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"I'd been conscious of hardly ever being able to capture the heart, soul and spirit of the band." How David Coverdale led a fans' choir to create the connoisseur's favourite Whitesnake album

With three studio albums under their belt, Whitesnake unleashed their live sound on the world in a double dose of Hammersmith havoc

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“He cannot do that – it’s a criminal act! This is destroying classical music!”: Orchestral players were horrified by Keith Emerson’s work. But times have changed, says acclaimed conductor

Terje Mikkelsen was once told to avoid the ELP icon’s material. He ignored that advice, and went on to collaborate with Emerson himself

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“I used Steven Wilson’s Mellotron in exchange for me guesting at his London Palladium show!”: Prog pioneers Soft Machine spared no effort on their new album, then took a risk by calling it Thirteen

Theo Travis on tempting fate, revisiting a tradition, being the best-tempered line-up since the beginning in 1966, and adding a posthumous appearance by co-founder Daevid Allen

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"There's been times where I've gone: 'Oh my god, how am I gonna get through this?'" Jeff Scott Soto might be labelled a journeyman, but what an adventure it's been

Jeff Scott Soto has sung with Journey, Yngwie Malmsteen, Sons Of Apollo, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Talisman, W.E.T., Art Of Anarchy and more

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"Thanks for the wild ride." Greta Van Fleet share cryptic social media post and some fans think they've broken up

It's confusing

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: May 4, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from The Gulps, Girl Tones, These Wicked Rivers and more

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"Freddie said, Darling, leave it to me. I believe in this." The story behind Another One Bites The Dust, Queen's best-selling single ever

"A lot of people bought the single and came to our shows thinking we were a black act"

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"Ninety-nine per cent of bands would have broken up after what we've been through." After weathering personal loss, recovery and a changing line-up, A Thousand Horses have finally delivered the "full-throttle" album they were born to make

White Flag Down is A Thousand Horses' most personal work by far

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"Underwhelming considering the talent involved." Supergroup Wild Horses pull up short on lacklustre debut studio album

Rainbow's Jimmy Bain + Thin Lizzy's Brian Robertson = Mild Horses

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"I'm going to be a bit sad when we hit the stage and I'm facing the audience and not facing her because I’m having so much fun playing along with her." Geddy Lee reveals what it's like working with new Rush drummer Anika Nilles

Rush are preparing 38 songs for their Fifty Something tour, which begins next month

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Child sexual assault lawsuit which Aerosmith's Steven Tyler hoped to get dismissed is heading for trial

Judge dismisses majority of child sexual assault lawsuit against Steven Tyler but he will face a jury in August

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“It’s to encourage activism… we’re more likely to engage if we feel hope”: Peter Gabriel launches new o/i single Won’t Stand Down

The Bright-Side Mix marks May’s first full moon, while the Dark-Side Mix will be released at the time of the new moon

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"Mr Rotten joins in the fight, and has a few kicks at the victim." 50 years on, Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant still has vivid memories of seeing the Sex Pistols for the first time in 1976

An early Sex Pistols show made quite an impact on Pet Shop Boys frontman Neil Tennant

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"He took me out to his Rolls-Royce and played it. I was a little bit embarrassed because it's a bit saucy." The day that Spice Girl Mel C learned that Red Hot Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis had written a song about her

"Were we in a relationship? We did go on a date."

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“Sounds of the universe crying”: This pop icon’s label wanted a pop solo album. He gave them a prog record instead. Which is why they suppressed it for three years

Maybe the fact that King Crimson’s Robert Fripp had been hired to produce and play on the 1977 project was enough to scare the suits

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"Other than a forty-eight-piece string orchestra, everything else was the band or synths." The story of the global hit inspired by Lego and Simon & Garfunkel that soundtracked a Martian invasion

A decade in the making, the classic ballad featuring Moody Blues singer Justin Hayward was a standout on Jeff Wayne’s epic prog sci-fi album The War Of The Worlds

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"You're never too old to learn a bit about technique." Colin Blunstone on The Zombies, keeping it in the family, and looking after what Suzannah Hoffs calls his "just plain sexy" voice

It’s that time of the season - Zombies singer Colin Blunstone is touring the UK this month

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"I can't physically breathe if I can’t play music." With a musical education from his grandfather, former busker Ty Freeman is now playing with his childhood heroes

Getting hooked on music from first hearing Robert Plant and Freddie Mercury ain’t a bad place to start

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"I think I kinda blew it." After her bid for stardom stumbled, Fiona became a suburban soccer mom. But the death of Warrant's Jani Lane inspired her to give rock one last shot

Fiona took on Hollywood with Bob Dylan, sang on Warrant's Cherry Pie, made four albums, then disappeared. Two decades later, she was back

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Soho Dukes started as a 19th-century drinking club. Now they're bringing fun back to rock'n'roll

Hats off to a band with a questionable past and sword-swallowing, trick-cycling, lion-taming grandparents

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"I was pissed off. This disrespects the band." Dave Brock slams BBC suggestion that Hawkwind were anti-Beatles and stole Paul McCartney's long-lost bass

Paul McCartney: The Hunt For The Lost Bass tells the story of the former Beatle's long-lost Höfner violin bass

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"Mike lived a life of beauty and never gave up right to the very end." Details of the final album by The Alarm confirmed

The Alarm's Transformation was originally scheduled for release in 2025, but was put on hold in the wake of frontman Mike Peters' death

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"A welcome return to the cranked-up amps, distortion and rawness that first fuelled them." The Black Keys go back to basics on the revitalised, urgent and gloriously unrefined Peaches!

Blues rockers The Black Keys return to their roots in more ways than one

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"The album careens so quickly between clever and stupid that I'm surprised it hasn't become a cult classic." A story of flick-knives, tyre-irons, and Desmond Child's little-remembered 'gang rock' phase

Before he was churning out megahits with Aerosmith, Bon Jovi and Kiss, Desmond Child was the cornball king of streetfighting anthems

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“Time is short and I have things that I need to make before I die”: Kristoffer Rygg won’t discuss the darkness that led Ulver to latest album Neverland and a new positive energy

Norwegian chameleon rejected the nation’s controversial black metal scene, then rejected his record label, and recently rejected synthpop. Now he’s rejected the tragedy of the band’s past – and partying too – to embrace freedom instead

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