Every songwriting tutor will tell you to avoid clichés. They’re right, and they’re wrong, and the difference between those two positions is the difference between a rule and an understanding.…

There is a chord progression that has soundtracked more of human experience than any other sequence of notes in history. Four chords, played in the same order, appearing in hundreds…

In 1995, David Bowie sat in front of a Mac laptop running a programme nobody outside his circle had ever seen. He typed sentences into columns — fragments from newspapers,…