Paul Brannigan
A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth School Metallica Death, co-authored with Ian Winwood), his Eddie Van Halen biography (Eruption in the UK, Unchained in the US) emerged in 2021. He has written for Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q, hung out with Fugazi at Dischord House, flown on Ozzy Osbourne's private jet, played Angus Young's Gibson SG, and interviewed everyone from Aerosmith and Beastie Boys to Young Gods and ZZ Top. Born in the North of Ireland, Brannigan lives in North London and supports The Arsenal. Having worked in various editorial roles across Louder since its inception in 2017, Paul was named Contributing Editor in 2022, and is steering Louder's editorial direction to help further establish it as an all-encompassing alternative music, culture and lifestyle brand.
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In the '60s and '70 good times were had by all, according to Ian Gillan

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"If you don’t like America, please go back to where you f***ing came from," says Gene Simmons

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It's now 50 years since Ramones brought their blitzkrieg bops to Britain

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"I remember it being such a huge relief that we just made it to the end"

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"All of Chris Cornell’s work speaks to me on a level that nothing else does"

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"i'm obsessed with the whole album"

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"When I got off this stage I felt elated but 20 minutes later when I was in the shower on my own I had a breakdown"

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Iron Maiden's upcoming Eddfest show will now be captured for posterity

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When Alice Cooper received an invitation to meet Elvis Presley, things didn't go as "the cat with the snake" had imagined

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"It's not that I use the music. It's that I can't live without it."

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"They said, 'Your uncle's in The Beatles?' Yeah, they rehearse at my nan's house"

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Blackmore on Hendrix, Beck, Page, Clapton, Townshend and more

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When The Moving Sidewalks were picked to support Jimi Hendrix in Texas in 1968, they had just about enough songs to play a full set, but two of those were Jimi Hendrix hits

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"I had these fantasies that I would be snuggling up with Annie Lennox, and Joni [Mitchell] would be massaging my feet"

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Amazing if true, but...

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On January 30, 1994, Nirvana entered the studio for the last time. The song the trio taped that day would become the subject of a bitter legal battle

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Goldstein worked with Axl Rose's band for 17 years

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Kylie Minogue, expensive pants, a bucking bronco and The Hives equals marketing gold

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The follow-up to 2023's Another Door will arrive this summer

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On November 25, 1974, David Bowie and Bruce Springsteen met for the very first time at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia. It was an awkward encounter for both men

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Thirty years on, a salute to 10 brilliant records from 1996 that deserved better

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"Bigmarr Strikes Again"
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