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## 1. “I played something on the piano but it wasn’t killing any of us. So Kenny came over to me, holding his guitar, and said, ‘I think you should let Mike play the keyboard’”: Charlie Puth on making “yacht rock in 2026” with Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins - MusicRadar

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Want all the hottest music and gear news, reviews, deals, features and more, direct to your inbox? Sign up here. [...] And then the moment came when all three men got together in the studio. It was Loggins who came up with the title, Love in Exile, but this was before a note had been written.

“Kenny said he wanted to reverse engineer the song, so I had to ask, ‘What does that mean?’” Puth recalls. “And he said, ‘It doesn’t matter. We’re gonna figure it out as we go.’”

Armed with this insight and (lack of) direction, Puth says he attempted to make a start, but was quickly stopped in his tracks.

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Want all the hottest music and gear news, reviews, deals, features and more, direct to your inbox? Sign up here. [...] Listening to Puth’s new album, Whatever’s Clever, you can hear how artists such as Loggins and McDonald have influenced him, so we’re not surprised that he wanted to work with them.

McDonald gives the impression that it was very much a two-way thing, though – he was keen to collaborate with Puth, too – and he seems happy to embrace his position as yacht rock’s elder statesman.

“I was introduced to the term yacht rock when it was meant to be pathetic-comic humor,” he says. “But I remember telling my son, ‘Don’t laugh. Someday when your music becomes less relevant, your pathetic-comic value may come in handy.’”

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[**Having previously tapped-up smooth jazz legend Kenny G for a guest appearance on recent single, Cry**](https://www.musicradar.com/artists/one-day-i-said-to-myself-i-really-want-a-song-on-this-album-that-has-a-kenny-g-solo-but-there-was-an-issue-i-dont-know-kenny-g-but-i-had-an-idea-how-charlie-puth-used-manifestation-and-melodyne-to-get-a-sax-legend-on-his-new-single)**, Charlie Puth has now gone full yacht rock and released a song with two of the genre’s (if indeed it** ***is*** **a genre) most iconic figures.**

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## 2. “The little idiot”: Dave Davies hits back at Moby calling Lola “unevolved” and “transphobic” - MusicRadar

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The Kinks lead singer and main lyricist, Ray Davies, wrote the words, but now his brother Dave has leapt to the defence of Lola. Calling Moby “the little idiot”, he said: “I am highly insulted that MOBY would accuse my brother of being ‘unevolved’ or transphobic in any way.”

> to @thelittleidiot Moby’s criticism of our song LOLA these are the words sent to me and Ray from our dear friend trans icon @jaynecounty27 #JayneCounty. I am highly insulted that MOBY would accuse my brother of being ‘unevolved’ or transphobic in any way.  pic.twitter.com/qYcxoMc03dMarch 22, 2026

And to back him up, Davies quoted a statement about the song by Jayne County, the US punk singer who was a groundbreaking presence for trans participation in music in the 1970s. [...] "I don't think the radio stations picked up on the subject matter but a lot of the fans did and that's what really matters... Being Trans myself this will always be a very special song to me.”

Context, of course, is everything in music. Lola was written at a time when trans women’s only presence in popular culture was as the butt of jokes on comedy shows. Though lines like ‘I’m glad I’m a man and so is Lola’ wouldn’t pass muster in 2026, the character in the song accepts Lola and merely reflects that “Girls will be boys and boys will be girls/ it’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world except for Lola”. [...] It should be remembered, too, that back then, The Kinks had half a foot in the LGBTQ community anyway. Five years previously, they had released See My Friends, a song about a young man unsure of his sexual identity. And Dave Davies himself had a bisexual affair in the 1960s, at a time when homosexuality was still illegal in the UK. In modern terms, the Kinks would have probably been thought of as ‘allies’.

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**It may be 56 years old this year but it seems The Kinks’ Lola can still stir up strong emotions.**

Over the weekend, Moby was interviewed as part of the [Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/22/moby-honest-playlist-donna-summer-celine-dion)’s Honest Playlist feature and mentioned the band’s 1970 hit as one of the ‘songs he can no longer listen to’.

Talking about the song, he said: “(It) came up on a [Spotify](https://www.musicradar.com/tag/spotify) playlist, and I thought the lyrics were gross and transphobic. I like their early music, but I was really taken aback at how unevolved the lyrics are."

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The Kinks lead singer and main lyricist, Ray Davies, wrote the words, but now his brother Dave has leapt to the defence of Lola. Calling Moby “the little idiot”, he said: “I am highly insulted that MOBY would accuse my brother of being ‘unevolved’ or transphobic in any way.”

> to @thelittleidiot Moby’s criticism of our song LOLA these are the words sent to me and Ray from our dear friend trans icon @jaynecounty27 #JayneCounty. I am highly insulted that MOBY would accuse my brother of being ‘unevolved’ or transphobic in any way. https://t.co/hBFmLPdMKH pic.twitter.com/qYcxoMc03d[March 22, 2026](https://twitter.com/cantworkitout/status/2035793652228772037)

And to back him up, Davies quoted a statement about the song by Jayne County, the US punk singer who was a groundbreaking presence for trans participation in music in the 1970s.

County wrote: “When I heard the song I was both thrilled and amazed that the Kinks would be singing a song about a trans person and wondered if anyone else had picked up on it! Who was cool or hip enough to realize what The Kinks we're singing about!”

“Lola will always be one of those songs that for me 'broke the ice' so to speak! A song that breaks down barriers and brings a used to be, hush, hush subject to the forefront and makes it sound perfectly natural to be singing a song about a 'girl' named Lola!

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## 3. “I know what he means.” Sammy Hagar compares Alex Van Halen to Roger Waters in new swipe at former bandmate - Guitar Player

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“I’m the biggest Pink Floyd fan,” Hagar says. “I see David Gilmour say, ‘I will never play with Roger Waters again,’ and I know what he means. I feel that way about Alex Van Halen. They’re negative people.”

The Gilmour–Waters feud famously reached its breaking point in the mid-’80s, culminating in lawsuits after 1987’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason became the first Pink Floyd album without Waters.

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Sammy Hagar has fired fresh shots at his former Van Halen bandmate, comparing drummer Alex Van Halen to Roger Waters as their feud shows no sign of easing.

The former Montrose singer last fronted Van Halen in 2005, when their union came to an end after four albums. Founding [bass](https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/best-bass-guitars) guitarist Michael Anthony exited as well, with Eddie’s son, Wolfgang Van Halen, stepping in when the band [reunited once again with David Lee Roth](https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/wolfgang-van-halen-on-2006-van-halen-reunion-backlash) in 2007.

In recent years, Hagar and Anthony have formed the backbone of the [Best of All Worlds band](https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/sammy-hagar-joe-satriani-not-a-perfect-match-for-eddie-van-halen), Hagar’s Joe Satriani–powered tribute to Eddie Van Halen. The group even helped Hagar complete a track he claims he co-wrote with Eddie [in a dream](https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/sammy-hagar-on-dreaming-of-eddie-van-halen-and-talks-of-one-final-tour) more than a year after the [electric guitar](https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/best-electric-guitars) virtuoso’s death.

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Meanwhile, Alex Van Halen has floated the idea of assembling [one final Van Halen album](https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/alex-van-halen-steve-lukather-album-update) with help from Steve Lukather, a project neither Hagar nor Roth is expected to be part of. The lingering tension between Hagar and Van Halen surfaced again in the singer’s new interview with *Classic Rock*.

“I’m the biggest Pink Floyd fan,” Hagar says. “I see David Gilmour say, ‘I will never play with Roger Waters again,’ and I know what he means. I feel that way about Alex Van Halen. They’re negative people.”

The [Gilmour–Waters feud](https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/david-gilmour-on-reuniting-pink-floyd-with-roger-waters) famously reached its breaking point in the mid-’80s, culminating in lawsuits after 1987’s *A Momentary Lapse of Reason* became the first Pink Floyd album without Waters.

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“Because frickin’ Mike Anthony’s in the band, I feel good about playing a lot of Van Halen stuff, ’cause no one will ever hear it again,” he says. “That was the biggest part of my career — everybody’s career, for God’s sake. It was the biggest band in the world.”

Alex Van Halen recently revealed that during the 12-year stretch before the band regrouped with Roth for 2012’s *A Different Kind of Truth*, he and Eddie considered [Ozzy Osbourne](https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/how-van-halen-almost-made-an-album-with-ozzy-osbourne) as a potential frontmen for a new pro

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