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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: October 20, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Orianthi, Sugar, Heavy Pettin and more

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"It’s about an ex-girlfriend who'd moved to Ecuador. I tried to be level-headed about her leaving...I was completely ****ed off." How one cosy but spiteful ballad helped fast-track the rise of the world's biggest punk band

Many thought this song was written with warmth and goodwill towards its subject. They were wrong

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"You can't dance or clap along to it. When we play it live, you can always see the audience getting caught out": How Genesis wrote the career-changing song that confused their fans - and Peter Gabriel

Deceptively straightforward but with a rhythmic banana skin, Genesis's transformation from major cult band to stadium-filling hit-makers started here

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"The realisation that life is not for ever made me very sad": Coheed and Cambria's Claudio Sanchez on why songs become more personal with the passing of time

Self-described “slightly bizarre band“ Coheed & Cambria are currently on tour in the UK

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"The 'lost chord' they were searching for may have been a power chord": The Moody Blues attain peak psychedelic whimsy on In Search Of The Lost Chord

Join the Moody Blues for a psychedelic voyage through mysticism, melody, and late-60s cosmic curiosity

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“People have a hard time understanding how unsurprising Bohemian Rhapsody was to us”: These are the two early Queen songs that Brian May says paved the way for Bohemian Rhapsody

Bohemian Rhapsody didn’t appear out of nowhere

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“If it gets a bit tense we chill out with a joke. He’s good at that. Most of our messages are in a West Country dialect!” Thom Yorke isn’t the very serious character you may have thought, says one collaborator

Electronic artist reveals Radiohead vocalist is more likely to say “Wasson there, bey?” than “What’s your problem, eh?” – and their new album might just contain a pinch of King Crimson and Gentle Giant

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Intellectual, cynical, logical: The hit song about divorce and disillusionment that was Paul McCartney's favourite single of 1979

A Beatle approved it. The record company hated it. How an existential pop-rock masterpiece turned its creators into unlikely transatlantic superstars

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“I was already a loony tune before I joined Kiss”: Ace Frehley on what went wrong with Kiss – plus his relationship with Gene and Paul… and the biggest mistakes he made

In 2014, the late, great Space Ace looked back on his time in Kiss

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“He sounds like he just smoked a big fat doobie”: Comedy fan Geddy Lee on the stand-up comedians he loves

Rush's Geddy Lee on his favourite funny people

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"I was blown away!" The greatest prog albums, as chosen by prog legend Geoff Downes

He's been in The Buggles, Yes and Asia – but what does Geoff Downes consider the finest prog albums ever?

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“Vanilla Fudge had covered a Supremes hit and turned it into something else. That’s what the band tried to do – put their own spin on it”: The iconic cover version that launched a legendary hard rock band – but nearly turned them into one-hit-wonders

It came a year before Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath released their debut albums

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“He sent back a really beautiful letter, allowing us the usage of one of his most famous and brilliant songs ever”: the 90s alt-rock anthem that stuck a Beach Boys chorus in the middle of the track and got the seal of approval from Brian Wilson himself

The band’s drummer didn't think they could get away with it, but the band’s drummer was wrong.

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“Overwhelming to the uninitiated… it’s progressive as hell, of course, but also utterly unique”: Peter Hammill’s The Charisma & Virgin Recordings 1971 – 1986

183-song box set offers a colossal overview of the Van der Graaf Generator vocalist and eternal musical outlier

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I'm bored to death of bands telling us they're "bringing rock back". Rock never left: it just evolved

Rock is at its most exciting when it does something new, right?

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Great new prog you need to hear from Gazpacho, Airbag, Pure Reason Revolution, Alex Henry Foster and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Cool new proggy sounds from Jonas Lindberg & The Other Side, Firelighters, The Hirsch Effekt and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

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"It would be amazing": Sharon Osbourne gets behind campaign to change the name of Birmingham Airport to Ozzy Osbourne International

The petition, which has over 70,000 signatures, now has the backing of Sharon too

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The Last Dinner Party - From The Pyre review: an arthouse horror film, a masterclass in raw emotion and irresistible atmosphere

One of the most anticipated follow-up albums of recent times lives up to expectations and then some

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“No one expected it to sell, but it did sell, didn’t it?”: the crazy story of an era-defining 80s classic that shifted millions but had such an expensive sleeve it sold at a loss

Someone forgot to run the numbers…

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“There’s zero attempt to update their sound. This album won’t stun, but will stir”: John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest end 12-year silence with Relativity

Follow-up to 2013’s North is an easygoing epic with ambitious themes that’s well worth the wait

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We pay tribute to Supertramp and founding member Rick Davies in the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Prog 164 also features Rick Wakeman, Gentle Giant, Barclay James Harvest, Lunatic Soul, Arjen Lucassen, Jo Quail, The Emerald Dawn, Spriggan Mist and loads more...

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"From hippie-dippy noodling via crunching heavy rock and chart-bothering ballads to grandiose orchestral collaborations": Sixty years of the Scorpions celebrated on From The First Sting

Anniversary fun from pioneering German rockers the Scorpions

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“A peerless catalogue; a breathtaking, ancient setting; a definitive latterday performance by a band of all the talents”: David Gilmour’s Live At The Circus Maximus is a maxed-out experience

Pink Floyd mainstay and his colleagues are in imperious form on concert movie from his Luck And Strange tour

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Black Friday MP3 player deals 2025: Be quick and can save money on a brand new MP3 player

If you've been thinking about picking up an MP3 player, there's still time to get a cut-price player before the weekend sales come to an end

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Pure Reason Revolution will play Midwinter Prog Festival as part of their The Dark Third 20th anniversary shows

UK proggers Pure Reason Revolution also share new remix of Betrayal from Coming Up To Consciousness

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