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Life on the precipice: How Audioslave gave Chris Cornell hope

Audioslave successfully separated the four members from the shadows of their former bands, but for Chris Cornell it was far more important than that

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“I said, ‘Rick, you think we should take a break?’ And he goes, ‘Oh yeah, we got it on tape three hours ago – we just like hearing you guys play!’”: ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons describes Rick Rubin as a “peculiar” kind of producer

Plus: how the Texan trio created something new out of an old hip-hop track

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"Steve Hogarth bursts into the studio, holding a gun": What happened when Marillion allowed a journalist to play on their new album

In 2008, Marillion got a Classic Rock journalist to play on the album Happiness Is The Road, and things got weird

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“We were originally supposed to be doing the song with Axl Rose, but he never turned up to the session”: The crazed early 90s techno collaboration that saved a 70s rock icon’s career – and his life

It could have been Axl Rose or Roger Daltrey – but The KLF went for someone completely different

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: August 25, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Castle Rat, Märvel, A Thousand Horses and more

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“We didn’t really talk to them. I don't think they liked us, and we didn't really like them that much either”: The time the Eagles opened for a legendary British prog rock band – and hated it

When country rock met prog, it was never going to end well

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“I listened to it with the solos turned down, replacing them with my own”: The “crazy” live album that blew shred guitar legend Yngwie Malmsteen’s mind

Modern guitar playing could have been very different if Ynwgie hadn’t been inspired by this iconic 1972 live album

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“One night Zeppelin were all going down the boozer and I said, 'You guys bugger off but Bonzo, you stay behind because I've got an idea’”: The genius behind John Bonham’s towering When the Levee Breaks drum sound

It’s one of the best drum recordings in history, but the resulting sound was just as much a feat of engineering as it way playing

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"Time seemed to stand still to the unmistakable sound of fights breaking out": What happened when The Rolling Stones and Lynyrd Skynyrd played Knebworth

In 1976, the Stones pulled a vast crowd to Knebworth. It was a day of surprises, not least how late everything ran

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“I was playing the Fender Strat that Jimi Hendrix gave me. We wound up plugging the guitar straight into the board. That’s why it’s such a clean tone on that track”: Billy Gibbons on the making of ZZ Top's greatest blues song

"For some reason the guitar wasn’t working through the amp," Gibbons recalled

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"It's huge over most of the world. I hear it everywhere I go": How a Steve Harley song that dissed his bandmates became an all-time classic

Written as a dig at the band members who quit because Steve Harley wanted to do all the writing himself, Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) became a timeless hit

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“I thought he was taking the piss”: The time Ozzy Osbourne planned to beat up Frank Zappa

The story of the unlikely love-in between Frank Zappa and Black Sabbath

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“Him coming to my house at 3am and blowing my mind was incredible”: Ex-Deep Purple legend Glenn Hughes reveals the best guitarist he’s ever worked with – and it’s not Ritchie Blackmore

Look away, Blackmore fans

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Ozzy Osbourne: A celebration of a lifetime in rock - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Mick Ralphs, Warren Haynes, Glenn Hughes, Harem Scarem, Walter Trout, Beaux Gris Gris & The Apocalypse and more

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“I thought to myself that regardless of how long I have to live after this illness, I would spend it with my old band”: In praise of Nektar, the cult prog band who inspired Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris

Nektar are the prog connoisseur’s 70s prog band

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“Miles Davis is the scariest individual I’ve ever met. He makes Lou Reed look like a pussycat”: Steven Van Zandt’s wild tales of Paul McCartney, Keith Richards and Miles Davis

One blues icon pulled a gun on the E Street Band guitarist

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Terry Reid, the powerhouse English vocalist invited to join Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, dead at 75

Confirmation of Terry Reid's death arrives just days after a crowdfunder was launched to help pay for his medical expenses

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“He picks his tools up and strikes the living crap out of himself with them. There was blood flying everywhere”: How a street musician who played with Frank Zappa inspired one of grunge’s greatest songs

Inspiration came from an unlikely place for one of the biggest 90s grunge hits

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"I'm always looking for the rainbow I can't find": At the Classic Rock Awards in 2008, Ozzy Osbourne gave one of his most revealing interviews

After picking up the Living Legend Award at the 2008 Classic Rock Roll Of Honour, Ozzy sat down to talk about being Ozzy Osbourne

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"I saw The Beatles and it all made sense. From that point I needed music like I needed air! There was no other choice for me”: The singer who scored two No.1 hits in the '80s with the band that had fired him a decade earlier

“Music is an ever-evolving art form," he says

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"I felt out of place. That group didn't have much musical merit and I thought it was crap": The oddball career of Kevin Ayers, quintessential English songwriter

Kevin Ayers co-founded Soft Machine, influenced Bowie, shared acid trips and girlfriends with Hendrix, and knew Syd Barrett better than most

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"I formed this band for God’s sake! And I helped Roger a hell of a lot because he wasn’t a musician when we started." The lost Richard Wright interview

On the back of a Classic Rock cover story for Pink Floyd's The Wall back in 2000, keyboard player Richard Wright was determined to have his say. And he did

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Golden Earring guitarist George Kooymans dead at 77

George Kooymans was diagnosed with the degenerative muscle disease ALS in 2020

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“I'm no superman, no person from another planet – I'm just a lucky guy”: Ozzy Osbourne was an extraordinary frontman and working class hero with great taste in guitar players

The Black Sabbath icon has died at the age of 76, and leaves behind a legacy of game-changing music and guitar talent

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