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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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Pure Reason Revolution announce The Dark Third 20th Anniversary UK shows with Chloë Alper

Pure Reason Revolution vocalist, bassist and keyboardist Chloe Alper will return to the band for the first time in four years for two special live shows in February

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“Pop-punk and emo in the early 2000s was brutally misogynistic”: the story of Paramore's debut album and how it forced the scene to take a long, hard look at itself

As All We Know Is Falling turns 20, we look back at the record that introduced Hayley Williams and her band to the world

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Phil Manzanera and Andy Mackay share live version of Roxy Music's Out Of The Blue as they announce new AM PM Soho Live album

Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera, Andy Kackay and Paul Thompson unite for new live album AM PM Soho Live, out in September

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Cool new proggy sounds from Jo Quail, Steeleye Span, Chimpan A and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog you must hear from Between The Buried And Me, The Vintage Caravan, Aisles and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

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"The whole album shimmers with a sonic gloss that's brought it to the 21st century with no loss of historic integrity..." XTC's third album Drums And Wires gets new Steven Wilson Atmos mix

XTC's third album, Drums And Wires, will be released on heavyweight vinyl and CD/Blu-ray in September

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Steve Rothery and Thorsten Quaeschning share new video for Bioscope's latest single Gentō

Martillion guitarist Steve Rothery and Tangerine Dream's Thorsten Quaeschning will release new Bioscope album, Gentō,’ in July

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“The oddest thing was the audience trying to enjoy themselves when the sound system was barely audible”: Sky covered Bach’s Tocatta on Top Of The Pops… is it the least likely musical moment ever?

What happened when five serious musicians became pop stars of sorts for 11 weeks in 1980

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Long hair, tight pants and ripsaw sleaze guitars: Meet Ravagers, your new favourite glam-punk marauders

Part Hanoi Rocks, part their skanky selves, meet Ravagers, the band soundtracking the end of the world

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"A 12-banger cracker of a record": 51 years on, The Revenge Of Alice Cooper finds the original band in majestic form

The Alice Cooper group's first full studio album together since 1974’s Muscle Of Love is a convincing recreation of an old landscape

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Led Zeppelin announce details of new live EP and 50th anniversary edition of Physical Graffiti

Don't get too excited

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"I can't overstate my gratitude to Steve..." Steve Hackett keyboardist Roger King announces he's stepping back from the band

Steve Hackett's musical partner and producer, Roger King, announces that their next US tour will be his last

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"I puked up every where. Everyone thought it was marvellous rock 'n' roll behaviour." The night The Black Crowes got their pal Noel Gallagher from Oasis so wasted that he passed out in a toilet cubicle and had to be carried out of the building

Noel Gallagher's first night partying with The Black Crowes could have gone better

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“His songs are like a walk through his imagination – they draw you in and use all your senses”: Why Liv Kristine had to cover Mike Oldfield

Former Leaves’ Eyes vocalist admits she pretended to be Maggie Reilly, with a hairbrush for a microphone

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“It probably looks like we’re in a great position, but music doesn’t pay all our bills yet. One day we want to be able to play arenas”: When Haken doubled down on ambition with Virus

Secretly the second part of previous album Vector, their 2020 release featured more collaborative writing, more influences, and revealed more details about their Cockroach King character

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Stevie Nicks' and Lindsey Buckingham's cryptic social media posts are cryptic no more

Rejoice! The long-awaited reissue of the legendary Buckingham Nicks album is finally upon us

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Golden Earring guitarist George Kooymans dead at 77

George Kooymans was diagnosed with the degenerative muscle disease ALS in 2020

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“Ozzy, we love you, wherever you’re going.” Watch Coldplay pay tribute to Ozzy Osbourne by covering Black Sabbath classic Changes

Coldplay dedicate their show at the Nissan Stadium in Nashville to the "gift to the world who was Ozzy Osbourne"

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“People focus on the fact that he only played on the first record. But there were six years before that when he was their leader”: Rush movie makers knew they couldn’t leave John Rutsey out

2010’s Beyond The Lighted Stage was a triumph for Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen, who learned the secret of their fellow Canadians’ success as they shot the documentary

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