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Nine Blondie albums you should listen to, and one to avoid
With their sharp songwriting and lyrical flair, Blondie are the pop-punk disco titans who embraced rap before it went mainstream. These are their best albums
“He wrote, ‘Eat more shit – 100,000 flies can’t be wrong”: German prog icon ignored haters to scale the charts
Accused of being a European “knob-turner,” he faced the music establishment’s rejection attitude with a lesson learned from Salvador Dali, and defied expectations by scaling the charts
The story of the love/hate hit that split the Judas Priest fan base
Rob Halford recalls how Judas Priest celebrated 1980s materialism - complete with sexy motor imagery and state-of-the-art studio technology
Every solo album by Iron Maiden’s Bruce Dickinson ranked from worst to best
Even if you take The Beast out of the equation, Bruce Dickinson has had a magical career. Here are his seven albums in reverse-order of excellence.
The chaotic and confusing story of Metallica’s abandoned album
In 2001, Metallica hired an old army barracks in California to try and record album eight. The songs were scrapped when James Hetfield entered rehab, but many fans still want to hear them finished.
"I knew something was wrong. I went to the bar and my girlfriend was there with another guy." The dagger-through-the-heart memory which inspired the biggest rock song of its generation
The story behind "the UK's alternative national anthem", inspired by heartbreak, David Bowie and Iggy Pop
Steven Wilson tried to forget his shamelessly commercial song, but met it again in a strip club
The band leader learned a valuable lesson about himself after an attempt to do his record label’s bidding
Ian Anderson on Jethro Tull, the right kind of guitarist, and forgetting what he's done
Ian Anderson talks about Jethro Tull’s latest album Curious Ruminant and ponders the itch to make another
