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Richard Tandy
"He was a remarkable musician and friend." Jeff Lynne pays tribute to Electric Light Orchestra keyboard player Richard Tandy, who has died aged 76

By Jerry Ewing Published

Richard Tandy was the only ELO musician to feature with Jeff Lynne during all the phases of the band's career

Bands & Artists
Cypress Hill on The Simpsons
“It’s a dream come true, a collaboration only The Simpsons could have predicted”: Cypress Hill are making a 1996 Simpsons joke a reality by booking a show with the London Symphony Orchestra

By Paul Brannigan Published

Sometimes, real life can be stranger than fiction

Bands & Artists
The Blackheart Orchestra
The Blackheart Orchestra need your help!

By Jerry Ewing Published

UK prog duo The Blackheart Orchestra's mixing desk of 15 years stops working at start of current UK tour

Bands & Artists
BJH
“Marrying a rock band to an orchestra was seat-of-the-pants stuff." The story of Barclay James Harvest's Once Again

By Mike Barnes Published

1971's Once Again album. only the band's second album, saw Oldham's prog quartet Barclay James Harvest working with an orchestra to striking effect

Bands & Artists
John Lees onstage
"I want to quit while I’m ahead": John Lees is taking Barclay James Harvest to Huddersfield for two final UK shows and he's bringing an orchestra

By Dave Ling Published

Veteran proggers John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest play a pair of concerts this weekend backed by an 80-piece orchestra

Concerts & Shows
Barclay James Harvest
“Marrying a rock band to an orchestra was seat-of-the-pants stuff… even if we had to have extra rehearsals because they weren’t playing it right, they charged us”: Barclay James Harvest’s early days

By Mike Barnes Published

From getting a Mellotron at a knock-down price to spending years on the road to recoup recording costs, John Lees looks back before his band stops touring

Bands & Artists
Truck Festival
Watch hilarious footage of an orchestra audience's wild mosh-pits at a recent UK music festival

By Liz Scarlett Published

Metal and rock aren't the only genres you can mosh to, apparently, as the Oxford Symphony Orchestra discovered at Truck Festival

Bands & Artists
Mostly Autumn
“Half the buggers would write the album for you if you let them!" - Mostly Autumn and the making of The Ghost Moon Orchestra

By Natasha Scharf Published

Having suffered the demise of their distribution company, 2012's The Ghost Moon Orchestra found UK proggers Mostly Autumn fighting back in style

Albums
Jack Black
Watch Jack Black give a wonderfully bonkers performance of Super Mario Bros' Peaches with an orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl

By Liz Scarlett Published

Jack Black rolls around on a piano and on the floor for an extra OTT performance of his first ever solo hit Peaches, backed by a live orchestra at The Game Awards 10–Year Concert

Live Performances
Bruce Dickinson of Iron Maiden
Watch Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson perform Deep Purple's Burn with an orchestra

By Liz Scarlett Published

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson performed a fiery cover of Deep Purple's Burn as part of Jon Lord's Concerto For Group And Orchestra

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