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“Feat. Thom Yorke…”: the ten best songs featuring guest vocals from the Radiohead frontman

From PJ Harvey to Burial to Portishead to Sparklehorse, the singer has been a keen collaborator over the years. Here’s ten must-hear songs he's leant his voice to.

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“For Pink Floyd songs, David is happiest when I play an old Fender with a pick”: Session legend Guy Pratt on the Jazz Bass he bought from John Entwistle and how he conjured a “massive octave-pedal freakout” with Madonna

In addition to his main gig with David Gilmour, Guy Pratt has played bass on some monster hits, including Madonna’s Like a Prayer and Michael Jackson’s Earth Song

Guitar World

“I don’t think he ever got over being fired from King Crimson… but he went on to bigger, more financially successful things”: Peter Sinfield, the prog poet who gave voices to ELP, Roxy Music and many others

Lyricist, art director, producer and all-round creative who aimed to enlighten, provoke or stir died in November 2024 without being fully aware of what he’d achieved

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Legendary east London pub venue where Roxy Music and the Who performed reopens after refurbishment

Red Lion enjoyed an extraordinary heyday in the Sixties and Seventies when many bands played before going on to global fame

Evening Standard

“They explained about this movie called The Breakfast Club. They apparently had a song for us. We said: ‘No chance!’”: How Simple Minds went from punk to stadium rock, via an 80s Brat Pack classic

The epic story of Simple Minds, the Scottish rock band who conquered the world

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“Roxy insisted I have a white Strat – I bought that guitar off Brian Eno, who bought it off his milkman for 30 quid!” Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera on how he found his bargain Firebird and why he has no regrets about rendering a ’51 Tele “valueless”

The Roxy Music guitarist invites us into his London studio to take a look at the guitars that he cut five decades of hits with, and tells us how a globe-trotting childhood led him to art-rock Shangri-La in ’70s London

Guitar World

“I know it sounds like a joke musical but one of my ancestors was a pirate in the Caribbean. He looked a bit like I did when I was 21 in Roxy Music”: The amazing things Phil Manzanera discovered when he looked into his past

After writing a memoir, the guitarist has done the musical equivalent with an 11-disc box set exploring his five-decade career. He explains how he landed his dream gig, how Robert Fripp beat him to a tonal ambition, and why, in a way, Roxy is still active

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“I went to this very posh house in Regent’s Park in London, knocked on the door and this 16-year-old American kid held it up. I said, ‘It’s a red guitar – I’ll have it!’” How Phil Manzanera got his trademark Roxy Music Gibson Firebird

Manzanera’s iconic Firebird has been by his side for much of his career and began life as a custom build from Kalamazoo

Guitar World

“As a term, ‘prog’ only evolved in the 1990s. And I loathe it. As soon as someone sticks a label on to you, they stop listening”: How Robert Fripp brought King Crimson back for their final resurrection

In 2014, Robert Fripp brought King Crimson back from hiatus – and he was ready to make a “joyous racket”

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Robert Fripp and Carl Palmer lead tributes to Pete Sinfield who has died, aged 80

King Crimson and ELP producer and lyricist Pete Sinfield sadly died on Thursday, aged 80

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Peter Sinfield, lyricist for King Crimson, Céline Dion and more, dies aged 80

Versatile poet and music producer co-founded King Crimson, produced Roxy Music’s debut album and had a long partnership with Greg Lake

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"All of his solo work is worth owning, but this collection is a mighty big entry point":The best of Bryan Ferry collected on the epic Retrospective 1973-2023

Celebrating 50 years of Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry as solo artist

Louder

Out of office: What the Wallpaper* editors have been doing this week

Team Wallpaper* are hard to pin down. Here's what our editors have been up to this week that might inspire your own downtime, from films to food, architours to musical interludes

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Dance into the fire! Duran Duran’s 20 greatest songs – ranked

As they reissue their Halloween album Danse Macabre, we rate the best of a band who went from Birmingham to blazer-clad world domination

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“I would call our approach organized chaos, but it drove Allan Holdsworth up the wall”: John Wetton has been the bass force behind a peak-period King Crimson lineup and two prog rock supergroups

A veteran of one of King Crimson’s classic lineups, John Wetton’s amazing career took him through a host of British prog bands

MusicRadar

“It’s the one and only time I've written a song about a bass player”: Paul Carrack on what Ace’s How Long? is really all about, and playing with Roxy Music, Squeeze, Eric Clapton and Mike and the Mechanics

“I've never had any tuition whatsoever,” says the multi-instrumentalist. “Never had any musical education. I've learned by ear”

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“You could be a Luddite and ignore these new instruments, or you could say, ‘Let’s give it a spin.’ And I chose the latter”: How Jethro Tull embraced synths, drum machines and the 1980s – and split their fans

The tangled story of Jethro Tull’s controversial 80s albums A, The Broadsword And The Beast and Under Wraps

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Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross and… Bryan Ferry? The mind boggles

Trent Reznor and Bryan Ferry collaborate on a track

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‘Given enough wine I could belt out I Will Survive’: Susie Dent’s honest playlist

The novelist and Countdown sage loves Roxy Music and a certain Gloria Gaynor anthem, but which pop lothario would she queue up for tickets to see?

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Bryan Ferry announces 81-track Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023

Byran Ferry's new solo career retrospective will be released this October

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Phil Manzanera 11-disc box set 50 Years Of Music to be released in November

50 Years Of Music features every Phil Manzanra solo studio album, from 1975's Diamond Head through to 2015's Sound Of Blue

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“I’m not a classical composer… but with a 16-piece orchestra you get a big lift that you can’t reproduce on anything else”: When Andy Mackay took Roxy Music tracks on a new journey

The Roxy Music saxophonist reflects back on an eclectic career...

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Eno review – stimulating and cerebral look at the high priest of art-tech experimentalism

Produced using software that means that the film is different every time it is shown, this presents the former Roxy Music man as a restlessly creative mind

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Linda Thompson: Proxy Music review – rueful songs of love and ageing with an all-star cast

The extended Thompson clan, the Proclaimers and Rufus Wainwright are among those lending their voices to a moving set from a folk great

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This new 80s teen game about three friends' last night of high school together is already making me nostalgic thanks to its awesome music and aesthetic

Mixtape is a teen adventure filled with classic music tracks and it's coming to Xbox in 2025.

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