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“We want to stand head and shoulders with the giants and say ‘Yeah it is nice up here Bob Dylan, John Lennon because I'm Richard Ashcroft. We’re The Verve”: The Rolling Stones-sampling Britpop epic that has captivated a new generation

Built atop an orchestral version of the Rolling Stones’ The Last Time, Richard Ashcroft and The Verve conjured a timeless symphony of self-assertion

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“He called me and said, ‘There’s a scene in this film which is going to make it a hit all over again.’ I saw it and said, ‘Oh my God!’ When I played that song in England it would go down like a lead zeppelin”: The story of Elton John’s classic sleeper hit

“I knew Bernie would like me to do this one because it’s about his girlfriend”

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Rolling Stones’ Foreign Tongues album praised as late-career peak in reviews

Released on Friday, the album follows 2023’s Hackney Diamonds.

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Zoey Deutch Has Been Method Dressing For Minions & Monsters, And It’s Delightful

And it was all yellow!

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"I thought we sounded great, then I heard the recording. I was mortified!" The story behind Foo Fighters' secret first show

"I remember it being such a huge relief that we just made it to the end"

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Madonna returns to form with fifteenth album 'Confessions II'

Pop icon Madonna released the fifteenth album of her decades-long career on Friday, "Confessions II", ahead of a performance to promote her new tracks at the half-time show of the Football World Cup final on July 19.

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“I was so excited, 'cause I met my pre-saves goal, and then it dropped, and I was like, ‘Oh, OK, this isn't what I thought it would be": Lizzo says that her new album's poor commercial performance felt "soul crushing"

Pundits have been trying to establish just what went wrong...

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'Messy and Cheaply Produced': Fans Reject Lizzo's 'Best Work' Claim as Album Sales Disappoint

Lizzo's claim that B-TCH is some of her best work has backfired, with fans blasting the album's sound and citing weak sales as proof.

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"The lyrics are like this crazy, mystical bum that lives in a cave and says, ‘Oh, I wanna reach the whales!’ Why do people want to hear this?" 13 rock and metal musicians hating on their own songs

Lemmy, James Hetfield, Amy Lee, Slipknot’s Clown and more open up the haterade on their own songs

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'The Cocaine Clause': How Keith Urban Reportedly Lands Multimillion-Dollar Payout in $325M Divorce From Nicole Kidman

Keith Urban's divorce from Nicole Kidman includes a reported sobriety clause, potentially earning him millions. The clause highlights the unique financial dynamics of their split.

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"Let’s not be grunge. Let’s be more like the Beach Boys. But loud." How Weezer's Rivers Cuomo wrote the perfect power-pop song but almost shelved it

Producer Ric Ocasek convinced the Weezer frontman to include the song Buddy Holly on the band's debut album

Louder

Supergirl writer praises 'perfectly cast' Milly Alcock

The Australian actress takes on the role of Supergirl, aka Kara Zor-El, in one of her biggest projects to date, and Ana told Rolling Stone that there was no-one else who could have done it as well as Milly Alcock.

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Blood, Sweat & Tears lead singer David Clayton-Thomas dies at 84

Clayton-Thomas died ‘peacefully’ on Wednesday in Toronto

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“Just because some of your university friends defaulted to it at karaoke doesn’t act as a strike against it”: A music professor breaks down the theory behind Oasis’s Wonderwall

We put Wonderwall under the musical microscope and explore how the song became a standard for beginner guitarists

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Lizzo’s new album fails to chart as dismal first-week sales revealed

Pop singer’s album ‘Bitch’ was met with negative reviews from critics, and has since failed to crack the Billboard 200

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“Artie would be singing it, people would stomp and cheer, and I would think, ‘That’s my song, man. I wrote that’”: How Simon and Garfunkel created their transcendent masterpiece – with tension rising and emotions running high

“That song had two writers – Paul Simon and God”

Louder

"I was having a peek at his guitar and I was just about to stroke it, and he went: 'Nobody touches it!' And bam!" The night that Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards got punched in the face by his hero Chuck Berry

Perhaps there's some truth in the old saying that you should never meet your heroes

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“George was talking to Bonzo one evening and said, ‘The problem with you guys is that you never do ballads.’ I said, ‘I’ll give him a ballad’”: How a light-hearted comment from a former Beatle inspired one of Led Zeppelin’s greatest songs

“Seven minutes of exquisite heartache” – quite unlike anything else the band created

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Charli XCX addresses ‘Rock Music’ controversy, says she’s in ‘the worst place mentally’

Pop star’s first single from her new album received a mixed response, with fans expressing confusion over its sound and messaging

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Charli XCX stays away from social media for her mental health

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Charli XCX said she has made the decision to steer clear of sites such as Instagram and Facebook for the sake of her mental health.

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“I didn't even want it to be on the record, honestly. How wrong could I have possibly been?”: How Linkin Park created their biggest song that has now racked up billions of streams

Chester Bennington was a little on the fence as to whether Linkin Park’s most enduring track was strong enough to be on their debut

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"God knows what I'm on about on that song. It's such a mishmash. All the nasty subjects in one go." The story of the controversial Rolling Stones classic they won't play live any more

With origins in the Australian outback and a rare riff from Mick Jagger, Brown Sugar's lyrics are still a source of controversy

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Keke Palmer credits son for 'changing my life'

Keke Palmer became a first-time mum, to son Leo, in February 2023, and opened up to Rolling Stone magazine about how much her little boy has "changed (my) life".

Louder

“He asked, ‘Will you guys ever tour again?’ We said, ‘We’re going out in 2026.’ The crowd laughed – then realised we weren’t kidding”: How Rush transformed from political pariahs to comeback kings

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson draw a career line from the early 80s to 2027. They say they might continue after that, if they can stand each other – and if they can stand

Louder

“They said a four-minute single containing lyrics about Jesus would never get played on pop radio”: The US singer loved by John Lennon and hated by right-wing Christian groups who wrote the last great hippie anthem – and then vanished into obscurity

Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit In The Sky was one of the greatest one-hit-wonders of the early 1970s

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