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"We exchanged no words. He eyed me up and down, dipped the silver tube he wore on a chain into a bag of white powder, shoved it up my snout, then walked out. I was up for three days." The day The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde met Motorhead's Lemmy

"Without Lemmy, The Pretenders wouldn’t have happened"

Louder · Apr 1

"I was so terrified to go out I stayed in my room for a week." Rare 1974 talkshow footage starring Ozzy Osborne, Jon Lord and Ian Hunter appears online

The Speakeasy footage is hosted by famed Woodstock MC Chip "Brown Acid" Monck

Louder · Apr 1

Former ELO members reunite to present band's silver electric cello donated to Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Former Electric Light Orchestra members Melvyn Gale, Bev Bevan and Mik Kaminski appeared at Birmingham City University to honour former ELO keyboard player Richard Tandy

Louder · Mar 31

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"We talked a lot about Neil – about his view on music and drumming." New Rush drummer Anika Nilles looks back on her first rehearsal with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson

Anika Nilles, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are interviewed in the new issue of Classic Rock

Louder · Mar 31

“Greg Lake was a bit of a cabaret singer. Jon Anderson, whatever you think of his lyrics, bloody meant it”: The prog stars who influenced a comedy musician’s career – and made him become a milkman for a while

Graham Fellows, creator of Jilted John and John Shuttleworth, started out with ELP before finding Yes, Focus, The Enid and Pink Floyd (although he has no time for The Dark Side Of The Moon)

Louder · Mar 31

"There's no denying that Gong has changed me." Kavus Torabi on the new adventures of psychedelic rock, jazz, space-rock and more collective Gong

Since being handed the role of Gong gatekeeper by late founder Daevid Allen, Kavus Torabi has guided the band through a trilogy of albums

Louder · Mar 31

"You can borrow the luggage of the past, you can amalgamate it with things that you've conceived could be in the future, and you can set it in the now." How David Bowie conquered time to write the song that gave him an audience

How a young David Bowie’s artistic manifesto was capturedin three and a half perfect minutes

Louder · Mar 31

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"Hanoi Rocks could've been one of the biggest bands in the world. The potential was there, but fate had other plans." Michael Monroe looks back at a career packed with thrills, spills, triumphand tragedy

You could say Michael Monroe has really lived the rock’n’roll life, but it would be an understatement

Louder · Mar 31

Deep Purple announce US tour with Kansas and Jefferson Starship

Deep Purple's North American tour dates are the band's first on the continent since 2024's = 1 More Time Tour

Louder · Mar 30

"Olivia Rodrigo said to my daughter, Without your mother, none of this would have happened." Melissa Auf der Maur, one of the unsung heroes of '90s rock, is finally getting her flowers

New books, a photo exhibition, new music and book tours, Melissa Auf der Maur is thriving

Louder · Mar 30

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 30, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Suzi Quatro feat. Alice Cooper, CJ Wildheart, Robert Jon & The Wreck and more

Louder · Mar 30

Watch Rush debut new live line-up with powerful rendition of Finding My Way at the Junos

"It's the only song we know how to play," quips Alex Lifeson as Rush open this year's Juno Awards in Canada with Finding My Way, the first song from their self-titled debut album

Louder · Mar 30

"Blessedly free of vibraphones and scatological humour." Todd Rundgren delights some and confounds others on A Wizard, A True Star

Aided by magic mushrooms and a newly built studio, Todd Rundgren sets out to chart "the chaotic musical element” in his head

Louder · Mar 30

Toyah and Robert Fripp return with their most disturbing Sunday Lunch video yet

Quick! Somebody fetch the bug spray!

Louder · Mar 30

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Louder · Mar 29

America's 250th birthday will be celebrated with a July 4 concert at a military base in Kentucky headlined by a hologram of Charlie Daniels

The show will take place at the home of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)

Louder · Mar 29

"Robert Plant came up with some lyrics for my music that were extraordinary." Jimmy Page releases previously unheard home demo version of Led Zeppelin's Ten Years Gone

More light has been shed on the origins of Led Zeppelin's most melancholy song

Louder · Mar 27

"The success we enjoyed with Pearl Jam was a little bittersweet because our friend didn’t get to come along." Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament on Ten, Temple Of The Dog, Mother Love Bone, touring America for the first time, and working with Neil Young

"We didn’t expect Ten to be a huge deal. But I guess it kinda became one"

Louder · Mar 27

"He really didn’t like it the first time we played it, so he tried spoiling it." The story behind the song that made, and nearly broke up, Radiohead

It's fair to say that Radiohead have a complicated relationship with their debut single

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Louder · Mar 27

"You see a lot of kids and they're like, 'I canceled my shows because I'm having a mental-health issue.' The whole '90s was a mental-health issue for us." The Black Crowes Chris Robinson looks back on a turbulent decade

The Black Crowes did a lot of growing up in the '90s

Louder · Mar 27

Pink Floyd to release 1975 Los Angeles Sports Arena concert on vinyl and CD for very first time in April

Pink Floyd Live From The Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975 has been restored and remastered by Steven Wilson

Louder · Mar 27

Excellent proggy sounds you must hear from Bruce Soord, Exploring Birdsong, The Claypool Lennon Delirium and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Great new prog from VLMV, Aisles, Lost In Kyiv, Long Distance Calling and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

Louder · Mar 27

"They told me I was insane – things like 'career suicide' and all that stuff was thrown around." The drama behind the recording of Smashing Pumpkins' era-defining, bombastic masterpiece

Thirty years after its release, Billy Corgan looks back at the making of The Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

Louder · Mar 27

"This is a record about identity, legacy, survival." Suzi Quatro refuses to dim the lights on 18th album Freedom

Freedom is Suzi Quatro's third album in collaboration with son LR Tuckey

Louder · Mar 27

"Notable for not including anything new or previously unreleased." The Expanded Edition of Van Halen's 5150 is bigger but not necessarily better

Exit Dave, enter Sammy, and Van Halen's first No.1 album

Louder · Mar 27

"Blackwater Park confirmed Opeth as one of the most inventive, indefinable bands in metal." A mesmerisingly brilliant prog-metal album's quarter-century celebration

In which Steven Wilson helps Opeth emerge from the musky cocoon of their darker 90s albums with a wider and brighter sound

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