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"The toughest thing I've ever done." The trauma behind Otis Redding's tragic classic (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay

Written by Otis Redding and his guitarist/producer Steve Cropper, (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay became one of the truly great songs

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Traffic founder Dave Mason dead at 79

Dave Mason worked with Traffic, Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, Delaney and Bonnie, Derek and the Dominos, Mama Cass, Fleetwood Mac and many more in a sixty-year career

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"People turned on us. It was as if they resented their big secret band suddenly being the property of the mainstream." After a decade's hard slog, a sublime ballad made stars of REO Speedwagon - and their die-hard fans didn't like it one bit

In the 1970s, REO Speedwagon were the Midwest rock band everyone was rooting for - until they actually had a hit

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"Basically all their songs are about loss and dying." Emo-loving pop star PinkPantheress on her favourite My Chemical Romance song

"I love Gerard Way!"

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Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno, Paul Weller, Massive Attack, Sigur Rós, Mogwai and more sign open letter asking the European Broadcasting Union to ban Israel from participating in Eurovision 2026

"We refuse to be silent. We refuse to be complicit"

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BBC's 2026 Proms season to feature a Prog Prom for the very first time!

"Prog is simply great music," says this year's Prog Prom curator and 6 Music Freak Zone presenter Stuart Maconie

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"Jaw-dropping from start to finish, Offering is a once-in-a-lifetime sort of album." A heartfelt salute to Axe's forgotten blue-collar gruntrock party classic

Revisiting one of melodic rock's greatest long-lost albums

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"I think he is a genius. He's the master of the middle eight." Big Big Train's Gregory Spawton picks the soundtrack of his life

Big Big Train co-founder Gregory Spawton picks his records, artistsand gigs of lasting significance

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“Professional pianists are the only ones who say, ‘I understand why he wanted to kill himself. I would think the same thing’”: Keith Emerson’s partner says his health issues were caused by his fear of letting people down

Mari Kawaguchi remembers hearing his best-ever performance of Tarkus in a Japanese dive bar, where the critics couldn’t hurt him

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"Only a couple of us saw that it was giving a glimpse of the future." How Aerosmith changed the internet as we know it

In 1994 Aerosmith did something no other major band had ever done, and gave the world a glimpse of what was to come

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"I won't stop until I'm able to actually sit down with Bob Seger, ideally playing darts, hopefully having a beer." Boston man goes viral for certifying bars as Bob Seger-friendly

It's god's work, but someone has to do it

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Sammy Hagar downsizes Best Of All Worlds UK tour to more "intimate" venues

"After waiting 30 years to come back, we really wanted to get this right"

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"It's been too long since we've been in the UK!" Joan Jett And The Blackhearts announce first UK headline tour in 16 years

Warning: rock 'n' roll icon incoming

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"A masterpiece, and yet not the band's finest hour." Every Smashing Pumpkins album ranked from worst to best

The collected studio works of Billy Corgan and company rated and ranked, from the so-so to the smashing

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: April 20, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Skindred, The Karma Effect, Billy Talent and more

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"It was an embarrassment, but we were desperate for the cash."How Thin Lizzy saved their career by recording an album of Deep Purple covers

It's late 1972, and Thin Lizzy are about to lose their record contract - then along comes an offer they can't afford to refuse

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"Turn the lights down, put your feet up, whisky chaser in one hand, beer in the other." A grieving Gregg Allman slows things down on the late-night gospel-country-blues of Laid Back

Gregg Allman takes a break from the Brothers to mourn his brother

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"Your Favorite Toy is a ferocious reaffirmation of Foo Fighters' initial post-grunge power." Troubled times call for torrential measures on hard-rocking new album from Dave Grohl and Co

Your Favourite Toy is the Foo Fighters' twelfth album and the follow-up to But Here We Are

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“She said, ‘Do you know anybody who plays keyboards?’ I lied and said, ‘Yeah – me!’” Hawkwind’s Magnus Martin isn’t actually a member of Hawkwind. He just never stopped turning up

The guitarist has been a fixture in Dave Brock’s band for nearly a decade, but his history with the space rockers goes much further back. Now he’s released his debut solo album too

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Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr to duet on Macca's new album The Boys of Dungeon Lane

The two surviving Beatles Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr sing on ode to Liverpool called Home to Us

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"We will miss you Prince!" As the 10th anniversary of his death nears, watch Bruce Springsteen, David Gilmour, Pearl Jam, Lenny Kravitz, Chris Cornell pay tribute to the legend that was Prince

Prince: 10 years gone, never forgotten

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Forget Live And Dangerous, No Sleep 'til Hammersmith and At Fillmore East, The Killer's Live at the Star Club, Hamburg is the greatest live show ever committed to vinyl

This isn't a record, it's a crime scene

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Cool new proggy sounds you need to hear from The Anchoress, Matt Berry, Magenta, Soen and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Ace new prog from Blueneck, Prince Of Failure, Million Moons and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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"I have been looking for that brain forever. Someone might be using it as a paperweight for all I know." The day that surrealist art legend Salvador Dalí recreated Alice Cooper’s brain using a chocolate éclair, ants and diamonds

"I wasn’t exactly sure what was going on"

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“I moved to an old Victorian pile where the previous owners had put a swimming pool in. I said, ‘Let’s fill it in.’ Then I said, ‘You know what we need? A Viking mead hall!’” Clive Nolan built a home venue so he doesn’t have to tour

Best known for his work with Pendragon and Arena, he’s given his passion for prog musicals a new lease of life – with practical assistance from his theatre group

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