X-Plained - Stories Behind The Songs

Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over video

How Florence Welch was inspired to write Dog Days Are Over

Florence And The Machine

Shara Nelson in the video for "Massive"'s Unfinished Sympathy

How a name change stopped Massive Attack from being "banned" by radio
Oasis performing at the Water Rats club, London, in January 1994

How Live Forever became Liam Gallagher's favourite Oasis song

Oasis

The star of Arctic Monkeys' I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor single cover

Who is the girl on the cover of I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor?

Arctic Monkeys

Johnny Marr in 1986

This is how Johnny Marr came up with the How Soon Is Now riff

The Smiths

Ian Brown performing with The Stone Roses in 1995

The story behind The Stone Roses' Sally Cinnamon

The Stone Roses

Led Zeppelin and their guitar riff nemesis Randy California of Spirit

How Led Zeppelin won the Stairway To Heaven "plagiarism" case

Led Zeppelin

Paul and Linda McCartney in April 1970, after the Beatles split was announced

The sad story behind The Beatles' Let It Be

The Beatles

Richard Ashcroft and the late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis

Why Richard Ashcroft owes Song For The Lovers to Joy Division

Richard Ashcroft

Liam Fray of the Courteeners in September 2010

Why Courteeners' Not Nineteen Forever is more than just an indie banger

Courteeners

Stereophonics in 2001: Richard Jones, Kelly Jones and Stuart Cable

Was Mr Writer by Stereophonics actually about a real person?

Stereophonics

Dave Gahan in Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus video

The celebrity marriage that inspired Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode

Stereophonics in their hometown of Cwmaman, 1997: Stuart Cable, Kelly Jones & Richard Jones

The TRUE story of Stereophonics' Local Boy In The Photograph

Stereophonics

Michael Stipe in the video for R.E.M.'s Losing My Religion video

How Losing My Religion made R.E.M. superstars

Radiohead - The Bends album cover

What's that on the cover of The Bends by Radiohead?

Radiohead

Liam and Noel Gallagher in 1994

Why did Oasis split? The full story of Liam and Noel Gallagher's feud...

Oasis

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