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"We like going places where it's a challenge." How Queen helped tear down the Iron Curtain

In July 1986, Queen became the first band to play a stadium show in the communist Eastern Bloc. Cue armed soldiers and genital-related insults

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“I wake up in the middle of the night thinking, ‘What if we hadn’t gone with him?’ I can’t see how it would have worked”: If Big Big Train hadn’t met Alberto Bravin, they wouldn’t have been on tour to discover the inspiration for Woodcut

Since the death of David Longdon, the band have been through massive changes which were all brought to bear on their first full-narrative concept album

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"Bonzo picked George Harrison up and launched him into the swimming pool. He said it was the greatest night of his life!" How Led Zeppelin seized control of the industry and became the biggest rock band on the planet

Magic hexes, hotel robberies and cut-throat deals: Led Zeppelin band members and associates chronicle the heady days of 1972/73

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Fleetwood Mac star Lindsey Buckingham attacked in Santa Monica

According to law enforcement, the suspect threw an unknown substance at Buckingham before fleeing

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"The America that I've written about for 50 years is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration." Bruce Springsteen launches his fiercest attacks yet against "criminal clown" Donald Trump

The Boss was not holding back at the opening night of his new Land of Hope and Dreams tour

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"It was an experiment, and not everyone was ready for that kind of change!" Jethro Tull announce six-disc reissue of 1984 album Under Wraps

Jethro Tull's Under Wraps: The Unwrapped Edition brings together the band's 1984 album and Ian Anderson's 1983 debut solo album, Walk Into Light

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"I lost it. I was just screaming and swinging at people. I’m not proud of it." How Red Hot Chili Peppers made By The Way, in their own words

"It’s not some champagne and caviar rock star party for us"

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Masked-up Canadian math rockers Angine de Poitrine announce new EU and UK tour for October

YouTube math-rock sensations Angine de Poitrine will release their second album, Vol. II, in April

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"Pete Doherty said that I was a high-kicking acrobat crossed with Nico. I was very pleased with that." Approved by Blondie, Iggy Pop and the Sex Pistols, The Molotovs are a ferocious generational voice

After cutting their teeth in parks and at protests, scooter rallies and mod events, The Molotovs have now sold 10,000 tickets for their upcoming tour

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"I'll definitely take being number one in fourteen countries!" The story of the song that heralded Blondie's comeback – but tanked in the US

Written about "sexual repression causing incredible desire among a school full of boys", Maria was a No.1 across Europe

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"I kind of did that on purpose, because there's just so much fake AI stuff going on." Journey's Jonathan Cain admits to deliberately misleading fans over Steve Perry return

Life continues to be interesting in the Journey camp

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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"

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"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

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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

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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

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“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)

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"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

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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

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"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

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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

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"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

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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

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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

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"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

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

Quick! Somebody fetch the bug spray!

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