The man behind the music of The Wombles and Katie Melua shares his tips for digging deeper with your songwriting...
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In writing a song for the film ‘City Of Angels’, the frontman created one of the 90s’ biggest crossover...
With the release of her technicolour new album ‘Pink Noise’, the songwriter from Birmingham is embracing a bold new future...
Spending lockdown in Ireland with her partner Francesco Turrisi, the North Carolinian made an album about the call of home...
Inspired by artists like Joni Mitchell and the end of a relationship, Birdy returns with her most assured album yet
The Big Thief guitarist and solo artist is accessing his subconscious in order to extract the beginnings of his songs
The Counting Crows frontman discusses his band’s new album and looks back on their 1993 masterpiece ‘August And Everything After’
We head up the Hollywood Hills and back in time to a now mythical place in the history of songwriting
Professional musician and author of ‘The Touring Musician’s Survival Guide’, Ross Craib, shows us the way to a successful life...
On this track, a perfectly balanced melting pot of influences and ideas come together to celebrate immigrants around the world
A romantic trip to Memphis, Tennessee led to a special friendship being formed and a classic hit single being born
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How I wrote 'Turning Japanese' by The Vapors' David Fenton
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