News Mar 21, 2026
“We wrote 24K Magic when Uptown Funk was No 1. So if you hear the same spirit in that song, that's why”: A decade on, we look back at the musical theory and retro gear that shaped Bruno Mars’ 2016 classic
Exploring how one of Bruno Mars’ biggest tunes works on a musical level - and revealing its debt to the 1980s
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