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Metallica save dance music festival from cancellation after fire destroys main stage
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Ghost will perform on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week
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Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza is coming out in cinemas
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Watch John Fogerty play Have You Ever Seen The Rain? at intimate London show
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Latest Classic Rock News

Metallica save dance music festival from cancellation after fire destroys main stage
By Stef Lach published
Blaze wiped out Tomorrowland stage just days before gates opened – but Metallica saved the huge EDM event

Ghost will perform on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon next week
By Matt Mills published
Late-night TV will be Satanized on Wednesday, July 23

Black Sabbath’s Back To The Beginning extravaganza is coming out in cinemas
By Matt Mills published
Ozzy Osbourne’s blockbuster farewell will be turned into a concert film and hit theatre screens in 2026

Watch John Fogerty play Have You Ever Seen The Rain? at intimate London show
By Fraser Lewry published
The footage coincides with the new issue of Classic Rock, which includes an in-depth interview with John Fogerty

Yungblud’s career-affirming cover of Black Sabbath’s Changes is now available to stream
By Matt Mills published
The UK rocker stole the show with his take on Sabbath’s 1972 track at Back To The Beginning, and the performance can now be relived again and again

Creedence Clearwater Revival's John Fogerty on recriminations, revivals and reunions
By Siân Llewellyn published
Also in this issue: Brian Wilson, Electric Light Orchestra, Halestorm, Bush, Rick Derringer, The Black Keys, Volbeat, Steve Harley, Joe Bonamassa & Joanne Shaw Taylor, Orianthi, Wytch Hazel and more

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are teasing something cryptic together and fans are excited
By Fraser Lewry published
The Fleetwood Mac legends are suddenly completing each other's sentences
Latest Classic Rock Features

Camel and a tale of two visits to the Royal Albert Hall, 43 years apart
By Malcolm Dome published
Unruly brass musicians, unrecordable horns, a runaway film crew and the surprise appearance of female fans… Andrew Latimer recalls the profile-boosting 1975 concert and morale-securing 2018 return

How a thrash classic from Metallica's Kill 'Em All album got linked to a brutal murder in Texas in the 1980s
By Paul Brannigan published
"We woke up with a call from our manager who said there's some s**t going on." Lars Ulrich

The epic story of the stolen song that could be the next Stranger Things hit
By Dave Everley published
Deep Purple's Child In Time has a long and complicated history – and now a whole new audience are hearing it for the first time

How Aerosmith grew to hate each other but learned to love again
By Ken McIntyre published
Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, Tom Hamilton and Joey Kramer on the making of Aerosmith's Music From Another Dimension!

Stewart Copeland on The Police, being outdone by Pink Floyd, Neil Peart and life in his 70s
By Philip Wilding published
The accidental archivist revels in found sounds, movie soundtracks, spoken-word performances – and after dealing with his tensions of the 80s, explains why his brother isn’t talking to him

10 bands that will fill the Black Sabbath-shaped hole in your life
By Classic Rock published
Black Sabbath may be no more, but there are still plenty of bands they’ve inspired out there

The Renaissance Man: Ginger Wildheart albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
By Philip Wilding, Neil Jeffries, Fraser Lewry published
Ginger Wildheart has multiple strings to his bow: brilliantly memorable hard rock with The Wildhearts, bleeding-heart confessionals under his own name, and plenty in between
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Latest Classic Rock Reviews

Bush's I Beat Loneliness review: Gavin Rossdale casts his gaze inward after putting the world to rights on The Art Of Survival
By Paul Travers published
Gavin Rossdale proves a bit of earnestness and a whole lot of heart can make all the difference on Bush's I Beat Loneliness

Introducing Die Spitz, the best new band in the world
By Paul Brannigan published
Introducing Die Spitz, your new favourite band

Bush toy with invention but ultimately lack ambition on I Beat Loneliness
By Emma Johnston published
UK grunge lifers delve into mental health matters for album number 10

Filler rears its head on Lenny Kravitz's breakthrough album Are You Gonna Go My Way
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Everyone seems to love that title track. The rest? Your mileage may vary

The book that Axl Rose doesn't want you to read: Alan Niven’s incredible book takes you inside peak Guns N’ Roses like no other
By Scott Rowley published
Sound N' Fury, due to be published in July, has been pushed back. But it might be the best book about Guns N' Roses ever written.

Jethro Tull's expanded Still Living In The Past fails to produce much magic from the vaults
By Hugh Fielder published
Daze of future past