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“They didn’t like his bikini underwear”: Prince’s support sets for the The Rolling Stones in 1981 are remembered as disastrous, but guitarist Dez Dickerson says that the the crowd reaction wasn’t as bad as people think

“Prince got freaked and cut the set short. The rock stations reported that we got booed off the stage, but that wasn’t true,” he says

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“It’s really quite genius, but also hard to learn – it sounds insane, but sometimes the easiest songs still get me nervous”: Kiki Wong reveals the Smashing Pumpkins song she had the most trouble with

After beating 10,000 other candidates to the gig, the guitarist set about navigating Billy Corgan’s “distinct playing style,” with one song proving more challenging than the rest

Guitar World

"Chris Cornell was the first rock star to consume the contents of my stomach." How Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder and Soundgarden's Chris Cornell inspired the youth of America to drink vomit in the early '90s

Things got freaky on Lollapalooza 1992 thanks to The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow and their rock star friends

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That time Stevie Wonder jammed with Stevie Ray Vaughan... and played SRV's number one Strat

The two musical giants traded licks before Wonder picked up Stevie's guitar

Guitar World

Miley Cyrus' brother rips 'lame' Katy Perry's space trip and says her 'career is dying'

Trace Cyrus, 36, ripped into Perry’s career and her team in a frenzied rant on Instagram

Evening Standard

The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Featuring Buckcherry, Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Band Feel and five other rowdy rockers, rollers, rebels and reprobates

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"Why should I be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame? Because I’m f**king incredible!" Billy Idol thinks he deserves your vote for induction into the Rock Hall

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“We hadn’t really rehearsed. As we were walking to the stage, he said, ‘Hang on, boys!’ And he went in the corner and vomited”: Assembled on 24 hours' notice, this John Lennon-led, motley crew supergroup marked the beginning of the end of the Beatles

Though the band's set at the 1969 Toronto Rock and Roll Revival was ragged, it confirmed in stone a hugely consequential decision Lennon had made just before the festival

Guitar World

“Whether any illicit cigarettes were involved isn’t clear, but this is the sound of Maiden floating in space”: Four Iron Maiden songs that sound nothing like Iron Maiden

Even Iron Maiden like to throw a few curveballs into their back catalogue

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“I have an original 909 – every time I try to use it I feel like I’m ruining it”: House hero Riva Starr on his studio essentials and his love of analogue synths

The prolific Italian house and techno producer shows us the gear behind Keep Me on the Dancefloor

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“To keep a standard up so long is an achievement. This album crowns that. Now people can play something other than A Whiter Shade Of Pale!” Procol Harum didn’t expect 50th anniversary album Novum to be their last

When Procol Harum released 50th anniversary album Novum in 2017, vocalist Gary Brooker and lyricist Pete Brown made it clear they weren’t expecting it to be their last

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After six albums of Beelzebub-bothering, Ghost's melodic metal is more tempting than ever

Swedish purveyors of satanic arena rock Ghost camp it up on sixth album Skeletá

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Watch Dave Grohl perform Foo Fighters classic Everlong with a choir and the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra during surprise Coachella festival appearance

Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl makes an unexpected guest appearance at Coachella with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic

Louder

"I couldn't care less about other people's opinions." M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold says they'll keeping pushing artistic boundaries

Avenged Sevenfold divided audiences with their latest album – and they aren't likely to play it safe next time around either

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"Metal's messiah has officially returned - and his name is Tobias Forge": Stand aside Jesus - Ghost’s devilish Skeletour show is the perfect Easter resurrection

Ghost return to London after three years in Satanic style, with new songs, a new look and a ban on phones

Guitar World

“I always felt like that record could have been better if we had worked on it some more”: Looking for a blockbuster comeback album, Aerosmith turned to Van Halen producer Ted Templeman. For Joe Perry, it served as a learning experience

Having been impressed by the producer’s touch on Van Halen's “monstrous” records, Templeman was tasked with reigniting the band’s spark

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‘Performing is not some gigantic thing – it’s just me breathing’: Obongjayar on the journey from shyness to stardom

Ahead of the release of his spectacular second album, the Nigerian singer speaks of his recent songwriting epiphany and how he learned to best express his political rage

Guitar World

“If you’ve ever wondered what unobtanium looks like in amp form, this is it”: Played and revered by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Carlos Santana, and John Mayer, Dumble amps have an almost mythical reputation. But what's all the fuss really about?

The late Alexander Dumble built only a handful of meticulously crafted, much-sought-after amplifiers every year – and they ended up in the backlines of many of the greatest guitarists of all time. So where exactly did the magic come from?

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“I feel like that song had everything we needed to come back with”: Bring Me The Horizon’s Lee Malia on Shadow Moses, its riff and the secrets behind its tone, and why it was the right anthem at the right time

How Terry Date, a killer riff and a videogame helped bring BMTH's major label debut into focus with a track that officially opened a new chapter – and the pit – for the Sheffield metal frontiersmen

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“I said, ‘Are we sure we can write a song about death?’”: The story of Mike + The Mechanics' classic No.1 The Living Years

"If we’d got it wrong, it would’ve been very schmaltzy"

The Independent UK

The Who U-turn decision to axe Zak Starkey after he ‘apologised’

A statement posted by the group’s guitarist blamed the public fallout on ‘communication issues’

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“Everything I’m doing is purposely very different. If I’d wanted to keep doing what Dream Theater do, I’d still be in Dream Theater”: How Mike Portnoy reinvented himself after the trauma of leaving two massive bands

In 2011, while trying to find homes for his enormous collection of Dream Theater drumkits, Mike Portnoy was planning a new direction with Flying Colors, Adrenaline Mob, PSMS and Transatlantic

Louder

“It was a great antidote to American earnest rock bands who seemed to think it was all about them”: Supergrass on the making of their timeless Britpop classic I Should Coco

They were young, they ran free: how Gaz Coombes & co. made one of the best British debuts of the 90s

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Watch Love on the Spectrum star James B. Jones meet his metal heroes Disturbed

Metal giants Disturbed share sweet moment with one of the stars of massive Netflix hit Love on the Spectrum

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"There have been some communication issues": Zak Starkey returns to The Who just days after being dismissed

It's been a lively week for Ringo Starr's son

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