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“We never ever wanted a hit, so it was irrelevant”: Quantum Jump didn’t write the longest prog single, but they took the longest word in the dictionary to Number 5 via their 1979 track The Lone Ranger

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"Eddie Van Halen literally ran away from me!" Yngwie Malmsteen's wild tales of Lemmy, Ronnie James Dio, Metallica and more

Even talked soccer with Ritchie Blackmore as he lies on a table in a black leather trench coat, looking like Burt Reynolds? Shred king Yngwie Malmsteen has

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On the road with America's loudest survivors: Aerosmith, Kiss, and the making of Honkin' On Bobo

With the back-to-basics blues-oriented album Honkin' On Bobo, Aerosmith let the music do the talking once again

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A beginner's guide to 70s AOR in 10 essential albums

AOR might have come truly blossoming into platinum-tinged life in the 1980s, but the genre had been holding lighters aloft and weeping in its beer in the 1970s. These are the best albums

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Previously unseen pro-shot footage of Captain Beefheart performing live in Paris in 1972 has surfaced online

The newly discovered footage has lain unseen in the vaults for more than 50 years

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Coheed And Cambria announce October European and UK tour

UK prog rockers Haken will support Coheed at their five UK shows

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"He's got a way of reaching into my soul": The soundtrack of Samantha Fish's life

Guitarist and singer Samantha Fish picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the greatest cover version of all time

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"We didn't want to become known as a ballad band. That's how you become Air Supply": Night Ranger look back on their sudden rise, equally sudden fall, and return to mid-level happiness

How did Night Ranger, a hard rock band with a few good licks and a few bad hairdos, suddenly find themselves in charts and stadiums all over the world?

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“My hand ran off the keyboard… I ground to a halt, threw my hands in the hair, and everyone looked at me. My father thought I was taking a bow and was very proud!” Genesis’ best and worst moments on stage

Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford on the band’s messy first show, hitting the road without Peter Gabriel, and what makes touring fun

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"These are films I've waited years to work on": 40 minutes of newly scanned footage of Led Zeppelin playing in Tokyo in 1971 has appeared online

The footage was shot at Led Zeppelin's first Japanese show at Tokyo's famous Nippon Budokan Hall

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"It’s a completely different thing to a band where I’m hiding in the back." Lars Fredrik Frøislie and the story of his debut solo album Fire Fortellinger

Wobbler's defiantly old school keyboard player Lars Fredrik Frøislie finall went solo with his debut solo album Fire Fortellinger

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"I don’t want to pretend everything’s hunky dory." Shirley Manson says that she feels "isolated" in Garbage, admits "there's very little proper communication about anything at all"

Shirley Manson admits to frustrations with the Garbage "boys’ club"

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"I remember showing the lyrics to my grandmother, saying, Look at this, this is like poetry!" Gavin and Stacey and Would I Lie To You? star Rob Brydon on his life-long love of Bruce Springsteen

Rob Brydon has been a devoted Bruce Springsteen fan for over 40 years

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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Featuring Halestorm, The Cold Stares, Cardinal Black and five other rock'n'roll warriors on the edge of time

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"There’s a lot less ‘James Hetfield strangling a goat’ in the singing department." New Volbeat album God Of Angels Trust won't surprise you, but it will get you banging that head

Volbeat know their formula and stick to it well - for better and worse

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“Knowingly progressive and endearingly archetypal in a way that only two young pop historians could fathom”: If you thought Ween were taking the piss with The Mollusk, you were wrong

When traditional prog was all at sea in the mid-90s, this shameless concept album, bedecked in Pink Floyd colours, sailed to the rescue

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"Ritchie Blackmore gave me a wave as he fell backwards. That was my cue to do a ten-minute keyboard solo": Don Airey on Rainbow, Deep Purple and his awesome solo album Pushed To The Edge

Deep Purple keyboard player, go-to session guy and solo artist Don Airey on his new album, touring, Purple, Blackmore and more

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“In 1989 I paid a scalper $400 for a ticket to see The Who play Tommy. It was worth every cent”: Mike Portnoy on his top prog songs and artists, and why the Rolling Stones have the greatest-ever prog album sleeve

The Dream Theater drummer’s musical world includes Rush, Yes, King Crimson, Roger Waters and Frank Zappa – alongside the Bee Gees

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"After nearly 50 years, this album still packs a punch - vital, visceral and contemporary as hell": Ian Dury becomes an unlikely pop star on New Boots And Panties!!

Ian Dury: Equal parts music-hall scamp, art school troubadour, estuary poet and new-wave figurehead

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“I thought you really had to work to make a song great. That’s actually a load of crap – the best songs I’ve written took 10 minutes”: When The Pineapple Thief began to break through with Someone Here Is Missing

Just before their eighth album arrived, Bruce Soord reflected on remixing his back catalogue, learning to keep a distance from fans and the validity of comparisons with Porcupine Tree

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“Rock'n'roll is a volatile thing... this is not an accounting office”: the story of Rated R, Queens Of The Stone Age’s strange, brilliant breakthrough record

The tale of Josh Homme & co.’s excellent second album, which turns 25 this month, and how metal icon Rob Halford came to make a cameo on it.

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“If you don’t get it, you’re all idiots!” He went to no.1, ruled at Back To The Beginning, and – with a double concept album in two parts – he wants to compete with the greats. Is Yungblud the rock star we need right now?

Yungblud collabs with Louder to discuss new album Idols Pt 1 and taking his seat at the 'big boys' table'. "Rock music has got such a turned-up nose…”

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Grab your exclusive Louder x Yungblud T-shirt featuring handwritten lyrics by Dominic Harrison

You can't find this exclusive Yungblud shirt design anywhere else

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"I said Never Take Me Alive should be the single and the record company looked at me like, ‘That's commercial suicide!’ Luckily, it was a hit…” Spear Of Destiny's Kirk Brandon on hits, heart attacks and Theatre Of Hate

The indestructible Kirk Brandon on the unlikely origins of Theatre Of Hate and Spear Of Destiny and why he really is a dead man walking

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Why the Adore tour was the messiest, most all-over-the-shop moment in Smashing Pumpkins’ history (and it’s not just because some bloke wee’d on my foot at one of the gigs)

Billy Corgan & co. totally lost the plot in the bid to try and replace Jimmy Chamberlin in 1998. Two words: "percussion solo".

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