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“They were all having a difficult time, having lost a bandmate and a good friend. It was a dark moment, and I was in the middle of it”: Robert Sarzo was hired and immediately fired as Randy Rhoads’ replacement – but he has no regrets

The Hurricane leader, soundtrack composer, and veteran rock axeman explains how he’s taken career ups and downs in his stride, and how it felt to finally be on a big stage with bassist brother Rudy

Guitar World

“Bob Ezrin was recording and I changed to a different guitar. Within five seconds, he stopped the tape and said, ‘There’s something wrong…’” Simon McBride on Deep Purple’s new golden age of heavy

The band's fleet-fingered, PRS-toting guitar-slinger tells GW how the rock legends nailed their ‘70s sound in the 21st century on their new album, and the pedal people would be surprised to hear is on his 'board...

Guitar World

“Peter and I were in a car and he started humming this melody. ‘What’s that?’ ‘Oh, that’s a song I wrote.’ I mean, Peter never wrote a song in his life! But he sings, ‘Beck, I hear you calling…’” Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley on the Kiss classic Destroyer

“It was musically and lyrically challenging – we were pushing the boundaries”

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"He wrote stories so painfully real that rock’n’roll still bears their scars." From Velvet Underground to his often divisive solo work, here's why Lou Reed is rock’s greatest storyteller

"With 1989’s New York album, Reed sealed his position as NYC’s poet laureate with a concept work of rare lyrical brilliance."

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"It's a national anthem of rock." The story of the Kiss classic inspired by the tragic death of a fan

Producer Bob Ezrin sang the guitar solo to Ace Frehley so he could learn it – and Detroit Rock City went on to become Kiss's second-most-played song

Metal Hammer

“I have absolutely no regrets. But with Eric Carr’s illness, I wish I’d handled that differently. The idea that someone close to me had cancer and was going to die, I couldn’t take it in”: Paul Stanley recalls the darkest day in the history of Kiss

“In some crazy way I thought that Eric might get better and come back to the band”

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"As soon as we heard it, we looked at each other and gasped, 'This is gonna be a monster.'" How an out-of-body experience helped Alice Cooper create a song about the greatest three minutes of everyone's life

School's Out: The delinquent sound of youth gone wild

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"My job was to get rid of Alice Cooper – and I did exactly the opposite." Bob Ezrin on his long, strange trip with Alice Cooper

Visionary producer Bob Ezrin – who steered Alice Cooper to his greatest triumphs – looks back on decades of madness, mayhem and macabre genius

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“That was the one time Kiss succumbed to the critics. We wanted a critical success. And we lost our minds”: This sci-fi concept album was Kiss’s attempt to match The Beatles and Pink Floyd. Instead it became their most epic fail

Even Gene Simmons is embarrassed by it

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“I heard someone playing deep, fiery guitar in the room next door. I thought, ‘Boy, I wish that guy was in the band!’ I looked over the balcony… It was Ace”: The otherworldly life and times of Kiss guitar icon Ace Frehley

The Spaceman leaves a legacy of millions of fans rocked, countless players inspired, and a rock guitar scene that will never be the same again

Guitar World

“It was the last embers of mine and Roger’s ability to work collaboratively together”: The transcendent Pink Floyd song that David Gilmour says marked the beginning of the end for the band

It featured not one but two astounding guitar solos

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The End is only The Beginning: The Kiss Kruise in Las Vegas kicks off a new chapter in Kisstory

72 hours in Sin City: What we learned at Kiss Kruise: Land-Locked In Vegas

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"John Lennon walked past me and said, 'Great record'": The story of the Alice Cooper song that began as a failed single on an album one critic called "a tragic waste of plastic" but finished as a worldwide smash hit

Rehashing a psychedelic tune from the days of Alice Cooper (the band), the man himself fashioned an OTT accompaniment to the 1972 presidential election

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“I said, ‘Oh, man, we’re gonna kick some ass on a Pink Floyd record!’ I’m not really a Pink Floyd guy. I never understood why they got so big. I think they were boring most of the time”: The hard-hitting drummer who substituted for Nick Mason in the ’80s

Carmine Appice says that Mason's drumming sounds like hitting a pillow

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Metal Hammer

The man who invented everything cool in rock'n'roll: Alice Cooper albums ranked

We examine the wild, weird, and often blood-soaked world of Alice Cooper's albums, splayed out from worst to best

Guitar World

“I’d been playing guitar full-time for 25 years, and when I got to play on a Deep Purple album it was just one chord!” Meet Tommy Denander, the session guitar great who’s worked with everyone from Jeff Beck and Michael Jackson to Joe Perry and Ace Frehley

You’ve heard the Swedish guitarist on over 100 gold or platinum records. He tells his war stories from decades of session work, from fighting for all-important missing credits to playing with his heroes – and writing the song that finally brought Alice Cooper and Jeff Beck together…

Guitar World

“Interviewers were telling me that I started the whole glam rock, hair metal scene. I said, ‘What? Don’t blame me for that!’” Drugs, guitars, triumph and tragedy – the inside story of Hanoi Rocks

40 years ago – after moving to London to invent the movement that would inspire a million L.A. bands – Finnish upstarts Hanoi Rocks self-destructed. This is their story

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“It wasn’t pure hatred all the time”: Pink Floyd’s The Wall movie and its feuds, falling-outs and friction

Bob Geldof ruthlessly baited Roger Waters, Gerald Scarfe feared he’d created a new skinhead movement and the media hated the morbidity – but the third part of the multimedia trilogy was a triumph

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Alice Cooper: ‘We had censors breathing down our necks every inch of the way’

INTERVIEW: With ‘School’s Out’ and their gruesome stage show, they caused a moral panic in the Seventies; then they broke up. Now band and singer are reunited with producer Bob Ezrin on a new album. They talk to Michael Hann

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"I formed this band for God’s sake! And I helped Roger a hell of a lot because he wasn’t a musician when we started." The lost Richard Wright interview

On the back of a Classic Rock cover story for Pink Floyd's The Wall back in 2000, keyboard player Richard Wright was determined to have his say. And he did

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"This album's really good, why wouldn't we do another one?": Reunited Alice Cooper Band release new single Up All Night

Up All Night is the third release from The Revenge Of Alice Cooper, the band's first album in over half a century

Guitar World

“Maybe that was part of the reason I had overlooked it before. It was so perfect and almost doesn’t stand out”: Alice Cooper’s new guitarist on why Glen Buxton is a seriously underrated guitar hero

The Alice Cooper Band’s Gyasi Heus argues that Buxton’s guitar is the essential ingredient in those classic Coop recordings – and the legend Bob Ezrin agrees

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“Roger went absolutely nuclear, apoplectic. He had every right to”: Producer Bob Ezrin reveals what led him to fall out with Roger Waters over The Wall

He was too trusting with a journalist, apparently

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“I said to those guys, ‘I would like us to do something where you become Marlon Brando — where you can still be bad boys but there has to be an element of vulnerability’”: How producer Bob Ezrin added a new dimension to Kiss

"It was such a big departure for them," Ezrin says

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"I was driving, Steven Tyler had a gun and we were on some mission": The scandalous story of Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies

The Alice Cooper Band's outrageous behaviour prompted a statement in Parliament while their songs thrilled a generation

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