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Steely Dan’s The Royal Scam turns 50 this month – and it's a brilliant test of your hi-fi’s chops

Aja is considered the band’s sonic pinnacle, but its predecessor gives your system just as much of a challenge

“He would often arrive at sessions with two banners, which he placed either side of his kit while recording, reading ‘You done hired the hit-maker’”: From the Purdie shuffle to its extended jazz chords - analysing Steely Dan's Babylon Sisters

“He would often arrive at sessions with two banners, which he placed either side of his kit while recording, reading ‘You done hired the hit-maker’”: From the Purdie shuffle to its extended jazz chords - analysing Steely Dan's Babylon Sisters

A track that took 274 attempts to mix must’ve been worth it in the end, right?

“I met Billy Cobham on a Campbell’s Soup jingle and doing an Avon jingle with Herbie Hancock. It was an amazing time”: A pre-fame Stanley Clarke took chance after chance at a 1974 session with Aretha Franklin – and helped define a soul classic

“I met Billy Cobham on a Campbell’s Soup jingle and doing an Avon jingle with Herbie Hancock. It was an amazing time”: A pre-fame Stanley Clarke took chance after chance at a 1974 session with Aretha Franklin – and helped define a soul classic

Clarke's early session career offered tantalizing glimpses of his technical prowess and innovations, and hints of how he would transform the low-end landscape with Return To Forever and his own solo albums

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"Grohl's randomised fills and relentless single strokes at the end of the song makes this one of his greatest drum performances on record": Listen to 11 isolated drum tracks from rock's drumming legends

Led Zeppelin, Rush, The Beatles, Slipknot, The Police, and more

“His influence is referenced by many contemporary drummers and he has no doubt spawned his fair share of copyists”: 6 of the most inspirational drummers of all time

Welcome to MusicRadar’s Drums Week! To kick things off, we’re spotlighting some of the most consequential sticksmen of all time

‘Bass on one shoulder, bow and arrows on the other’: life with Fela Kuti on history’s most dangerous tour

In 1979, my father Roy Ayers went on an extraordinary three-week tour with the Afrobeat pioneer amid extreme violence in Nigeria. Three band members recount the unforgettable trip

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“George Martin wasn’t going to leave his own studio, and Jeff never gave directions or said much, so there was nobody telling us what to do”: Listen to Wilbur Bascomb’s bassline on Jeff Beck’s Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

New York session bassist Wilbur Bascomb Jr. recorded on Jeff Beck’s 1976 version of this Charles Mingus ballad

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"She went on several talk shows and said it was about her. But I can tell you that it wasn't": the real story behind Toto's Rosanna

"She went on several talk shows and said it was about her. But I can tell you that it wasn't": the real story behind Toto's Rosanna

Inspired by upcoming actress Rosanna Arquette - and John Bonham! - Toto knew Rosanna would be a hit the moment David Paich first played it on a piano

5 songs you need to hear by Steely Dan: "Like a lot of kids in the ’50s, we were looking for some kind of alternative culture, an escape from where we found ourselves"

5 songs you need to hear by Steely Dan: "Like a lot of kids in the ’50s, we were looking for some kind of alternative culture, an escape from where we found ourselves"

Across nine studio albums, jazz-loving perfectionists Walter Becker and Donald Fagen created a stunning body of work. Here are five of their finest moments

Thana Alexa, a borders-blurring singer, made history in Croatia (and beyond) with her Grammy Award nomination

Armed with degrees in psychology and jazz performance from The New School University in New York, Thana Alexa stood out even before she last year became the first Croatian artist in any musical genre to ever earn a Grammy Award nomination.

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