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"It's remarkable that you can have a culture that's shunted into the west side of England that has nothing to do with the English at all." Robert Plant explains how the mystique of Wales and the magic of J.R.R. Tolkien influenced Led Zeppelin

Robert Plant channelled Tolkien into his lyrics - even if his Led Zep bandmates didn't realise it at the time

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Exploring Birdsong return to action with catchy new single Romanticise

UK pop prog trio Exploring Birdsong also announce UK headline dates for September

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"I think the song will resonate for the next hundred years": The story of the Kiss classic Kiss didn't actually write

Now a rock anthem, Argent's God Gave Rock And Roll To You was written under the storm cloud of cancer and enjoyed a superstar second wind

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Watch videos from Radiohead's first live show in seven years - plus full setlist

The first show of Radiohead's European tour has been completed in Madrid

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“The edges were bound to fray – we were bound to take from each other. David Gilmour openly accused Roger Waters of copying me”: The influential folk singer-songwriter who never quite gained stardom, but gained massive respect instead

Acclaimed by Pink Floyd, Kate Bush, Led Zeppelin and Peter Gabriel, he recalls feeling insulted by the way his best-known album was treated, his short stint in a US prison, and his decision to stop writing long notes to fans on their record sleeves

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Are you the ultimate Bon Jovi fan? Take our quiz to find out

Bon Jovi or Non Jovi? Our quiz will reveal all

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Paul Rodgers pulls out of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony

Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke will be performing at the ceremony in Los Angeles this week

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: November 3, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Starbenders, Crobot, Dirty Blonde and more

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“There’s no such thing as coincidence. It’s about being in a flow state. Joining the band I tripped to as a teenager… it all makes sense”: Gong may have lost some humour and older songs, but Kavus Torabi says they’re still supernatural

Daevid Allen’s appointed replacement on keeping the spirituality alive without becoming overwhelmed, the respectful use of acid, and the late band leader’s similarity to Cardiacs’ Tim Smith

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"I don't know if rock needs saving, but if Wolf and his crew can't do the job it's because we failed in getting the message out that the messiah is here": Wolfgang Van Halen finds his voice and sets a high bar on third Mammoth album

The third Mammoth album feels like the work of a musician settling comfortably into his own space and comfortable with all that attention

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"A vivid chronicle of Bob Dylan's rapid ascent and growth as an artist": The latest edition of The Bootleg Series tracks Dylan from Minnesota to Greenwich Village

A legend ascends in the latest forensic deep dive into Bob Dylan’s back pages on Volume 18: Through The Open Window 1956-1963

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“He couldn’t stand up so I hit him over the head with my bass. He fell to the floor. I ran away… I didn’t know if he was still alive”: The bassist who survived Fairport Convention, Jethro Tull and believing he’d murdered his bandmate on stage

Veteran admits he sailed close to the wind as he taught prog giants to drink – but he learned how much it means to play live with a band

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“It was those first two lines. I felt like it was speaking to my life. I knew I could deliver that song with conviction”: One day Sebastian Bach was playing to Jon Bon Jovi’s parents. The next he was singing one of hair metal’s greatest anthems

The story of Skid Row’s classic hair metal anthem Youth Gone Wild

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“Even my dental hygienist sent me something the other day to say they were all singing it at some wedding reception”: How a British boogie-rock band turned a minor John Fogerty hit into an all-time classic that kicked off the biggest gig in history

Status Quo beefed up John Fogerty’s ‘piddly’ original and struck rock’n’roll gold

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“As sprawling musically as it is thematically, closing an epic cycle in style”: Lunatic Soul’s The World Under Unsun is a triumphant journey’s end

Riverside’s Mariusz Duda concludes his circle-of-life-and-death story with eighth instalment (that takes place between the fifth and fourth)

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“I was with Ozzy nine months and it didn’t end in a good break-up”: Drum legend Carmine Appice on getting high with Jimi Hendrix, falling out with Ozzy Osbourne and the late guitar hero he spoke to just before he died

Drum legend Carmine Appice has been in the business for 60 years – and he’s crossed paths with everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Dave Grohl

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Great new proggy sounds you must hear from Another Realm, Unprocessed, The Owl Service and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Cool new prog from ĠENN, The Mon, Maha Sohona and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

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Asia announce a low-key UK warm-up charity show ahead of next year's Japanese tour

Asia will play a one-off show at The Corn Exchange, Ross-On-Wye, in January to raise money for Mike Peters' Love Hope Strength Foundation

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"How all deluxe releases should be done": The latest upmarket makeover of The Who's Who Are You is interesting and exhaustive

The Who’s last blast with Keith Moon

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“Leonardo DiCaprio released a movie with the exact same storyline. It was as if he’d bugged the room! We scrapped the whole thing”: When fate intervened to destroy an art-rock record, its creators wrote an album about fate

New concept LP begins with the true story of a baggage handler who stole a plane and killed himself, and goes on to celebrate a fake cult based on a toy ball

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"I was in the hotel with Joni Mitchell, but then the helicopter pilots decided they wanted more money": The last interview with Terry Reid

Touring with Marvin Gaye when he was 16, being pals with Aretha Franklin, turning down Led Zeppelin, making wonderful solo albums… Late British singer/guitarist Terry Reid had quite the life

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“Idiosyncrasies flow naturally; melodies hit hard, seamlessly twisting in unexpected ways”: Gazpacho’s Magic 8-Ball explores characters at breaking point

Norwegian art-rockers deliver tightly-focused songs after a Hollywood clash forced them to reboot their 12th album

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"John Lennon walked past me and said, 'Great record'": The story of the Alice Cooper song that began as a failed single on an album one critic called "a tragic waste of plastic" but finished as a worldwide smash hit

Rehashing a psychedelic tune from the days of Alice Cooper (the band), the man himself fashioned an OTT accompaniment to the 1972 presidential election

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Scott Sorry, former bassist with The Wildhearts, dead at 47

Singer-songwriter Scott Sorry also played with Brides Of Destruction and Sorry and the Sinatras

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What’s the greatest prog concept album of all time?

The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is incredible, but were Genesis outdone by Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, Rush, Marillion or even The Kinks?

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