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"We saw the end coming." How the 90s' last big rock band reinvented after their frontman went off the rails - courtesy of one of the best singers in the game

Velvet Revolver's loss was Alter Bridge's gain when Myles Kenendy helped his bandmates shake off the bad taste of Creed

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"I remember finishing the lyrics and literally feeling sick to my stomach." How Alter Bridge regrouped, faced the dark side, put their foot on the gas and recorded a brilliant album

With solo projects, other bands and a massive Creed reunion between them, there were whispers that Alter Bridge might be on the way out

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"They get back to me like, 'You know, there's going to be how many hundred million people watching this thing. You have to do it'" How Creed's 2001 half-time show went from unifying the nation to fuelling their resurgence

At a time of tragedy, Creed used their 10 minutes on the pitch at a Denver Broncos game to represent something bigger than themselves

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Creed release new career-spanning compilation

The Best Of Creed is the first set pulling together tracks from all four of the Florida rockers’ albums

Louder

“We’d only be in front of 50 people, but he’d be like, ‘We’re gonna write a song on stage, everybody!’”: How rock giants Creed wrote their breakthrough hit – or at least a good chunk of it – while playing a gig

Higher cemented their stature as stadium-conquering heavyweights

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3 Doors Down's Brad Arnold Diagnosed With Renal Cancer: "It's Not My Time" Becomes His Anthem

The artist announced his illness in a very personal video on social media. In his message, Brad Arnold detailed his cancer and announced that all 3 Doors Down concerts were canceled.

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"I’ll let y’all know how rehab is. I hear it’s super fun": Drunk on stage - our pick of music’s most legendary under-the-influence performances

Because a little dutch courage before taking to the stage never did anyone any harm. Did it?… I said ‘Did it!?!’

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“We’re all doing things. I think that keeps Creed healthy”: Mark Tremonti on the importance of Creed’s members working on other projects

The guitarist has a new record out now, and next on his schedule is another Alter Bridge album before returning to Creed duties

Louder

"People said, 'You're going to be a one hit wonder.'" How Higher cemented Creed as rock's new superstars

Inspired in part by recurring nightmares and visions of heaven, Higher cemented Creed as one of the most successul rock bands of the new millennium

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"You guys - it sounds like a really bad Pearl Jam": Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst hated Creed so much he asked their label not to release their debut album

The divisive post-grunge mainstays wouldn’t be part of history if the label had listened to their star

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"My step-father was extremely religious and he said that it was the Devil’s music": Scott Stapp on the first album he truly loved

Creed frontman Scott Stapp names the album that put him on the road to rock'n'roll

Louder

"I went from sleeping on a mattress to playing arenas inside two years": Creed's rise and fall was fast, but now, thanks to the TikTok generation, they're selling more tickets than ever

Twenty-five years ago the Human Clay album put Creed on top of the world, but it was the calm before the storm

Louder

"It's not hard to see why they struck gold": The riffs still ring as Creed's Human Clay is expanded for its 25th birthday

A twenty-fifth-anniversary reissue of Creed's globe-conquering second album Human Clay

Louder

On board the Creed cruise: the unfathomable return of the ‘worst band of the 90s’

The long read: I took a cruise with thousands of fellow lunatics to find out how this much-mocked rock band became so beloved

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"A lot of our best songs happened that way": Mark Tremonti on the unexpected key to Creed's success on Human Clay and their remarkable comeback 25 years on

"The Creed stuff has a lot more clean guitar parts than I remembered"

Guitar World

"The first three records of our career, everybody was talking about how we were going to fail. Each next step was going to be a disaster”: Mark Tremonti and Scott Stapp on the unlikely rebirth of Creed – and why they’ve always been cool

Thanks to a pair of sports franchises, a bizarre Super Bowl commercial and some shows that sold out in record time, Creed are back. Here, Stapp and Tremonti tell us how it all went down

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Creed wrote megahit Higher onstage in front of 4,000 people, reveals Mark Tremonti

Singer Scott Stapp “liked to play this game where he would put the band on the spot and say, ‘We’re going to write a song,’” the guitarist explains

Guitar World

“He would put the band on the spot and say, ‘We’re going to write a song.’ I would just start riffing… in front of a live group of people”: Mark Tremonti reveals one of Creed’s biggest hits was spontaneously written in front of 4,000 people

The track has helped spearhead Creed’s resurgence in recent years, and is used as a rallying anthem by two major sporting institutions

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"It was probably in front of 4,000 people": Scott Stapp and Mark Tremonti reveal the surprising story of how the chorus of Creed hit Higher was written during a live show

"It was freestyle"

Louder

“You can just see the decline”: The time that Creed bassist Brian Marshall went to war with Pearl Jam

That went well Brian, nice one

Guitar World

“For years we have been trying to find it”: Mark Tremonti’s cherished ‘My Own Prison’ Les Paul – which helped kickstart Creed’s career – has been found almost 26 years after it was stolen

Tremonti’s beloved Gibson, which played a crucial role in the recording of Creed’s debut album, was returned to its rightful owner on his 50th birthday

Louder

"We're not defined by the five worst days in our lives": Scott Stapp has had dark days, but he knows the world we live in is not all unicorns and rainbows

Returning with new solo album Higher Power, Creed frontman Scott Stapp reflects on why music keeps pulling him through

Guitar World

“Chord voicings, amps and dynamics are all elements of how I solo. I’m not a guy who improvises… I use well-thought-out lines that are outside the box”: Yiannis Papadopoulos on taking Scott Stapp to a higher power

The Greek-born shredder says the Creed frontman is a “very, very good guy” and explains how they worked together to add a new heaviness to the singer’s solo output

Louder

"We argued about everything": The stories behind the making of The Works, the album that returned Queen to rock: Only in the regal new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: The Black Crowes, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, The Pineapple Thief, Wayne Kramer, Scott Stapp, Bush, Green Day, The Stranglers and more

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Will Creed make new music together? Scott Stapp hopes so

Scott Stapp can’t certainly say if Creed will write new songs, but he embraces the idea with arms wide open

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