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All the songs Rush have never played live… yet
Rush have recorded 159 original songs. They’ve never played 42 of them. Could that change on the Fifty Something tour?
Praised by half the Beatles, Rick Wakeman and Pat Metheny, Rod Argent still didn’t have it all easy
Founding member of The Zombies and Argent had no trouble writing songs that have endured for decades, and easily collaborated with Phil Collins, The Who and many others. But he also encountered his share of troubles in the music industry
Former England legend Terry Butcher is a huge Iron Maiden fan and the original heavy metal footballer
Ex-England captain Terry Butcher on singing onstage with Iron Maiden, Steve Harris’ football skills and England’s chances in the World Cup
“The fans understood I was the price they had to pay”: Trevor Horn on fronting Yes, and how it led to 90125
Producer recalls making his colleagues feel “embarrassed and amused at the same time” as he begged them not to give up on Owner Of A Lonely Heart
Alejandro Escovedo, the cult US singer who connects Bruce Springsteen, Ian Hunter and the Sex Pistols
Alejandro Escovedo is US rock’s best kept secret
The “really evil” bandleader who was more challenging than Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp
Despite a huge range of experience, bassist easily identifies the person he found most difficult to work with
Eric Burdon: the hellraiser who had it all and then lost it
Founder of The Animals, party buddy of Hendrix and Morrison and hero to Springsteen, Eric Burdon is a bluesman, a rogue and a survivor, and this is his story
“If I’d started having hits early on, I may never have wound up playing so much with Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen”: Most people are lucky if they play with one iconic artist. Nils Lofgren has played with two
Nils Lofgren is more than just a sideman to the stars – he’s made some killer albums of his own
“I reckon Ritchie Blackmore might have thought we’d made a mistake having them open for Rainbow, as we just couldn’t match them”: When AC/DC blew Rainbow off stage
Warning: never, ever let AC/DC open for your band
Bullets, bikers and burnout: the story of Jimi Hendrix's last gig
Jimi Hendrix's final show was at a festival marred by terrible weather, machine-gun fire and marauding Hell's Angels
How the band David Bowie called “a psychotic Beatles” made the '80s most influential alternative rock album
Nirvana's Kurt Cobain admitted it, but pretty much every single alt. rock band has 'borrowed' from Pixies' 1988 masterpiece Surfer Rosa
"If one were to cut the crap from The Clash's final album, it could be released as a seven inch single, with no B-side." Ten forgettable punk albums with one killer song
Each of these thoroughly mediocre punk albums features one redeeming, gleaming diamond in the dirt
Garbage's Shirley Manson on love, grief, and that beachball incident
Garbage and Skunk Anansie embark on a co-headlining UK tour next week
Rick Wakeman: Jon Lord inspired me, made me laugh, and he was a true progger at heart
Deep Purple icon, who inspired Yes counterpart to remake Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, had a wicked sense of humour and was a true progger at heart
The story of Brown Sugar, the controversial Rolling Stones song they won't play live any more
With origins in the Australian outback and a rare riff from Mick Jagger, Brown Sugar's lyrics are still a source of controversy
“Five minutes is a great length for a song”: Yes keep things tight on new album Aurora
Guitarist Steve Howe discusses their unplanned three-record run, speculates on what’s left for the future, and explains why he’s still bothering with the current line-up
The Black Keys' Patrick Carney picks the songs that have soundtracked his life
The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance
