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The folk icon – who never planned on being one – recalls hilarious haircuts, playing musical bedrooms, boxing clever with label execs and becoming a heavy metal fan

Including Bonnie Tyler, Thundermother, Mary Spender and five other resolute New Year rockers

The tale of how the Welsh trio's last Number One single, which was released 25 years ago next week, came together.

Spectacular live disaster hasn’t killed guitarist Jim Morris’ passion for Pictures At An Exhibition

IN FOCUS: Fourteen years ago, one of the greatest and best-loved bands from the 1990s Madchester scene announced their reunion. Five years later, it was all over, the excitement of their comeback extinguished by underwhelming gigs and dubious new material. As Oasis prepare to stage their own comeback this summer,…

Celebrated British musician reveals close encounters with unhappy concert-goers on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs

Judas Priest bassist Ian Hill says the band need to remain relevant –because their OG fans won't be around forever

Joe Satriani knows a thing or two about great guitarists –and he says the Nirvana frontman was one of them

No band did more than Saxon to put the NWOBHM on the map