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“I'm like, ‘OK, put the drum machine in.' When I played it, she said, ‘Oh, I like that. I like that.' And she said, 'I want to do a song about the nasty boys’”: How Janet Jackson and Jam & Lewis made Control – with a little help from the Ensoniq Mirage

“We were like, let's make a record like we're making it for a rock and roller or a rap artist. Let's make the beats super hard"

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“We weren’t getting paid that much, so our only solace was whupping his ass on stage”: Jellybean Johnson, drummer with Prince associates The Time, has died, aged 69

“Bean was a consummate musician,” said The Time frontman Morris Day. “All he ever wanted to do was play and talk music”

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“Prince was always scared that we were going to give The Time’s sound away”: Prince’s close association with the LM-1 drum machine influenced Jam and Lewis’s decision to switch to the Roland TR-808 on one of their early ‘80s hits, says Jimmy Jam

“We were like, ‘no, no, we're going to do something totally different, you know'"

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MTV VMAs 2025: Doja Cat goes back to the ‘80s with a keytar and Kenny G as Yungblud, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry and Nuno Bettencourt perform a tribute to Ozzy Osbourne

Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter all won big at last night’s ceremony

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Prince was a master guitarist with a singular musical vision, but he didn't always go it alone on the instrument. These are the oft-overlooked players who joined him onstage, and in the studio

From Dez Dickerson's timeless Little Red Corvette solo, to Wendy Melvoin's sublime work on Purple Rain, a number of guitarists made significant contributions to Prince's stage and studio output. Here's a guide to all of them

Guitar World

The Burden of Black Genius: documentary examines career of Sly Stone

Questlove’s probing new film looks at the incredible life and works of the one-of-a-kind talent while also taking a broader look at the specific difficulties faced by Black artists

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“I got a text asking if he could send my name over to an ‘artist’ for a ‘show.’ It ended up being Chris Martin”: Grace Bowers takes her chops to the biggest stage in music for a surprise Grammys appearance with the Coldplay frontman

The guitar wunderkind was approached for the gig last minute, but stole the show with an emotional solo over Coldplay’s All My Love

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6 celebs at WNBA Finals Game 4, including Julius Randle and Mike Conley

Julius Randle and Mike Conley had a blast courtside.

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Yolanda Adams is still in the blessing business with 'Sunny Days'

Gospel music superstar Yolanda Adams has used her faith and smile to sustain her through life’s ebbs and flows

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"The way that Control sounds is an accident because we didn’t know what we were doing": why Jam and Lewis recorded Janet Jackson’s breakthrough album ‘wrong’, and why it’s all Prince’s fault

Best of 2023: Because learning from the best beats reading manual, every time

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Because learning from the best beats reading manual, every time

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Highlights you may or may not see in HBO broadcast of this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction

LOS ANGELES — Highlights of Saturday's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies will be broadcast on HBO Nov. 19. Good luck trimming the five-and-a-half-hour marathon to three hours or so.

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'Cool, sophisticated' Duran Duran enter Rock Hall of Fame

Duran Duran has stumbled into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

The Independent UK

The Rock Hall of Fame opens to Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame this year will induct Eminem, Dolly Parton, Lionel Richie, Carly Simon and two guys in sunglasses who have scored more No. 1s on the Billboard Hot 100 than all of those others combined

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Journey to Hall of Fame started in Minnesota for music moguls Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis

MINNEAPOLIS — They sealed the deal with a handshake. No contract, no lawyers. A 50-50 split on finances and credits, no matter who contributed what. That's one of the secrets to the partnership of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Equal partners.

The Conversation

An 11-year-old Prince spoke out in support of his striking Minneapolis teachers – a historian of the city's music scene explains why

For Prince fans around the world, the recent discovery of the singer speaking out at age 11 on behalf of striking Minneapolis public schoolteachers is an exciting piece of Prince pop cultural iconography. Like his vault of unreleased music, it’s a find that enriches the public’s understanding of who he…

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New Janet Jackson doc includes footage of fight with Jimmy Jam in Minneapolis studio

Janet Jackson became one of the greatest pop stars in history, thanks in no small part to the legendary albums she recorded in Minneapolis. She's also mastered the art of shutting out the world.

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