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“I tried to write a love song that wasn’t corny, that didn’t sound stupid or lame the way many do. I think I succeeded”: How Talking Heads crafted the delicate beauty of This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

Both one of Talking Heads’ most out-of-character compositions and their most emotionally resonant, This Must Be the Place continues to cast its spell over listeners

MusicRadar

“I shuffled into this big open room, and Tina was there and she was very upset. She said to me, ‘If we get rid of David, would you join the band?’”: Adrian Belew insists he was asked to replace David Byrne in Talking Heads

He didn’t regard it as a serious offer though

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"A stylus-melting red-hot riff-o-rama that demands to be played loud." AC/DC are captured in their hungry prime on If You Want Blood You've Got It

Recorded in front of a rabid Glasgow audience, If You Want Blood is AC/DC and Bon Scott at their live peak

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Art by Grayson Perry and Es Devlin among works going up for Palestine auction

The auction – organised by Choose Love, Gideon Berger Studio, Hope 93 Gallery and art dealer Zayna Al-Saleh – will take place later this month.

Evening Standard

‘By 18 I was having sex to the music of Brian Eno’: Tim Booth’s honest playlist

The James frontman fell for Leonard Cohen as a child and would do Val Doonican at karaoke. But which singer taught him that ‘music could be medicine’?

The Guardian - UK

“We can be in the middle of the worst gig in our lives, but when we go into that song, everything changes. The audience is on its feet, singing every word. It’s like God suddenly walks through the room”: The epic U2 anthem that drove its creators half mad

During the making of The Joshua Tree, half of the time was spent on this one track

MusicRadar

“Those fridges are probably the fourth best musical group to come out of Sheffield”: Supermarket goes viral for the chilled ambient drones of its freezer section

“These freezers are live on BBC Radio 1 right now”

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‘Like an electrical gong bath!’ The Sheffield supermarket going viral for the symphonic sound of its freezers

Redditors are thrilled by the Co-op on Ecclesall Road, where a magnificent drone is reminiscent of Brian Eno’s ambient music. We take a visit to the back aisles

The Guardian - UK

“Pretentious, perhaps. But let’s call it pioneering instead”: Peter Gabriel called it “knock and knowall” – but five decades on, here’s why we still like Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway

Surreal imagery, crediting classic poets and philosophers, trying to scare each other with freak-out jams, inspiration from mime artists… it’s without doubt the most adventurous music any member the band ever made

Louder

“One day in Berlin, Eno came running in and said, ‘I have heard the sound of the future’”: How to replicate the trailblazing pulse of I Feel Love

I Feel Love’s innovative electronic rhythm section set the stage for pretty much everything that followed, and here’s how you can recreate its bewitching energy in your DAW

MusicRadar

“Kylie Minogue, Natalie Imbruglia and Sinead O’Connor in wigs to do backing vocals… Brian Eno on an Omnichord”: Dave Stewart recalls a bonkers late-'90s TFI Friday appearance

“I was always doing wonky ideas” he tells Chris Evans

MusicRadar

‘We recorded it in a kitchen!’ How China Crisis made Black Man Ray

‘Our producer was toasting sesame seeds in a pan. Coming from a working-class family, I’d never seen such a thing’

The Guardian - UK

“I asked for a cash discount. The shop assistant said, ‘I could phone up Eric Clapton and he’d come and buy it’”: Robert Fripp’s life in three guitars

The King Crimson founder has enjoyed the company of all kinds of guitars in his time –from the good, bad to the ugly – but these are the three that have meant the most to him

Guitar World

"The aspects of America that are really magical to us are the things it seems to reject, like black music or the Beat poets": The story of the multi-version David Bowie song that captured his revulsion of American corporate dominance

With input from Trent Reznor and Ice Cube, I'm Afraid Of Americans was rescued from Showgirls ignominy and given a prescient, unnerving video

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Euronews

Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

A work trip from hell in Sam Raimi's 'Send Help', more Regency-era romanticism in season 4 of 'Bridgerton', the Venice Carnival and a rumoured drop of Lana Del Rey's long-awaited 10th album... Here's what's going on in Europe this week.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Almost 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on super-rich

Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney sign letter timed to coincide with World Economic Forum in Davos. Plus, what if this was the year we finally learned to rest?

The Guardian - UK

Nearly 400 millionaires and billionaires call for higher taxes on super-rich

Mark Ruffalo, Brian Eno and Abigail Disney sign letter timed for WEF in Davos saying wealthy are buying political influence

The Guardian - AU

A Day with David Bowie: how a visit to a psychiatric clinic changed him – and his music

In 1994 the singer and Brian Eno spent a day with ‘outsider’ artists. Intimate photographs, showing in Australia for the first time, reveal the effect it had

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“If you’re talking dazzling sleight of mind, radical ideas and a willingness to create shock-art for the masses, there was no one more brilliant”: Revisiting David Bowie’s career from a prog perspective

Beyond his work with Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Rick Wakeman and others, plus comparisons to Rush, ELP and krautrock, a commitment to audacious experimentation ran through the true icon’s entire life

Louder

“If anything makes me regret not pursuing more of an artistic career, it’s looking at Brian Eno”: Still, BJ Cole didn’t do too badly with David Gilmour, The Orb, Bill Nelson, Scott Walker and others

He set out to confound expectations of pedal steel with post-country band Cochise. Thanks to Captain Beefheart, Love and Hank Marvin, the session hero is pleased to reflect that he got away with it

The Guardian - UK

Kylie Minogue gets her – and Amazon’s – first Christmas No 1, with Xmas

Exclusive song for online retailer prevents a hat trick of Christmas No 1s for Wham!, as Kylie becomes first woman to secure UK No 1 singles in four different decades

Euronews

Massive Attack join hundreds of musicians calling for Live Nation to drop operations in Israel

"We can no longer allow our music to be used to artwash apartheid, genocide or oppression against any people," a new open letter reads – with signatories including Massive Attack and Brian Eno.

MusicRadar

“Omnisphere’s like a Korg Wavestation on crack – you press one button and 16 things happen at once”: Bicep on soft synths, sampling glaciers and club-focused new project CHROMA 000

The Irish duo opened a new creative chapter this year with two diverse projects that brought them to the Arctic and back to the dancefloor. Danny Turner finds out more

The Guardian - UK

Brian Eno urges support to get Together for Palestine song to Christmas No 1

Lullaby features Palestinian singer, lyrics written by Peter Gabriel and artists including Eno and Celeste

The Guardian - UK

More than 200 leading cultural figures call for release of jailed Palestinian leader

Group including Margaret Atwood, Ian McKellen and Richard Branson sign open letter to free Marwan Barghouti

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