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Paul McCartney is bringing his Got Back tour back to North America

Beatles legend Paul McCartney will play 19 shows across the US and Canada later this year

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“Jim would come in too drunk to sing decently. Sometimes it was a phrase at a time”: The tortured story of The Doors’ Waiting For The Sun, the album that set Jim Morrison on the path to destruction

Three albums in and Jim Morrison was heading down a dark path

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"All he asked for was a six-pack of beer. He was awesome!" How Derek Shulman got Jethro Tull playing with Men Without Hats

How Ian Anderson ended up playing flute on Canadian 80s synth band Men Without Hats 1987 album Pop Goes The World

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This iconic guitar appeared on the cover of one of the most successful albums ever – but what’s the story behind it?

It’s one of the most famous guitars in music – and its picture is in more than 30 million homes

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"The Queen Mother asked us to play something on the Moog. She was really cute": PFM on brushes with royalty, spaghetti with Aerosmith, and how to annoy America

Premiata Forneria Marconi, aka PFM, remain one of the great trailblazers of European prog rock

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“Robert Fripp said he wanted to revolutionise rock’n’roll with us. I wasn’t sure, given what I’d just heard. But they were about to throw us out the squat”: The League Of Gentlemen led to Beat-era King Crimson

The band lasted only seven months, and felt like a bad movie for some of those involved – but the musical experiment inspired Fripp to reform King Crimson for their 80s brilliance

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Rejoice! King Crimson are currently recording their first album in more than two decades

King Crimson singer and guitarist Jakko Jakszyk confirms that the band are in the studio

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David Crosby was not happy about being followed by Judas Priest at Live Aid: “Some heavy metal garbage”

Live Aid was 40 years ago this month –but not everyone was down with some of the bands

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"I said, what are you talking about? Just step over Keith Richards?!" The cult of Keef: guitar hero, blues scholar, rebel, survivor, self-parody, genius

How Keith Richards influenced several generations of rock’n’rollers – for better or worse

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“Asked if Going For The One was about God, spirituality or the oneness of all people, he said no – it was about putting a tenner on a horse race. You’re almost better off not knowing that!” Steve Hogarth on his hero Jon Anderson

The Marillion man was so moved by the experience of hearing Yes for the first time that he wrote a song about it

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"We raised a ton of money for a great cause": Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning show expected to raise millions for charity

Tom Morello suggests charity expectations as more than five million fans access pay-per-view livestream

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"Women get angry and we are expected to contain our rage but I allowed myself to go there." Irish alt. rockers NewDad share new single Roobosh, announce new album Altar

Galway trio NewDad will release their second album Altar on September 19

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Crown Lands announce new record deal with InsideOut Music

Canadian prog duo Crown Lands release two new instrumental albums for new label InsideOut Music

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"The music we are making at this moment has timeless teeth, muscle, bone and hair": Heart add another string of dates to 2025 schedule

Cheap Trick will play support at four of the new shows

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"I am Spartacus." Former Pink Floyd legend Roger Waters risks prosecution, and a potential 14 year jail term, by voicing his support for Palestine Action, now proscribed as a terrorist group in the UK

"Stand up and be counted" writes Waters on social media in post supporting newly proscribed terrorist group

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The hype, buzz and fanfare may be quieter on album two, but Moisturizer is proof that Wet Leg haven't lost their spark, charm or quirkiness, still don't care what you think

The Isle of Wight's finest stay refreshingly weird on second album moisturizer

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“I had a terrible habit of playing bits of songs by other people”: The Pink Floyd classic that Roger Waters was worried David Gilmour had stolen from someone else

The story behind one of Pink Floyd’s most iconic songs

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“Some synth timbres sound a little dated; but hymnal qualities and exquisite melancholy are still to die for”: Greg Lake Live returns from 2005

His band doesn’t have the pedigree of many of his collaborators, but a future Jethro Tull guitarist and a TV show musical director prove highly capable foils in three-disc set

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“We’d smoke a little dope then wander round Heathrow Airport at night. All these hums, knocks, and noises coming from behind locked doors – the whole airport was a musical instrument”: Penguin Cafe Orchestra’s prog credentials

Simon Jeffes described his musical pursuit of the precious irrational as “imaginary folklore.” His work intrigued Brian Eno and has lasted long beyond his lifetime. But was it prog?

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“I’ve gotten in trouble because my background is so varied. ‘Are you a jazz guy? Are you a rock guy?’ I get it – If I buy cornflakes I want cornflakes”: How Chester Thompson and Neal Morse formed Cosmic Cathedral

With an average age of 70 the musical experience shines through on debut album Deep Water, as Morse aims to strike a balance between arrangements, jams and lyrical themes

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"I was just lying in bed, and my wife came in and said I was blue": Shuyler Jansen on near-death experience, broken ribs and Elton John's piano

Meet Neil Young-influenced Canadian Shuyler Jansen, who's looking to spread his success outside Canada

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"Sometimes you’ve got to shake up expectations." Idlewild announce first new album in six years: listen to anthemic first single Stay Out Of Place

The release of Idlewild's self-titled tenth album later this year will be accompanied by a UK tour

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"Shirley Manson sings like a pissed-off angel and has attitude to spare": Garbage's classic electro-grunge-goth-pop debut, revisited

Combining Massive Attack with Nine Inch Nails and the Smashing Pumpkins was always a great elevator pitch

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“We knew the album would stick out like a sore thumb and we’d have to show real tenacity. But if it wasn’t for Pull Me Under there’s a strong chance we wouldn’t be having this conversation”: When Dream Theater beat the odds with Images And Words

They were crossing Metallica with Yes and Rush while grunge ruled the world. But despite problems with their producer and label – and even rumors of a plot to replace James LaBrie – the prog metal pioneers survived and thrived

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Aldo Nova suffers severe injury after fall

Canadian legend Aldo Nova was about to embark on a rare run of shows

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