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"It has all that weight, all that history, all that pain." How Hollywood superstar Cillian Murphy convinced one of the world's most acclaimed musicians to re-record one of his best-loved songs for the new Peaky Blinders movie

"I said, You need to call them!"

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"I should be dead, but someone up there likes me." Billy Idol looks back on his wild adventures in '80s New York, including the night he met David Bowie while covered in his own vomit

"It was a post-apocalyptic place, like the bomb had been dropped and we were living in the rubble"

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Soundboks raise the roof once again with their latest heavyweight Bluetooth speaker

The Soundboks Mix is the latest in the Danish brand’s ever-growing range of speakers - and this one isn’t messing around with a max volume of 121dB

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 23, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Muse, Crown Lands, the Black Keys and more

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"Open your mind. Wear what you want, sing what you want to sing, be what you want to be. Be happy." Ana Popovic on fixing the craziness in the world, getting Bruce Springsteen's approval and turning funky

Ana Popovic is about to bring her fiery, guitar-laced blues to London

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"He said: 'Hold it! Keep playing that, don't stop!' He comes down in his undershorts and grabs his guitar, then completes the riff." How London’s famous clock tower and a flirtatious groupie inspired Jimi Hendrix's last great song

A story of Hawaiian volcanoes and Mick Jagger's bloody finger

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"On paper, it's hard to imagine Ronstadt as a road-weary trucker, but she completely owns Lowell George's Willin'." Linda Ronstadt gently explores an eclectic selection of songs on Heart Like A Wheel

Heart Like A Wheel was a key step in Ronstadt's mid-70s rise, thanks to an astute choice of songs, smart production and *that* voice

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"I am highly insulted that Moby would accuse my brother of being 'unevolved' or transphobic in any way." Dave Davies fires back after criticism of The Kinks' classic Lola

Moby describes Lola's lyrics as "gross and transphobic" and "unevolved"

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“The Genesis guys said they liked the track, which was ironic. It was one of the reasons I’d left. I thought there was no chance of getting them to do it”: How Steve Hackett’s risky solo move paid off

A fateful Jaco Pastorius show, a run-in with LA cops, rebuilding a Genesis song… Please Don’t Touch! aimed to tackle the unanswerable question, ‘What is prog?’

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"This is a song about one of Ben’s friends that has multiple sclerosis. I am that friend with MS." How one Canadian punk band turned a life-altering diagnosis into an anthem of resilience

Billy Talent drummer Aaron Solowoniuk told fans he was the subject of the song, This Is How It Goes

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“I said, ‘To be honest, our first single was a fast, punky version of your song.’ They all chorused, ‘Yes, we know!’”: How Kraftwerk influenced a band who influenced a whole era of British music

An undersold concert by the German icons in 1975 led a young duo to adopt electronic instruments. Their first song launched a clutch of cutting-edge genres

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Bloody Well Right! Breakfast In America might have had the bangers, but it was Crime Of The Century that truly saved Supertramp's bacon

Facing the harsh reality of their first two albums being commercial flops, Supertramp were staring into the abyss when they came to make third album, Crime Of The Century

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"I started shooting up heroin when I was 13. I didn't want to be left out of all the fun." How a damaged teenage drug dealer channelled black days into platinum records

"I knew how to fail, but I didn’t know how to win"

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“40 years later, I still get to do the thing I love the most. I truly have to pinch myself.” One of America's greatest alternative rock bands announce 40th anniversary tour

Greg Dulli's men in black are back

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"I remember getting the award from Aerosmith and I went to an afterparty with Bono. It was all mad." How a comedy song about a posh lady getting her kicks from the homeless community became an impossible hit

When three acquaintances decided to make a joke song about a bizarre topic just for the hell of it, they can't have foreseen what'd happen next

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"We jokingly called the album Commercial Suicide while we were making it." Why one of the world's biggest rock bands had to go back to "ground zero" on their riskiest and darkest record

"Some reports said that it was a great record, but we should consider changing our name"

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Cool new prog you must hear from Crown Lands, Tarja, Ed O'Brien and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog you must hear from Ebony Buckle, Grice, Amulets and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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"Steven's happy we're doing this and thinks it'll be great fun." Porcupine Tree offshoot Voyage 35 tease first new/old music

Former Porcupine Tree alumni Colin Edwin and John Wesley will release a new version of Porcupine Tree's The Notsalgia Factory in April

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"I had women with babies they said were his, women stripping their clothes off on the doorstep." My chaotic life as Phil Lynott's girlfriend

Gale Claydon met Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott when she was 18 years old and spent the next five years with him, through thick and thin

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"Bringing the bass and drums down so you can't hear them makes the lead guitar sound fantastic. Jack White made a career out of it." The story of the ferocious classic that was inspired by Vietnam and set a template for punk

The Stooges' Search And Destroy began with James Williamson "goofing around making machine-gun sounds" but countless others adopted its combination of pounding rhythm and aggressive guitar

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Kraftwerk announce 50th anniversary reissues for Radio-Activity

Kraftwerk's fifth studio album, Radio-Activity, will be released on Blu-ray, vinyl and digitally with a new Dolby Atmos mix

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"He communicates at a very deep emotional level with the electric guitar." Dr. Who actor Peter Capaldi on the music that has soundtracked his life

Singer/guitarist/actor/Time Lord Peter Capaldi picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

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"It was like something from Mad Max, with all the fires and steaming bodies." Meet the rock'n'roll Forrest Gump, who turned down Jimi Hendrix, butted heads with Lemmy, and was saved from a bad trip by Pete Townshend

As Ten Years After release an expanded version of their Ssssh album, founding bassist Leo Lyons recalls a live packed with rock'n'roll flashpoints

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Muse return with bombastic new single as they announce tenth studio album

Muse share video for new single Be With You and will release The Wow! Signal in June

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"At the height of Britpop, it was like music was a joke." The truth behind the '90s highly entertaining Mogwai vs Blur feud

The story behind the Britpop era's most one-sided 'battle'

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