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Deep Purple’s longest-serving guitarist Steve Morse on the records, artists and gigs of lasting significance to him.

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In the mid-1990s, THE BEATLES returned with Anthology , a new kind of documentary about the group, in which they told their astonishing story in their own words. A curious name, but then this was a diverse portfolio of releases gathered under one roof. A TV series. A groundbreaking series of archival albums. A book. And, most surprisingly, a new Beatles record! As the series and music is accorded a 30th-anniversary release, Uncut steps inside Anthology 2025 to hear about how it all came together, what passive-aggressive ukulele sounds like, and what’s still in the archive. “It makes ‘Revolution 9’ sound like ‘Penny Lane’,” Giles Martin tells John Robinson

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