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"It was a nightmare to mix, but we got it sounding raw and filthy." The Black Keys announce "primal" new album Peaches!, launch first single

The Black Keys have also announced two UK shows for later this year

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"Queen's music doesn't belong to Freddie. It doesn't even belong to Queen any more." Writer/comedian Ben Elton reveals why Robert DeNiro's dream of making a musical about Freddie Mercury's life was vetoed by Brian May and Roger Taylor

The story behind the Queen musical that never saw the light of day

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"It was this dream song that just turned up as I was waking up one morning. It came to me fully formed." The story of the cinematic classic that kick-started Bob Mould's second life

Bob Mould spent much of 1991 on punishing tours in a bid to salvage his ailing career - then came the song that showed him the way forward

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"I'm a grownass woman. I’m a female in the world taking care of myself. I can do whatever I want." Femme Fatale singer Lorraine Lewis on relaunching the band, skydiving in a bodysuit and joining OnlyFans

Femme Fatale's original 80s singer Lorraine Lewis returns with a new line-up and the same drive and ambition

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“The email said, ‘John Cale is looking for you.’ It absolutely terrified me. I thought I was in trouble!” How the Velvet Underground icon voiced a powerful song on Cate Le Bon’s new album

Michelangelo Dying, which she says is more of an exorcism than an album, was nearly released without Cale performing on the track Ride, because she was too afraid to ask him

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"When people hear my versions of pop songs, they're shocked. They never expect to hear Adele sound like that." Meet Solomon Hicks, the New York guitarist bringing the blues to a new audience

Solomon Hicks just wants to make you feel good

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"When Robert Plant introduced me I achieved closure. I had my song back for the first time since 1961." How Bonnie Dobson's post-apocalyptic first song finally found its way home via the Grateful Dead, Nazareth, Jeff Beck, the Allman Brothers and more

For over three decades, Morning Dew's authorship was in dispute, but its author wasn't afraid to call out the injustice

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"This is far and away the best live version of Paradise City I've ever seen": Rare footage of Guns N' Roses playing live in 1987 surfaces online

The footage of Paradise City was shot on the same night Guns N' Roses filmed the Welcome To The Jungle video

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"Iʼm not doing it out of guilt. Even if I didnʼt do it, the poverty would still be there." How getting stuck in a "rut", some tempting by Bob Geldof and the most A-list bill in history helped Queen pull off the greatest rock set of all time

Queen's Live Aid performance has become the stuff of legend – we look back at how the iconic set really happened

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No rules. No limits. No quarter. Led Zeppelin: 18 months on the road with the biggest band in the world - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in Classic Rock 350: Smashing Pumpkins, Michael Monroe, Jay Buchanan, Joan Armatrading, BB King, Ten Years After, The Mission, The Boomtown Rats, Tyketto, Danny Francis, Peter Capaldi and more

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Deep Purple announce one-off show at London's iconic Royal Albert Hall

Deep Purple are to return to the scene of their Concerto For Group And Orchestra live album

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"We have no use for a standalone singer who doesn't play an instrument, preening themselves like a rock god": Atomic Rooster guitarist Steve Bolton on reviving the band, changing frontmen, and John Entwistle's phallic number plate

On the back of their first album in 42 years, Atomic Rooster are about to hit the road

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“The school would kick everybody out with hair that touched their ears. Someone on the board found out we were wearing short-haired wigs!” Steve Morse endured educational woes, dodgy gear and jazz snobbery, but knew he could make it as a guitarist

The ex Deep Purple member recalls how he got started in music, and beginning to write Kansas-style songs – long before he accidentally joined them

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"The aspects of America that are really magical to us are the things it seems to reject, like black music or the Beat poets": The story of the multi-version David Bowie song that captured his revulsion of American corporate dominance

With input from Trent Reznor and Ice Cube, I'm Afraid Of Americans was rescued from Showgirls ignominy and given a prescient, unnerving video

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"Once you're comfortable in this space, don't overthink it, just enjoy it." A new recording studio at a historic English school has been named after Justin Hawkins

The Darkness frontman attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of The Justin Hawkins Recording Studio

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"A one-man calamity, catastrophe. No trace of sanity, an empty shell": Queen's Roger Taylor releases surprise protest song Chumps and doesn't pull his punches

Chumps is the latest in a long line of politically-charged songs from the Queen drummer

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: February 2, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Skindred, Suzi Quatro, Karnivool and more

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“We’re not flower children and we’re not yuppies. We’re somewhere in between – the Van Der Graaf Generation”: They had links to Jethro Tull, Voivod and The Cure. Did you really think Men Without Hats were all new wave and no prog?

The classically-trained Canadians were wearing their influences with pride by fifth album Sideways. And they were making a concept album about UFOs when their label dropped them

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"There was no real sign that it was abig protest song, so most people listened to it and didn’t realise": The story of the anti-war commentary disguised as a four-minute pop song that set R.E.M. on the path to global success and stardom

R.E.M. countered accusations of selling out to a major by using their commercialclout to promote their political activism

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"Highly listenable background music." The Alan Parsons Project bake up the ear candy on Eye In The Sky like punk, NWOBHM and new wave pop rock never happened

Alan Parsons' most commercially successful album bore fruit with the sports anthem Sirius and the hits Eye In The Sky and Old And Wise

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"He asked me 'Do you have long hair? Are you willing to wear a dress and high heels? Are you willing to wear lipstick?' Those questions fascinated me." Peter Criss recalls his first conversation with Gene Simmons and the birth of Kiss

Founding Kiss drummer Peter Criss was intrigued by a strange phone conversation that led to rock and roll greatness

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“I wrote it on a piece of paper somewhere on tour, and I thought, ‘That’s an album!’” A glimpse of how Ian Anderson creates Jethro Tull lyrics

He recalled the spark that ignited Thick As A Brick when he decided to publish a lyric book – which he admitted nobody needed, and feared would be a cringe experience

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"The ‘bucket’ is all the crap that goes around our head all the time." Peter Gabriel shares new single Put The Bucket Down

Peter Gabriel will release new single every full moon at midnight in the build-up to new studio album o\i.

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“The two Johns very began to hate doing TV shows that wanted us to mime. For a band that worshipped Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy and UFO, it became a really big problem”: The huge 80s hard rock hit that drove a wedge between the band that made it

The Final Countdown pushed Europe into the pop charts – and not everyone was happy about it

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"We don't accept the brutality, the lies, the loss of our simplest pleasures": Joan Jett joins growing list of musicians to voice solidarity with anti-ICE protesters

Jett read a prepared statement during a show in New Zealand

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