90s-era modeler favored by Joni Mitchell, David Lynch, and Sting

The Roland VG-8, released in 1995, was designed as “a toolbox filled with essentially every existing guitar sound” – and, over the past couple of years, has been given a new lease on life by modern-day tone hunters

Guitar World

“I thought, ‘That’s the guitar Mike Bloomfield played…’ I just had to buy it”: The mistake that led Robben Ford to buy his first great instrument –and how Miles Davis and Jeff Beck took him to the Strat

As Ford returns with Two Shades of Blue, the Californian guitar legend drops by for a video lesson and to talk all things guitar, from his adventures with big-box jazz models to Strats

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“Joni hates the word ‘confessional’ as she thinks it implies you’ve done something wrong”: Brandi Carlile names her favourite Joni Mitchell album – and hails Joni’s 1971 classic as a record that “changed songwriting forever”

Carlile and Mitchell have formed a strong bond in recent years

The Independent UK

White House issues snarky six-word response to Joni Mitchell’s dig at Trump at Canada awards show

Mitchell spoke about Trump at the Juno Awards in Ontario, Canada

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