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...Lilah is joined by music critic Ludovic Hunter-Tilney and life-long Swiftie Taylor Nicole Rogers to discuss their picks for best and worst songs, whether Swift’s personal life gets in the way of the music...
...Could Lowe, a pioneer of electronic music alongside Giorgio Moroder and New Order, make the argument for AI-generated music versus proper music?...
...The music has an unfussy feel....
...appropriate, but as you’d hope for a product of such pedigree, it deals handsomely with whatever he throws at it – Muddy Waters, obscure 1970s prog-rock outfit Sweet Smoke, “The Look of Love” by Dusty Springfield...
...and take on music full-time....
...They were welcomed to the fray with generous comparisons to The Smiths, but the music press’s largesse soon ran out....
...Its convenience made it a hit with some notable synth wizards (Stevie Wonder, Rick Wakeman, Chick Corea) and its rich, punchy sound can be heard across countless records from the ’70s, ’80s and beyond....
...their German counterparts wanted to hang on to the likes of Rick Astley....
...The Rick James-sampling “Super Freaky Girl” introduces us to a flimsy new alter ego, Nick James, a pun in search of a punchline....
...Maida Vale Studios, which has seven music and radio studios, has been used by the BBC since 1933. Others who have recorded in the building include Led Zeppelin and Dusty Springfield....
...As Slick Rick writes in the foreword, “Style in hip hop has no blueprint.”...
...Back to John, who has been suffering the faux-cheery hold music long enough....
...While some record producers have a signature sound — Phil Spector had his wall of sound, Rick Rubin his stripped-back approach — Ford deliberately doesn’t. “That’s not what producing is for me....
...What might have been mind-expanding communion for André and his fellow musicians in Rick Rubin’s exclusive Malibu studio can seem aimless and unformed on record....
...For example, a Loewe event for its top-tier clients comprised a dinner and tour of the late painter Howard Hodgkin’s studio, led by his partner, the music writer Antony Peattie....
...My daughter and I have discovered that our music tastes overlap....
...The music recounted the legend of Camelot with an entertainingly anachronistic mix of sci-fi electronics, Tudorbethan capering and irruptions of hard rock....
...The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin, Canongate £25/Penguin $32, 432 pages Ludovic Hunter-Tilney is the FT’s pop music critic Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Which piece of music by Johann Pachelbel was largely forgotten for nearly 300 years before a 1968 recording by the conductor Jean-François Paillard?...
...It was the Holy Spirit who switched it off, her guitarist Rick Holmstrom joked. The suggestion was fanciful although not entirely illogical, the venue being a church, the Union Chapel in London....
...“We’ve already compiled dozens of playlists but the scent is more important than the music,” says the Swedish-born designer....
...It’s also why 1980s pop pin-up Rick Astley was able to fulfil his teenage dream by jumping behind the drum kit on the Pyramid Stage on Saturday to play AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell”....
...There were many hits for other vocalists too, such as Dusty Springfield’s version of “I Just Don’t Know What to Do with Myself” and Aretha Franklin’s “I Say a Little Prayer”....
...And the music is great – a fusion of pop, Afrobeat and R&B. I have a collection of... art! I started in 2001....
...The following year they played the band’s 1980s monster hit (and strip club anthem) “Pour Some Sugar on Me” together at the CMT Awards for country music....
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