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Ritchie Blackmore is planning on playing with Deep Purple tonight, an occurrence more rare than today's total solar eclipse

Ritchie Blackmore will join Deep Purple onstage tonight for the first time since 1993

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Thunder frontman Danny Bowes announces Under Pressure spoken word tour – and it's going to be entirely unscripted

Danny Bowes, who suffered a serious stroke in 2022, has been unable to sing since the incident

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Rival Sons' frontman Jay Buchanan announces solo acoustic tour. "I'll be running lean and mean out to see my country and telling some stories"

Jay Buchanan's Storyteller tour will take place ahead of Rival Sons' upcoming US dates

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Rod Stewart cancels upcoming tour dates after undergoing heart surgery

After undergoing a routine coronary stent procedure, Rod Stewart has abandoned his current touring schedule

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Neil Peart documentary No One's Disciple will premiere at Toronto International Film Festival next month

Fans can expect "an exhilarating and poignant tribute to late Rush legend Neil Peart"

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Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker recalls his suicidal thoughts following the horrific 2008 plane crash in which his security guard and assistant died: "There was no light at the end of the tunnel"

Travis Barker recalls his darkest days in revealing new interview

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Sonja Kristina looks back over half a century of Curved Air. "I was wearing my green corduroy hippie outfit and Polaroid glasses. They played such stunningly beautiful music"

Curved Air's final tour has been postponed until next year, but singer Sonja Kristina has plans for one final blow-out

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The story of the anthem that broke Free in America - then broke up the band. "I'll never forget Koss's reaction. He slumped like he'd been hit in the stomach"

All Right Now was an instant classic, but it also created instant problems for Free

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"I wanted to get Jeff Beck in the band. Then I wanted to get Keith Moon. I went for the big time." George Thorogood is at peace with not being Bob Seger or Steve Miller

George Thorogood turned barroom blues into arena rock, traded licks with greats, and missed out on dates with the Stones when commitments got in the way... and he's done it all his own way

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Sopranos star Steven Van Zandt has written a TV show about three brothers - a rock star, a gangster and a FBI agent - and he wants Johnny Depp to take a starring role

E Street Band legend Little Steven has written six TV show scripts and he's hoping a network will option at least one

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Oasis: The story of a very British phenomenon in 12 songs

It's 30 years since Liam and Noel Gallagher's band played their history-making two night stand at Knebworth. Here's a reminder of what makes Oasis so special for so many

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“I said, ‘I quit!’ He said, ‘Take six months off, then I’ll call and find out if you’ve still left.’ When he called I couldn’t remember what we’d been arguing about”: Steve Hogarth, Marillion and several false starts

Why wasn’t the singer bothered about singing? Why did miners keep attacking him in Doncaster? How did the music industry break his heart? Which collaborator makes him worry about being strangled? The “hippie in the jaws of punk” looks back

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 10, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Grace Bowers, the Pineapple Thief, Crossbone Skully and more

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"A master at bringing the guitar to life and giving it a voice." Fifty years on, Robin Trower's Bridge Of Sighs is still an all-time blues rock classic

Bridge Of Sighs was the second of Robin Tower's power trio’s superb trilogy of back-to-back albums in the mid-70s, and sealed his reputation

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How Pete Townshend turned youthful disgust into The Who's biggest hit. "I didn't like being confronted with money and the class system and power"

Inspired by his wealthy neighbours and reinforced by a run-in with the Queen Mother, My Generation is a mod anthem turned rock legend

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"This song is not a rebel song." The story behind U2's emotional, controversial, and often misunderstood, protest anthem Sunday Bloody Sunday

How rage, despair and a desire for peace fuelled a U2 classic

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Geddy Lee tells of spooky Neil Peart-related bird encounter. "I'm not a guy who believes in all that mumbo jumbo. But it was a remarkable moment"

On the opening night of Rush's Fifty Something tour, Geddy Lee felt the presence of Neil Peart in the shape of a tiny visitor

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“They’d say, ‘I guess you’ll be retiring? There won’t be any more tours?’ I’d write it down and bite my lip”: The Anchoress had a baby, not a lobotomy, and wrote a satirical song about it

The lead track from new album As We Once Were is inspired by everyone who pissed her off. But it’s humorous, not a rant

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“We were all pushing each other. We all had ideas as to where it should go. It was an intense time”: The Pineapple Thief asked how the world went off-script with It Leads To This

Order, chaos, abandoned comfort zones and healthy tension arose as Bruce Soord and Gavin Harrison took the lead with the band’s 14th album – which left Soord feeling like it was only their fourth

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How Gregg Allman turned late-night despair into the classic Whipping Post. "I didn't know exactly what I was doing. I just did it."

Written in the dark on an ironing board cover, Gregg Allman's raw heartbreak became an explosive blues-rock masterpiece that defined Southern rock

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Lindsey Buckingham hints at a new project with Stevie Nicks: “Quite a few things will reveal themselves.”

Fleetwood Mac reunion or a new Buckingham Nicks album? We’ll take either

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“We had been on the road pretty heavily and we were burned”: How Bad Company karate chopped their way through burnout to make their great ‘lost’ album

If ever a gold-selling Top 20 album can be overlooked, then Bad Co’s Burnin’ Sky is it

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Blur, No Doubt, Madonna producer William Orbit dead at 69

Tributes paid to English producer and composer who passed away last month

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"If AOR fans want a long-lost cult-classic, Night Of The Crime most certainly fits the bill." The story of Icon's stunning melodic metal masterpiece

They came from the desert, and they rocked

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Heart have finished recording their first album in a decade. "It's what we were born to do, and do together"

Nancy Wilson says Heart are working on an album, a world tour, a documentary and a live-action feature film

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