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“The music needed to be paced differently and we needed a bit more going for us, thematically. We very much realised we needed a new identity to rise above the fray”: Wishbone Ash laid a plan for Argus, and surprised themselves when it worked

War, peace, dictators and a failed pursuit of young love were at the heart of the band’s attempt to make “proper grown-up music” in 1972

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The Cure announce huge summer 2026 UK and Ireland shows with star-studded supporting cast

Mogwai, Slowdive, The Twilight Sad and more will support The Cure in Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh and Manchester in 2026

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“If you persist in doing the things that you want to do to satisfy yourself, you can live your whole life that way”: watch a heartfelt message to a young musician from the late, great Steve Albini

The legendary In Utero and Surfer Rosa producer offered up some encouragement to a young drummer and his words of wisdom are worth listening to

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Zeppelin and Floyd hoped his magic would rub off on them. The Happy Mondays just wanted to kidnap him. Donovan just dropped the most epic, name-dropping answer to a question ever

After all, why reply with a short response when you can weave a long tale involving Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Pink Floyd and more instead?

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“He said, ‘Between you and I, I’ve written a Coronation Street script’”: Morrissey once accosted a Corrie star, asked to be taken to the set and revealed he’d pitched to write for the show

The ex-Smiths man was unsuccessful in his mission to moonlight as a screenwriter for his favourite soap opera

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"I've got blisters on my fingers!" 12 songs that prove The Beatles really rocked

When The Beatles cranked up the guitars, they really cranked up the guitars

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Watch the surviving members of REO Speedwagon's classic lineup reunite for the first time in 37 years

Kevin Cronin, Neal Doughty, Bruce Hall and Alan Gratzer joined the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign's marching band for a homecoming medley of REO Speedwagon classics

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"It's incredible to see them back together. Paul McCartney was actually there!" Leonardo DiCaprio gives his review of the Oasis reunion show in Pasadena, California

One of the world's most famous actors was present for one of the biggest reunions in history

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 29, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Creeper, Gluecifer, The Hot Damn! and more

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New singer announced for Rick Wakeman's upcoming English Rock Ensemble tour

Young British vocalist Jesse Smith will front Rick Wakeman's English Rock Ensemble on their upcoming The Return Of The Caped Crusader Part 2 dates

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"Ten publishers came after us immediately so we pulled it after a week": The story of the great lost Replacements album they never made

Released 17 years after The Replacements broke up and sold for pocket change, the album was a perfect metaphor for Paul Westerberg’s chaotic, brilliant career

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“Dismissed because it doesn’t sound anything like Yes, it’s best to dispense with prog expectations and enjoy the fun”: Alan White’s only solo album, Ramshackled, echoes his earlier times

The drummer decided to make a simple album with a good band, featuring guest spots from Jon Anderson and Steve Howe. With the exception of an ill-advised cod reggae track, it’s all good – if undemanding

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"If you wondered how Fleetwood Mac evolved into the Rumours-era juggernaut, look no further than Buckingham Nicks": Lindsey and Stevie invent the future on long-lost now-found album

The album that took Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks away from their day jobs into the belly of the Fleetwood Mac beast

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Watch Eddie Vedder join Tedeschi Trucks Band for blistering cover of The Seeker by The Who

The collaboration took place at Vedder's annual Ohana Festival in California

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"I've never talked about progressive rock, or thought that we were": David Gilmour says Pink Floyd were never progressive rock

It turns out that lengthy, multi-part instrumentals and concept albums aren't prog after all

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“The first thing I did in the morning was take a fix… I don’t know why I started. I suppose it was to overcome my insecurity”: He was a member of one of the most famous supergroups of the late 60s. But this forgotten great died in poverty aged just 43

The tragic story of one of rock’s lost greats

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“She builds songs like Roman roads. She won’t let the hills and rivers of convention or compromise get in the way. It’s a straight line from her heart to yours”: Kate Bush’s Hounds Of Love, by some of the artists it inspired

The Anchoress, Within Temptation’s Sharon den Adel, Auri’s Johanna Kurkela, The Blackheart Orchestra’s Chrissy Mostyn and Exploring Birdsong’s Lynsey Ward celebrate the 1985 album’s enduring magic and influence

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Paul McCartney hadn’t played this Beatles classic in full since 1965. That changed last night

The opening night of McCartney‘s US tour saw him perform a Beatles classic for the first time in full since 1965

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Sonic Youth are teasing fans with the promise of something coming in 2026

Band's official social media accounts make a Washing Machine-related post – which is shared by Kim Gordon

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“It’s damn near impossible to adequately explain the impact of this album. We didn’t know what hit us”: The best rock debut album from every year of the 1980s

A decade of classic debut albums, year by year

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Watch King Crimson 80s affiliate band Beat perform Elephant Talk live

Adrian Belew, Danny Carey, Tony Levin and Steve Vai have just released Beat Live on Blu-ray, vinly and CD

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From Taylor to Turnstile and more... Hayley Williams' seven best guest spots

The Paramore singer has never been averse to hopping on someone else's songs and here's seven of her best

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“You cannot visit the scene. The scene is now in the bedroom. There isn’t a group of people forcing each other to improve”: Roy Harper wants to hear new ambitious music, but knows why he’s struggling

The folk rock hero reflects on what the world lost when groups of hopeful artists stopped forming their own schools, like he did in the 60s with Bert Jansch, Paul Simon, Alexis Korner, John Martyn, Al Stewart and others

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Rick Wakeman shares video for new single, the gently haunting Melancholia

Rick Wakeman will release his brand new studio album, Melancholia, in October

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“I’m old. I don’t give a **** what I do anymore!”: Bruce Springsteen has opened up on why he agreed to a film being made about his life

The period around The Boss's 1982 masterpiece Nebraska forms the basis of the new Jeremy White Allen-starring biopic

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