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"Bon Scott chose to hang out with us more than AC/DC. He thought they were boring": The rollercoaster story of Y&T, the greatest hard rock band never to become huge

Headlining over Van Halen, hanging with Bon Scott, out-partying Mötley Crüe – Y&T deserve way more love than they get

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"A girl at school dumped me, maybe that trauma stayed with me!" The story behind Foreigner's classic AOR anthem Cold As Ice

Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones on his bad girl-critiquing 1977 hit Cold As Ice

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"We had expected empty rooms, possibly even bottles of urine, but from the first night everyone knew the words." The sudden rise, spectacular fall and slow road to recovery of America's great lost AOR band

Despite falling record sales and changes in the musical landscape, Tyketto stayed true to their style. Now, with a new album on the way, they’re finding a new audience

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"It was starting to feel like the band had run its course": Whitesnake entered 1984 on a high, but everything was about to change

Whitesnake's last album before MTV propelled them towards US superstardom, Slide It In marked the end of an era for the band

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"My man management skills are very poor, but the music that gets made is usually worth it": The story of John Kalodner, the man who made rock stars

He signed Foreigner. He helped Whitesnake go global. Aerosmith owe him. He is music biz A&R legend-cum-rockstarmaker John Kalodner

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“I don’t remember saying I’d never heard Led Zeppelin. It’s beyond stupidity to say that!”: did Kingdom Come really sound like Zeppelin? Not according to singer Lenny Wolf

Kingdom Come released their divisive debut album on March 1, 1988. Original singer Lenny Wolf looks back on success, struggle and those infamous comparisons

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"Keith had so much criticism after that 3 album. He was susceptible to that kind of thing." Robert Berry on his work and relationship with Keith Emerson

Three years after the release of The Rules Have Changed, Robert Berry revisited the music he made with Keith Emerson for a brand new recording, Third Impression

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“We begged Stallone to send us the whole movie. When he did, we were blown away”: Survivor were just another struggling AOR band. And then Rocky III and Eye Of The Tiger changed everything

Their killer theme for Rocky III made stars of soft rockers Survivor – but their tale of heroism and heartbreak had no Hollywood ending

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I was pretty much ordered to go and play with Steve Howe, Carl Palmer, Geoff Downes and John Wetton. I was told that if I didn’t, I’d be dropped”: Trevor Rabin’s challenging road to Yes

From a dalliance with NWOBHM and Asia to sudden career jumps across the ocean, he’s always been far more interesting and varied than many realise

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I got shot down many times: ‘Oh, it’s pop. Oh, it’s bubblegum… the logo is ugly and we don’t hear a single!’” How John Wetton and Asia dialled up their debut album

The fleeting moment when a prog supergroup hijacked the US pop charts, becoming 1982's band of the summer

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