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“This well-dressed man walked out on stage, reached inside of his jacket, pulled out a gun, and goes pop-pop-pop. I’m thinking: ‘Oh, I’m dead’”: The epic story of the rise, fall and resurrection of the original Alice Cooper band

The original Alice Cooper band have reunited for their first album in more than 50 years. This is how it happened

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“People saw us setting up and thought we were a ska band. Then we’d start playing and they’d just get more confused”: How nerd septet Thank You Scientist made the Oops! … I Did It Again of prog rock

Tom Monda explains the importance of humour, the nature of genres and how he plays his band like a piano

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Peter Hammill to release 20-disc The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971 - 1986 box set in September

Peter Hammill's solo albums for Charisma and Virgin Records have been newly remastered from the original master tapes.

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“She encourages us to ask big questions: Is there a reason to believe in a god? Are art and death aspects of the same experience? Can we just enjoy sex and stop being hung up about it?” Prog stars choose the 40 greatest Kate Bush songs of all time

Members of Marillion, King Crimson, Nightwish, Big Big Train and others compile a list of a uniqe artist’s most powerful and persuasive creations

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Fundraiser launched to help pay for Terry Reid's medical treatment as he battles cancer

Terry Reid postponed his upcoming European shows earlier this month

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Big Big Train announce trumpeter Paul Mitchell joins the band on a full-time basis

UK prog rockers Big Big Train bolster their line-up with the full-time addition of trumpeter, vocalist and percussionist Paul Mitchell

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David Gilmour announces Live At The Circus Maximus movie and The Luck And Strange Concerts live album

David Gilmour's Live At The Circus Maximums hits cinemas in September and is released in October

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Still outselling vinyl: A beginner's guide to the rise, fall and surprising longevity of the CD

Think CDs are dead? Last year 6.7 million vinyl albums and 10.5 million CDs were sold in the UK

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“You see the guy at the back playing guitar and looking awkward? I can’t even tell you his name!” Krautrock icons Can and their brief interlude as British pop stars

Their one-off exploration of disco-pop, I Want More, featured lyrics written by a roadie and gave them a Top 30 hit in the UK. They took the short-term clamour in their stride

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"She doesn't know the animal I am when I'm drinking and using": Why Josh Todd wrote Buckcherry's Sorry to apologise to his wife

Sorry, a song that has brought many fans to tears, gave Buckcherry their biggest radio hit

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Slash, Halestorm, Blackberry Smoke and more line up for star-studded Bad Company tribute album

Watch now: The Struts' video for their cover of Bad Company's Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy

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Paramore's Hayley Williams has just released a new 17-song solo album, Ego, but you'll need to buy something from her haircare company to get it

Don't go looking on Spotify or YouTube to hear Hayley Williams' new album, Ego

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"I formed this band for God’s sake! And I helped Roger a hell of a lot because he wasn’t a musician when we started." The lost Richard Wright interview

On the back of a Classic Rock cover story for Pink Floyd's The Wall back in 2000, keyboard player Richard Wright was determined to have his say. And he did

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"He was shooting up. He’d just lost his best friend. Who wouldn’t numb that blow if they could?" Actress Ione Skye recalls the night that her ex-boyfriend, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis, learned that RHCP guitarist Hillel Slovak had died

Ione Skye shares vivid memories of the night that broke Anthony Kiedis' heart

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"Can we put pressure on these Dr. Evil tech bros to do better?" King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard become most high-profile band to pull music from Spotify over CEO’s investments in military technology

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard remove music from Spotify as a protest against its CEO's involvment in the 'defence industry'

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 28, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Tuk Smith, Blues Pills, The Vintage Caravan and more

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"It's not too clever, it's not contrived - it's quite simply perfect": Electric Light Orchestra hit the right formula on A New World Record

A New World Record added Olympian levels of commercial success to Jeff Lynne's mix of melodic craft and production nous

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“I saw pyramids while listening to 2112 and I rode my bike as the street moved like water to YYZ”: Joseph Arthur’s first acid trip turned him on to the majesty of Rush

In an incident he doesn’t recommend emulating, the singer-songwriter’s appreciation for the Canadian giants was cemented – but that’s only one of four reasons he loves them

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“Ozzy used to come into our room to get away from his minders. He’d sit on the bed while having a sly puff of the magic Woodbine”: The epic story of Budgie, the cult heroes who inspired Metallica, Iron Maiden and Soundgarden

Budgie are one of the greatest rock bands no one really talks about these days

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“It’s for the ‘big spliff’ crowd, who frankly get terrified by Dogs or The Wall”: The Pink Floyd songs that influenced final Pink Floyd album The Endless River

The biggest influence on The Endless River? Pink Floyd themselves. Here are the sounds from the band’s past that informed their 2014 release

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"I want to lick you now!": Things are getting Extreme in the Fripp-Willcox household

Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox's ever-expanding archive of online tomfoolery has been updated

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“Grunge was taking off, and yet we were having our two biggest albums. It makes me wonder how well they’d have done had they been out in 1987”: The turbulent story of Lillian Axe, the 80s hard rock band who were too good for hair metal

Cult US hard rockers LIllian Axe should have been way bigger than they were

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"As a transitional record, More Songs About Buildings And Food is extraordinary": Talking Heads' second album, expanded

Talking Heads' More Songs About Buildings And Food takes the existential blankness of European art-rock and filters it through a uniquely American lens

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"We were sunbathing together outside of the dressing rooms": Thirty years ago, R.E.M. befriended a young British band and helped steer them on the path to greatness

The Athens, Georgia quartet had hand-picked a stellar support bill on the UK leg of the Monster tour, but there was one group to which they became mentors and friends

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“There was a sense that the record was the definitive music, and you were to reproduce that night after night. It became boring”: Wang Chung’s Jack Hues reinvented himself by revisiting prog influences Robert Wyatt, Radiohead and Talk Talk

Decades after playing to 80,000 people a night with Wang Chung, the Canterbury artist went wild on Epigonal Quark, with help from Syd Arthur and others

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