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“Bon liked a drink, but he wasn’t just a wild man. And he was great to us. He’d ask us, ‘Got any money?’ When we said no, he’d pull out a huge wad of tenners and give us 20 quid to buy some beers”: The life and times of legendary AC/DC singer Bon Scott

As Angus Young said: “Bon joined us pretty late in his life. But that guy had more youth in him than people half his age”

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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 sounded as though someone was being murdered. The police were called out for the first time in five years": Chaos in the Caribbean and the story of UFO's No Place To Run

Just as UFO seemed poised to take the next step up, their ace-card guitarist Michael Schenker quit. Sotook off to the Caribbean and recorded No Place To Run without him

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"Just about enough charm to pass muster": Four decades down the line, Fastway's debut album falls short of classic status

Combining Eddie Clark’s in-your-face guitar, Dave King’s high-register vocals and Jerry Shirley’s gut-rumbling drumming, Fastway peaked early

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“I once had a flirtation with heavy metal, and I regretted it very much. It didn’t seem to have any sense”: The British hellraisers who put legendary Beatles producer George Martin off working with hard rock bands

This is what happened when two worlds collided in the Caribbean

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"More clarity to Phil Mogg's passionate vocals and Paul Chapman's white-hot solos": The deluxe edition of UFO's No Place To Run successfully upgrades the original

UFO's Paul Chapman-era classic No Place To Run has never sounded better

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"What happens next, you give everyone a hard-on and then go around the room with a bat like Al Capone?!” Ginger Wildheart's wild tales of Lemmy, AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Cheap Trick and more

Meet Ginger Wildheart, the multi-tasking musical superhero who's shared stages with Cheap Trick and Motörhead and drinks with Axl Rose, Tony Iommi and Liza Minnelli

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"We all went to visit him in hospital. And he was still wearing his cowboy hat": The crazed story of The Quireboys, the band who had it all then partied it all away

They've got a ballsy singer and catchy songs. Sharon Osbourne was their manager, Guns N' Roses were their mates. So why aren’t The Quireboys living in mansions?

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“I called Gene Simmons. He said: ‘How the hell did you get this number?!’ That was when I got the idea that we weren’t going to be best buddies”: Dee Snider’s wild tales of Robert Plant, Frank Zappa, Freddy Krueger and Kiss

From Johnny Cash and John Denver to Manowar and Henry Kissinger, former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider has mixed with them all

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For years Tommy Henriksen has played guitar for others: Now's he's spreading the gospel of Crossbone Skully, avenging superhero from outer space

Welcome to Alice Cooper guitarist Tommy Henriksen’s Mutt Lange-produced 80s-rock-leaning project

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"That band was dangerous. People died!”: Michael Schenker on his years with UFO, success and escape, and why he didn't join the Rolling Stones

With guests including Axl and Slash, for his new album maverick guitarist Michael Schenker went back to the songs he recorded first with UFO

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"When all those glamour models were banging at my door, I should have opened it and let them all in": Phil Mogg on 50 years with UFO, life on the road and new band Moggs Motel

Phil Mogg reveals why Moggs Motel doesn't have an apostrophe

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“Pete was an open, innocent person. He suffered a lot in his life, but everybody loved him”: Michael Schenker’s new album features a tribute to late UFO bandmate Pete Way

Michael Schenker’s new album features a cover of UFO’s Too Hot To Handle – and it’s dedicated to late bandmates Pete Way and Paul Raymond

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"We went ahead and did it, and it exploded in everybody's faces. It was embarrassing": How UFO fell apart then found themselves again

After debacles with former guitarist Michael Schenker, UFO returned with a new lineup in 2004 for another shot at the big time

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"Ozzy called asking me to help him out because Randy Rhoads had died. I asked for a private jet so he’d turn me down": Michael Schenker on UFO, Scorpions, and snubbing The Rolling Stones, Ozzy and Thin Lizzy

"I've had slaps in the face, but I'm still here, still growing and still learning": an epic Michael Schenker interview

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