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Still outselling vinyl: A beginner's guide to the rise, fall and surprising longevity of the CD

Think CDs are dead? Last year 6.7 million vinyl albums and 10.5 million CDs were sold in the UK

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“You see the guy at the back playing guitar and looking awkward? I can’t even tell you his name!” Krautrock icons Can and their brief interlude as British pop stars

Their one-off exploration of disco-pop, I Want More, featured lyrics written by a roadie and gave them a Top 30 hit in the UK. They took the short-term clamour in their stride

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"She doesn't know the animal I am when I'm drinking and using": Why Josh Todd wrote Buckcherry's Sorry to apologise to his wife

Sorry, a song that has brought many fans to tears, gave Buckcherry their biggest radio hit

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Slash, Halestorm, Blackberry Smoke and more line up for star-studded Bad Company tribute album

Watch now: The Struts' video for their cover of Bad Company's Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy

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Paramore's Hayley Williams has just released a new 17-song solo album, Ego, but you'll need to buy something from her haircare company to get it

Don't go looking on Spotify or YouTube to hear Hayley Williams' new album, Ego

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"I formed this band for God’s sake! And I helped Roger a hell of a lot because he wasn’t a musician when we started." The lost Richard Wright interview

On the back of a Classic Rock cover story for Pink Floyd's The Wall back in 2000, keyboard player Richard Wright was determined to have his say. And he did

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"He was shooting up. He’d just lost his best friend. Who wouldn’t numb that blow if they could?" Actress Ione Skye recalls the night that her ex-boyfriend, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Anthony Kiedis, learned that RHCP guitarist Hillel Slovak had died

Ione Skye shares vivid memories of the night that broke Anthony Kiedis' heart

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"Can we put pressure on these Dr. Evil tech bros to do better?" King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard become most high-profile band to pull music from Spotify over CEO’s investments in military technology

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard remove music from Spotify as a protest against its CEO's involvment in the 'defence industry'

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: July 28, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Tuk Smith, Blues Pills, The Vintage Caravan and more

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"It's not too clever, it's not contrived - it's quite simply perfect": Electric Light Orchestra hit the right formula on A New World Record

A New World Record added Olympian levels of commercial success to Jeff Lynne's mix of melodic craft and production nous

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“I saw pyramids while listening to 2112 and I rode my bike as the street moved like water to YYZ”: Joseph Arthur’s first acid trip turned him on to the majesty of Rush

In an incident he doesn’t recommend emulating, the singer-songwriter’s appreciation for the Canadian giants was cemented – but that’s only one of four reasons he loves them

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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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