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Watch Bruce Dickinson guest on an Iron Maiden classic with Smith/Kotzen
By Classic Rock published
Watch Bruce DIckinson join Smith/Kotzen for a live version of Iron Maiden’s Wasted Years

Martin Barre was as surprised as Metallica when Jethro Tull won a Grammy
By Chris McGarel published
Prog giants weren’t there when controversial 1989 moment came, because they were certain they wouldn’t win. So the guitarist’s wife concocted a last-minute midnight party to celebrate

The legendary album Opeth’s Mikael Akerfeldt wishes he had made – and the rock band he thinks are a “joke”
By Ali Cooper published
Metal classics, slasher movie soundtracks and Satanic rituals – this is the soundtrack to Mikael Akerfeldt’s life

How Aerosmith scored their first No.1 single – with help from Bruce Willis and a giant killer asteroid
By Rich Chamberlain published
The time an Aerosmith power ballad helped save the planet

Comedian Jack Whitehall says Jared Leto tried to alter his Brit Awards script
By Stef Lach published
Brits host Jack Whitehall says he halted Thirty Seconds To Mars frontman Jared Leto's diva moment

How Iron Maiden, Ozzy Osbourne and half a million insane Brazilians introduced metal to an entire continent
By Rich Hobson published
Members of Sepultura, Scorpions and Faith No More tell the story of the epic Rock In Rio series of festivals

The second solo album from rock’s greatest entertainer divided fans. Forty years on, it sounds like an underrated masterpiece
By Ed Mitchell published
Ex-Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth’s second solo album is crying out for reappraisal

The life and death of Gerry Rafferty, the singer who couldn’t escape his biggest hit – or his demons
By Paul Rees published
There was much more to late Scottish singer Gerry Rafferty than Baker Street

US occult rock pioneers Coven were praising Satan on record a year before Black Sabbath
By Chris Chantler published
US occultists Coven were praising Satan on record a year before Black Sabbath

“I think I have 11 counts of breaking and entering on my criminal record": How Nickelback's nostalgic Photograph spawned a flood of memes and the unwanted attention from a soon-to-be-impeached American President
By Simon Young published
This 2005 Nickelback hit single just won't go away, so you may as well read about it
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