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"Even though he's dead, I believe that in a hundred years' time from now people will still be listening to him": Steve Vai on the wild genius of Frank Zappa – and the two words that made him want to join his band

They say never meet your heroes – Steve Vai would disagree

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Aerosmith and Yungblud team up with Steve Martin for banjo-boosted version of My Only Angel

Steve Martin puts a bluegrass spin on My Only Angel, the lead single from Aerosmith and Yungblud's upcoming One More Time EP

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“There were three hundred people there, and two hundred of those sang along to it, even though they’d never heard it before”: How a pre-fame Whitesnake made an overlooked R&B song their own – and finally got the blessing of the cult soul icon who wrote it

In 1978 Whitesnake turned a Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland chestnut into one of blues rock’s greatest anthems

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“When the band played, we sold out to 14,000 people a night. If I play, I’m not sure 14 people will turn up”: He's fought off a crisis of confidence, but the frontman of one of prog’s greatest groups still doesn’t know who he is

Adopted soon after birth, his search for clues to his identity inspired a book which then inspired an album – and there’s a reason it’s not a completely prog work

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"A record was made to reward close listening": Elton John - Captain Fantastic And The Brown Dirt Cowboy (50th Anniversary Edition)

Peak 70s Elton John, a songwriting triumph

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Jon Bon Jovi hangs with fans on the tube as he prepares for long-awaited return to touring

Commuters on London Underground were stunned to bump into Jon Bon Jovi – "Rock legends take the tube too"

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“Completely spontaneously, I started yodelling. It came from nowhere”: How an eccentric Dutch progressive rock group made the strangest hit single of 1973

It featured the greatest yodelling since The Sound Of Music

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“She had scratches on the side of her face. I said, ‘What happened?’She said, ‘Oh nothing, Keith threw the cat at me’”: Bill Wyman on Jimi Hendrix’s brilliance, Keith Moon’s madness and Mick Jagger’s brutal reaction to him leaving the Rolling Stones

The Beatles, The Who, Jimi Hendrix – ex-Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman has known them all

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“Thumping remixes might test many listeners’ patience, but there are also treasures to be found”: Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds in Deluxe and Ultimate editions

Sumptuous box sets that gather all available versions plus a wealth of bonus material – not all of which will be welcomed

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"She was not a Rush fan." Geddy Lee on Anika Nilles, who will attempt to fill the very big shoes of Neil Peart

Geddy Lee says new Rush drummer Anika Nilles did not grow up a fan of the band – but she is shining in the role

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Cool new proggy sounds you must hear from Charlotte Wessels, Leprous, Hällas and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Ace new prog from Altesia, Daniel Vincent Holosoil and All India Radio and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

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Martin Barre announces UK book tour dates for November and December

Former Jethro Tull guitarist Martin Barre will release his autobiography, A Trick Of The Memory: The Autobiography Of Jethro Tull’s Guitarist, in November

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"Love Chant is a wonderful and surprisingly vital return to the fray": The Lemonheads' first album of original songs in 20 years is up there with their best

The Lemonheads' eleventh album is fun, frantic, and full of classic hooks and self-deprecating refrains

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"The source material may be way past prime Bon Jovi, but that's almost irrelevant": Jon Bon Jovi gets by with a little help from his friends on revised version of Forever album

Bruce Springsteen, Joe Elliott, Avril Lavigne, Robbie Williams, Ed Sheeran and more clamber aboard the legendary Forever train from New Jersey

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“A fascinating opportunity to look under the hood of the songs and reimagine the strangeness they could conjure”: King Crimson’s In The Wake Of Poseidon and Lizard ultimate editions

Undervalued 1970 albums, created during period of upheaval, are presented for reinterpretation with help from Steven Wilson and David Singleton

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"I was in a cosy thing that went on too long... and I made a great escape": Robert Plant on musical freedom, unfinished business, and getting confused with Robert Palmer

Robert Plant talks about his latest group Saving Grace, and compares nights out in small provincial towns to meetings with Barack Obama and Prince Charles

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10cc drummer Paul Burgess announces departure from the band

Longstanding 10cc drummer Paul Burgess has announced his departure from the band, ending a relationship that stretches back over 50 years to 1973.

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“I once had a flirtation with heavy metal, and I regretted it very much. It didn’t seem to have any sense”: The British hellraisers who put legendary Beatles producer George Martin off working with hard rock bands

This is what happened when two worlds collided in the Caribbean

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"It certainly rubbed some people up the wrong way": The story of the sexually ambiguous anthem that got Placebo a tour with David Bowie

A three-minute rush of hedonism, Placebo’s alt-rock anthem raised two fingers to Britpop and got them on Top Of The Pops – so why do they feel so ambivalent about it?

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“It doesn’t just begin and end; it unfolds, then folds in on itself, and reconfigures with every subsequent play”: The Utopia Strong’s Doperider is an epic psychonaut’s journey

Unlikely supergroup’s third album moves away from Krautrock to explore new territories

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Wolfgang Van Halen comes of age on Mammoth's thundering third album The End

Now in his mid-thirties, Wolfgang Van Halen adds another compelling entry to a remarkable résumé

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"Oh good lord, we brought the banjo!" Larkin Poe bring southern sugar and smarts to London on their biggest ever UK headline show

Ten weeks ago, Larkin Poe lead singer Rebecca Lovell had a baby. Last night, she and her sister headlined the Hammersmith Apollo and threw in an unexpected cover of War Pigs

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Rush add even more dates to the tour they added more dates to earlier

Two days after announcing shows in 17 more cities on next year's Fifty Something Tour, Rush have added a series of second dates

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Bon Jovi announce return to the road for 2026, with shows in London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York confirmed

The rock legends will embark on their first tour since Jon Bon Jovi had surgery on his vocal cords in June 2022

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"It shouldn’t be a luxury to be able to afford to go and see live music." The Anchoress offers concessionary tickets to November London show

The Anchoress continues her drive to make live music more affordable with half-price tickets for Union Chapel show in November

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