Something For The Weekend - The Long Read

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Handpicked from Team Rock, Classic Rock, Hammer, Prog and Blues, here are some of the highlights from the last week to ease you into the weekend

James Hetfield of Metallica on 4/5/86 in Chicago, Il
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From Fireball’s troubled creation to the greatest Thrash albums of the 1980s to the electrifying story of Howlin’ Wolf’s right hand man and the story behind Marillion’s (arguably) most accomplished album yet, here are some of this weeks’s deeper cuts on TR. And there’s just the matter of the greatest album released this century. Enjoy.

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