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HISTORICAL FACTS: 2 - Caught on Camera

“Do something with it. Mangle it. You have to be ruthlessly objective": Trevor Horn on his sampling and drum machine production mindset

The legendary producer lowers his guard when quizzed about the 'golden era' of hi-tech music making

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“It was awkward – Yes sort of told me never to come back”: Oliver Wakeman had to tour with the prog progenitors while knowing he’d been replaced. Surprisingly, he genuinely enjoyed the trip

If Rick Wakeman’s son had taken an angrier attitude to being fired in 2011, their 2019 mini-album From A Page might never have been rescued from the demo stacks

Louder

“The lyrics talk about machines writing music, and that’s actually happened. All things considered, it was a very prophetic song”: The iconic track that sparked the MTV generation also predicted the entire future of music

This Trevor Horn-helmed classic documented a sea change in music consumption, and its vision of tomorrow was spookily accurate

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‘My job was making hits’: Clive Langer on taking Bowie, Dexys and Madness to No 1 – and why he turned Madonna down

He skied with Bowie, boozed with Madness and recorded the Teardrop Explodes on acid. But does he regret blowing it with Dave Grohl? The great producer relives his smashes, parties and 11am vodkas

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"The Boston Symphony hasn't changed its name, so why should Foreigner?": Mick Jones looks back on 50 often fractious years with one of rock's most successful bands

Mick Jones steered Foreigner to instant success, but with a self-confessed "bit of a control freak" at the helm it was often far from plain sailing

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"People were always asking me, but I never used to tell them": Trevor Horn finally dishes out his sampling and drum machine tips in a new studio interview

The legendary producer lowers his guard when quizzed about the "golden era" of hi-tech music making

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Liam Payne’s Vocals Have Been Used Posthumously On The Same Christmas Song Slammed By Ed Sheeran

“Had I had the choice, I would have respectfully declined,” Sheeran said of his involvement in the song.

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Band Aid stars hit out at Ed Sheeran over vocal permission complaint on charity single

Spandau Ballet’s Tony Hadley and the song’s producer, Trevor Horn, defended the intentions behind the charity single

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"Still stands as a rebuke to that period in which it was first heard": Bob Geldof announces new remixed version of Do They Know It’s Christmas for single’s 40th anniversary

But how effective will it be as a fundraiser?

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Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? reissued as all-star mashup – including three generations of Bono

Fortieth-anniversary edition is spliced together by Trevor Horn from previous versions of the song, including snippets of George Michael, Ed Sheeran and more

The Guardian - UK

“An eight-minute opening track… pomp, circumstance, Wagnerian bombast and epic grandeur”: Propaganda’s A Secret Wish was more prog than people knew

Known as “ABBA from Hell,” the German synth-poppers’ 1985 debut had links to Yes, Mike Oldfield and Die Krupps

Louder

“They had to put me in the video. People thought I was Adamski!”: Seal tells the backstory of '90s smash Crazy

Almost 25 years later, Seal looks back at his classic and the unlikely rave collaboration that kickstarted his career…

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Holly Johnson on orgasmic pop and his second coming: ‘It’s a miracle of modern science I’m still here’

His band, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, ruled the charts in the 1980s with their libidinous, unapologetically queer songs. Then he was told he had months to live. As a new exhibition celebrates Johnson’s art and influence, he tells the hidden story

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“We booked a studio and said, ‘Whoever’s here on Monday morning is in Yes’”: How the band regenerated to make Drama, in their own words

Rick Wakeman recalls quitting with Jon Anderson, Steve Howe recalls hoping they’d return, and Trevor Horn recalls being dragged into the line-up that bounced back in 1980

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“When the mood took them, the prog legends of the 70s could write simple but catchy music with aplomb”: The 40 greatest Yes songs ever

When 50,000 Prog magazine readers voted on the band’s catalogue, the resulting chart contained a few surprises

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Richard Thompson replaces Trevor Horn at Cropredy Festival

This year's Corpredy Festival takes place in Cropredy, near Banbury, from August 8 -10

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“They matched ELP for pomp, bombast, overambition and grandiosity of execution”: How Frankie Goes To Hollywood helped carry prog into the 80s and beyond with Welcome To The Pleasuredome

With a stack of references to the 70s giants, and three members of Yes involved, how could any debut double album arrive without prog credentials?

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"Getting her to the studio was tough! But once we got her there, she was wonderful. We really sprung Slave... on her": The story of Grace Jones’ Slave to the Rhythm - tempo changes, stacked Roland synth patches and Trevor Horn

Never stop the action… Join us as musical mis-steps, happy accidents, crushing financial burden and raw unbridled talent give birth (eventually) to one of the enduring hits of the ‘80s

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“Ladies And Gentlemen: Miss Grace Jones”: Actor Ian McShane says that he recorded his iconic Slave To The Rhythm spoken-word intro after smoking “a large spliff” with Trevor Horn in the studio

“He was at another table and said: ‘Ian, how are you? What are you doing after dinner?’”

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Ian McShane: ‘When I was about to get it on with Richard Burton, he said I reminded him of Elizabeth’

The actor on the fate of Lovejoy’s leather jacket, appearing nude on the cover of Cosmo and how to make a perfect cup of tea

Louder

“The fans understood I was the price they had to pay to hear the band they loved, so they put up with me. It’s not like you’re joining the Sex Pistols”: Trevor Horn on fronting Yes – and how it later made 90125 possible

Producer recalls making his colleagues feel “embarrassed and amused at the same time” as he begged them not to give up on Owner Of A Lonely Heart

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“When working on material we could ask, ‘What would we have done in the days of Close To The Edge?’ Maybe sometimes we didn’t ask that question enough”: Steve Howe’s favourite Yes songs

Guitarist lists his five of the best – and explains why they’re all from the 70s

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"It should eventually end up in a museum": The true story behind Hans Zimmer and his giant Moog is even more extraordinary than the original photo of them together, and it turns out the monster modular could be the most important synth ever made

The real story is about who owned the synth originally (and that we've unearthed some more cracking shots of it)

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Aaron Horn: "My dad banned me from all the studios as a little kid. Every kid just wants to hit a load of buttons, don’t they?"

Stepping out of the shadow of his legendary father, Trevor, Aaron Horn has charted a unique course across the music industry, from producing for Doja Cat to mastering sound meditation

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“He was a lot more comfortable when he went into film...”: How Trevor Horn almost talked Hans Zimmer into rapping on The Buggles’ Video Killed the Radio Star

"Back then, he was a 23-year-old budding keyboard genius who came with his very own Prophet-5"

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