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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: December 15, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Starbenders, DeWolff, Stanley Simmons and more

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"I was like, ‘Stop the show! I’ve been stabbed!’ Our bassist’s poor wife had to nurse this wound at the top of my bum.” As they prepare to split, this is the full, chaotic story of one of Britain's most influential metal bands

They've shook hands with Dio, hung out in a strip club with Lemmy and helped found Britain's stoner metal scene, but now Orange Goblin are taking their final bows

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"When the doctor was at the house and told us, I cried right there. I couldn’t help it. And he was the one who consoled me!" Lemmy's nearest and dearest on how the Motörhead man faced death "like a champ"

You might not be surprised to find that Lemmy faced his own mortality with the kind of no-nonsense attitude that defined his life

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"I found myself at 52, going through my third divorce and fourth financial collapse – from ‘I’m a millionaire’ to ‘I live in my car.'" J.K. Simmons, Ozzy Osbourne, Limp Bizkit and the adult industry: the wild and unpredictable career of Evan Seinfeld

From shivving Oscar winners to being mates with Ozzy Osbourne, Biohazard's frontman shares the lessons he's learned

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"My area was full of Mafia people and drugs. Half my friends were addicts and the other were dealers." From gangsters and Satanic murders to hanging with Lemmy, the remarkable life of Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia

She's a modern metal icon with a hell of a life story. We delve into the career of Cristina Scabbia

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"I'll break both yer arms": Memories of life with Lemmy as a friend and neighbour

Classic Rock writer, former Zigzag editor and Motörhead biographer Kris Needs was also Lemmy’s neighbour in London’s Notting Hill

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"Just about enough charm to pass muster": Four decades down the line, Fastway's debut album falls short of classic status

Combining Eddie Clark’s in-your-face guitar, Dave King’s high-register vocals and Jerry Shirley’s gut-rumbling drumming, Fastway peaked early

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"We wanted Wayne Kramer from The MC5 to be our guitarist": Founding Motörhead drummer Lucas Fox looks back on the band's earliest days

Lucas Fox looked after Lemmy when he was fired by Hawkwind - they bonded over Monty Python, speed and Special Brew

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“Some of the police were dealing dope! They’re knocking at the door and we stop rolling joints, but the promoter says, ‘They have marijuana for us!’” When America fell in love with an eccentric British prog band

A change of line-up, a change of style and Timothy Leary’s plans for a concert suspended in the air helped made their 1974 album a classic

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"One guy brought his mom’s ashes in an envelope and asked me to help him spread them after the show." Mortuary science, late night chats with Lemmy and a Butcher Babies exit led Carla Harvey to realise her true calling with The Violent Hour

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"Sabbath will not do it, they won't take a chance": How Ozzy Osbourne predicted the future and saved Motörhead's Heavy Metal Holocaust

When Motörhead supported Ozzy Osbourne on his first American arena tour, it was the start of a beautiful friendship

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“It’s Sharon’s song. One of her favourites. Lemmy wrote it with the two of us in mind”: Just before he died, Ozzy Osbourne revealed the song that made him cry during the Back To The Beginning gig

All the emotion came out during Ozzy’s solo set at Back To The Beginning

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“Lemmy couldn’t compute the concept of ‘subtle.’ It adds to a multifaceted, if superficially flawed, gem”: Hawkwind’s Hall Of The Mountain Grill returns in 9-disc edition

Box set contains studio and live bonuses along with fresh remaster of the 1974 album

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Motörhead: 50 Years Louder - A celebration, only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Robert Plant, Terry Reid, Grand Funk Railroad, Luke Morley, Spinal Tap, George Harrison, W.A.S.P, Vernon Reid and more

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Watch a unique version of Motörhead classic Ace Of Spades, and a killer take on Little Richard's Good Golly Miss Molly, as Lemmy fronts Jools Holland's big band R'n'B Orchestra on British TV in 1995

It's Ace Of Spades, but not as you know it

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"I sent Rob Halford some eight-inch spiky high heels for Christmas": Lzzy Hale's wild tales of Ronnie James Dio, Alice Cooper, Skid Row and more

She’s shared stages with Slash, Skid Row and Tom Keifer, and bonded with Ann Wilson and Amy Lee. She’s Lzzy Hale, and these are her stories

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Judas Priest rocker Rob Halford cried for hours after Ozzy Osbourne's death

Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford "bawled his eyes out" after finding out about the death of heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne.

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The 50 best Ozzy Osbourne songs of all time

The Prince Of Darkness, heavy metal's original madman and the architect for an entire genre - these are some of the finest songs Ozzy lent his talents to

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"It polarises fans' opinions for certain, but isn't that what great music is supposed to do?": Motörhead ring the changes on Another Perfect Day, initial dismay now a distant memory

Joined by Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson, Motörhead's Another Perfect Day has increased in stature over the years – just don't mention the shorts

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"Brutal, high-velocity, downright mean and no-nonsense hard-rockin'": 1976 Motörhead sound like the real deal on The Manticore Tapes

Old songs, new clothes

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"Eddie Van Halen literally ran away from me!" Yngwie Malmsteen's wild tales of Lemmy, Ronnie James Dio, Metallica and more

Even talked soccer with Ritchie Blackmore as he lies on a table in a black leather trench coat, looking like Burt Reynolds? Shred king Yngwie Malmsteen has

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Kim Wilde locked out of hotel room naked

Veteran pop star Kim Wilde has revealed she once got locked out of her hotel room naked following a boozy "knees-up".

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Motorhead's Lemmy tried to get Kim Wilde drunk on vodka

Kim Wilde has recalled a time partying with Motrhead's Lemmy, revealing the heavy metal legend tried to get her drunk on vodka in his dressing room.

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10 songs we need to hear at Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath's farewell gig

Back To The Beginning is set to be the world's biggest celebration of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath. We're hoping these songs will be part of it

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“I couldn’t believe it. I walked around, around in circles. I didn’t know”: Wendy Dio remembers visiting Motörhead’s Lemmy “two hours before he died”

The widow of Ronnie James Dio reveals that she was one of the last people to see Lemmy before he passed away in 2015

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