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“I always said I was a genius, but nobody listened”: Previously unseen archive of pre-Smiths Morrissey correspondence heads to auction

The collection of letters were penned by the future Pope of Mope between the ages of 14 and 20, and expose the young Morrissey’s flair for the written word

MusicRadar · Jul 27

“I’m really bored of music that sounds like privileged melancholy”: We catch up with Liverpool’s indie legends The Coral

Made famous for their 2002 indie-pop staple Dreaming of You, the Coral continue to create spirit-lifting music decades on

MusicRadar · Jul 27

“It was those first two lines. I felt like it was speaking to my life. I knew I could deliver that song with conviction”: One day Sebastian Bach was playing to Jon Bon Jovi’s parents. The next he was singing one of hair metal’s greatest anthems

The story of Skid Row’s classic hair metal anthem Youth Gone Wild

Louder · Jul 11

“I was always uneasy about the fact that it was a bright, perky pop song about a nuclear holocaust, but it was insanely catchy”: How OMD recorded one of the best anti-war songs ever made

And it’s pretty much the only song about a nuclear bomb you can get away with playing at a wedding

MusicRadar · Apr 15

“I absolutely hate synthesizers. They're really bad - horrible. I can take their existence from a live point of view now, but if they didn't exist, I'd be delighted”: The surprising music theory that underpinned a Talk Talk classic

Mark Hollis’ masterpiece became an anthem of self-determination, but it was far from an overnight success

MusicRadar · Apr 7

“He played guitar like an orchestrator, arranging in real time around his own voice”: Jeff Buckley is an underrated guitar genius – and deserves a place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

One of the world’s foremost session and rhythm players, Ella Feingold, explains what most people get wrong about Buckley as a guitarist and musician

Guitar World · Mar 5

“The synths only let you play one note at a time, which was great as we couldn’t play chords anyway”: How Depeche Mode launched their career with one of the most important synth-pop records ever released

One of the band's biggest tunes marked the end of their first chapter, but became a springboard that would propel both them and its writer to legendary status

MusicRadar · Feb 24

"The whole thing was such a shock...everything was shaking and we were crying for two weeks." The inspiring, sad and triumphant story of the 'girl next door' opera singer who'd become a heavy metal icon

Tarja Turunen didn't just kick the door down for women in metal in the 90s: she made opera cool as hell

Metal Hammer · Feb 20

“This whole song came from a mistake”: The fateful circumstances that led to Coldplay’s biggest ever song

Coldplay’s first stab at a euphoric crowd-pleaser was a clear indication that a stadium-filling future awaited

MusicRadar · Feb 10

“Ken, our producer, said ‘Look up there lads, look at the stars’. He literally said ‘Look at the stars’”: The fast-paced making of Coldplay’s first global hit

Coldplay’s first stab at a euphoric crowd-pleaser was a clear indication that a stadium-filling future awaited

MusicRadar · Feb 7