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Readers reply: What is the biggest missed opportunity in history?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

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“You see people who are into the glamour and ego of it. Music has nothing to do with ego. Music is like being a bank clerk – it’s work”: How Kate Bush smashed the barriers and became a star like no other

In 1978, Kate Bush had just released her debut single Wuthering Heights – and one journalist was there to watch it all take off

Louder

"There was a decadent, hedonistic atmosphere in Berlin. It was a great time for making music": Marillion look back on the making of the album that tore the band apart

Fish, Steve Rothery and Mark Kelly look back at the making of Marillion's best-known and most successful record, Misplaced Childhood

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“There was a full moon and the curtains were open. Every time I looked up for ideas, I looked at the moon”: How teen prodigy Kate Bush created her timeless classic Wuthering Heights

“Those shrieks and warbles are beauty beyond belief,”said John Lydon

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“I’d get up in the morning, practise scales at my piano, go off dancing, and then in the evening I’d come back and play the piano all night.” The story of Kate Bush's debut album The Kick Inside

The story of how 19-year-old Kate Bush became one of the world's biggest music phenomenons, with a little help from David Gilmour and Emily Brontë

Louder

“I thought I’d have to sell my house. The manager suggested we got part-time jobs”: Marillion were facing oblivion. Then they made This Strange Engine and found a way forward

They still don’t agree over the contents of their make-or-break 1997 album – except on one thing they did wrong

Louder

“It was a really angry time; there was lots of litigation between me and the guys. So It was a much-needed release”: Once Fish escaped his Marillion train wreck, he scored a Top 5 album

On the cusp of retirement, the singer looks back on how the 1988 split came about, how it could have been avoided, and how his debut solo record Vigil In A Wilderness Of Mirrors rose from the ashes

Louder

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“Being on a trip was stimulating… you weren’t covered in blood, but you’d experience it as if you were”: Of their many mistakes, The Pretty Things know which one derailed S.F. Sorrow, the first rock opera

Burdened with debt, ignored by their label and used as a sweetener in a hush-hush deal, the band delivered one of the most progressive records of all time to no avail – but always believed it was an artistic success

Louder

LCD Soundsystem: The album that changed music – and sparked hipster culture

PLAYBACK : Twenty years on from the group’s genre-splicing debut album, Mark Beaumont talks to those who were there, from The Rapture to Hot Chip, about the most influential New York band of the Noughties

The Independent UK

‘I hate this movie, and I haven’t even seen it’ – Americans won’t let a chimp Robbie Williams entertain them

Better Man is a genuinely good movie but it’s bombing – and now his song has been disqualified from the Oscars too

The Guardian - US

Leaving a permanent record of humanity on the moon – in 100 billion pixels

‘Sanctuary on the Moon’ is a lunar time capsule that provides a detailed guide to life on Earth for our future selves.

Al Jazeera

“Success is a label other people put on you… My success is in terms of fulfilment and perfection of my art. That’s something I never will reach. I have to accept that”: Kate Bush’s mid-80s battle for control

After making an unlikely connection, three interviews with a punk magazine editor – which she said felt like psychiatrist talks – illustrate her rapid development from Never For Ever to Hounds Of Love

Louder

“Because the guy’s got a knife, he’s fairly persuasive!”: How Paul McCartney survived a mugging - and a mutiny - to create his solo masterpiece

The full, amazing story of Band On The Run

MusicRadar

“I was on Battersea Bridge when the pig broke free. I drove to the power station and saw this look of schoolboy glee on Roger Waters’ face… ‘You sort this out, Po’”: Aubrey Powell’s Hipgnosis story

Storm Thorgerson’s right-hand man on breaking the law, pushing creative concepts, refusing to work with record labels, watching Pink Floyd get rich and staying friends by never taking sides

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“The sound wasn’t very good in there. And the electric risers didn’t work. You could see Jeff Lynne clambering out of a hole to get onstage”: Bev Bevan on the reality of life aboard ELO’s spaceship

The self-proclaimed second-loudest drummer in Birmingham recalls his time with The Move, Black Sabbath and more – and he wants you to know he hasn’t retired

Metal Hammer

"Paul was read the riot act, and given the chance to put things right. But he didn't put things right": The story of Iron Maiden - the Paul Di'Anno years

As the 1980s dawned, Iron Maiden were about to record their debut album. It was the start of a journey that would launch them into the stratosphere, but there were some massive hurdles to overcome first

The Guardian - UK

‘Two of the best songwriters Australia has ever produced’: punk pioneers the Saints return

Isolated in Brisbane, the Saints released a punk single before the Damned, Sex Pistols and the Clash. As they reform after their singer’s death, they recall their journey from school detention to Top of the Pops

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David Gilmour claims Pink Floyd were 'bullied' over release of final album

David Gilmour has admitted Pink Floyd didn't intend for 2014's 'The Endless River' to be released as a proper studio record.

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Louder

“They didn’t understand how important image was – they started the thing about us being academic geeks. It really hurt us”: The Zombies on living large, inheriting the Beatles’ studio and staff, and being prisoners in a concert hall

Colin Blunstone and Rod Argent look back on finding fame in their teens and experiencing the highs and lows of the music industry over six decades

MusicRadar

"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"

Louder

“The kids who bought it didn’t ask, ‘Where’s Syd?’ They increasingly asked, ‘Who’s Syd?’” Meddle marked the point where Pink Floyd as we know them really began

Their 1971 album marked the move from experimental live band to studio-based architects, paving the way for a decade of dominance

The Guardian - UK

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

Louder

“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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