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“Quite often we hear really good artists say ‘the guitar feels like home but it rings so well.’ That’s music to our ears”: Joe Knaggs on the tonewoods, inspirations and philosophy behind Steve Stevens’ favorite high-end guitar company

For Joe Knaggs, making guitars was the opportunity to combine a love for art and music, and it is writ large in his designs. With Knaggs about to turn 15, he discusses the brand's evolution and explains the search for “the Knaggs ring”

Guitar World

Surfing legend Teza McKenna turns judge's chair on The Voice

The radio personality is on Queen singer Adam Lambert's team.

Newcastle Herald

"If you're going to do something like this, this is where to do it": Watch Billy Idol play Rebel Yell live at the top of the Empire State Building

Not since King King straddled the top of the Empire State Building in 1933 has New York borne witness to such an event

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“I had a ridiculously long, complex chord and key change solo section. And who comes to mind? Steve Vai!” How Billy Morrison assembled a guitar lineup that includes John 5, Steve Stevens and Steve Vai for his triumphant comeback solo album

Inspired by a basic signal chain and the “simplest guitar album on the planet”, Billy Idol’s right-hand man feels vindicated with the unplanned success of The Morrison Project

Guitar World

Billy Idol uses natural materials to evoke a modern cabin style in his living room – they're key to feeling 'cozy and cocooned'

"Eyes Without A Face" singer Billy Idol utilizes wood paneling and a stony fireplace for a space that feels traditional and always comforting

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“I took the tapes, left the studio and gave them to my heroin dealer.” Why Billy Idol blackmailed his own record company ahead of the release of Rebel Yell

Don't mess with Billy Idol, you wouldn't like him when he's angry

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Billy Idol: ‘I stole the master tapes for Rebel Yell – and gave them to my heroin dealer’

The Generation X punk turned arena rocker answers your questions on near-misses in Hollywood, his overlooked electronic period and how Marc Bolan helped launch his career

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Carmine Appice announces new Cactus album with massive all-star lineup

Temple of Blues - Influences & Friends features contributions from Joe Bonamassa, Pat Travers, Warren Haynes, Vernon Reid and many more

Louder

"Tommy Lee and Billy Idol liked our band; we were doing pretty well." Milquetoast could have made Helmet MTV superstars, but they weren't interested

When Milquetoast was picked up for 1994 cult hit The Crow, it looked like Helmet were about to hit the big time - but the New York band had other plans

Metal Hammer

Billy Idol's "Rebel Yell," 40 years on

From the title track to "Eyes Without a Face," the album delivers the hits, plus bonus tracks and an up-tempo demo

Salon

Post your questions for Billy Idol

As a 40th anniversary edition of Rebel Yell is released, the punk rock icon will answer your questions

The Guardian - UK

"I made it about the sexual cry of love." How The Rolling Stones and a dancer from Hot Gossip inspired one of Billy Idol's greatest hits

The story behind one of the most memorable rock anthems of the '80s

Louder

Billy Idol, a Beatles "super-mega fan"

On "Everything Fab Four," the rocker talks MTV exposure and how his voice was once mistaken for Paul McCartney's

Salon

Ozzy Osbourne is starting a new internet show about “aliens, drugs, conspiracies and rock ’n’ roll”

The Prince Of Darkness will co-host “The Madhouse Chronicles” with Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison

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Letter: Steve Brown obituary

Graeme Evans writes: Billy Idol (Bill Broad as he was then) watched Steve and co first perform in the school dining hall

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"It’s nothing whatsoever to do with the drug!" Watch the video for Ozzy Osbourne and Billy Morrison's brand new single, Crack Cocaine

Billy Idol guitarist Billy Morrison has teamed up with Ozzy Osbourne for this brand new single from Morrison's upcoming solo album

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"We’re thinking, why would we do someone else’s song? Why can’t you take one of our songs?": How Simple Minds' Don't You (Forget About Me) eventually became the perfect meeting of worlds – but two other stars turned it down first

They didn't want to record Keith Forsey's song, but it became a US No. 1 for the Glasgow band via The Breakfast Club and fan John Hughes

Louder

"My man management skills are very poor, but the music that gets made is usually worth it": The story of John Kalodner, the man who made rock stars

He signed Foreigner. He helped Whitesnake go global. Aerosmith owe him. He is music biz A&R legend-cum-rockstarmaker John Kalodner

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Guitar World

“Gritty, fast-paced and hectic”: Billy Morrison recruits Steve Vai, John 5 and Ozzy Osbourne for his first solo record in 9 years

The Billy Idol guitarist is set to team with a stellar cast – including his co-guitarist Steve Stevens – for a record that sees him reflecting on a riotous world, and you can hear the first single, Drowning, now

Louder

"As many recycled Led Zeppelin riffs as Kingdom Come or '80s Whitesnake with an even stronger whiff of cheese": Emotions In Motion by Billy Squier - Album Of The Week Club review

Buoyed by the success of breakthrough album Don’t Say No, Billy Squier teamed up once again with Queen producer Reinhold Mack to create 10 tracks of state of the art, radio-friendly pop rock

Louder

"Imagine, if you will, a long-lost UFO concept album about a seance gone awry": The Unexpected Guest by Demon - Album Of The Week Club review

The NWOBHM was a broad church, and Demon's second album The Unexpected Guest was more melodic than most

Guitar World

“A guitar that is at home playing jazz lines as it is for NYC 1973 punk rock”: Knaggs strips down Steve Stevens’ signature guitar to its purest rock ‘n’ roll form with the SSC-J

The latest iteration of the Billy Idol guitarist's signature guitar goes back to the basics, but still has room for Bare Knuckle pickups and other premium specs

Marie Claire

The Most Painfully '80s Celebrity Photos of All Time

We're all just material girls living in a material world.

The Guardian - UK

From Britney to Germán Bringas: the best old music our writers discovered in 2023

Our belated discoveries included some giant hits of the 80s and 90s as well as little noticed Moroccan genius and Polish post-punk

Louder

"They had drawings of me as the T-1000": Billy Idol explains why he missed out on android assassin role in Terminator 2

We could have seen Billy Idol sharing the screen with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: Judgment Day if not for cruel fate

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