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Rod Stewart's 10 greatest songs ranked, from Maggie May to Do Ya Think I'm Sexy

The 79-year-old crooner is the first act announced for Glastonbury 2025

Evening Standard

Bob Geldof says he’ll ‘chat’ to Ed Sheeran as listeners call Band Aid 40 song ‘awful’

‘The debate must be made and it means we can argue our point of view even more strongly’

The Independent UK

Charli XCX at LIDO Festival 2025: 'Party Girl' line-up, date and ticket information

Not only will is the ‘Brat’ star performing on the main stage, but she’s also curated the entire line-up for the entire day

Evening Standard

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Sam Fender fans vent over 'numberless queue' as they race to nab pre-sale tickets

Fans who pre-ordered his album, People Watching, before Monday received special codes for access to the pre-sale

Evening Standard

“It has been such a long time coming. I’ve wanted to make a Chapman amp for years”: Rob Chapman is branching out into tube amps and promises buttery cleans and “heavy, chewy, saturated gain”

The Cloudhammer is a high-end 40-watt all-tube head that's hand-wired in Belgium by AmS Amps' Ben Genot, and the prototype looks and sounds pretty sweet

MusicRadar

OPINION - Rod Stewart has an aura of cheese, but this is why he makes sense for the Glastonbury Legends slot

“I thought Rod Stewart was dead,” said a colleague. Others concurred. But Rod Stewart is not dead, he’s playing the Legends slot at 3pm on the Sunday of Glastonbury festival — and is the perfect person to do so, following on from the likes of Shania Twain, Diana Ross and…

Evening Standard

“In the weeks leading up to the show, Deryck and I talked about our mutual love for the Sex Pistols. That’s when we planned the special moment”: Sum 41's Deryck Whibley plays Steve Jones’ Sex Pistols Les Paul at the band's last-ever European show

The storied guitar, which sold for $390,000 at auction earlier this year, was recently played by Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong and Yungblud

Guitar World

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“Before, if you had a bad gig, or were drunk and puked on the stage, maybe somebody would tell the story, but there was no video proof. Now, everything is recorded”: Matteo Mancuso on why nobody in the contemporary guitar scene can afford a bad gig

Mancuso is one of this year's breakout stars – but with a brighter spotlight comes the added online (and offline) pressure to be consistent without fail

Guitar World

José Feliciano Is Giving Us A Reggaeton Version of His Iconic 'Feliz Navidad'

At a retrospective of his career, the Puerto Rican singer treated the audience to a new version of his Christmas classic.

Latin Times

“The thread is I must’ve suffered at their hands because I wasn’t allowed to write anything. I was still a guitar player, still writing the whole time through Pixies and Breeders”: Kim Deal on why she has always been both a guitarist and a bassist

Deal had been hounded by the narrative that, aside from a couple of songs, she was never “allowed” to write songs with the Pixies – now, she's setting the record straight

Guitar World

"When the worst instrumentalist in your group is John Lennon, you’ve got a pretty good group”: Was John Lennon a good guitarist? And does it really matter?

"When the worst instrumentalist in your group is John Lennon, you’ve got a pretty good group”

MusicRadar

Rod Stewart To Return To Glastonbury Festival In 2025

Rod Stewart to headline Glastonbury Festival in June 2025 after two decades, promising an iconic performance. Don't miss out on this legendary event!

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Ben Hunt: Did Las Vegas hit the right notes with its difficult second album?

As any musician will testify, the second album is often the hardest to make.

Autosport

Tame Impala's Kevin Parker launches Orchid: a revolutionary synthesiser for songwriters

Orchid is an ‘ideas machine’ that can sketch out song ideas quickly — but will it be available in the UK?

Evening Standard

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“I was out with Katy Perry doing a show in Italy, and I got the call to to join Chappell Roan last minute. I had two days to learn the show”: Devon Eisenbarger plays with the world’s biggest popstars – but still jams covers in amusement parks

The session pro discusses the skills needed to hold down gigs with pop icons –including playing on top of a giant mushroom with pyro shooting out of your guitar...

Guitar World

“I played the tapped section on the demo almost as a joke, but my engineer said, ‘That has to be on the record!’” Tapping on a country album? Don't knock it ’til you’ve tried it, says Andy Wood

How Eddie Van Halen-style tapping can add spice to a country guitar solo

Guitar World

“I irresponsibly generalized that the reason people don’t learn theory is because they are lazy. There is another, better reason to not learn it”: That time John Frusciante wrote in to Total Guitar magazine to share his thoughts on music theory

It was 2006, one hot summer, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers guitar hero had some things he needed to get off his chest about theory, and why he had learned “immensely” from reading Total Guitar

Evening Standard

Sir Elton John still 'can’t see anything’ four months after losing sight in right eye

Sir Elton first opened up about how he had been left with ‘limited vision’ in one eye in September

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UK alt-metal up-and-comers Vower return with new single Satellites

The collective of former Palm Reader, Black Peaks and Toska members have released their first song since this summer’s lauded Apricity EP

The Independent UK

Sir Rod Stewart ‘proud and ready’ to play legends slot at Glastonbury 2025

The musician headlined at the festival in 2002.

The Independent UK

Elmiene, Myles Smith and Good Neighbours mark first all-male Brits Rising Star shortlist since 2015

Winner will be announced next month ahead of the main ceremony at London’s O2 Arena in March

Louder

“Had my mother not had me adopted, would I have ended up in King Crimson?” Jakko Jakszyk discusses his abandoned football and acting ambitions, and the status of Robert Fripp’s band

The amateur impressionist on finding his birth mother then closing communications with her, Stiff Records’ plans to make him a star, and saying the “stupidest thing” to Michael Jackson

Evening Standard

Sir Rod Stewart announced for Glastonbury legends slot in 2025

Sir Rod previously played at Glastonbury in 2002.

The Guardian - UK

Rod Stewart to play Glastonbury 2025 legends slot: ‘I’m more than able to pleasure and titillate’

79-year-old pop veteran, fresh from UK No 1 album this year, will follow in the footsteps of Dolly Parton and Lionel Richie in much-loved Sunday teatime slot

Louder

“Bono and I are working on some crazy kind of sci-fi Irish folk music.” U2 guitarist The Edge says the band are recording with Brian Eno, but not on the “noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album” Bono promised

U2 are working on new music, but not the kind of raw, rowdy music they've been talking up over the past few years

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