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Beatles for sale: new home sought for Abbey Road recording console

Current owners hope to attract musicians who want to work with desk used to make fab four’s celebrated album – after it previously failed to sell

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“We went through a few phrases… they went off to play in America and left me to get on with it, stripped to my underpants”: Atom Heart Mother’s fusion of ordinary and extraordinary sounds gave Pink Floyd their first No.1 album

It had a cow’s arse on the cover and a features track sampling their roadie cooking bacon – but their fifth record’s wild genius paved the way to their future

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The Beatles recording console used for Abbey Road is going on sale

The Beatles' console used by the Fab Four to record their iconic 1969 album 'Abbey Road' - the band's final LP - has been restored and is going up for sale.

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"Anybody who gets this console, it'll be the most famous studio in the world": The legendary mixing desk used on The Beatles’ Abbey Road is going up for sale

"It's one of the best albums that’s ever been made, and it sounds so good because of this recording console"

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“Arguably one of the most significant Beatles and Lennon artefacts to come to market”: John Lennon’s first Vox amp – used at the Cavern and to record Please Please Me – is headed to auction

The Vox AC15 Twin, believed to be the unit purchased by Lennon at Liverpool’s Hessy’s Music, is going under the hammer with an auction estimate of $130,000-$260,000

Guitar World

Pink Floyd: nine of the iconic band's best songs, from Echoes to Learning to Fly

We rank the band’s best tracks

Evening Standard

"George had a smugness on his face when he came in with this one, and rightly so - he knew it was absolutely brilliant.": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track

A classic interview with the band's late chief engineer – "You could really see the joy in their faces as they played; it was like they were teenagers again"

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"John Lennon doesn't have to do this, why should I?": Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, and the creation of See Emily Play

Written by co-founder Syd Barrett, See Emily Play gave the fledgling Pink Floyd their first UK Top 10 single

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“One of the most singular, unique and influential catalogues in music history.” Every Talk Talk album ranked from worst to best

The complete studio output of Mark Hollis' groundbreaking, hugely influential band, re-reviewed and ranked

Louder

“We were at an EMI dinner, and David Gilmour was there. I said, ‘By far, you’re my favorite guitar player. How do you come up with those melodies?’” W.A.S.P.’s Blackie Lawless on the invaluable advice he received from the Pink Floyd icon

Lawless has also revealed why he had to switch to bass for the band's first two albums

Guitar World

“The first time I met Lemmy, he said: ‘How do you sit down with that sawblade codpiece?’ I said, ‘You don’t!’”: WASP frontman Blackie Lawless’s strange journey from shock rock to God

An epic interview with WASP singer Blackie Lawless about controversy, codpieces and Christianity

Metal Hammer

Old blokes: What is it with them and when will they stop? A sort-of review of the Sex Pistols and Frank Carter at Bush Hall

Everywhere you look: old blokes. Old blokes running the world. Old blokes running for President. Old blokes telling women what they can and can't do with their bodies. Old blokes running scared when a woman stands up to them. Old blokes stirring up racism and then saying, “Aw, you can’t…

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"I think that’s what makes the Pistols' album different from The Clash or The Damned – we didn’t just go in and crash, bang, wallop”: Steve Jones breaks down the Sex Pistols' seminal statement

"I played bass on most of Never Mind The Bollocks"

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‘The more the music press slagged us, the more copies we sold’: Kajagoogoo on Too Shy

‘The demo Nick Rhodes took to EMI was the same one they had rejected, but when it was presented again by a million-selling pop star they took notice’

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"Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong": Praying Mantis once vied with Iron Maiden for attention, but setbacks and bad decisions took them on a very different journey

Praying Mantis ran alongside Iron Maiden in the early days of the NWOBHM race, but only Maiden shot to fame

Louder

“I was very pretentious. On the early albums I was writing things I thought I should write. But all I ever wanted to do was write pop songs”: how ELO conquered the planet with mini-symphonies and giant spaceships

UFOs, violins and killer songs – this the epic story of Electric Light Orchestra

Guitar World

“The serial number was the same as John Lennon’s amp. I couldn’t believe it”: John Lennon’s first Vox amp – used on early Beatles recordings and Cavern gigs – was lost for 60 years. Now it may have been found, covered in black paint, on an auction site

Heard on Please Please Me and Love Me Do, this unassuming 1962 Vox AC15 Twin may have just become the most valuable amp on the planet – and we’ve had the exclusive first look

Louder

“We were on the right track at the start, but drugs and booze made us lose our way”: the explosive story of Wild Horses, the supergroup who had it all and threw it away

Featuring former members of Thin Lizzy and Rainbow, Wild Horses should have been huge – but chemicals, egos and bitterness got in the way

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“A comprehensive celebration of a band central to the rebirth of prog… impressively extensive”: Pallas’ Eyes In The Night – The Recordings 1981-1986

Must-have seven-disc set documents the Scottish neo-proggers’ struggle for survival and excellence

MusicRadar

"70 years on, it’s a sound that is still in demand": The producer's guide to the EMT 140 plate reverb

In the '60s and '70s, you needed a cumbersome metal plate strapped to some springs to create quality reverb, but it was so good that we still yearn for that EMT 140 sound today. Here’s how to recreate it, without a plate in sight…

Louder

"I need a girl who sounds like a shop girl to duet with me": How a retail assistant at Dorothy Perkins got to sing with David Bowie

Originally written at a clandestine recording session, Absolute Beginners was the start of a 10-year musical relationship

Louder

“No one knows how to put out music any more – including us”: In 2009 another new technology was threatening music, but Radiohead had a solution

When social media rumours ran wild that the band were splitting up, bassist Colin Greenwood revealed the complexities and confidence of what was really going on

Louder

"Roy Thomas Baker would organise food fights and set fire to the mixing desk": How Bill Nelson built up then broke up Be-Bop Deluxe

Bill Nelson on Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the brilliant five-album career of art-rockers Be-Bop Deluxe

MusicRadar

"I know me and I know my playing... and then there's Rain": The Beatles' greatest b-side was ahead of its time, but it also exposed a difference of perspective between Lennon and McCartney

Rain features some of the greatest individual performances by the four Beatles while sounding like it was beamed from the future

Louder

"At one point an aggrieved producer threatened to attack them with a machete": Say what you want about Marillion's second album, but it was not easy to make

Buoyed by the success of Script For A Jester's Tear, follow-up Fugazi was a victim of extremely difficult second album syndrome

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