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Black Sabbath started the metal era, says Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar has hailed the impact of Black Sabbath, claiming that the band started the "metal era".

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Here's every single special guest and song played from Black Sabbath's Back To The Beginning show

Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slayer, Tool, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Gojira amongst a cast of superstar guests as Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath play live for the last time

Metal Hammer

Black Sabbath farewell concert live: Ozzy Osbourne’s last show ends with fireworks and cake

All-day event saw snumber of metal acts, including Metallica, Guns N Roses, Alice in Chains and Tom Morello, take part in the Birmingham show at Villa Park

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Are you ready for "the greatest day in the history of heavy metal"? Black Sabbath share new photo featuring some of the metal legends set to honour them at their farewell show in Birmingham

Ozzy, Tony, Geezer, Bill and friends, including Metallica, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, Sammy Hagar, Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan and more

Metal Hammer

‘I owe Ozzy Osbourne everything’: Metallica, Alice in Chains, Sammy Hagar and Yungblud on Black Sabbath’s farewell show

INTERVIEWS: As one of the world’s most influential bands prepare to bid farewell with a huge show at Villa Park in Birmingham, Roisin O’Connor speaks to just a few of the musicians whose lives were changed by the Prince of Darkness

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“Eddie told me, ‘Roth is driving me nuts. I can't take it. I gotta leave. I know you're looking for a lead guitar player. Do you want me in the band?’”: When Eddie Van Halen asked to join Kiss — and they turned him down!

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Black Sabbath offer first glimpse of rehearsals as they prepare for bow-out concert Back To The Beginning next week

“Hello from rehearsals!” frontman Ozzy Osbourne writes on social media

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"I'm scared for my life and career at this point." Dream Theater's Mike Portnoy jokes he's worried about his job after spate of drummer firings

Josh Freese, Zak Starkey and Jason Bonham have been let go – which Portnoy says makes it a weird time for drummers

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“He went into this trance state as he played. I’d be sitting there at the console and he would lean on me while he was playing. And it was kind of weird – it was like it was coming through me”: A close encounter with the genius of Eddie Van Halen

The insider's view of how EVH reinvented himself on the 5150 album

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“Bob is fearless. He’s always willing to take chances with music of any kind”: Bob Weir joins Joe Satriani and Sammy Hagar for Best of All Worlds guest spot – and plays Hagar’s Gibson Explorer

The Grateful Dead legend joined the band for a free-flowing take on a Montrose hit

Guitar World

“Van Halen were a pale, washed up imitation of the band they once were”: Dave Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar? A forensic examination of who was Van Halen’s best singer

Sorry, Gary Cherone…

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“Eddie’s musicianship blossomed when I joined the band”: Sammy Hagar on his musical dynamic with Eddie Van Halen – and why the virtuoso stopped releasing music in the 2000s

The former Van Halen frontman asserts that EVH flourished as a musician “because he got a singer that could say, ‘I can sing that’”

Guitar World

Ozzy Osbourne will only sing five solo songs at his final show this summer, support act Sammy Hagar reports

And one of them will be No More Tears

Metal Hammer

“He stopped writing, I think, because he just ran out. He had used that guitar neck up. He did everything and anything that neck could do”: Sammy Hagar explains Eddie Van Halen's lost years

“When I joined the band, everyone says, ‘Oh man, they started playing keyboards"

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Sammy Hagar has offered a potential reason as to why Alex Van Halen has shut him out of his life

Sammy Hagar has suggested Alex Van Halen resents him for being able to still have a music career.

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Sammy Hagar thinks he knows why Alex Van Halen is angry at him and it's nothing to do with music

The Red Rocker's Best Of All Worlds residency kicks off in Las Vegas this week

Guitar World

“Tom Morello comes back and says, ‘Guess what? Ozzy wants to sing No More Tears’”: Sammy Hagar reveals how many songs Ozzy Osbourne will perform at his final show

Ozzy previously said he’ll only do “little bits and pieces” during the historic show

Guitar World

“He brought something out of me that just ain't the same without him”: The song Sammy Hagar wrote with Joe Satriani after dreaming about Eddie Van Halen is here – and as promised, it features some stellar guitar work

The singer says the song is meant as a “thank you” to the late virtuoso

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"Since you’ve been gone, it’s not the same": Listen to the song Sammy Hagar finished after being visited by Eddie Van Halen in a dream

The release of Sammy Hagar's Encore, Thank You, Goodnight comes ahead of his upcoming Best Of All Worlds residency in Las Vegas

Guitar World

“It’s not meant to be anything more than a thank-you – with love, with respect, and with one hell of a guitar solo”: Sammy Hagar set to release track inspired by a dream he had about Eddie Van Halen, co-written with Joe Satriani

Encore, Thank You, Goodnight also features Michael Anthony on bass and is meant to be a celebration of the unforgettable chapter they shared in Van Halen

Louder

Watch Montrose play a sizzling version of Bad Motor Scooter on the Midnight Special in 1975

Sammy Hagar, Ronnie Montrose & Co. ramp up the rockin'

Metal Hammer

This WWE icon once invited a fake Sammy Hagar backstage and watched him snort so much cocaine his nose bled

“There’s people trying to get in the locker room, but we’re like ‘Go, go, go!’ and he’s snorting this big line of cocaine”

MusicRadar

“I saw people in the audience holding up these banners: ‘SAMMY SUCKS!' 'WE WANT DAVE!’”: How Sammy Hagar and Van Halen won their war with David Lee Roth

An epic rock battle began 40 years ago

Guitar World

“The three of us plugged into my Marshall, passing the cord around. The one thing Eric said to me was, ‘Wow, there is so much gain!’” Joe Satriani on reuniting with Eric Johnson and Steve Vai and the devil in the detail of Eddie Van Halen's playing

He has the G3 tour, the Best of All Worlds Tour, an album with old friend Steve Vai and the Satch/Vai tour incoming, but somehow Satch found time to check in with GW to talk tone, Van Halen and the danger in Jeff Beck's performances

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“It felt like there were dark times hanging over this album”: How hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot restarted the party on their second album, III

Chickenfoot’s second album, III, picked up where their debut left off

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