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Elvis Costello on why he's rewritten the most controversial lyric in his provocative 1979 single Oliver's Army
Oliver's Army is back in Elvis Costello's live shows: here's why
Goat announce 2027 UK tour including biggest-ever headline show at London's Royal Albert Hall
Ready for a night of porn-funk, psych-metal, Krautrock, Afrobeats and demonic disco doom? Of course you are
"Just for once in your life, do something exciting." Ian Gillan offers advice as Deep Purple release frisky new single Diablo
Diablo comes from Deep Purple's new album Splat!, out next month
Ginger Wildheart responds to CJ Wildheart's reunion olive branch
Ginger says he's extremely happy with the current lineup of The Wildhearts and that a reunion with his old bandmates is "never, ever gonna happen"
Nick Cave: "I've never experienced anything like Kylie Minogue's audience. They were terrifying"
Some Kylie Minogue fans did not take kindly to her 1995 collaboration with Nick Cave
Peter Hammill and Carl Palmer return to the Royal Albert Hall for the prog prom - Prog Rock: A Fanfare for the Common Man
BBC's 2026 Proms season's Prog Rock: A Fanfare for the Common Man takes place at the Royal Albert Hall on July 18
After three years of silence, CJ Wildheart is building bridges with Ginger Wildheart
Ginger Wildheart is now living with cancer, but CJ would welcome the chance to reunite The Wildhearts' most celebrated lineup
Latest Classic Rock Features
How Norman Greenbaum wrote the last great hippie anthem – and then disappeared into obscurity
Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit In The Sky was one of the greatest one-hit-wonders of the early 1970s
How cult AOR hotshot Paul Laine made the greatest Bon Jovi album Bon Jovi never made
Cult Canadian Paul Laine’s debut album Stick It In Your Ear is an early 90s hard rock lost treasure
Styx fired Dennis DeYoung in 1999, but he still wants a reunion for the fans
The co-founding Styx singer and keyboardist on his prog influences, why he hired a woman to shout at his kids – and why he doesn’t care if he isn’t remembered
How David Bowie came back from the abyss and made four albums in one year that changed music forever
In 1977 David Bowie helped create four albums and found redemption. Not a bad year
The unlikely rebirth of Dan Reed Network, funk rock’s nearly men
How funk rock pioneer Dan Reed overcame death, drama and drug addiction to make the Network’s first album in 25 years
“I lost my virginity to a member of Legs & Co…” From the Bar-L to the Barrowlands, a day out with the Skids
We go inside Scotland’s biggest prison, Barlinnie, for a gig by time-served and rehabilitated post-punks the Skids
Latest Classic Rock Reviews
Type O Negative do both doom and gloom on October Rust
October Rust: the culmination of Type O Negative’s progress from ugly ducklings to uglier swans
Violet Grohl's debut album Be Sweet To Me is a love letter to the '90s
Dave Grohl's 20-year-old daughter Violet steps into the spotlight
Saint Agnes's winning formula clicks into place on Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin
Saint Agnes's third album Your God Fearing Days Are About To Begin is a finely tuned beast
Smashing Pumpkins' Gish mixes Zep rock grooves, acid folk, shoegaze and trippy psychedelic angst
Gish is celebrating its 35th birthday in shades of variously coloured vinyl
Paul McCartney's The Boys Of Dungeon Lane is not the late-period masterpiece you were hoping for
A mixed bag from arguably the world's greatest songwriter
All Them Witches are predictably unpredictable on the delectable House Of Mirrors
The seventh album from enigmatic Nashville rockers All Them Witches comes after a period of upheaval and regrouping
