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Watch Ed Sheeran join The Darkness onstage in London to sing Love Is Only A Feeling
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Pop megastar Ed Sheeran opened for The Darkness in London last night – and joined the headliners onstage for Love Is Only A Feeling

“I’m going for blood. I want to bring guitar back in a joyful, exciting way”: Extreme’s Nuno Bettencourt on the guitar solo that caused the internet to lose its mind in 2023
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Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt delivered on the monumental solo from his band’s comeback single Rise

The least popular songs by 10 legendary rock bands
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We’ve combed Spotify to find out the least popular songs by Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Beatles, AC/DC and more

“You oughtta see if you could get somebody to send you money”: we wondered how ZZ Top’s Billy Gibbons got his nickname ‘The Reverend’, so we asked Billy Gibbons to tell us
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Spoiler alert: ‘The Reverend’ Billy F Gibbons is not an actual Reverend – it all comes from a money-making scam

“Here’s my record. And if you ever want to write a song together…”: Bob Dylan said he loved Duff McKagan’s last album. So Duff McKagan asked him to collaborate
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Duff McKagan reacted to Bob Dylan’s praise by suggesting they write a song together, plus he reveals he wants to make an album with Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell

“Ronnie Van Zant’s widow wouldn’t allow Lynyrd Skynyrd to use his voice, but she said: ‘I’ll do it for Dolly’”: how Dolly Parton ended up covering Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird on her new album
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Country star Dolly Parton cover of Free Bird also features one of the last appearances by late Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington

10 albums that changed the life of Pulitzer prize-winning author and Star Trek showrunner Michael Chabon
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Author and showrunner Michael Chabon picks 10 pieces of vinyl that have soundtracked his path through life

Watch Jimmy Page make his first live appearance in 12 years at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony
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Jimmy Page surprises the audience at the 2023 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with a performance of Link Wray’s Rumble

“Rock is the cult music of the 21st century, in the same way that jazz became a cult. Maybe that’s not a bad thing”: Steven Wilson says the days of rock bands selling a million records are over
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Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson has a controversial view of rock’s place in the scheme of things in 2023

The 40 best power ballads of all time
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Break out the inflatable guitars, let those smartphones beam like galaxies of stars: These are the greatest, most heart-stirring, most life-affirming power ballads of them all

“I see young people at Guns N’ Roses shows and think, ‘There should be a band that‘s 21 or 22 that you’re losing your mind to’”: GN’R bassist Duff McKagan on whether rock’n’roll has a future
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Duff McKagan says he hopes that a new generation of bands can still have the same impact as Guns N’ Roses did when they emerged

Rob Halford has revealed who he thinks is the first ‘definitive’ heavy metal band. And it’s Judas Priest
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Judas Priest singer sets the cat among the pigeons on new edition of Marc Maron’s WTF? podcast

“Nobody is perfect. But people really don’t understand what I’m doing”: Yngwie Malmsteen on why he’s the guitarist people love to hate
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Swedish axemaster Yngwie Malmsteen on why he doesn’t play well with others

“The studio was next door to the Chinese Embassy. We received their Morse code signals through our amps!”: how Status Quo accidentally picked up secret messages from China in the 1970s
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Status Quo dive deep into the making of their classic 1973 album Hello! in the new issue of Classic Rock

“My agent called and said, ‘Are you free on Wednesday? We’d like you to shoot the Queen’”: how Bryan Adams ended up photographing the Queen of England
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Bryan Adams photographed the Queen at short notice – and Kate Moss in her underwear in his kitchen

“You’re the guys with nine members? Can I be number 10?“ the time Ozzy Osbourne asked Corey Taylor if he could join Slipknot
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Slipknot could have had an extra member in the shape of Ozzy Osbourne

“If I rattle it around, I can hear him”: Rod Stewart keeps his late mentor’s ashes in a guitar he owns, and it’s not as weird as it sounds
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Rod Stewart is still close to late British bluesman Long John Baldry, even though he died almost 20 years ago

The most underrated albums by 10 major prog bands
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Showing a little love for the overlooked classics by prog giants Yes, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Rush and more

“He got onstage and preached rock’n’roll, which was very much the inspiration for what I did”: 30 musicians on the singers who changed their life
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Paul Stanley, Joe Elliott, Lars Ulrich, Geddy Lee and more on their personal kings and queens of the microphone

“Lemmy put a pig’s head in my case”: the time Motörhead pranked their support band with a decapitated animal head just to get a reaction
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Girlschool’s Kim McAuliffe looks back on touring with Motörhead for the first time – and the unexpected ‘gift’ that came with it

30 guitarists on the guitar heroes who changed their life
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Slash, Angus Young, Paul Stanley, Billy Gibbons reveal the guitarists who made them want to play in the first place

“I waited for the call from David but it never came. Two days later he was dead”: Graham Nash and David Crosby were on the verge of reconciling earlier this year
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Graham Nash reveals he came close to patching up his friendship with former Crosby, Stills & Nash bandmate David Crosby days before before Crosby’s death

30 musicians on the album that changed their life as a kid
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Members of Kiss, Black Sabbath, Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Rage Against The Machine and more reveal the albums that set them on the path to rock stardom

Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen on the genius of AC/DC’s Bon Scott: “My house burnt down the same day as Bon died. I cared more about Bon than the building”
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Cheap Trick’s Rick Nielsen on jamming with AC/DC, the majesty of Highway To Hell and the ‘pirate’ genius of Bon Scott

Dee Snider takes aim at Kiss, Ozzy and Scorpions over retirement plans: “I see people singing Crazy Nights and they’re not so crazy any more”
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Former Twisted Sister singer Dee Singer has something to say about Kiss, Ozzy and Scorpions and their respective retirements
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