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Elkie Brooks looks back: ‘Before I went on stage I used to drink Guinness and a few shots of brandy’

The singer-songwriter on her rock’n’roll past, playing second fiddle to the Beatles, and the key to being an energetic performer in your 80s

The Guardian - UK

Green industrialist Dale Vince backs new North Sea drilling in surprise U-turn

GREEN energy tycoon Dale Vince has backed the approval of the controversial Jackdaw and Rosebank oil and gas fields ...

The National (Scotland)

Rosebank consultation closes in ‘major step’ ahead of UK Government decision

Developers Adura argue the development would have ‘real economic benefits’ but environmentalists fear the impact of extracting more fossil fuels.

Evening Standard

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BP’s £4.2bn Iran ‘war bonus’ fuels anger over UK soaring energy bills

BP has been slammed for raking in billions from a “war bonus” boosted by the US-Iran conflict, while UK households face soaring energy bills

The National (Scotland)

Trump says Scots 'dancing in streets' over claims Burnham backs North Sea drilling

DONALD Trump has been panned for claiming people in Aberdeen will be “dancing in the streets” following reports Andy Burnham could back new oil…

The National (Scotland)

Labour MPs told backing North Sea is ‘about more than oil and gas’

Supporting the North Sea oil and gas sector will benefit jobs and the economy and also help the UK meet its climate obligations, MPs are being told.

Evening Standard

Climate campaigners slam 'insatiable greed of energy giants' as UK price cap rises

Climate campaigners have reacted angrily to the new energy price cap rise, slamming the 'insatiable greed of energy giants'

The National (Scotland)

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“That was a totally racist decision. We killed that song together. We were both deeply hurt”: So why did the original version of Robert Palmer’s Addicted To Love get junked?

It was originally a duet with Chaka Khan

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“Playing with Vince Neil, opening for Van Halen, it got to be total rock ’n’ roll excess. I had to reassess why I was even playing guitar”: Steve Stevens on resisting shred, how Paco de Lucia made him go nylon, and Billy Idol’s eternal appeal

Billy Idol’s collaborator of 40-plus years transcends the punk-rock guitarist mold, taking in flamenco, jazz‑fusion, prog and classical styles – and he is as excited aboutguitar today as he was when he first picked one up

Guitar World

“I hit the drum maybe five times. That was it. Concorde flights, 14 days in a 5-star hotel. The most expensive bit of drumming in history”: When stars of Duran Duran and Chic formed a decadent ’80s supergroup to rock out like Led Zeppelin

“I had to be, like, strapped to the desk if I was gonna get a bass line finished," John Taylor said

MusicRadar

"I was in a cosy thing that went on too long... and I made a great escape": Robert Plant on musical freedom, unfinished business, and getting confused with Robert Palmer

Robert Plant talks about his latest group Saving Grace, and compares nights out in small provincial towns to meetings with Barack Obama and Prince Charles

Louder

'New normal': Climate campaigners sound alarm over Arthur's Seat blaze

CLIMATE campaigners have warned that wildfires – like a blaze which tore through gorse on Arthur’s Seat at the weekend – will become the…

The National (Scotland)

"I remember thinking, This is ridiculous. Johnny finally said, 'This isn’t working'." Rick Rubin once tried to get Johnny Cash to record Robert Palmer's US number one single Addicted To Love

Johnny Cash's American Recordings sessions with producer Rick Rubin yielded some incredible music, but not everything worked

Louder

“The only gear I brought was a red Hamer prototype. That guitar is magical. I used it on Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love, David Lee Roth’s California Girls and with Mick Jagger”: Eddie Martinez explains how he helped Run-D.M.C. bring rock to hip hop

Armed with his legendary red Hamer, Martinez stepped into one of the most iconoclastic collaborations of the '80s as Run-D.M.C. became the first hip-hop act to bring the crunch of electric guitar into the rap game

Guitar World

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“The groove was so thick, and what am I playing? A simple, Boom-Bop-Tish-Bop-Boom-Bop? It was unbelievable”: The making of Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love

We go deep behind the scenes with the team behind the hard-hitting global smash that turned around Palmer’s career

Marie Claire

Mikey Madison paints the town red (and that town is London)

The Anora actress and EE Rising Star nominee wore archive Giorgio Armani at last night’s BAFTA party

Metal Hammer

"The tours were getting longer and crazier, and the expectations around us were astronomical." How Powerslave cemented Iron Maiden as the biggest metal band on the planet in 1984

Is fencing better than karate? Was the world about to end? How many frozen daiquiries can you have and still pull off an epic solo? Maiden were answering all the important questions when they made Powerslave

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s massive’: farmers shocked at budget – but is concern over inheritance tax overblown?

Countryside defenders from NFU to Clarkson are up in arms – but experts say only richest estate owners will be affected

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“People have long talked to me about that bass solo, but I never gave it a lot of thought”: Andy Fraser names the forgotten song that marked the pinnacle of his bass playing with Free

Having already sparked Free’s biggest hit, All Right Now, Andy Fraser once again proved that the bass can be a focal point as much as an accompaniment

The Guardian - UK

Taxing the wealth of UK’s richest would raise billions for public services

Letter: Reforming the tax system is the smart solution to meet the societal challenges of today, says Robert Palmer

Guitar World

“Rod Stewart wooed me to come out on tour and I agreed – then I decided not to do it. He said, ‘Oh, I bet you’re going out on tour with Robert’”: Eddie Martinez on playing with Blondie, Run-D.M.C. and that solo in Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love

Martinez is a bona-fide session guitar legend with more hits than Ty Cobb. Here he looks back at some of his biggest tracks, working with “solid cat” David Lee Roth, and saying no to Rod Stewart

Louder

"Vince Neil tried to fight me and my bodyguards had to sort him out": Andy Taylor is best known as Duran Duran’s guitarist, but he's a real rocker at heart

Andy Taylor looks back on his early days with AC/DC's Brian Johnson, life as a guitar-wielding pop star, forming the Power Station and discovering Thunder

The Guardian - UK

HMRC investigations of wealthy ‘tax dodgers’ halve in five years

The drop in civil inquiries by fraud unit sparks criticism that the authority’s use of its powers of enforcement are waning

Newcastle Herald

A hitman, a predator politician and a cowardly and callous murder

These were the biggest criminal cases in the Hunter in 2023.

The Guardian - UK

‘Mick Jagger was surprisingly hard-working’: the all-star life of synth whiz Wally Badarou

His reputation for futurist pop got him work with everyone from Grace Jones and Talking Heads to Foreigner – now the French keyboardist is reissuing a soundtrack for a yoga DVD that became a Balearic classic

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