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“He shoved me down to the floor of the car. He was kicking the windows. The whole time he's yelling at the top of his lungs, ‘Yoko! I want Yoko!’” The wild story of John Lennon's rock ’n’ roll covers album

Recorded under threat of a lawsuit, while in the midst of his infamous “Lost Weekend”, Rock 'n' Roll was the craziest ride of the Beatle's career – featuring top players and a gun-wielding Phil Spector

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“He was distant and uncommunicative… and wore a different wig every day”: Starsailor singer James Walsh on working with Phil Spector

Fortunately, there were no guns...

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'Distracting and strange...' James Walsh recalls Phil Spector wearing different wig each day in the studio with Starsailor

Starsailor's James Walsh has recalled what it was like when the band recorded with legendary and eccentric producer Phil Spector in 2002, which was his final production before his conviction for murder in 2009.

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“It’s a perfect song. Bonnie really conveys the drama. That voice brought Jim’s song to life”: How the writer of Bat Out Of Hell and a husky-voiced singer from Wales combined to create one of the greatest power ballads of all time

“It makes you feel like you're a Norseman in a blizzard”

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Phil Spector ‘made an example of’ by justice system, says music legend

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Marky Ramone claims he ‘has to believe’ what Phil Spector told him about Lana Clarkson murder

Musician suggests late producer, who was convicted of murder in 2009, was ‘made an example of’

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Marky Ramone believed Phil Spector was innocent

Marky Ramone believed his late friend Phil Spector when he denied murdering Lana Clarkson.

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“When we were mixing, he used to get so excited that I used to have to hold him down with one hand and try and carry on the manual mix on the desk with the other": The making of the Clash’s mature masterpiece, London Calling

How football, thrown ladders and destroyed pianos combined to create the "album of the 80s"

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Nick Reiner Joins Alan Jackson Client List: 5 Biggest Names The Controversial Lawyer Repped Before Rob Reiner's Murder Case

Nick Reiner has hired famed defence attorney Alan Jackson, known for representing controversial figures like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Karen Read.

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How a song rejected three times by The Beatles became the emotional and musical centrepiece of George Harrison’s classic solo album All Things Must Pass

At one point Harrison considered offering the song to Frank Sinatra

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Darlene Love reflects on her enduring holiday classic, 'Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)'

Darlene Love can't escape her holiday classic, “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”

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“Yoko would call us down into her office in Studio One. And John and I would be standing there like two school children": What did producer Jack Douglas do to provoke the ire of Yoko Ono?

She threatened to hire Spector for Double Fantasy

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“I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song. It's a sad song because it's all about the unattainable”: The story of the ballad that sparked the breakup of The Beatles

Featuring "atrocious" bass-playing by John Lennon

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"We had no idea that what we were doing was groundbreaking or revolutionary": Read our classic interview with Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine

"We got the job done, and we made a hell of a lot of money doing it"

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“Thom sat down and played it in three takes, then just burst into tears afterwards”: How Jeff Buckley saved Radiohead’s Fake Plastic Trees

It was the song Thom Yorke just couldn't get right, but a stellar Jeff Buckley gig unlocked the missing ingredient

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“His studio was a temple to analogue, within which he made a point of always wearing a boiler suit”: 6 of the quirkiest producers who pushed recorded music further than ever before

They might have operated in idiosyncratic ways, but the particular approaches of these producers have left a footprint on the music landscape

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"At first the tension was unbelievable. Johnny was really cold, Dee Dee was OK but Joey was a sweetheart": The story of the Ramones' recording of Baby I Love You

Legendary keys player Barry Goldberg on the sessions that spawned the band's biggest UK hit

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The man Neil Peart called his "six favourite drummers": Wrecking Crew legend Hal Blaine

"We got the job done, and we made a hell of a lot of money doing it"

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"I said, “What’s that?” and they said, “It’s what Quincy Jones and Bruce Swedien use on all the Michael Jackson records": Steve Levine reminisces on 50 years in the industry and where it’s heading next

He’s worked with a list of artists that reads like an A to Z of hitmakers. And now, with a new plugin, you can get your hands on his signature sound

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“I got the impression that he needed to be quite forceful to get his songs onto Beatles records”: George Harrison orchestrator John Barham reflects on their shared love of Indian music and being conducted by Phil Spector

Barham's arrangements sweetened everything from 1968’s Wonderwall Music to 1973’s Living in the Material World and beyond, and in this rare interview he talks Harrison the songwriter, producer and collaborator

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“He only had that little spotlight in every Beatles song – George Martin telling him what he could or couldn’t play. That’s what helped create that later style”: Dhani Harrison on the making of Living in the Material World – and George’s slide style

If All Things Must Pass was Harrison in minor key, Material World is the sound of him turning towards the light. His son, Dhani, tells us about its creation, and its stunning (and essential) reissue

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15 Famous Celeb Assassinations That Shook Hollywood

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“It made me feel bad that I didn’t put it on the album”: From Pavement to Donna Summer, here are six more B-sides that became huge hits against the odds

Adding to the collection of songs that started out on the flip side of a single, but went on to become playlist staples

The Guardian - UK

‘One agency called me Thunder Thighs’: Twiggy and Sadie Frost on sexism, self-esteem and the swinging 60s

The actor-models have made a documentary about Twiggy’s life that is as lively and sunny as her personality – but it doesn’t shy away from exploring the misogyny they both endured

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“George asked, ‘Is it OK if I do a little slide?’ I had a ’63 Strat, and that’s what he used. He was one of the best slide players ever”: They flew high with the help of the Beatles, and a few hits, then collapsed in a mess of mismanagement and tragedy

Their story is often cited as one of the saddest in rock, but Badfinger were also one of the sharpest guitar pop acts of their era. Here, the late Joey Molland recounts their roller-coaster ride of a career from his perspective

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