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“He would lead you down the garden path with quite a bog-standard chord structure and then suddenly go AWOL”: From David Bowie to Radiohead and Steely Dan, here’s some of popular music’s most outlandish theory choices

No theory practitioner would advise you do as these great artists did, but the brilliance of their songs speak for themselves

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“That was one thing I wanted to get right with Oliver. I went to his house and made sure he knew how that one had happened”: Robby Krieger sets the record straight on how a Doors classic was really written – and what the controversial movie got wrong

Oliver Stone's 1991 movie The Doors was panned for its historical inaccuracy – and Krieger is now clarifying how the band's songwriting process actually played out

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"Sometimes just a few notes on the piano are enough to be scarier than a 90-piece orchestra": What makes Severance's theme music so "eerily satisfying"?

Rick Beato unpacks the dystopian dissonance of Theodore Shapiro's Severance theme in his latest video

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"He was so drunk, we couldn't even finish the show": Surviving members of The Doors on the breakdown of the band and life with Jim Morrison

"His real problem was the Oedipus complex": Drummer and guitarist John Densmore and Robbie Krieger speak to Rick Beato

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“They said, You boys will never do this show again!” The Doors' Robby Krieger and John Densmore share their memories of being banned from America's most legendary TV show

On September 17 1967, The Doors performed live on US TV institution The Ed Sullivan Show. They would not be invited back

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“We’d play at the Palomino under some weird name – we’d just show up, so nobody would know. By halfway through the set, the place was jam-packed”: Steve Lukather on his secret supergroup with Eddie Van Halen, Albert Lee and Steve Morse

In a recent chat with Rick Beato, Luke tells the story of his all-star jam band based around a group of Ernie Ball Music Man players

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"I drink and I smoke and I use Auto-Tune": But what's the music theory behind Charli XCX's Brat?

With multiple Grammy nominations turning Brat summer into Brat winter, we put Charli XCX's world-shakingly popular album under the musical microscope

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Alt.rock icons Swervedriver release first new music in five years and it's predictably epic

The World's Fair EP was partially produced by hugely popular YouTube personality and Swervedriver nut Rick Beato

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“I plugged into my first Dumble at a PRS gig. I ran right for it. I beat Carlos Santana and David Grissom to it. I’m like, ‘Out of my way!’” Mark Tremonti on how Paul Reed Smith got him hooked on Dumbles

The Alter Bridge guitarist looks back on how he beat his PRS peers to play the amp of his dreams – and never looked back

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“Jimi Hendrix came in with an old Duo-Sonic. I had just put together a Strat I’d strung up left-handed, and I went, ‘I’ll trade you.’ I was docked three weeks’ pay”: Jeff ‘Skunk’ Baxter recalls the questionable guitar deal he made when he met Jimi Hendrix

A young Baxter was working in a local guitar store when Hendrix came searching for a new guitar

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“I wasn’t gifted with enormous speed on the guitar. There were years when I thought I could get that if I practiced enough. It wasn’t ever really going to happen”: David Gilmour explains the origins of his lauded ‘feel’ playing technique

In a new interview with Rick Beato, the Pink Floyd legend discusses the “David Gilmour effect” and picks apart his playing style, which has captured the hearts and minds of generations of guitarists

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“You see this thing on people's faces, this awakening moment, when they're going, There's a possibility here.” David Gilmour recalls the exact moment Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett tribute Shine On You Crazy Diamond was born in a scuzzy London rehearsal room

Pink Floyd's David Gilmour reflects upon the genesis of one of his band's most iconic songs, Shine On You Crazy Diamond

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"I'm just very grateful that I'd had a bowel movement before I arrived!" Rick Wakeman on his unexpected audience with Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother as a teenager, and how she trolled him in public years later

Prog rock legend Rick Wakeman reveals two entertaining conversations with English royalty

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“Right before we started the set, Bill Evans called me on a pay phone. He said, ‘I’m bringing somebody to hear you.’ I said, ‘It’s not Miles, is it?’” How jazz guitar legend Mike Stern ended up joining Miles Davis’ band – and had a song named after him

Stern was playing with Billy Cobham one night in the early 1980s when Evans decided to bring along the legendary jazz trumpeter, who was in the market for a new guitar player

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“I played a Gibson SG Junior. It was the guitar I used in my punk band – when my apartment got broken into in New York, it got stolen”: Yes, Rick Rubin played the opening riff on Beastie Boys’ No Sleep Till Brooklyn – he looks back at recording a classic

While Kerry King's searing solo is the star of the show, Rubin sets the tone with his rhythm guitar work on the iconic rap rock track

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“He played a solo that I thought was not great. I said, ‘I feel like you could do better!’”: What Rick Rubin told legendary guitarist Joe Perry during the recording of Run-DMC and Aerosmith’s mega-hit collaboration Walk This Way

The famous producer recalls the making of a groundbreaking classic in an interview with Rick Beato

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“I played him Metallica as an example of what I thought was wrong”: How Rick Rubin shaped the sound of Slayer’s classic Reign in Blood record by ignoring heavy metal norms

The 1986 record was the first metal album Rubin produced – and he singled out one of the genre's biggest names when highlighting what he thought shouldn't be done in the studio

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“You felt like something was happening and you were actually part of it. That's a pretty cool feeling.” Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell looks back on the dawning of the grunge revolution in Seattle

Jerry Cantrell reflects on the birth of the Seattle Sound

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"In the first half of the '80s, there were 146 weeks when bands were number one in the UK. In the first half of the '90s, 141. In the first 5 years of this decade... 3": Bands are dying. Why?

The decline of the band has become a feverish talking point recently. But what are the real reasons behind the lack of enthusiasm for both starting –and listening to –bands in the 2020s…

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“These are all guys I admire, but to pick one specific solo out?": Alice In Chains’ Jerry Cantrell picks his 6 favourite guitar soloists of all time

Speaking to Rick Beato, the guitarist, songwriter and band founder dishes out six of the best

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“I’d be playing the synth, thinking, ‘Peter, do you see this? Sting is playing that part – and you don’t mind when Sting does it!’” Tony Levin explains the origins of his Funk Fingers appendages – and the friendly rivalry they sparked with Peter Gabriel

The bass icon says the Funk Fingers are at the heart of an ongoing argument about the performance of Big Time

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“It was an intimidating show.” King Crimson bassist Tony Levin recalls the only gig ever played by Mothers Of Invention spin-off band Aha, The Attack Of The Green Slimebeast, with a dance troupe, a body-painted Danny DeVito and an audience of two people

Aha, The Attack Of The Green Slimebeast, featuring Tony Levin and three members of The Mothers Of Invention, only ever played one show, but it was a memorable one, involving gunpowder, a sex toy and a near-naked Danny DeVito

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"I drink and I smoke and I use Auto-Tune": But what's the music theory behind Charli XCX's Brat?

With Brat summer in full swing, we put Charli XCX's world-shakingly popular album under the musical microscope

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"The harmony and production work together to suggest a person struggling to hold it together emotionally": A music professor breaks down Charli XCX's Brat

With Brat summer in full swing, we put Charli XCX's world-shakingly popular album under the musical microscope

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Police's Synchonicity box set pops at 40

If you were in earshot of a radio at the time, “Every Breath You Take” was embedded in your daily soundtrack

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