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9 British audio firsts that made hi-fidelity sound possible

Great British inventions in audio from Great British inventors, from the microphone to the loudspeaker.

What Hi-Fi?

17 of the best Kate Bush songs to test your hi-fi system

Treat your hi-fi system to some of Kate Bush's best songs that are beautifully recorded and produced.

What Hi-Fi?

Maya Shenfeld on AI: "I can’t imagine machines entirely replacing what we do, but it could help make mixing faster or make production more accessible on an educational level"

An existential ode to climate change, Berlin-based composer Maya Shenfeld on her evocative second album, Under the Sun

MusicRadar

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"George Martin knew Robert Moog, and asked him to come to Abbey Road and show us this Moog thing": Paul McCartney on the synth used on the final Beatles album and how its 'noise' created tension in the band

Did the Moog synth speed up the demise of the Beatles?

MusicRadar

"Oi, Freddie! Have you succeeded in bringing ballet to the masses yet?": When Queen frontman Freddie Mercury met Sex Pistols bassist 'Simon Ferocious'

"It upset me when the Sex Pistols exploded" recalls Brian May, who was rather more taken with punk than Freddie Mercury

Louder

Indie record labels are not happy with Apple Music's new Spatial Audio royalties — "It’s literally going to take the money out of independent labels"

Apple Music's new Spatial Audio royalties bump doesn't seem to have had the desired effect.

iMore

“She has managed to maintain her position without ever once being sucked into the creative vacuum of celebrity culture”: The less we see of Kate Bush, the more we want to know

Supported by established artists, secured in a family business and a star by the age of 21, her vision and clarity made her prog’s first pop star (and pop’s first prog star)

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“My idea was to merge The 1975 and Skrillex and make something between those two worlds”: SILK on the phenomenal success of his viral hit single Quiver

Hailed by the likes of Fred again.. and Disclosure, SILK’s emotive hybrid of tech house and pop merges melodic songcraft with irresistible, club-ready beats

MusicRadar

"We actually took it to a musicologist because we didn’t want to get sued": the story behind George Thorogood & The Destroyers' Bad To The Bone

George Thorogood’s ode to brawlin’ and heart breakin’ Bad To The Bone was inspired by The Rolling Stones and almost recorded by Bo Diddley

Louder

“The only way we could afford it was to record on New Year’s Eve, because no one else wanted to.” How Iron Maiden made The Soundhouse Tapes

A cash-strapped Iron Maiden slept on floors and recorded on New Year’s Eve to make their debut EP. 45 years later, it’s one of rock’s most sought-after rarities.

Metal Hammer

"Dwarves with trays of cocaine on their heads? It never happened. Well, I never saw it. Actually, it could have been true...": What really happened at Queen's most outrageous party

In 1978, Queen launched their Jazz album with a huge Halloween party at the Fairmont Hotel in New Orleans. People are still talking about it

Louder

"He used to stand at the side of the stage and watch our every move": How Johnny Kidd & The Pirates made one of the great British rock'n'roll records and inspired Jimmy Page

Knocked up in a hurry, intended as a B-side and with a title the band were all originally “ashamed of”, Shakin' All Over was an instant hit and a huge influence over those who followed

Louder

HMV Reopening Raises Revival Hopes For London's Oxford Street

British music retailer HMV returns to the iconic site of its former flagship store in central London on Friday, in a much-needed boost to the flagging fortunes of the capital's premier shopping street.

International Business Times

Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’ Recording Console To Fetch Over £1m At Auction

Historic EMI TG12345 Mk I unit used by Fab Four to record groundbreaking album to be auctioned in London

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"He liked the look of the knobs": The extraordinary story of The Beatles' Abbey Road mixing desk that was rescued from a skip and is now worth over a million pounds

Here comes the seven-figure sum - that's what you might have to pay for the desk that was used to record Fab Four's final album, then given to a school that binned it…

MusicRadar

"I didn't think it would be the last one. And nothing was said to indicate that, at least not to me": Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick on the recording of Abbey Road, track-by-track

RECORDING WEEK 2023: 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

"Pearl Jam used to hire out bars to drink with us": Idlewild's Roddy Woomble on how four punk rock kids from Scotland emerged from the wreckage of Britpop, gatecrashed the UK charts and got adopted as Pearl Jam's new favourite band

With their 30th anniversary approaching, Idlewild look back on a career spent "existing in their own little place"

The Guardian - UK

Photo that solves Sgt Pepper McCartney mystery up for auction

Rumours that musician was not present for album photoshoot are proved false, say UK auctioneers

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Private equity pioneer Guy Hands to leave Terra Firma ‘when I’m 64’

Dealmaker and ardent Brexit critic to leave senior posts at firm he founded more than 20 years ago

Louder

The genius of Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden

It was impossible to play live and it sold poorly when released, but Talk Talk's fourth studio album, 1988's Spirit Of Eden is rightly hailed as a masterpiece

Metal Hammer

Bullet trains and atomic bombs: what happened when Iron Maiden went to Hiroshima

Iron Maiden released A Matter Of Life And Death in August 2006, then went to Japan to play the whole album live. Classic Rock joined them on the road

Daily Mirror

'If I had joined the Rolling Stones maybe Brian would be alive', says Manfred Mann star

Paul Jones rose to fame as the frontman to Manfred Mann in the 1960s, but had the chance to join legendary rock band the Rolling Stones just as it was starting out

Louder

Every Sigur Rós album ranked from worst to best

The unique, incomparable catalogue of Iceland's biggest band re-reviewed and ranked

Metal Hammer

Every Alexisonfire album ranked from worst to best

Canada's premier post-hardcore dynamos have a brilliant back-catalogue: we sort out the 'great' from the 'immaculate'

Guitar World

Abasi Concepts finally launches the Emi 6 – an ergonomic reinvention of the classic Stratocaster design

The futuristic model made its debut at NAMM 2022. Now, almost a year later, it’s received its long-awaited official release

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