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"Everybody was leaning over the banisters to listen to this guy sitting in the corner of the club playing. They were enthralled.” This is what happened when Jimi Hendrix landed in London for the first time

When Hendrix arrived in the UK in 1966, the rock world tilted on its axis and he shot from unknown to superstar and changed everything

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Ricky Gervais donates eye-watering amount of tour money to charity

‘To celebrate my Mortality Tour, my Netflix Special, my Golden Globes nomination and the spirit of Christmas, I am donating £2.43m to animals’

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“Though every note has been learned and rehearsed and played, you need to think, ‘Oh, there’s something about the feel that had before that it’s gone forever’”: David Gilmour sets the record straight on the Pink Floyd solo that accidentally got erased

The Pink Floyd guitarist reveals the track whose (one of many) solos got deleted amid the Animals recording sessions

Guitar World

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“An irate fan pulled a gun on them in their dressing room. They stopped using our name immediately”: How a fake version of a popular British band managed to deceive American fans

The odd tale of how a counterfeit version of the Zombies capitalised on the group's US success after the original band called it quits

MusicRadar

“They’ve always ignored the rule book in favour of new, often over-the-top ideas”: These are Muse’s proggiest moments

From 10-minute apocalypse operas to three-part symphonies and getting their Pink Floyd on, here are 16 examples of the trio letting their progressive influences lead the way

Louder

“It’s ludicrous a song like that would go on an album at the height of our fame, but it got the most notice because it was so bizarre”: The Police’s Andy Summers on success, psychedelia and working with difficult people

The multi-faceted guitarist looks back on a career including stints with Robert Fripp, John Cale, Kevin Ayers and others

Louder

‘Charles had just bought a mean-looking Chevrolet’: how War made Low Rider

‘Our frontman walked into the studio, sat down with a bottle of tequila, salt and a lemon, listened to the track and started singing in a low voice’

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“Chas Chandler said, ‘I’m going to bring a guy round and he’s going to stay in the other room. His name’s Jimi’”: The mysterious story of the unknown band who let Jimi Hendrix stay on their sofa

In September 1966, English freakbeat rockers Les Fleur De Lys gained a mysterious new housemate at their London digs… Or did they?

Louder

“Slash’s wife grabbed hold of the steering wheel because he was heading toward a canyon. We were in the back seat going, ‘Nooo!’” Jamie Moses on the wild ride of playing with Brian May, hanging with Slash and his time as Queen’s second guitarist

After telling his school counselor there was no other life plan than playing guitar, Jamie Moses learned his trade playing in pubs, and says it’s easy for him to work out what gear will work best for any given gig

Guitar World

“They’re a lot tighter and smoother. You can hear more guitar, and these are far superior to all the other versions of these tracks”: Never-before-heard Jimi Hendrix demos are up for auction – and expected to sell for $260,000

The rare tape includes demos of key tracks from The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s sophomore album, Axis: Bold as Love – alongside other documents like dry-cleaning bills and tour itineraries

Guitar World

"Architects remain one of the most dynamic bands in modern metalcore." Brighton's finest show Aftershock why they're one of UK metal's greatest success stories

UK metal national treasures Architects bring the bangers to Aftershock

Metal Hammer

Zoot Money obituary

Keyboardist and bandleader who rode the wave of the British rhythm and blues movement in the 1960s

The Guardian - UK

"The Beatles happened, and it became the thing to be in a beat group": Classic Charlie Watts interview

His heroes, the first recording session, jazz, and what made the Rolling Stones the best - "We swung, a lot"

MusicRadar

“The band start to sound like the musique concrète pioneers they were, rather than keepers of a farmful of flatulent quadrupeds”: Pink Floyd’s Animals – Dolby Atmos Edition

Pioneers’ ‘punkest’ record gets the Atmos Blu-ray treatment to impressive effect, claiming the music back for proggers

Louder

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Total Film

BFFs Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are reuniting for a new Netflix crime thriller

Animals could start filming this March

Newcastle Herald

The Animals come to Australia riding 60 years of fame for 'House of the rising sun'

It's a rugged winter's day at John Steel's home, 50 kilometres north of Newcastle-on-Tyne, as he looks out on the North Sea to his east and the Cheviot Hills to his west. But he's called it home since 1977, confessing to becoming "a country boy" long ago.

Louder

Recorded between the gruelling Animals tour and the psycho-drama that was The Wall, the sentiments Richard Wright expressed in Wet Dream could apply to Pink Floyd as much as to his disintegrating marriage...

Richard Wright's Wet Dream album: The Pink Floyd keyboardist’s underrated solo debut remixed

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A beginner’s guide to pub rock in five essential albums

Pub rock: a live-wire, booze-driven reaction to the pomp and excesses of prog and the perceived artifice of glam

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Zoo animals react to humans

Parrots and elephants at zoos seem to like human visitors, while frogs and ostriches don't

The Guardian - UK

Kassa Overall: Animals review – a jazz-hip-hop fusion of real artistry

The Seattle drummer, rapper and producer flits between drum kit and electronica, ferocity to tranquillity, on his third studio album

Louder

"I am the Eggman!" Eric Burdon was the character referred to in The Beatles classic I Am The Walrus – and the story behind it is kinda filthy

How John Lennon took an amazing x-rated story – told to him at an orgy – and turned it into part of a psychedelic masterpiece

Louder

Eric Burdon: the hellraiser who had it all and then lost it

Founder of The Animals, party buddy of Hendrix and Morrison and hero to Springsteen, Eric Burdon is a bluesman, a rogue and a survivor, and this is his story

Guitar World

Watch David Gilmour wail on the Black Strat in 1975 in newly unearthed 8mm Pink Floyd live footage

Featuring The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety – and a number of songs from the then-yet-to-be-released Wish You Were Here and Animals – the footage (complete with killer audio) captures Floyd at a fascinating stage in their evolution

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Legendary Newcastle former nightclub and music venue to get blue plaque next week

Newcastle's Club a'Gogo, which operated on the city's Percy Street, played host to some of popular music's biggest rising stars in the 1960s

The Guardian - UK

Siestas for cows: UK farmers seek new ways for cattle to beat the heat

Livestock owners are trialling the idea of bringing herds indoors to the shade to protect milk production and animals’ welfare

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