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Def Leppard quiz: How much do you know about Joe Elliott & Co.'s near-half-century career in rock?

Test your knowledge of Sheffield steel

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Phish announce nine-date residency at Las Vegas Sphere

Jam band veterans Phish return to Las Vegas after making their Sphere debut in 2024

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Uriah Heep, The Almighty and Doro confirmed for Maid Of Stone festival

The new additions join Saxon, The Temperance Movement, The Wildhearts, Danko Jones and more at next year's festival in Kent

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Fairport Convention announce Spring tour dates for 2026

Durable folk rockers Fairport Convention will celebrate their Diamond Anniversary in 2027

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“He sings in French, so you have no idea what he’s on about – but I’ve been told his lyrics are clever”: Snooker icon Steve Davis’ interesting and obscure prog picks

Utopia Strong member and DJ on his collection of over 2,000 records, most of which aren’t big names, and suggests a few to add to your own

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"It sounded as though someone was being murdered. The police were called out for the first time in five years": Chaos in the Caribbean and the story of UFO's No Place To Run

Just as UFO seemed poised to take the next step up, their ace-card guitarist Michael Schenker quit. Sotook off to the Caribbean and recorded No Place To Run without him

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Aerosmith and Yungblud tease collaboration with country star Lainey Wilson

The clue is in the cowboy hat

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: December 1, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from the Lemon Twigs, Elles Bailey, Black Eyed Sons and more

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“An attitude of jokey sabotage helps them avoid seeming precious – it even reinvents a couple of the tracks”: Jethro Tull’s Aqualung Live demonstrates its power 20 years on

First time on vinyl for 2005’s live take on a bona fide prog classic

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"One of the genre's greatest and most relentless masterpieces": Dave Mustaine attains thrash metal nirvana on Megadeth's Rust In Peace

No filler or flab on one of the most obscenely thrilling moments in all of recorded metal history

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“More accomplished and mature than might be expected… Surprisingly contemporary for a 41-year-old collection”: Solstice’s prog-folk classic Silent Dance returns

With assistance from Steven Wilson, band leader Andy Glass delivers a remix that even he can finally enjoy

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“One room, six of us in bunks, sleeping with the light on or the cockroaches would come in… that was the lowest point – before we got in the recording studio”: Japan’s career was much more fun than it seemed

Attacking punks, getting stuck on a disco label, fighting the New Romantic tag: Steve Jansen recalls how the schoolmates’ natural sense of rebellion became unique music before egos got in the way, and the flukes that made them big in actual Japan

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What really happened when the Sex Pistols appeared on the Bill Grundy show

Pistol on Disney+ dramatised the Sex Pistols' appearance on the Bill Grundy Show in December 1976. The truth is even better than the show

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Toyah and Robert Fripp scale bizarre new heights in latest Sunday Lunch video

Oh no! Toyah is trapped in a birdcage!

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“We were a really weird punk band that came out of hardcore and were shot into this vortex”: Fall Out Boy came out of the US hardcore scene. So how did they become poster boys for 21st century emo?

Chicago’s Fall Out Boy were playing to one person a night – and then MTV happened

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“In pursuing my own fake band, I stumbled upon something that had real potential”: How Porcupine Tree unexpectedly grew out of Steven Wilson’s “shameless pastiches”

He only wanted a harmless distraction from No-Man – but when the debut album sold 30 times its original pressing run, he had to take things more seriously

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“I said: ‘If the South Park guys are gonna do a Barbra Streisand on us, it’s a no’”: How Queen, The Who and Star Wars inspired the greatest power ballad about alien abduction ever written

It even got the South Park seal of approval

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“All it takes is someone like Neil to point at you and it’s on”: what Eddie Vedder learned making Pearl Jam’s Merkin Ball EP with Neil Young

The story of what happened when Vedder joined his bandmates and Young at the tailend of the sessions for Mirror Ball

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“I was ready to go out and really promote the album. But then Guns started to stir and the plug was pulled”: The ‘back-to-basics’ side-project that saw Slash step out of the shadow of Guns N’ Roses – and led to his departure from the band

Way before Velvet Revolver, Slash’s Snakepit were the GN’R guitarist’s first extra-curricular band

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“Bon downed about two bottles of bourbon and says, ‘Right, I’m ready’. And he was, too”: Why the best thing AC/DC released in the mid ’80s wasn’t an album – it was an EP of 10-year old songs

The ’74 Jailbreak EP was a reminder of what AC/DC sounded like at their rawest

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“If they are going to stick so violently to the form, then the standard of content must get a lot higher”: Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Free and the forgotten godfather of British blues who helped them all get off the ground

There were bigger and more famous British blues musicians, but few were as influential as the late Alexis Korner

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“It was the last embers of mine and Roger’s ability to work collaboratively together”: The transcendent Pink Floyd song that David Gilmour says marked the beginning of the end for the band

It featured not one but two astounding guitar solos

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“We’ve spent too much time raging against each other and not enough time raging against the machine”: the kiss-off covers album that brought Rage Against The Machine’s glorious first phase to a messy end

The LA quartet's fourth record Renegades was meant to be a celebration, only for Zack de la Rocha to leave the band before it was even released

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"It is no cowardly act to release something of this nature, but a service to those who believed in a band that did not compromise. And yes, it is f***ing heartbreaking." The story of My Chemical Romance's Fake Your Death, their "eulogy" of a 'final' song

Serving as My Chemical Romance's last song for nearly a decade, Fake Your Death remains a fascinating insight into saying goodbye to something that you love more than life itself

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"I don’t want racists around, and I don’t want sexist people around, and I don’t want people there who think that trans people are a burden" If you don't think that everybody should be welcome at a show, then Hayley Williams doesn't want you there

Hayley Williams is making it loud and clear; her shows are for everyone

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