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FORGOTTEN HISTORY: 16 - The Untold Story

Brian May and Rick Wakeman join stellar lineup at 2026 Starmus festival

The Starmus Festival celebrates astronomy, space exploration, music, art, and the natural sciences

Louder · Jul 1

No Glastonbury? No problem. Create your own mini-festival at home this summer, with no rain to spoil the fun

Create the festival vibe at home this summer with everything from personalised wristbands and atmospheric lighting, to music games, bean bags and temporary tattoos for the kids

Louder · Jul 1

"There’s two days missing from my life. Apparently, we had a really good time!" That time The Cure's Robert Smith went on a 48 hours drinking session with David Bowie's guitarist, then offered him a job

Robert Smith and Reeves Gabrels got together in 1997 to rehearse for David Bowie’s 50th birthday gig, then hit the town to celebrate. Things got messy

Louder · Jul 1

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“You might think, ‘Is he so wrapped up in the problems of being human? is this who he is all day?’ It’s not!” Why the happy, positive Bruce Soord writes sad, melancholy solo albums

Ghosts In The Park contains songs he’d never take to The Pineapple Thief, or talk about in coffee shops. He explains how he found the collection of stories in hotel rooms

Louder · Jul 1

First two Roger Hodgson solo albums to get half-speed remaster treatment

Roger Hodgson's first two solo albums, In The Eye Of The Storm and Hai Hai, will be reissued in August

Louder · Jul 1

“Make peace with who you are. Sit with yourself and your pain in ways that are really uncomfortable”: Devin Townsend feels like it took a 10-year dump to deliver The Moth

After pushing through a gruelling period of self-analysis, he reflects on not being allowed to express emotions, feeling abandoned, not crying in front of dogs – and what’s coming next

Louder · Jul 1

"He would just stroll into my kitchen wearing Speedos." As a kid, superstar DJ Fatboy Slim believed that The Beatles rehearsed in his grandmother's house. Then Paul McCartney moved in next door

"They said, 'Your uncle's in The Beatles?' Yeah, they rehearse at my nan's house"

Louder · Jun 30

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"I'm not too struck on Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, I never saw what was in Clapton at all". In 1975, Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore was asked for his thoughts on his peers: he did not hold back

Blackmore on Hendrix, Beck, Page, Clapton, Townshend and more

Louder · Jun 30

Peter Gabriel shares latest single, the groove-laden I Belong To The Sky

Peter Gabriel is releasing a new single every full moon in the build-up to his new studio album o\i.

Louder · Jun 30

“They say it all went wrong when I started singing. But really, we all changed. It was a metamorphosis. I think we got better”: Genesis’ evolutionary A Trick Of The Tail, track by track

50 years ago, as Phil Collins took over from Peter Gabriel, the always-divisive band had fans to appease and debts to pay. This is how they did it

Louder · Jun 30

"It was a craving for something new." Meet The Scratch, the metal misfits who might just be the missing link between The Dubliners and Metallica

More than just a party band with a "weird little sound", The Scratch's third album Pull Like A Dog is out now

Louder · Jun 30

"He grabbed me and said, I like you. You've got a lot of nerve": ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons on the night his teenage band supported Jimi Hendrix, and closed their set with Foxy Lady and Purple Haze

When The Moving Sidewalks were picked to support Jimi Hendrix in Texas in 1968, they had just about enough songs to play a full set, but two of those were Jimi Hendrix hits

Louder · Jun 30

"That riff is probably the very first heavy metal riff ever": The story of the Hendrix-inspired Cream classic their label boss thought was "psychedelic hogwash"

Cream's Sunshine Of Your Love was a slow-burning success, but it inspired a generation of future rockers

Louder · Jun 30

"The record company was terrified of You Oughta Know. But every woman I knew was pissed." Alanis Morissette on the "patriarchal" criticism of her 33-million-selling album Jagged Little Pill, and harsh words from female artists she admired

"I had these fantasies that I would be snuggling up with Annie Lennox, and Joni [Mitchell] would be massaging my feet"

Louder · Jun 29

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Louder · Jun 29

The Who's Pete Townshend believes that Keith Moon once bought dinner in Seattle for a nine-year-old Kurt Cobain

Amazing if true, but...

Louder · Jun 29

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: June 29, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Green Lung, Bad Nerves, These Wicked Rivers and more

Louder · Jun 29

“I’d look at this mysterious fog in the ceiling. It looked like God was up there in Heaven. The ‘fog’ was tobacco smoke”: Roy Harper’s son Nick on growing up around folk rock icons Pentangle

He recalls discovering what Bert Jansch was really like, leaving Danny Thompson on stage, and the band’s artistic connection to Jimi Hendrix

Louder · Jun 29

“Oh God, it’s hard to listen to.” The story behind Nirvana’s final song, You Know You’re Right

On January 30, 1994, Nirvana entered the studio for the last time. The song the trio taped that day would become the subject of a bitter legal battle

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Louder · Jun 29

Peter Hammill returns with Tears In Time, his first new album for five years

Van der Graaf Generation frontman Peter Hammill will release new album, Tears In Time, in September

Louder · Jun 29

"A nurse came in and said, 'You should stay another night or two because you almost died yesterday.'" How a near-death experience inspired the making of Failure's Location Lost

Failure's seventh album Location Lost was shaped by frontman Ken Andrews’ long road back to full health

Louder · Jun 29

"Ma, I'm real sick. I need help. I got to come home": The trauma and triumph of Stevie Ray Vaughan

After almost dying at a London show, Stevie Ray Vaughan was given two weeks to live - it was the wake-up call he needed

Louder · Jun 29

“Having ADHD isn’t a superpower. But we can turn pain into poetry, and this album does that’’: TesseracT and Chimp Spanner friends team up for Prince Of Failure debut

Daniel Tompkins and Paul Ortiz smash prog together with nu metal on their cathartic self-titled record

Louder · Jun 29

"Give The People What They Want proves that The Kinks were still alive and kicking as the 80s began." Ray Davies successfully trades music-hall whimsy for slabs of radio-ready arena rock

The Kinks' 19th studio album explored the band's harder edges and saw the reintroduction of an old friend

Louder · Jun 28

"He only became a heavy metal guy after he’d spent time touring with Deep Purple and started in Rainbow." What happened when Ronnie James Dio met Ritchie Blackmore

Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore recruited a largely unknown vocalist to sing on his new project. The rest, as they say, is history

Louder · Jun 28

"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

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