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“It was so fun to learn how to play the doubleneck – there’s so many switches and knobs that it was essentially like learning another instrument”: Emily Wolfe is expanding her guitar arsenal – and processing rage through gnarly tones

The Epiphone signature artist isn't missing any targets on new album The Blowback, turning up the fury with a jerry-rigged DIY guitar sound that's set to blow

Guitar World

“Poor Iggy became a guinea pig for what I wanted to do with sound”: in 1977, David Bowie moved to Berlin to kick drugs. He emerged with five albums that changed music forever

Two Iggy Pop albums and the ‘Berlin Trilogy’ – the second half of the 1970s was David Bowie’s most groundbreaking period

Louder

“Rock’n’roll is dead. It’s a toothless old woman. It’s really embarrassing”: how David Bowie turned his back on glam rock to make his ‘plastic soul’ masterpiece Young Americans

Drugs, madness and an ex-Beatle – the crazed story of David Bowie’s 1975 album Young Americans

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"I had no melody so I only sang the lines I'd written for four or five bars at a time": The making of David Bowie's Heroes and why Robert Fripp should get some credit five decades on

He might have been making it up as he went along, but this 46-year-old masterpiece has become Bowie's most iconic recording

MusicRadar

Tony Visconti likes The Beatles' final 'likable' single, but says "I think the string writing is boring... I should have written the arrangement for this. Paul used me for Band on the Run because he liked the string arrangements I wrote for T.Rex"

Fabulously grumpy super-producer is on a troll and rails against missing T.Rex credits

MusicRadar

Tony Visconti: ‘I’ve been a better record producer than I’ve been a husband’

The super-producer, who worked with David Bowie and Marc Bolan among others, reflects on a long career filled with highs and lows

The Guardian - US

"David Bowie said, 'That was one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever heard.’” Magna Carta and friends in high places

Chris Simpson of 70s folky proggers Magna Carta recalls 50 years of making music. “I look back and think: how did it all happen?” he says...

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Heroes: The 6 best covers of David Bowie's classic (and three that are not quite so heroic)

Many have tried and many have failed, but here are six artists that nailed one of the best songs of our time

MusicRadar

“The minute I met him, I thought he was a special guy”: Tony Visconti looks back on working with David Bowie

Producer Tony Visconti was as close as David Bowie had to a constant artistic companion – here he looks back on their creative relationship

Louder

Jon Anderson, Rick Wakeman Gentle Giant, Strawbs and more on new Tony Visconti box set

The work of famed producer Tony Visconti celebrated in new 4 disc or 8 LP box set, Produced By Tony Visconti, out in October

Louder

Inside the lost Tony Visconti-produced U2 album that never was

Bowie producer Tony Visconti thought he'd get a crack at working with U2 on their upcoming record, before he was ghosted by Bono and co.

Louder

Sadiq Khan’s shades of grey over female authors at fiction prize

The mayor has revealed he likes Fifty Shades of Grey author E.L. James

Evening Standard

ABC’s Martin Fry on The Lexicon Of Love and the 40th anniversary live recording: “We’re in Tony Visconti’s studio, being produced by Trevor Horn. And David Bowie’s popped in to say hello”

Sheffield’s most stylish lead singer looks back on a career-defining record and how it came to be

MusicRadar

The night Tony Visconti thought Phil Lynott was going to die in his hotel room

Producer Tony Visconti was working with Thin Lizzy on their Black Rose album when Phil Lynott's partying started to spiral out of control

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The tragic story behind Mastodon's Emperor Of Sand

Mastodon's 2017 album, Emperor Of Sand, continued the prog theme of Crack The Skye. But behind the heaviness, lay a family tragedy

Guitar World

The Lowlist: Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous is one of the greatest live albums ever released

Unfairly maligned as an album "fixed in the studio", a new version of Live And Dangerous proves Lynott and co didn't need overdubs

Evening Standard

Harry Styles is not worthy of shining David Bowie’s shoes, says producer Tony Visconti

The producer didn’t mince his words when discussing the former One Direction star’s Grammys triumph

The Independent UK

David Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti shuts down claims that ‘Harry Styles is the new Bowie’

Styles’ successful solo career has often been compared to that of the late Bowie

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The Independent UK

Garage contents that spawned rock’s greatest guitars are auctioned

The garage in Chatham, Kent, was the workshop of Britain’s premier guitar-maker, the late Tony Zemaitis

The Guardian - UK

Ricky Gardiner, guitarist for David Bowie and Iggy Pop, dies aged 73

Musician who wrote classic riffs for songs including The Passenger had Parkinson’s disease

Daily Record

Heaven 17's Glenn Gregory says singing David Bowie's songs is more than his wildest dream come true

"Sometimes it was really hard - there were people with posters in the audience weeping"

The Independent UK

David Bowie supergroup Holy Holy remove unvaccinated drummer Woody Woodmansey

Band featuring Bowie’s longtime producer Tony Visconti are scheduled to tour in March

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