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"When we recorded that song, Jim was on a huge dose of acid." How a simple break-up song evolved into The Doors' darkest, weirdest and most disturbing freak-out

How The End began, then went weird

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"I don’t know who’ll be listening to my music in 100 years but I know they’ll be listening to Shane’s." Bruce Springsteen honours the late Shane MacGowan, shares cover of A Rainy Night In Soho from tribute album featuring Tom Waits, Kate Moss

Springsteen cover is the first single to be released from 20th Century Paddy: The Songs of Shane MacGowan

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"I wanted to be able to say we are the next big thing.” Army drills, TikTok hits and nu metal: Sleep Theory are metalcore's fastest rising stars

Sleep Theory founder and vocalist Cullen Moore shares his band's journey from military service to selling out venues both sides of the Atlantic

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"A load of old characters came out to see us and one of them got arrested. It was a full-moon vibe." Weird and wonderful alt.rock Brits Marmozets fizz back witha new album after a seven-year absence

CO.WARD.DICE will be released in May

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"One guy brought a homemade metal blade to a fight. It lasted about 25 seconds. Phil completely laid the fella out. Phil was tough. You didn't mess." From teenage fan to first-name pals - The Phil Lynott I knew

Classic Rock writer Mick Wall remembers the Phil Lynott that most never knew

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"We took a break and made some tea. Within 20 minutes Steve had written the words." How Humble Pie made the ultimate whiplash boogie white boy blues

With its monolithic riff and yelping lead vocal, the live version of Stone Cold Fever typifies Humble Pie, one of the best live blues-rock bands of their era

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"This prosecution was a legally laughable witch-hunt. Today’s decision brings this expensive circus to an end." Kneecap's Mo Chara will not face terrorism trial

"You falsely tried to label me a terrorist, while it is the British government ministers that are arming and assisting a genocide" - Mo Chara

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"It was construed as being about a sex worker." The story behind the Blondie classic that everyone misunderstood

"I don't think there's a song on the first record without a reference to someone getting shot, stabbed, degraded, or insulted"

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"I'll be your 1-900-G spot, baby, you won't last." Violet Grohl shares phone sex-inspired new song, announces debut album Be Sweet To Me

Violet Grohl channels the '90s on new single 595

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"To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings. It's heaven." Why Prince turned down a partnership deal with Guitar Hero, while Metallica considered it a "no-brainer"

Horses for courses

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“In the 70s the support band had to blow the main act offstage. I thought it was distasteful. There’s room for everybody”: Jethro Tull ex Martin Barre insists he’s not underrated, and explains why he has no time for egos

Guitarist reveals what he learned from one of his band’s opening acts, names a guitarist who’s a “real yardstick” of brilliance – and touches on what he misses about being in Ian Anderson’s band

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"Sangria can make you do a lot of things…" How a drunken night, and the support of Samuel L. Jackson, changed the life of Kashus Culpepper

Meet the singer-songwriter who’s shot from small cog in the navy to a big wheel in Nashville

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"I know people don't want to hear me saying such things, but they're true." Francis Rossi comes clean on Status Quo, Rick Parfitt and new solo album The Accidental

With Status Quo now history and Francis Rossi enjoying his An Audience With tours, a new album was far from his mind

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"It wouldn’t be my first choice of nickname now": Gluecifer's Captain Poon on touring with Lemmy, fun with chickens and the origins of that stage name

Having said new music was unlikely, Norwegian rockers Gluecifer are back with their first album in two decades

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Yes to release expanded and remastered edition of From A Page in April

Oliver Wakeman's era as keyboard player in Yes is reassessed with a new in-depth edition of the band's 2019 release From A Page

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"One of the most colourful, fascinating, exciting and unusual rock'n'roll albums we've ever heard." The story of the pioneering rockers whose career was scuttled by the Six-Day War

In 1966, a group of Arab, Israeli and American musicians made an album together in New York City – but they were doomed from the start

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"Rich Robinson is an honours graduate from Keef university but he's funkier than the master has been in decades." The Black Crowes' blessed resurrection keeps rolling on A Pound Of Feathers

More songs about rockin’ an’ rollin’

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"It's the best clapping TV theme song since Friends." Listen to the first song released by US supergroup featuring R.E.M's Michael Stipe, producer Andrew Watt, ex-Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker

Michael Stipe shares first new song in three years, with superstar cast

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“There was a lot of pain. My love for music was beginning to die”: He’d learned to let his brother be lead guitarist, and that many musicians lose hope. Then he changed his life, wrote a 15-minute prog epic and got signed

The American’s memories of seeing Yes, Black Sabbath and Grand Funk Railroad helped save him from despair – as did seeing his sibling play like Eddie Van Halen before Eddie did himself

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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

Angus Young on AC/DC's most "regrettable" song

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"Any scrape of anything interesting or off the beaten path that can be turned into drama is swarmed over and spit out as bait." For the record, despite what you may have read, Jack White doesn't consider Taylor Swift's music "boring"

Jack White is tired of being misquoted

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"Are you a guitarist too?" The day that rock legends Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Brian May and Jeff Beck met the Queen of England

"It doesn’t matter at all that she did not know who we are"

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Midge Ure announces new album A Man Of Two Worlds and releases lead single Just Words

Ultravox icon will launch 21-date tour when the half-instrumental LP arrives on May 8

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"Into this void of hopelessness and lack of understanding came this perfect amoral act": How a controversial song inspired by a tragic school shooting in the US became a UK No.1

Despite what many thought, I Don't Like Mondays wasn't about getting back to work after the weekend

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"The crowd seemed more concerned with the long lines at the beer taps." In 1984 Huey Lewis invited Stevie Ray Vaughan on tour - and he tanked

Huey Lewis remembers offering Stevie Ray Vaughan support after a disastrous opening set in Oklahoma

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