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“I'm 13 years old and I'm drinking with Alex Van Halen”: One of the child stars of Van Halen’s iconic Hot For Teacher video looks back

Van Halen’s Hot For Teacher video featured four kids playing junior versions of the band. Yano Anaya was one of them

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Iron Maiden sells publishing and master music rights in a bid to 'turbo charge' future plans

Fear of the Dark hitmakers Iron Maiden have sold a 50 per cent stake in the band's publishing and master music rights, as well as name, image, and likeness rights, to Pophouse Entertainment, an investment firm co-founded by ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus.

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Iron Maiden's first ever festival is a triumph and a true celebration of one of heavy metal's most storied bands

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I'm a '90s kid, and these 3 Disney+ movies are the ultimate comfort throwbacks

These feel-good hits are some of the most nostalgic picks that Disney+ has to offer.

Tom’s Guide

Is this Netflix's biggest show? I reckon so, and its new season looks explosive

The Gentlemen returns for more action

“We were all young and naïve. He was just a waste of time. He just sat there with his feet up reading Country Life”: How Iron Maiden forged their debut album with a lazy producer, a dodgy mix and Paul Kossoff's ’57 Strat

’Maiden made a big splash with their 1980 debut. Steve Harris and Dave Murray explain how, against all odds they made a metal classic

Guitar World

65 Years Ago, One Cursed Sci-fi Movie Predicted A Huge Genre Shift

Why 'The Most Dangerous Man Alive' predicted an interesting genre, including The Incredible Hulk.

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"What's Number One at the moment? I couldn't tell you. It's meaningless. All I care about is what Iron Maiden are doing next week." Steve Harris, Bruce Dickinson and Adrian Smith look back on Iron Maiden's 50-year ride

As Iron Maiden's historic Eddfest show at Knebworth gets ever closer, the band look back over half a century of Monsters and Maiden

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“I fell in with some Texas boys and started jamming. They had these G&Ls. The first time I picked one up, I fell in love”: Jerry Cantrell on the magic and mods of his iconic “Blue Dress” G&L Rampage – and his gift from Eddie Van Halen

Back in January 1996, Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell was on the cover of Guitar World with his “Blue Dress” Rampage. 30 years on it's still going strong

Guitar World

"It's about preserving the intent of the mix" – the challenges of taking sound from the cinema to the home

Sound editor Andrew De Cristofaro talks how to rebuild a three-dimensional space

What Hi-Fi?

Whistler by Ann Patchett: a pacy metafiction where rich people are nice to each other

In Ann Patchett’s 11th novel Whistler, a former stepfather and stepdaughter, Eddie and Daphne, meet again by chance after 44 years. They rekindle their bond (before long, Eddie is introducing Daphne as “my daughter”) and revisit the events that prompted Eddie’s abrupt departure from her life when she was nine.

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“Dee’s blessing was important to me. I have such a reverence for him, he wrote all of these great songs”: Sebastian Bach was “like a kid on Christmas morning” when he was asked replace Dee Snider in Twisted Sister

Sebastian Bach and Twisted Sister‘s Jay Jay French speak exclusively to Classic Rock about filling Dee Snider’s boots

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Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize

Holly Ann Miller of Kerikeri has won the 2026 regional Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Pacific writers

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“The most fiendishly flamboyant good time since Ghost”: Green Lung’s first festival headline show cements them as the future of metal

At London’s Desertfest, the occult five-piece perform all of their darkly fun anthems while backed up by gorgeous videos, returning members and a malfunctioning, Eddie-like mascot

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‘It’s not healthy for me to be doing so much’: from Adolescence to His Dark Materials, how Jack Thorne took over TV

He has made smash hit shows for Netflix and has adapted Harry Potter for the stage. Yet the in-demand writer’s latest show Falling is new territory for him – a love story

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Blind date: ‘Distance shouldn’t stand in the way of love … I did have to catch the last train home though’

Frances, 77, a retired marketing manager, meets Eddie, 86, an activist

The Times of India

Michael Jackson's 'secret family' accuse him of years of grooming, sexual abuse

Four Cascio siblings have accused Michael Jackson of child grooming and sexual abuse, detailing disturbing acts spanning 25 years. They claim Jackson supplied them with drugs and trained them to conceal the abuse. Jackson's estate lawyer dismissed the allegations as a "money grab" and a posthumous attempt to exploit the…

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24 Absurd And Unexpectedly Brilliant Comics By This Creative Brother Duo (New Pics)

'Brain Fondle,' also known as 'Fairly Good Comics,' is a series created by the duo Eddie and James Ward, also referred to as The Ward Brothers. The series features clever, absurd, and often darkly humorous comic strips that take everyday ideas and twist them into unexpected punchlines. Their comics often…

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"Our casting team reached out to fans from all around the world. They provided the emotion, the soul and the humanity." Iron Maiden's creative director Ben Smallwood grew up around the band – and now he's helping tell their story

Iron Maiden's much-heralded Burning Ambition film will hit cinemas on May 7 - and the band are on the cover of the new issue of Classic Rock

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Teenager on round-the-world trip killed by ‘fast’ speedboat

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British teenager killed by speedboat while snorkelling on round-the-world trip, inquest told

Conflicting evidence was heard over the speed of the boat that hit Eddie

The Guardian - UK

Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

An imposter monkey, an underworld princess, art’s female trailblazers, and YA tales of fear, family and friendship

Louder

"Look at the bands that are out there now, crap like Radiohead. You can't tell us that we don't deserve to be more than that." On the eve of the release of Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness, Smashing Pumpkins wanted to take on the world

"Everyone keeps telling us how pretentious this album is without even hearing it"

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‘Every time I write, I doubt myself’: Michael Rosen at 80 on deep grief, self-belief and chocolate cake

The children’s author answers questions from readers, friends and writers on losing his son Eddie, surviving Covid, who he’d invite to his perfect birthday dinner and where he goes for inspiration

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Martin Brundle opens up on the brutal moment he learned he had lost his F1 seat

Martin Brundle recalled the harsh moment he discovered he had lost his Jordan seat for 1997 when the team announced Ralf Schumacher and Giancarlo Fisichella without warning him first

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