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Twelve months of life-enriching, extraordinary new music
“I said we shouldn’t do Another Brick In The Wall at the school fête”: Slow Horses showrunner Will Smith’s record collection
Stand-up, actor, novelist and producer on how much Marillion means to him, the four lines of Jon Anderson lyrics that bring him to tears, his favourite Vangelis soundtrack and his claim that Dire Straits are a prog band
Farewell to Orange Goblin: one of Britain's best, most brilliantly bonkers bands
They've shook hands with Dio, hung out in a strip club with Lemmy and helped found Britain's stoner metal scene, but now Orange Goblin are taking their final bows
Best Christmas gifts for Iron Maiden fans: Rock the festive season with our pick of perfect presents
From clothes to colouring books, these Maiden-related pressies are sure to go down a treat over the festive season
The story behind Alice in Chains frontman Layne Staley's final recording
"I didn’t recognize him. He looked like an 80-year-old man"
Excess, eyebrows, and an extremely erratic encounter with Ozzy Osbourne
An audience with the Prince of Darkness on the Ultimate Sin tour
Neil Fallon on Clutch, corporations and Christmas
"There’s a lot of joy that we don’t see at home": Clutch begin another run of UK Christmas shows next week
Rick Wakeman on his sequel to The Red Planet, and taking David Bowie along for the ride
Keyboard maestro has gone back to work with the English Rock Ensemble for the follow-up to his 2020 album, and he says the process feels like early 70s Yes
The shambolic story of The Rolling Stones' star-studded Rock And Roll Circus
With Brian Jones falling apart on set, the Rock And Roll Circus went so badly that the planned film wasn’t released until 28 years later
The Dutch quartet inspired by just five minutes of Soft Machine music to make an iconic debut album
Their 1970 debut album, deliberately featuring no guitars at all, was inspired by the Canterbury band’s approach and Frank Zappa’s public persona – and it attained iconic status
“It was my first studio job. I wiped a Robert Fripp guitar section”: World-class producer’s shaky start
After the baptism of fire that was King Crimson’s Lizard, he worked on Tangerine Dream’s Rubycon, Frank Zappa’s Joe’s Garage and dozens of Van Morrison records
"These guys are simply timeless:" Triumph's Rik Emmett picks five essential guitar albums
Canadian guitar legend and founding member of Triumph Rik Emmett picks five guitar classics that inspired his own path
The story of the Ronnie James Dio classic assembled from other bands' spare parts
Rainbow In The Dark a highlight of Holy Diver, an album Ronnie James Dio said was “one of the proudest things I’ve ever done”
Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram may channel the ghosts of the past, but he's striving for something new
Christone ‘Kingfish’ Ingram grew up with the blues, but on fourth album Hard Road he's branching out
How Metallica broke the thrash metal mould with biblical barnstormer Creeping Death
Pinching a riff from Kirk Hammett’s former band and inspired by a Charlton Heston film, Metallica reached a new level with their 1984 single
In 1962 a band decided to play as badly as possible until someone noticed. It worked.
They blended prog, art-rock, visual theatre, Dadaism and music hall – and never pretended to do any of it well
Die Spitz: They hate interviews. They love rock
“Sometimes Simon Cowell writes the music for us. Sometimes it’s AI”
