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How Mike Oldfield made Maggie Reilly sing in an odd style to make Moonlight Shadow
By Mike Barnes published
A bottle of wine, a thesaurus and a rhyming dictionary sent his career out of the doldrums, into the Top 5, and helped make 1983 album Crises a success

A camel, a wedding, the streets of India and seven million views: how Bloodywood broke big
By Metal Hammer published
Bloodywood went from the underground to being India's biggest ever metal band

Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: January 19, 2026
By Polly Glass published
Eight songs you need to hear right now, from The Sheepdogs, Black Stone Cherry, Bryan Adams and more

How Unholy Confessions made Avenged Sevenfold - and why they don't dig it that much
By Merlin Alderslade published
How Avenged Sevenfold embraced heavy metal and wrote the song that took them to the next level

Metal Hammer's tracks of the week: January 16 2026
By Rich Hobson published
Big names, rising stars and underground favourites go head-to-head in Metal Hammer's tracks of the week

How one radio play turned the Undertones' intended final release into a brand new beginning
By Alex Ogg published
A story of punk rock, John Peel and some misspelt graffiti

“I have to fit a guitar part over this?” How Rush made Grammy-nominated instrumental YYZ
By Philip Wilding published
When Alex Lifeson got back from a journey his bandmates presented him with a jam piece that finally gelled when they added Morse code to the intro

Influenced by Aleister Crowley, Eddie and the Hot Rods wrote the song that introduced new wave
By Gavin Martin published
The Sex Pistols weren't the only authority-baiting band to storm the charts in 1977
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