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“It was like a crazy film about what happens to serious musicians if they take a step to the left”: Fame and fortune called when prog stalwarts Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin released a pop cover. Did they sell out?

Previously regarded as purveyors of complex art, their 1981 version of 60s weepie It’s My Party spent a month at No.1. The “intelligent pop” couple explain how it affected their later output

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"Pat's Dogs! The cook is never tired! Pat's Dogs! The steam is always fired!" Celebrating that time Cinderella filmed a chili dog commercial before they were famous

The year is 1983 and the kids are hungry

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"It's the silliest, most oddball song in our entire catalogue, but it truly hit a nerve." How Toto used a synthesised flute riff and a drum loop to concoct a classic and a cultural phenomenon

Written to get their label off their back, Toto's Africa – written by a man who'd never been there – has become inescapable

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: June 1, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Greta Van Fleet, Tarja, The Band Feel and more

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Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love spent New Year's Eve 1992 trying to save the life of an unconscious rock star who was turning blue on their hotel room floor

Heroin claimed the lives of more than one Seattle musician, but some had 'lucky' escapes

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“It’s a veritable smorgasbord of musicality for the curious and a buffet of favourites for the fans.” Career-spanning Frank Zappa collection to be released on vinyl for the very first time

ZAPPAtite – Frank Zappa’s Tastiest Tracks will be available on coloured and black vinyl for the very first time and released in July

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"She was looking at her pill bottles. I knew she was going to die so I was like, 'Put it down. Live right now.'" Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher wrote songs for Emperor Of Sand at his mum’s deathbed

A cancer tragedy and other real-life dramas inspired Mastodon’s seventh album Emperor Of Sand, which they believe was 17 years in the making

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"I walked through it all and felt like spitting on the lot of them". How Pete Townshend's disgust with the hippies inspired The Who's most epic song

Warning: Contain's rock's most epic scream

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"Half brooding romantic, half back-of-the-class smart-ass." Type O Negative do both doom and gloom on October Rust

October Rust: the culmination of Type O Negative’s progress from ugly ducklings to uglier swans

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The nation rejoices as a corpse-painted Robert Fripp sings in the latest edition of Robert and Toyah's Sunday Lunch

Watch national treasures Robert and Toyah perform Rock And Roll All Nite by Kiss

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Billy Gibbons and Keith Urban join forces on fuzz-friendly new single Brown Paper Bag

Billy F. Gibbons: Now even grizzlier than before

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"You haven't lived until you've burned a condom. They go up quite well." Beatles icon Sir Paul McCartney recalls cinema stunt that saw him deported from Germany

McCartney and drummer Pete Best were arrested after setting fire to a condom at a Berlin cinema

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“It was a one-day marathon. We cut 13 tunes in 14 hours, all old blues songs, with Mick singing live”: In 1992, Mick Jagger made a blues album with an obscure LA bar band. It’s never been released

The Rick Rubin-produced album featuring Mick Jagger and The Red Devils has sat on the shelf for 34 years

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"It's about trying to find a place, your place, how you fit in." Peter Gabriel shares dark, brooding new single A Hard Lesson

Peter Gabriel is releasing a new single every full moon at midnight in the build-up to new studio album o\i.

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“I walked home in the rain thinking: ‘Oh my God, I’m gonna be a plumber for the rest of my life!’” Alex Lifeson can’t forget what happened after Rush opened for the New York Dolls

The guitarist recalls an early-days Spinal Tap moment, and reveals what it might take for him to follow Geddy Lee’s lead and write a book

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"People don’t know this side of me." Jack White opens first public art exhibition at Damien Hirst’s gallery in London

White's These Thoughts May Disappear exhibition showcases the musician's art via sculpture, installation and furniture design

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"He was one of the gang." Before he won three Oscars and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II, one world-famous actor was a roadie for Echo & The Bunnymen

It's not unusual for roadies to become stars in their own right, but precious few end up becoming knights of the realm

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Great new proggy sounds from Green Carnation, The Ocean, A Perfect Circle and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Cool new prog you need to hear from Candacraig, Eyre Llew, Sans Froid, Koyo Bloom and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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"She may have had the biggest leg-up in the world, but Violet Grohl has the talent to back it up." Dave Grohl's eldest daughter pens a love letter to the '90s with debut album Be Sweet To Me

Dave Grohl's 20-year-old daughter Violet steps into the spotlight

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"The flagship of the song is irreverence. It's this beautiful nature of seizing a moment." Greta Van Fleet launch video for strutting new single Play Your Games

Greta Van Fleet premiered Play Your Games at a low-key show in New York City this week

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"Everyone misses them. It’s not just me." Paul McCartney reflects on the loss of his dear friends, and Beatles bandmates, John Lennon and George Harrison

In writing his new album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, Paul McCartney has had to reckon with some painful memories

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"I just sat there and looked at the words and almost leapt out of my seat." Robert Plant wrote the lyrics in a bad mood. Jimmy Page "winged" the solo. But Stairway To Heaven became a Led Zeppelin classic like no other

Once voted the second-best song of all-time by the readers of Classic Rock, Stairway To Heaven is the Mount Everest of Rock

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"The music was always the star of this band, and not personnel." With no original members left, Foreigner are still proud to be Foreigner

As Foreigner prepare for their 50th Anniversary tour, bassist Jeff Pilson refutes those pesky "tribute band" accusations

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"We've been a rock band, we've been pop stars, and then we became dinosaurs. But if you can live through the dinosaur period you become a legend..." The epic story of Nazareth

Axl is a huge fan. Robert Plant owes them money. They were almost on that plane with Skynyrd. Nazareth: the full crazy story

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"Jim Morrison was standing on the balcony shouting: ‘You guys suck! I got more talent in my big toe than your entire group!'" How Poco invented a brand-new sound - only to have it stolen by the Eagles

While everyone else was getting laid at the Tropicana, "squeaky-clean" Poco created a country-rock template others were quick to borrow

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