News about Bob Ezrin

ADRIAN THRILLS: When pop was moving towards heavier, more amplified styles at the start of the 1970s, Deep Purple were at the heart of the seismic shift. Alongside their two great peers, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they totally embodied British rock, and in 1975 the Guinness Book Of Records officially crowned them the world's loudest band. But there was always more to the London group than that ear-splitting volume. They played hard and fast, singing about speeding cars (Highway Star) and mysterious women (Fireball), but their music also encompassed orchestral composition and jazz. Their most famous song, Smoke On The Water - written about a casino fire on Lake Geneva - was based on a traditional blues riff.

In his eyes, Bob Ezrin (right), a Jewish man who made hit Floyd albums including The Wall and A Momentary Lapse of Reason, told investigative journalist John Ware that Waters (left) was a 'bully' in his eyes. While in the studio, Waters wrote an offensive song about Bryan Morrison, the band's then-agent, who is "not sure." Ezrin appears in The Dark Side of Roger Waters, a new documentary produced by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), months after Waters appeared on stage in a Nazi-esque trench coat with a red armband as part of his most recent tour.

ADRIAN THRILLS: Never a band to do things by halves, U2 cram an awful lot into a new album that is ostensibly one of their more personal projects. Songs Of Surrender is U2 unplugged, with the exception that it involves more than 40 of their best-loved songs and re-recording them in a less brash manner. Synthesisers, flutes, cellos, a choir, and a brass band are among the back-to-basics acoustic instruments. Even as an experiment in his front room during lockout, guitarist The Edge, the composer's idea, also adorns two numbers (Invisible and The Fly) with the most un-rock and roll of stringed instruments: the dulcimer.