Before 'Wicked' was a musical and a movie, it was a novel. Its author, Gregory Maguire, shares how he came to write it.
Before "Wicked" became a film starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande, its author was a struggling writer searching for ...
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In 2024, More Music Is Released in a Day Than in All of 1989 Combined
A new report has revealed that more music is being made now than ever before. But what does that mean for music-makers?
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How a Drum Loop and Synthesizer Kick-Started Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ “You Got Lucky”
The Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album Long After Dark arrived a year after the launch of MTV. The music channel helped the single “You Got Lucky” become a hit in 1982 with a thematic video that ...
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Discover the Origins of a Psychedelic Drug Synthesized by a Swiss Chemist Who Claimed It ‘Found and Called Me’
Five years after he created LSD in a lab on this day in 1938, Albert Hofmann accidentally underwent the first acid trip in ...
The history of Korg in 21 synths: Inside Korg's new London museum
Korg has recently opened the Korg Gallery at The Musical Museum in Brentford, London. This permanent exhibition is dedicated ...
Band which 'revived Liverpool music for a generation' celebrates 50 years
"In the whole history of Liverpool music two bands matter most, one is The Beatles and the other is Deaf School." These are ...