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Beatles - “Rubber Soul”, the album that saw the Beatles grow up

The reissue of the classic 1965 Beatles album is out: we take the opportunity to dig deeper into a pivotal chapter in the history of the Fab Four

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Riccardo Russino - The rock triangle – George Harrison, Pattie Boyd, Eric Clapton

The story of the most famous "rock triangle": the one between Pattie Boyd, George Harrison and Eric Clapton. A love story that shaped both lifestyle and music, through immortal songs

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David Bowie - The Bowie hit that Visconti refused to produce

The story of the great refusal (and subsequent regret) by Bowie's longtime right-hand man, over a track that was a guaranteed hit

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Lucio Dalla, Francesco De Gregori - The extraordinary feat of Banana Republic

The historic meeting between two giants of Italian song that brought music back to the stadiums after the dark years of the Anni di Piombo

Beatles - The song that convinced McCartney the Beatles were over Neil Young - OndaTop – The 30 Best Neil Young Songs Led Zeppelin - The song Jimmy Page and Robert Plant disowned Kate Bush - When Kate Bush first topped the album charts Smiths - Johnny Marr looks back on his time with the Smiths: “Writing with Morrissey was magical” Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon Pink Floyd - The story behind the legendary "Animals" cover: now the power station is becoming a concert hall Siouxsie And The Banshees - 50 Years Since the Legendary Gig That Launched Siouxsie and The Banshees in London – Listen Supertramp - Crime Of The Century, Supertramp's Perfect Crime Fabrizio De André - "Anime salve", 30 years of De André's spiritual testament Francesco De Gregori – When De Gregori Explained the Meaning of "Buffalo Bill" to Bill Clinton Pink Floyd – The Message of "Us And Them" and David Gilmour's Lingering Regret Cure - The Best Album of All Time According to Robert Smith Deep Purple - Ian Gillan on the Reunion with Ritchie Blackmore: "It Was Magical, By the End He Was a Bit Tipsy" King Crimson - When King Crimson wrote a song about the end of the Beatles Lucio Battisti - When Battisti discovered prog and (Latin) America Paul McCartney - The album the ex-Beatle called "a complete disaster" U2 – OndaTop: U2's 10 Best B-Sides Pink Floyd - The incredible story behind one of Pink Floyd's most iconic album covers Vasco Rossi - Vasco reveals: "Here's how Vita spericolata, the most misunderstood song ever, came about" The Calendar – September's Most Anticipated Concerts: From Wilco to CSI Genesis - How Phil Collins became the singer of Genesis Fabrizio De André - The femicide that inspired De André's first hit Fontaines D.C. - The two poetry books that gave birth to Fontaines D.C. Lloyd Cole – \"Forest Fire,\" the Slow-Burning Fire That Still Burns Cure - The greatest intro in rock history according to Robert Smith, who dedicated a remix to it Pink Floyd - The Pink Floyd masterpiece that Roger Waters deemed "pretentious" Rock's hot autumn - From Fontaines D.C. to Queens Of The Stone Age, the most anticipated albums Just Like Heaven – From the Cure to Cocteau Twins, a Heavenly Compilation Francesco Guccini – Guccini in 15 Essential Songs Spider-Man – Spider-Man Is Rock: From the Ramones to U2, All of Spidey's Musical Ties Sophisti-Pop – Digging Your Scene: The Sophisti-Pop Gems of the '80s The Nolan Effect – The Odyssey in Music: 20 Songs About Ulysses' Journey – Playlists Duran Duran - When Mick Jagger saved Duran Duran. Nick Rhodes tells the story David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes – A Neo-Romantic Pierrot Fabrizio De André - When De Gregori led De André onto the Cattiva strada King Crimson - The King Crimson album that stunned Kurt Cobain and shaped Nirvana's "In Utero" Pink Floyd - The Pink Floyd song Gilmour found impossible to sing Franco Battiato - When Battiato defied war with music: the Baghdad concert – Video Rem - Fall On Me Neil Young - The song Young stole from the Rolling Stones to reveal his darkest period Depeche Mode - When a miracle saved Dave Gahan and the story of Depeche Mode Paul McCartney - The song McCartney considers "the worst" of his career: "I've always hated it" Cure - The Cure song inspired by Robert Smith's favourite novel Franz Ferdinand - When Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand was arrested in Russia for espionage Genesis - The Genesis song that Phil Collins called "one of the most spontaneous and successful moments" Pink Floyd - When Pink Floyd turned Venice into the biggest stage in rock history – Full video Lucio Battisti - The horseback trip that inspired a big Battisti and Mogol hit Pink Floyd - When Waters and co. had another band play in their place GTR - The supergroup between Genesis and Yes: “We could have been the new Queen” David Bowie - The secret kiss that inspired “Heroes” The Feelies – \"Loveless Love\" Bonnie Tyler - The Princess of Wales in 10 songs Nick Cave - The Nick Cave song most loved by PJ Harvey Neil Young - The album that crowned Young as the godfather of grunge R.E.M. - The real meaning of “Losing My Religion”, R.E.M.'s most beloved song Nirvana - When Kurt Cobain and Mark Lanegan joined forces for The Jury: grunge's most celebrated lost album Red Hot Chili Peppers - John Frusciante - When Frusciante ruined a band show – The video of the disastrous Saturday Night Live performance U2 - Bono Vox and the 60 songs that saved his life – Playlists Vasco Rossi - Vado al massimo, Vasco's "diss track" from the Sanremo stage Rolling Stones - Mick Jagger picks his three favourite Rolling Stones albums Siouxsie And The Banshees - Siouxsie and the records that changed her life Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin: when their only Italian concert turned into a nightmare Bob Dylan - Blonde On Blonde, sixty years of the best Dylan of the Sixties Police - When the Police reunited in 2003, Copeland: "It was sad" – Video Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd: the album most hated by Waters and Gilmour Lucio Battisti - Battisti and Mina, the magic couple of Italian song – Video Beatles - Who's still alive among the characters on the "Sgt. Pepper's" cover? Cure - Robert Smith on the BBC: "The new album is already done. And the third one will be pop and bright" Lucio Dalla - When someone threw a Molotov cocktail at Dalla on stage: "It's the fault of whoever put it into singers' heads that they're Che Guevara" Francesco De Gregori - Bufalo Bill, 50 years of the Prince's American diary Pink Floyd - The disastrous tour that gave birth to a masterpiece by Waters and co. Radiohead - Thom Yorke remembers when he first heard Nirvana Nick Cave – Let Love In, the Bad Seeds of Love Rem - Collapse Into Now R.E.M. - Accelerate Fabrizio De André - When De André advised Dylan not to sing in Genoa Rem - Around The Sun Rem - Reveal Francesco De Gregori – 20 Songs with Lightning-Bolt Openings – Playlists Cure - Quando i Cure suonarono sull’Orient Express – Video Depeche Mode - When “Blasphemous Rumours” defied the BBC's censorship R.E.M. - Up Rem - New Adventures In Hi-Fi Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin, the song Robert Plant called his finest performance ever Lucio Battisti - When Lucio Battisti was censored by the Caudillo Rem - Monster Nirvana - When Kurt Cobain met Michael Stipe: the story of a special friendship Rem - Automatic For The People Rem - Out Of Time Nick Cave - When Nick Cave discovered King Crimson's “violent eruptions” Paul McCartney - "Man On The Run", portrait of an ex-Beatle on the run Space – "Magic Fly" Paul McCartney - The album McCartney called the "Dark Side Of The Moon" of the 21st century Rem - Green David Bowie - When David Bowie stole a guitarist from Frank Zappa Rem - Document Depeche Mode - The Depeche Mode song Bono wished he'd written Rem - Lifes Rich Pageant Rem - Fables Of The Reconstruction Rolling Stones - When a Rolling Stones concert ended with 154 arrests – Video Pink Floyd - The lost Pink Floyd song released by Marianne Faithfull David Bowie - Sanremo 2026: the story of “Ragazzo solo ragazza sola”, the Italian cover of Bowie's “Space Oddity” chosen by Renga-Ferreri Rem - Reckoning Rem - Intro – Chronic Town – Murmur Nick Cave - Murder Ballads turns 30: the songs of love and death that launched Cave Genesis - When Genesis won over John Lennon with their “most psychedelic album” Siouxsie And The Banshees - When Siouxsie dedicated a song to the Tiananmen Square protesters David Bowie - 50 Years of Station To Station, the Thin White Duke's Via Crucis Cars - Heartbeat City U2 - When U2 found their way out in the desert Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses, the liturgies of celebrity for Gahan and co. Francesco De Gregori - Atlantide CCCP - CSI - When CCCP landed on Rai2 for a historic live performance – Video Doors - When the Doors thought about replacing Jim Morrison with Paul McCartney Eagles - The Boys Of Summer Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd: when Waters and Gilmour were persuaded to reunite David Bowie - Life On Mars? Air – The Virgin Suicides, Air's Psychedelic Comeback Renato Zero - Un uomo da bruciare/ Madame Police - The song Sting hated so much he buried the tape Fabrizio De André - When Fabrizio De André took aim at the mafias in Calabria and was misunderstood Pink Floyd - When Pink Floyd overcame their aversion to singles and topped the charts Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe! Sonic Youth - When Sonic Youth paid tribute to Madonna and her punk beginnings Francesco De Gregori - When Battiato collaborated with De Gregori on his most controversial song Vasco Rossi - When Vasco Rossi joined his mentor Jannacci for a memorable duet Sex Pistols - When the Sex Pistols hated Pink Floyd: legend or reality? David Bowie - When David Bowie said no to Coldplay David Bowie – Changes: The Thin White Duke's Ten Crucial Turning Points Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair, 40 years of the Tears For Fears classic that changed the course of the '80s Vasco Rossi - When Vasco Rossi told the story of his "19th nervous breakdown" CCCP - CSI - When CSI topped the charts, beating out Oasis Cure - When the Cure wrote the perfect pop song, according to Robert Smith Lenny Kravitz - 5, the brazen crossover that carried Kravitz into the future Beatles - When the Beatles thought about firing George Harrison and replacing him with Eric Clapton The best albums of 2025 as chosen by the international press Pink Floyd - When Syd Barrett reviewed a David Bowie track for Melody Maker Cure - The album that, for Robert Smith, shows the Cure at their very best Cure - Odd couples: from Olivia Rodrigo-Robert Smith to Charli XCX-John Cale Franco Battiato - When Frank Zappa honored Franco Battiato with a bizarre gift Fabrizio De André - When Fabrizio De André was censored in one of his classics – The two versions compared Supertramp - The Logical Song Genesis - The Genesis album Phil Collins doesn't like Patti Smith - 50 Years of "Horses", the Album That Rewrote the Language of Rock Madonna – Like a Virgin, the (Lost) Innocence of Pop That Turned Madonna into a Diva Neil Young - The Neil Young song Bob Dylan couldn't stand: "I hated hearing it on the radio" Pink Floyd - When Pink Floyd said no to Stanley Kubrick Sonic Youth - When Sonic Youth and Nirvana played together for the first time Paul McCartney - When Paul McCartney was about to quit music a-ha - Scoundrel Days, the three imaginary boys of the Norwegian fjords Smashing Pumpkins - 30 Years of "Mellon Collie": Infinite Sadness and Boundless Ambition Alicia Keys - Alicia Keys: when she dueted with David Bowie on "Changes" – Video Bryan Ferry - Bête Noire, Ferry's sensual Libertango between the dancefloor and sophisti-pop Lucio Battisti - When Lucio Battisti split with Mogol Cure - Robert Smith outside the Cure: his most interesting collaborations Cure - The Cure song Robert Smith found too depressing to sing Eagles - One Of These Nights, half a century of the Californian band's misunderstood masterpiece Pink Floyd - When David Gilmour officially made his debut with Pink Floyd – Video Kate Bush - 40 Years of "Hounds Of Love", a Miracle of Total Art-Pop Talk Talk - How Talk Talk used “It’s My Life” as a protest against EMI Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, 50 years of a regret turned into universal meditation David Bowie - How David Bowie looked after Marc Bolan's son after his death Pink Floyd - The Pink Floyd song that still embarrasses David Gilmour Beatles - “Help!”: sixty years since the Fab Four's cry for help at the height of Beatlemania Lucio Battisti - When Lucio Battisti and Mina teamed up for a one-off TV duet – Video Paul Weller - Jam - Style Council - Our Favourite Shop, Paul Weller's internationalist emporium turns 40 Francesco De Gregori - When De Gregori stood trial at the Palalido Pink Floyd - The track Pink Floyd had to destroy in order to bring it back to life Live Aid - Live Aid, the day music changed the world: the anniversary, the podcast, the book and the songs Beatles - The song John Lennon felt the Beatles had ruined Lucio Dalla - When Lucio Dalla mocked the most powerful man in Italy Nick Cave - From Nick Cave to Morrissey, from Ac/Dc to The Who and Patti Smith: all the unmissable live events Pink Floyd - The Pink Floyd song David Gilmour couldn't sing Neil Young - When Neil Young became the godfather of grunge Blur - When Blur mocked Sanremo. And (almost) no one noticed Cure - How the Cure's happiest song came to be David Sylvian - Forbidden Colours Led Zeppelin - When the Led Zeppelin airship burst into the rock universe Véronique Chalot - Complainte de la blanche biche King Crimson - Robert Fripp and the meeting with Jimi Hendrix: fact or legend? Pink Floyd - The track Gilmour and Waters both called a masterpiece Lucio Battisti - When Lucio Battisti tried to conquer America Rem - When R.E.M. became "a three-legged dog" Depeche Mode - When Dave Gahan won over Depeche Mode thanks to "Heroes" Pink Floyd - When Pink Floyd met a Marvel superhero Natalie Merchant - Can’t Ignore The Train Roxy Music - When Bryan Ferry played the villain in his only film appearance Guns 'n' Roses - When Slash nearly died on tour with Guns N' Roses Women Songs – A Hundred Songs with a Woman's Name in the Title Jeff Buckley - The song that brought Jeff Buckley and Elizabeth Fraser together R.E.M. - Out Of Time: how to become a star while staying out of time Pink Floyd - Waters' bold gamble that never made it onto record David Bowie - David Bowie was next on John Lennon's killer's list Peter Gabriel - So, the rock archangel's mainstream miracle Angelo Branduardi - When Battiato joined Branduardi to sing about San Francesco Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black Nick Cave - The song Nick Cave would want at his funeral Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps Roberto Vecchioni - When Vecchioni threw a De Gregori record out of the window Lucio Battisti - When Lucio Battisti and David Bowie co-wrote a song together The Police – Synchronicity, the Final Triumph of Three Musicians at War New wave - The 50 greatest post-punk albums of all time according to PopMatters Carole King - It's Too Late Cure - Robert Smith and co. top Uncut's ranking of the 200 greatest goth albums of all time Genesis - When Genesis replaced Mago Zurlì: the birth of an Italian love affair Madonna - Ray Of Light U2 - When U2 were about to break up in the '80s: "The Edge and a song saved us" Black Sabbath - The 75 greatest metal albums of all time according to Consequence magazine Lucio Dalla - When Lucio Dalla sang the story of a tragic American murder Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin Supertramp - The ten best songs written by Rick Davies in Supertramp David Bowie - When David Bowie was chased down by Trent Reznor Ultravox – Lament, 40 Years of the Wave Era's Romantic Epitaph Francesco De Gregori - When the Rolling Stones' manager saved De Gregori Francesco De Gregori - What remains between Francesco De Gregori's light pages and dark pages Pink Floyd - Syd Barrett's last song with Pink Floyd Lucio Dalla - Lucio, where are you going? Thirty songs to rediscover CCCP - CSI - Electrified tabula rasa – When Italian alt-rock stormed the charts Neil Young - When Neil Young made Lou Reed cry Nick Cave - When Nick Cave missed a show with the Bad Seeds because he was in jail The best albums of 2024 as chosen by the international press Franco Battiato - When Franco Battiato cancelled a concert to save nature U2 - The 30 greatest U2 songs Fabrizio De André - When Fabrizio De André forgave his kidnappers, calling them “Sardinian Sioux” Simon & Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence New Wave - The Thousand Souls of a Revolution Lucio Battisti - When Lucio Battisti turned down a billion lire from Gianni Agnelli Francesco De Gregori - Missed Hits and "Nevergreens": 32 Songs by the Principe Worth Rediscovering David Bowie - When David Bowie descended into the new romantic temple to cast “Ashes To Ashes” Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen Pink Floyd - The Pink Floyd song Roger Waters came to despise, calling it “a notable failure” Smashing Pumpkins - Adore Bob Dylan - When Bob Dylan wanted Claudia Cardinale on "Blonde On Blonde" New romantic - The new romantic era and its temple, in a documentary PFM - When Franz Di Cioccio (PFM) said no to Led Zeppelin Joy Division - When Joy Division made their only national TV appearance on the BBC Radiohead - When Thom Yorke was struck by Queen and decided to become a rockstar Rosie Vela - Zazu Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun Cure - Robert Smith on the new album: “I wanted it to have an atmosphere, like Pornography and Disintegration” Genesis - When Phil Collins landed the Genesis gig thanks to a dive into a swimming pool Depeche Mode - When Dave Gahan "died" for two minutes Church - Under The Milky Way Smashing Pumpkins - The crazy night Billy Corgan met Robert Smith and became a Cure fan Rem - The 30 best R.E.M. songs Rem - R.E.M.: Michael Stipe clears up the lyrics of a classic track after 38 years Neil Young - When Neil Young tried to reform Led Zeppelin Rock italiano - The golden decade of Italian indie – Listen online Pink Floyd – Pink Floyd's 30 Best Songs King Crimson - When Robert Fripp left King Crimson to form The League Of Gentlemen Cantautori italiani - Italian singer-songwriters to rediscover from the golden era of the 70s-80s Pink Floyd - When Roger Waters was tempted to return to Pink Floyd The Cure – The Cure's 30 Best Songs Franco Battiato - When Franco Battiato took part in Eurovision Fabrizio De André - When Fabrizio De André refused to go on tour with Bob Dylan and Santana Ultravox - An "anti-best of" of Ultravox Prince - Purple Rain, the purple rain that bewitched the world David Bowie - The two albums David Bowie called "a waste of good songs" Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here", the classic Waters feared had been stolen by Gilmour Beat italiano - Italy's beat scene (and beyond) in the Sixties Leonard Cohen - When U2 collaborated with Leonard Cohen – Video OndaRock - User's Guide Joy Division - The dramatic first time Joy Division played London, in front of 30 people Nirvana - When Nirvana played in an empty record store in Aberdeen – Video Nirvana - Kurt Cobain and Nevermind: when Generation X saw itself reflected in the Seattle sound Pink Floyd - When Pink Floyd played at Rome's Piper Club Usa For Africa - The brilliant documentary revealing the behind-the-scenes story of Usa For Africa Depeche Mode - Here's how Dave Gahan chose the name "Depeche Mode" Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same Led Zeppelin - Robert Plant's revelation: "Here's why Led Zeppelin can never get back together" T. Rex - "Cosmic Dancer": from Marc Bolan to David Bowie, Morrissey and Nick Cave, the eternal magic of a glam anthem Police - Stewart Copeland: "A legendary feud with Sting. But I once broke one of his ribs" Bob Dylan - The Day Mister Zimmerman Made History: Newport 60 Years Later – Video Siouxsie and the Banshees – Siouxsie's 25 Best Songs Genesis - When Peter Gabriel left the band with a letter: the historic split, 50 years on Pink Floyd - How a Clash Between Roger Waters and David Gilmour Gave Birth to a Legendary Track David Bowie - When the Thin White Duke became a video game: the story of Omikron Smiths - "Free speech is being criminalized in England": the feud with record labels and with Marr David Bowie - An "anti best of" of David Bowie U2 - The Edge holds forth: from the reissue of "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" to Larry Mullen and the band's future Oasis - Liam Gallagher on the new album: "It'll be spiritual. We can still wipe everyone out" Who - The guitarist with no limits: "Someone should slap Rick Rubin every once in a while". The Who return in 2025 Pat Benatar - The 20 best Pat Benatar songs Berlin - Music and stories from the city of the Wall Genesis - A portrait of decadent Britannia half a century on U2 - An "anti best-of" of U2 - The lesser-known songs worth rediscovering Enzo Jannacci - The story of a misplaced genius in Verdelli's docufilm Summer - 50 ways to say Summer Piero Umiliani - The thousand lives of Umiliani in a documentary, as told by its director Post-Bomb Songs – The Nightmare of Nuclear Apocalypse in 24 Tracks Simple Minds - The 20 Best Simple Minds Songs George Michael - The docu-film that overturns the clichés about the English duo and the '80s Jim Steinman - The master of excess Darkwave – The History of Gothic Music in John Robb's Book Pink Floyd - Fifty years of Dark Side of the Moon A City to Sing About Burt Bacharach - A Tribute to the Coolfather Lucio Dalla - The story of a trilogy, 50 years on from the first chapter Paint it black! David Bowie - A Journey into the Mind of the Thin White Duke David Bowie - Bowie's Glam Alien Winter songs Kate Bush - Kate Bush Turns the Charts Upside Down Rain Songs - Rainy days memories OndaRock – 2001–2021: We're Still Standing Poliziotteschi - 50 (not so easy) tracks from the poliziottesco era George Martin - George Martin, a lord at the mixing desk Carlo Massarini - Carlo Massarini: "Let's save Ghiaccio Bollente" Ten years of OndaRock