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“He tore the whole thing to shreds and was very unkind, harsh and cruel … It was very upsetting to have someone you admire being so nasty about your work”: Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull’s War Child, and 1974

Their seventh studio album was the result of a failed attempt to make a movie – but the band leader believes many more significant things happened in the world of music that year

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“Robert Plant was so impressed with the record, he phoned me up and said:Do you wanna support us?”: Meet Forgotten Pharaohs, the rising band making nods to Steely Dan, Neil Young and Led Zeppelin

Forgotten Pharaohs were signed as the result of an egg-and-spoon race and a wayward Croc

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"I just can’t dig those vocals, especially so soon after eating": Muse polarise opinion on third album Absolution, even if everyone seems to like the guitars

Dismissed initially asRadioheadcopyists, Muse were blasted into the stadium-slaying stratosphere by Absolution

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Including Starcrawler, Myles Kennedy, Beth Hart and five other possible headliners of Woodstock 2029

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“Are they meant to be comedians?” Oasis' Liam Gallagher speaks for everyone in Britain when shown Saturday Night Live's painfully unfunny sketch based on the Gallagher brothers' rarely-mentioned sibling rivalry

Saturday Night Live has been running for 50 years. This weekend's Oasis sketch might be the least funny three and a half minutes in its entire history

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Axl Rose surprises 18,000 Billy Joel fans in Los Angeles with performance of Live And Let Die

This is becoming a habit

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Watch Stevie Nicks make triumphant return to Saturday Night Live after 41-year absence

Fleetwood Mac star Stevie Nicks performed two songs on Saturday Night Live this weekend, including recent single The Lighthouse

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“The world is falling apart. It’s insane. It’s greed, inequality, monetisation.” Robert Smith on the gloomy, reflective themes at the dark heart of The Cure's new album Songs of a Lost World

It may not entirely surprise you to learn that The Cure's first album in 16 years is not an upbeat party record

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“I’d just fed the gerbils and was practicing how to play the saw when this head popped around the door and asked politely if I would like to join Caravan”: Inside the weird and wonderful world of The Canterbury Scene

Soft Machine, Caravan, Gong, Hatfield And The North - how a small town in England changed progressive music forever

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“An eight-minute opening track… pomp, circumstance, Wagnerian bombast and epic grandeur”: Propaganda’s A Secret Wish was more prog than people knew

Known as “ABBA from Hell,” the German synth-poppers’ 1985 debut had links to Yes, Mike Oldfield and Die Krupps

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“We’re trying to uphold a delicate state of anarchy. Anarchy in Egypt”: The incredible story of The Grateful Dead’s legendary gigs at the Pyramids Of Giza

In 1978, The Grateful Dead and their entourage landed in Egypt for three gigs at the Pyramids of Giza. This is what happened

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“They put me in a cell with a bank robber and a murderer. The bank robber seemed like a nice bloke. Said he had all my albums”: The wild life and crazy times of Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker was the unlikely Sheffield superstar loved by The Beatles – but drink, drugs and debauchery almost sent him over the edge

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“This is very strange music!" Lunatic Soul and the making of Walking On A Flashlight Beam

With 2014's fourth album Walking On A Flashlight Beam Lunatic Soul found themselves travelling down a far deeper and darker path

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“The Grateful Dead? Man, they were abysmal. After 20 minutes half the audience had gone”: Meat Loaf’s wild tales of Iggy Pop, the MC5, The Who and more

Iggy, Joe Cocker, Jerry Garcia, The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band – Meat Loaf crossed paths with them all

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“It was originally going to be a Bruce Dickinson solo album – but then I did a very stupid thing”: Arjen Lucassen didn’t make it easy for himself with Ayreon, Star One, Ambeon and other projects

Stubbornly starting out with rock operas in the grunge era, he’s managed to secure guest spots from James LaBrie, Fish, Mikael Akerfeldt and others – but he still regrets the ones who got away

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“If you play around while you are Henry VIII’s wife, you know that you’re going to be separated from your body, head-wise.” Prog legend Rick Wakeman has finally revealed which of King Henry VIII's six wives is his personal favourite

In 1973, Rick Wakeman released The Six Wives of Henry VIII as his second studio album. Now, 51 years on, he's revealed which wife is his favourite

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“Every line in the song is something that has been personally said to me by folks in the industry.” Next Big Thing, Du Blonde's new single with Skin from Skunk Anansie, is a scathing exposé of music industry sexism

Watch the video for Next Big Thing, the latest single from Du Blonde's forthcoming Sniff More Gritty album

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Halsey shares 80s-inspired, emotional new single I Never Loved You

Alt pop-star Halsey drops I Never Loved You, the latest track to arrive from her upcoming new album The Great Impersonator

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"I spent twenty thousand pounds on a s****y album that nobody ever got to listen to." How rising nu gen star RØRY overcame growing pains, industry chaos and a devastating death to finally start making the music she needed

It's been a long road, but RØRY is finally reaping the rewards of her hard work

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Awesome new proggy sounds from Alex Henry Foster, Teramaze, Laibach and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog you have to hear from Ross Valory, We Are Bodies, Yenisei, The Progressive Souls Collective and more

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Bhangra prog anyone? Earthside share brand new video for Tyranny

Pritam Adhikary of the Indian metal band Aarlon features on a Bhangra vocal playthrough of Tyranny

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“There’s a laugh-out-loud moment involving a Bruce Forsyth impression onstage during a King Crimson gig”: Two life stories intertwine in Jakko M Jakszyk’s memoir Who’s The Boy With The Lovely Hair?

His colourful life and remarkable times feature Sir Richard Attenborough, The Nolan Sisters, Ruud Gullit, Michael Jackson (and Morris Minor And The Majors’ Stutter Rap)

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Ayreon announces 30th anniversary live dates for September 2025

Ayreon will perform five shows in Tilburg in the Netherlands in September

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“They had the uncanny ability to make odd meter into a catchy, radio-friendly experience”: Hawkind, Dream Theater, Styx, Def Leppard, Manic Street Preachers, Napalm Death members and others name their favourite Rush songs

Steven Wilson, Arjen Lucassen, Steve Rothery and more famous fans pick their top tracks – with some surprising results

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“I hate thinking about how many people are stuck without answers or any tangible help.” Paramore's Hayley Williams opens up about depression, encourages others struggling with mental health to seek support

Hayley Williams shares message boosting supportive mental wellness organisations on World Mental Health Day

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