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"We went there to have a whale of a time – a sex holiday, really. But it got out of hand": Billy Idol on the Thailand vacation that ended with a visit from the army

In 1989, Billy Idol desperately need a break from his troubles in Los Angeles, but things went from bad, to worse, and then to much, much worse

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The Stranglers laughed at AC/DC's long hair when they shared a stage in 1976. They weren't laughing after AC/DC played

AC/DC didn't appreciate being called "hippies" by The Stranglers, and weren't keen on being called "punks" either

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"Easily one of the UK's most intoxicating new rock bands." Saint Agnes's winning formula of modern industrial goth rock clicks into place on Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin

Saint Agnes's third album Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin is a finely tuned beast

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"The multilayered, 10-dimensional record that would help imbue grunge with a panoramic afterburn." Smashing Pumpkins' debut album Gish mixes Zep rock grooves, acid folk, shoegaze and trippy psychedelic angst

Gish is celebrating its 35th birthday in shades of variously coloured vinyl

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"I thought: 'Can I even play this stuff?' Y'know, a sixty-five-year-old Steve Vai taking on Robert Fripp at thirty-five." Steve Vai on the challenge of playing King Crimson with BEAT – and the one change he's made

In 2024, four monster instrumentalists teamed up to play music from three killer King Crimson albums – and they're finally coming to Europe

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"I'm still looking for the next challenge. This album is part of that journey." Sixty years into his career, Slade's Dave Hill is releasing his first solo album - produced by Noddy Holder's son

Dirty Foot Lane will be released in October as Dave Hill's Slade prepare for a Christmas tour

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"Slayer sent me a fabulous box of T-shirts. They were so lovely." Tori Amos on her new concept album, the need for social commentary, women in music and covering Slayer

In Times Of Dragons stars a billionaire Lizard Demon, a Gay Witch from Brooklyn, the Celtic god Lugh of the Long Arm... and Tori Amos

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Paul McCartney's The Boys Of Dungeon Lane is not the late-period masterpiece you were hoping for

A mixed bag from arguably the world's greatest songwriter

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"The music is defined by unexpected twists, unlikely turns and bold choices." All Them Witches are predictably unpredictable on the delectable House Of Mirrors

The seventh album from enigmatic Nashville rockers All Them Witches comes after a period of upheaval and regrouping

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"Wait till you hear the s**t Keith’s playing. It’s unbelievable." Rolling Stones producer Andrew Watt says the band's forthcoming Foreign Tongues is "rawer" than Hackney Diamonds

Prepare to be excited for the summer release of Foreign Tongues

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"Everything health-wise caught up with me at the same time. Whatever could go wrong did go wrong." Phil Collins is feeling a lot better, but won't be performing at his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction

"They asked me if I would perform. I said, No."

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Emerson, Lake & Palmer announce newly remastered reissue of Works Live

Carl Palmer will bring his An Evening With Emerson, Lake & Palmer to England for three shows in February 2027

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"The reality of being a musician means you need to have very rich parents, the willingness to ruin yourself financially, or a label with very deep pockets." Why that hotly-tipped band you love might not be touring this year

Rising Canadian prog duo Crown Lands won't be touring the UK and Europe this year – because they've done the math

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“AI is good at copying stuff and it’s going to get better. But AI is creating with logic and I’m creating with chaos”: Leprous’ Einar Solberg wants to be the most cinematic artist in prog

Second solo album Vox Occulta sees him enjoying melancholy, finding better ways of using an orchestra, fighting through the flu and aiming to look like a mafioso, rather than James Bond

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"I don't know how many thousands of times I've sung it, but I've never once thought 'Oh no, not tonight'." How Deep Purple created an all-time hard rock classic with a song that "didn't go anywhere"

Built from a riff that came from nowhere, Smoke On The Water has been covered by everyone from ‘Weird’ Al Yankovic to Black Sabbath

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"We had been on the road pretty heavily, and we were burned." How a frazzled Bad Company made their "great lost album" Burnin' Sky

Without a big hit single to raise its profile, Bad Company's fourth album has fallen between history's cracks

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"So much of this music goes on for so long that one begins to long for the discipline of the 45rpm record." The story behind the only night that British rock legends Led Zeppelin and The Who shared a stage

On the evening of May 25, 1969, in an amphitheatre in Maryland, rock history was made

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If you always wanted to hear Weezer's Rivers Cuomo covering anthems by Dolly Parton, Radiohead, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Metallica, the internet gods are smiling upon you

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"I remember thinking, Who in their right mind would want this to go out?" AC/DC's Angus Young on the song he wishes the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band had never released

"When you smile I see stars in the sky"

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"I said, You’re walking around like you’re God’s gift to rock 'n' roll. I want you out of my studio." Why 4 Non Blondes leader Linda Perry kicked one of the biggest rock superstars of the '90s out of a recording session

"He was a Debbie Downer"

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"If you keep exploiting fans' trust and failing, you're not going to last very long." Rush's Geddy Lee on the nature of fandom, and how "the world's smallest symphony orchestra" kept fans invested in their musical journey for five decades

"With every shift in style we lost fans"

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"I'm a double agent for the Lord, working behind enemy lines." A tribute to Rick Derringer: August 5, 1947 – May 26, 2025

From Hang On Sloopy to Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo: A celebration of Rick Derringer, who died a year ago today

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"It was so crammed that when he died, he couldn’t hit the floor. He just slumped on me." From a traumatic epiphany on the London Tube to being metal's first British-Iranian figurehead, the incredible life story of Lowen's Nina Saeidi

Lowen are one of the most exciting bands in British metal - and their frontwoman Nina Saeidi one of the scene's most important emerging voices

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"He was drunk out of his mind and he asked me to make out with him." Billy Corgan on how he became a fan of The Cure...and the first time he met Robert Smith

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman and Cure leader went on to become fast friends

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“We opened for bands we really hated, like Styx. People were relating to us and not them. They got a little pissed”: the stellar rise and sudden fall of The Cars, the new wave band who soundtracked America

For nearly a decade in the late 70s and early 80s, The Cars were one of America’s most popular bands

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