How Mike Oldfield made Crises and ended up with a Top Five hit single!
Mike Oldfield's eighth studio album, 1983's Crises, saw him riding a wave of new popularity in the 80s
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The Death of Bobby Fuller: an untimely tragedy and an unsolved mystery
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Manics bassist Nicky Wire was so taken with A Farewell To Kings, the 1977 album Rush recorded in Wales, that he bought the desk they recorded it on
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Eddie Kramer: why I loved working with Led Zeppelin
Producer/engineer Eddie Kramer delights in the studio brilliance of Led Zeppelin – even though Robert Plant stole his girlfriend
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Jimi Hendrix’s 1966 touchdown in London started a four-year revolution that tore up the rules of electric guitar playing and terrified the old guard. Over half-a-century after his sonic boom, those ripples can still be felt
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