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“The studio bill came to £148.50. So with the £1.50 in change we all bought a celebratory bag of fish and chips”: Before superstardom and multi-million-selling albums, the young Def Leppard made their very first record on the cheap

“It was difficult doing the scream in The Overture on a Sunday morning”

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“That was a totally racist decision. We killed that song together. We were both deeply hurt”: So why did the original version of Robert Palmer’s Addicted To Love get junked?

It was originally a duet with Chaka Khan

MusicRadar

Debate: What was the best prog album of 1976?

Punk might have been on the rise but Rush, Genesis, Jon Anderson, Van der Graaf Generator, Kansas, Alan Parsons, Camel and Soft Machine released records that became all-time greats. But which one is your favourite – and why?

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Olivia Dean’s Man I Need wins Triple J’s Hottest 100

Dancing2 by Keli Holiday comes in second, with almost twice as many Australian songs making the count this year compared with last

The Guardian - AU

Robbie Williams breaks The Beatles’ record to make UK music history

The former Take That star admitted he ‘desperately’ wanted to beat The Beatles’ record

The Independent UK

Robbie Williams breaks the Beatles’ record for UK No 1 albums, with 16th chart-topper

New studio album Britpop goes straight to No 1 in opening week, after Williams moved its release date to avoid a chart battle with Taylor Swift

The Guardian - UK

Victoria Beckham tops UK singles sales chart as fans show support over Brooklyn feud

Not Such an Innocent Girl makes No 1 for single sales and downloads, after revelations about family rift

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Robbie Williams overtakes The Beatles with album record

Britpop has become his 16th number one album as a solo artist after previously being tied with The Beatles.

Evening Standard

“You gave him the world, and he gave you his music in return”: Former Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies, aged 71

Buchholz played on all the classic Scorpions records and later joined forces with his old bandmate Michael Schenker in his Temple of Rock project

Guitar World

Don't Look Back in Anger at these classic 1996 tracks turning 30 this year

Life comes at you pretty fast

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"I love that you don’t have to be a Mayer mega-fan to enjoy what’s on offer here": Neural DSP Archetype: John Mayer X review

Two opposing worlds collide in Neural DSP's latest plugin offering

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“I wanted an acoustic guitar that I could play more technical riffs on”: Tim Henson launches premium versions of his Ibanez nylon-electric signatures, the TOD100N and TOD100FMN

Now boasting Fishman undersaddle pickups and looking as sharp as ever, Ibanez is continuing its nylon-string guitar revolution

Guitar World

UK artist pips homegrown musicians to top annual poll

With streaming giants under no compulsion to program local artists, Australian music has been disappearing from the nation's biggest annual music poll.

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“This thing is a RIPPER. No B.S. One channel. One tube-buffered effects loop”: Butch Walker and Divided by 13 team up for signature head with switchable EL84 and 6L6 power sections

Walker's hand-wired head allows players to run either of its EL84 or 6L6 power sections individually, or combine them, and there's a tube-buffered effects loop too

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Kendrick Lamar, Lady Gaga, K-pop and more: AP predicts who will win at the 2026 Grammys

Kendrick Lamar leads the 2026 Grammys nominee pack, but Lady Gaga, Bad Bunny and others are vying for their moment in the spotlight

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Firerose Drops Bombshell Audio To Support Her Disturbing Accusations Against Billy Ray Cyrus

The Australian singer accused the country music star of verbal and psychological domestic violence in 2024.

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"The lift stops. The doors open. And this bloke gets in. And it's Peter ****ing Gabriel!" What happened when Ozzy Osbourne bumped into the prog legend who made the album he was "obsessed" with

When these two music giants bumped into each other, one of them was a little overawed by the whole thing

Louder

"It doesn’t feel like anything we’ve done before": Tedeschi Trucks Band announces new studio album and mammoth tour - listen to first single I Got You now

Future Soul will be released during Tedeschi Trucks Band's upcoming residency at New York's Beacon Theater

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Megadeth, Rob Zombie and Poppy are among the best new metal songs this week

Louder

“I said, ‘There are no vocals. It’s an instrumental album.’ The lawyer said, ‘Do you mean we’ve just paid $12,000 for a piano player?’” Rick Wakeman relives the moment he delivered The Six Wives Of Henry VIII to a horrified record label

In 1970 they gave him Scotch in the morning, a big cash advance and a three-ton limousine. Eventually the man who’d hated the resulting album gave him a platinum disc for its sales

Guitar World

“A love letter to the retro sound and aesthetic that has shaped my music”: Suhr unveils its 2026 line-up – kicking off with new signatures for Good Charlotte’s Benji Madden and Lady Gaga’s riffer Tim Stewart

There’s also the return of its short-scale OSO models, and T-types aplenty

Louder

"I’m scared I’ll get in trouble." How the teenage son of a Canadian punk rocker sampled Beabadoobee without her knowledge on a song about a young man's dying words, and racked up two billion streams without leaving his bedroom

The story behind viral hit Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head)

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“You think back over what you have done and you drinka bottle of red wine and get out all the old albums and listen tothem until four o’clock in the morning”: Ex-Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz dies aged 71

He played on the band’s landmark albums and the worldwide hit Wind Of Change

The Independent UK

Harry Styles finally explains why he was at the Vatican as the Pope was announced

Styles was photographed during the historic event wearing a hat with the slogan ‘techno is my boyfriend’

The Guardian - UK

Dijon review – a dense and dramatic forest of futurist sound from Grammy-nominated R&B auteur

Nominated for producer of the year for his album Baby and work with Justin Bieber, the US musician’s passion and experimentalism shine in this daring performance

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