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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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“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

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"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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“He ended up with a fully-fledged, pro studio - it just happened to have an engine and some wheels underneath”: David Gilmour, The Rolling Stones, Timbaland, Depeche Mode and more in nine of the weirdest recording studios ever built

Who needs a boring static building to record in when you can have one on wheels?

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"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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“I’m at work in the petrol station and I read the album is at No. 23. I’d last heard it at a playback in George Martin’s studio”: Stackridge’s Monty Python-like experience with The Man In The Bowler Hat

A unique band with a comedy edge, they couldn’t believe it when Beatles producer agreed to work with them in 1973 – but their luck didn’t hold

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"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

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"Because I don't read music, I didn't know what the melody that went with it was": Paul McCartney explains why his musical limitations and "stealing" benefitted the Abbey Road medley that gave us The Beatles' true swansong

"It's turned out to be quite soulful," the legendary songwriter reflects

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“A fascinating listen that sometimes sounds like a missing 10cc album plus a little Be Box Deluxe”: Nektar’s Recycled 5CD set

Cult 70s proggers’ absorbing sixth album presented at its fullest.

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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?

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The Paul McCartney Beatles song John Lennon hated: "He made us do it a hundred million times. He did everything to make it into a single and it never was, and it never could've been"

Paul McCartney: “I remember the guys getting pissed with me... I was trying to get what was in my head.”

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"We take the original image and split it through a double vibrocated sploshing flange with double negative feedback": The Beatles, Les Paul, or Larry Levine? Who really discovered flanging?

Best of 2023: Lennon and George Martin are often given the credit, but flanging might well have been around for years before they 'discovered' it

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“All I could do to accommodate requests for new sounds for them was just to abuse the equipment": How The Beatles' Revolver revolutionised music

Revolver is a feat of The Beatles' sonic experimentation and songwriting genius, and this is the story behind how the album was made

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John Lennon's 10 greatest songs with the Beatles and beyond, ranked by you

On the anniversary of his death we're revisiting your ranking of on John's finest songs

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“You have people who are into computers and synthesisers, and then you get those who are interested in real music”: Geoff Emerick was totally anti-technology back in 1985, but he did correctly predict the future of recording

It was better in his day, he said, and it turned out he was right

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"I said, 'we've added a double wiflocated sploshing flange.' John laughed and said 'let's flange again then'": George Martin and John Lennon thought they'd invented flanging but the whole debate has now taken an odd turn

We discussed whether John Lennon and George Martin really discovered flanging a few months ago. Now the story has taken a wiflocated twist…

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"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"

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"We take the original image and split it through a double vibrocated sploshing flange with double negative feedback": The Beatles, Les Paul, or Larry Levine? Who really discovered flanging?

Lennon and George Martin are often given the credit, but flanging might well have been around for years before they 'discovered' it

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"They stole our ideas" – John Lennon on the Yellow Submarine film and the unexpected Beatles recording of its soundtrack song, Hey Bulldog

"We had nothing to do with that movie"

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Paul McCartney's 12 greatest Beatles bass performances: "I did get quite proud to be the bass player. Once you realised the control you had over the band... They can’t go anywhere, man. Ha! Power!"

Let's Come Together and celebrate Macca

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Ringo Starr has named his “career-defining” Beatles song, but you’re probably more familiar with the version that he didn't play drums on

The Beatles' first single had a winding road to its release…

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Did Paul McCartney overplay on this Beatles’ Abbey Road hit? Listen to the isolated bassline on Something

“I don’t think George was too pleased with what I did with the bassline on Something; I mean, I had to sell it to him!”

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Beatles' influence on Billy Bob Thornton

In this episode of "Everything Fab Four," Ken talks to The Boxmasters about their '60s-inspired songs

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