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The US band who stepped out of Bon Jovi’s shadow to become hair metal’s last superstars
How Skid Row made their classic debut album
“I wrote it on a piece of paper and thought, ‘That’s an album!’” How Ian Anderson creates Jethro Tull lyrics
He recalled the spark that ignited Thick As A Brick when he decided to publish a lyric book – which he admitted nobody needed, and feared would be a cringe experience
The pioneering European metal queen loved by Dio, Lemmy and Gene Simmons
The life and times of Doro Pesch
The huge 80s hard rock hit that drove a wedge between the band that made it
The Final Countdown pushed Europe into the pop charts – and not everyone was happy about it
Tears For Fears sneaked prog into a run of hit singles in 1984 and 85. So why weren’t they at Live Aid?
As they tried to outdo Trevor Horn, with influences including Genesis and Yes, their second album hit No.1 in the US and No.2 in the UK. But they didn’t contribute to Bob Geldof’s world-changing charity extravaganza
How Faith No More lost half their audience by making the most antagonistic album “in history”
How Faith No More made ‘the least commercial follow-up to a hit record in history’
How the reluctant ‘Godfathers Of Hardcore’ wrote the mosh-pit classic that put East Coast punk on MTV
Sick Of It All helped take hardcore into the mainstream
How pockets of mindless violence inspired the most important 63 seconds of punk ever
Even 45 years after its release, this 1981 single remains depressingly relevant today
