‘It’s a violent sound, to be found on records by Public Image Ltd, Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen and Phil Collins.’ Brian Dillon on the history of the Linn drum.
In 1983 a phone call about a job opening in Minneapolis changed Susan Rogers' life forever. Working as Prince’s staff engineer for five years, she’d spend day and night behind the desk and tape machines to ensure that he was able to record his limitless stream of musical ideas…