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Rick Rubin tried to get Johnny Cash to record Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love
By Paul Brannigan published
Johnny Cash's American Recordings sessions with producer Rick Rubin yielded some incredible music, but not everything worked

Yes announce The Fragile Tour 2025
By Jerry Ewing published
Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, Jon Davison, Billy Sherwood and Jay Schellen will play Yes's classic 1971 album Fragile in full

Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson announces More Balls To Picasso, a "reimagining" of his 1994 solo album
By Paul Brannigan published
"Putting more balls into Balls… was a labour of love' says Bruce Dickinson as he readies the re-release of his second solo record

Tony Iommi is feeling "excitement mixed with fear" as Black Sabbath's last ever gig draws near
By Paul Brannigan published
"We’ll be touching on some stuff that we haven’t done for a long time” says Tony Iommi, ahead of Black Sabbath's final bow

"It's a new album now": Deep Purple launch 20th anniversary refurbishment of Rapture Of The Deep
By Fraser Lewry published
Originally recorded without a record company, Rapture Of The Deep has been remixed, remastered and repackaged

Thin Lizzy's long-lost 1971 BBC session has surfaced online
By Fraser Lewry published
Listen to four songs recorded for John Peel in 1971, taken from a newly discovered off-air reel-to-reel tape

Pioneering psychedelic soul legend Sly Stone dead at 82
By Fraser Lewry published
Led by the mercurial Sly Stone, Sly & The Family Stone were a highlight at Woodstock and Monterrey Pop and an influence on generations of musicians

Watch Robert Plant play five Led Zeppelin classics in official pro-shot video
By Fraser Lewry published
Robert Plant's full 2014 Pinkpop Festival set with the Sensational Space Shifters is now online

Guns N' Roses announce more 2025 tour dates
By Fraser Lewry published
The Because What You Want & What You Get Are Two Completely Different Things tour has grown another leg

Watch pop superstar Chappell Roan absolutely kill it with a brilliant cover of Heart‘s Barracuda
By Classic Rock published
Chappell Roan delivered a faithful version of Heart’s 1977 hit Barracuda at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound festival

Watch Bruce Springsteen and Paul McCartney covering The Beatles onstage in Liverpool
By Classic Rock published
The Macca-Springsteen love-in continued in The Beatles’ hometown last night

"It should have gone out with a fricking bang that shook the world, and it was more like a whimper." Michael Anthony on his Van Halen regret
By Stef Lach published
Former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony wishes it had ended differently

Did Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen really tell the people behind the Yacht Rock movie to “F*** off”?
By Classic Rock published
Michael McDonald thinks Donald Fagen doesn’t hate ‘yacht rock’ as much as he pretends

Rush announce limited edition box set of their final four albums
By Fraser Lewry published
Be quick! There's only 3000!

Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne's farewell shows are to be livestreamed globally: here's how you can watch
By Paul Brannigan published
Black Sabbath's history-making Back To The Beginning show is to be made available for pay-per-view worldwide

Glenn Hughes announces first album in nine years, Chosen
By Fraser Lewry published
Glenn Hiughes' 14th solo album Chosen will land later this year – watch the video for the title track now

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

Indian rock band go viral after flying across the world to cover Adele on America's Got Talent
By Fraser Lewry published
"You can't fake the reaction behind this" - Simon Cowell on Girish And The Chronicles

Roger Waters shares clip of Wish You Were Here as he announces new This Is Not A Drill - Live From Prague The Movie
By Jerry Ewing published
Roger Waters new This Is Not A Drill - Live From Prague The Movie opens in cinemas worldwide in July, with the soundtrack being released in August
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