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"I decided that I was going to write a song with a lot of chords." Robby Krieger tells how he wrote a timeless hit with "Light My Fire"
Krieger explains how the song changed from the time they played it in clubs until it became a chart-topping hit single ...
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Quincy Jones: His brilliance explained in 10 songs
Quincy Jones version, recorded for his 1973 album You've Got It Bad Girl, is almost unrecognisable as the same song. Lazily ...
The Genius of Quincy Jones in 15 Songs
Trying to choose 15 songs from Quincy Jones' illustrious career in music is a steep challenge, but you can't go wrong with ...
Guitar Player on MSN2d
“It’s a famous riff, and I have to admit, it’s hard to play. You have to be a real guitarist to do it well." How Andy Summers made a massive Police hit using a hand ...
For me it’s the best of the Police,” guitarist Andy Summers says. “There are a lot of other great tracks, but I’ve always ...
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50 Albums Later, There’s Still a Bit of Luck Left in Herb Alpert’s Trumpet
Paste Magazine is your source for the best music, movies, TV, comedy, videogames, books, comics, craft beer, politics and ...
It took guitarist Randy Bachman seven years to write "Takin' Care of Business." It finally came together at one nearly disastrous show
The guitarist reveals that the Bachman-Turner Overdrive hit was actually inspired by the Beatles' "Paperback Writer" and ...
American Songwriter4d
What are the 5 Biggest U.S. Hits by The Police?
Well, they pretty much had the same color hair. But aside from that, the three men who comprised The Police couldn't have been more different. It's perhaps no surprise then that theirs was a volatile ...
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The Cure Live Review: Songs of innocence and experience combine spectacularly in intimate setting
On the night of its release, Robert Smith unveils Songs Of A Lost World, plus an avalanche of hits and old favourites at ...
Dasha Talks Masterminding Her Viral TikTok Hit For Uproxx’s ‘How I Blew Up’
When we think of an overnight success, TikTok takeovers and viral dance videos come to mind. Country breakout Dasha has those — her breakup banger “Austin” put everyone’s For You Page in a chokehold ...
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Are The Beatles still fab?
According to Forbes, the Beatles album Abbey Road – the cover of which famously features the group strolling along a zebra ...
“I couldn’t even get close”: the musician Dave Grohl could never figure out
Dave Grohl understood the makings of rock and roll, but he knew that he was never going to get close to this musician's level ...
A non-shredder among metal guitarists, Katie Knipp took years to go electric – then scored a hit blues album
Inspired to explore blues by a choir singing Mozart, Knipp avoided asking advice from the big names she opened for – and even ...