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New Pink Floyd book celebrates the band's career with unpublished interviews and Syd Barrett's letters of the time
By Jerry Ewing published
Pink Floyd Shine On: Definitive Oral History by author Mark Blake, will be published in October

Flesh For Lulu could have been one of the biggest bands of the 80s. So what went wrong?
By Scott Rowley published
Fistfights with John Lydon, sword fights with the Sisters of Mercy, gangsters, goth and Ferris Bueller: The epic story of Flesh For Lulu

Aerosmith, Kiss, and the making of Honkin' On Bobo
By Gary Graff published
With the back-to-basics blues-oriented album Honkin' On Bobo, Aerosmith let the music do the talking once again

Michael Schenker and the appetite for self-destruction
By Dave Ling published
Confronting Michael Schenker with the truth about Michael Schenker

How The Doors’ Jim Morrison went from from drunken teen rebel to leather-clad 60s rock god
By Joe Daly published
Drunkenness, arrests, ambition – Jim Morrison’s wayward childhood paved the way for the future

The growing pains and artistic rebirth of Billy Idol
By Carol Clerk published
Twenty years on from Rebel Yell and 10 years after overdosing on crack, Billy came back in 2005 with a trademark sneer and an album that did what he does best

"I saved the world from Saddam Hussein," says Blink-182's Mark Hoppus
By Paul Brannigan published
Without Mark Hoppus' intervention, the world might be an entirely different place

The day Oasis' Liam Gallagher woke up to find British light entertainment legend Alan Partridge in his hotel bed
By Paul Brannigan published
The '90s were a strange and magical time where anything could happen, and often did

"I was on the floor, and he had his boot on my throat. I was like, That's great Elvis, that's great." The surreal story of the night Alice Cooper met Elvis Presley
By Paul Brannigan published
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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