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Was Chris Squire and Steve Hackett’s only Squackett album worth the wait?
Yes bassist and ex Genesis guitarist released A Life Within A Day in 2012. It probably wasn’t what fans were expecting. What was it instead?
The story of how Phil Lynott played an apocalyptic preacher in War of the Worlds
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds was released in June 1978
The Hives, Kylie Minogue and 'the greatest cinema advert of all time'
Kylie Minogue, expensive pants, a bucking bronco and The Hives equals marketing gold
“Afraid Of Sunlight escaped more than it was released." How Marillion's eighth album brought the curtain down on their time at EMI and set the band up for the rest of their career...
1994's Brave set Marillion on a collision course with their record label, EMI. A year later, they went out on a high with Afraid of Sunlight. This is the story...
When Bowie met 'The Boss'
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
The unlikely birth of Velvet Revolver, the supergroup who triumphed against the odds
Velvet Revolver’s debut album, Contraband, was released on June 8, 2004. In this classic interview, Slash reveals how one of rock’s greatest modern supergroups got off the ground
Meet Jayler, the West Midlands quartet with big dreams and even bigger plans
Jayler are big in Brazil, have gigs lined up with Deep Purple and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and their debut album only came out last month
Crown Lands talk music biz, 19-minute songs, and why they'd rather be killed by robots than zombies
Crown Lands' new album Apocalypse is a sci-fi story, but it echoes what's going on in the world today
The story of The Doors' L.A. Woman – the last song they ever recorded
Ray Manzarek calls L.A. Woman "the quintessential Doors song" - but they only ever played it live twice
The story of 1966, the year that built rock
Before 1966, the blues was tired, worn out and unsexy. But then Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Jimi Hendrix created the modern guitar hero too
10 cruelly over-looked alt. rock albums from 1996 that should have been massive in a fair and just world
Thirty years on, a salute to 10 brilliant records from 1996 that deserved better
All Them Witches' new album House Of Mirrors is steeped in the blues – but it rages
Having almost called it quits a couple of years ago, All Them Witches cast an excellent spell with their new album House Of Mirrors – and there’s more magic brewing for the future
From trauma to triumph: The story of Genesis's A Trick Of The Tale
After Peter Gabriel left Genesis, many thought it signalled the end of the band. But Phil Collins stepped up to the mic, and the triumphant result was one of their greatest albums
Jimmy Page on Presence: "You don't make music like that falling about in the street drunk"
Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page reflects on the making of the band's 1976 album Presence, recorded in difficult circumstances in just three weeks
How British metal didn’t quite rule the 90s
Bands from Cradle Of Filth to Paradise Lost seemed ready to thrust British metal back to the forefront. But then nu metal kicked off and swung the pendulum back to the States. This is the story of the takeover that didn’t happen.
The wild 1986 party where Queen teamed up with Samantha Fox and Gary Glitter to entertain 500 celebrity friends
In July '86, billed as Dicky Hart and The Pacemakers, Queen played one of the most star-studded gigs of their career in a London club
