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"Slip & Destroy." Metallica's Kirk Hammett sees the funny side after falling offstage during Dublin show

Metallica guitarist takes a tumble in Dublin as band launch into classic hit Seek & Destroy

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“There’s healthy humility, but this felt crippling. You come out of that and go, ‘I don’t care what people think about me’”: What Radiohead means to Ed O’Brien after his complete transformation

A battle with depression resulted in a new way of life for the guitarist, as illustrated on second solo album Blue Morpho

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"Everybody was leaning over the banisters to listen to this guy sitting in the corner of the club playing. They were enthralled.” This is what happened when Jimi Hendrix landed in London for the first time

When Hendrix arrived in the UK in 1966, the rock world tilted on its axis and he shot from unknown to superstar and changed everything

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"It’s about a beautiful moment between a man and a woman. It’s about peace." How Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's vision of domestic bliss emerged when the USA was imploding under the stress of the Vietnam War

This single from their album Déjà Vu was just what America needed in 1970, reckons songwriter Graham Nash

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“The rock business has become so established, and so much like a society, that I have revolted against it." After killing off Ziggy and breaking up the band, David Bowie recorded a covers album in a French castle. This is the story of Pin Ups’ creation

After Aladdin Sane, Bowie recorded Pin Ups to pacify his label – but the critics weren't impressed

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Jethro Tull's M.U. The Best Of... to be reissued as a limited edition half-speed vinyl remaster in July

The new remasrer of M.U. The Best Of Jethro Tull has been overseen by Ian Anderson and cut by Miles Showell at Abbey Road

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"If this were a brand new album, it'd be the best alt. rock record of 2026." Thirty years after its original release, Placebo reimagine 1996 debut album to stunning effect with RE:CREATED

The 30th anniversary "director’s cut" of Placebo's debut album is a triumph

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Cool new proggy sounds from Arthur Brown, North Sea Echoes, Alex Henry Foster and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Top new prog you must hear from Cinder Well, Outrun The Sunlight, Untold Stories and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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"I was having a peek at his guitar and I was just about to stroke it, and he went: 'Nobody touches it!' And bam!" The night that Rolling Stones legend Keith Richards got punched in the face by his hero Chuck Berry

Perhaps there's some truth in the old saying that you should never meet your heroes

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"She leaned over and kissed me on me lips. My knees went." The day that black metal legend Cronos from Venom met Kate Bush

"What's not to love about Kate Bush?”

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Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson is on the cover of the new, gift-packed issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Yes, Steve Hogarth, Exploring Birdsong, The Paradox Twin, Franck Carducci. Tarja, Liminal Sky, A.A. Williams, MONO, Burning Shed and loads more...

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"The time is right for a revolution in rock'n'roll. It's yours for the taking. I believe it’s coming." Def Leppard and Extreme are currently on tour together, so we put their guitarists in a room

Def Leppard and Extreme are currently playing a bunch of dates on what promises to be a cracking double-header

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"It has never ceased to amaze me how much use that one tune gets." The story of Sirius, the dramatic prog anthem played at every World Cup game

The Alan Parsons Project's instrumental Sirius is one of the most famous pieces of music in sport – but its writers don't get the recognition they deserve

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“Band dynamics are always good when times are hard. When you achieve things the landscape shifts. There was an issue we couldn’t get past”: Richard Barbieri on why art rockers Japan split, and why their reunion imploded

The Porcupine Tree keyboardist explains the ambition behind his earlier band’s acclaimed fifth album Tin Drum, and what he really thinks of their later reconnection as Rain Tree Crow

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"Bon Scott chose to hang out with us more than AC/DC. He thought they were boring": The rollercoaster story of Y&T, the greatest hard rock band never to become huge

Headlining over Van Halen, hanging with Bon Scott, out-partying Mötley Crüe – Y&T deserve way more love than they get

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“Sales is not a mark of success": 10 brilliant rock bands from the '90s who should have been absolutely massive

The biggest-selling alt. rock bands from the '90s weren't necessarily the best alt. rock bands from the '90s

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“I was jolted back to life to watch America go to hell!”: What this Norwegian prog band did after their singer’s near-fatal onstage heart attack

Four years after he woke from a coma (to be told he’d soon be a dad), they’ve launched a concept album that explores the rise and fall of the USA – via Elvis. “When you deal with the apocalypse you should make it fun,” they say

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The 6 bands who won Rock For People festival 2026

From nu metal icons to metalcore megaweights, Rock For People had it all - and has proven itself as one of the most exciting festivals in Europe

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How to watch The Cure's headline set from the 2026 Isle Of Wight Festival

The Cure, Sex Pistols, Feeder, Wet Leg, The Twilight Sad, Shed Seven and The Last Dinner Party are just some of the artists playing this weekend - here's how you can catch the action from anywhere

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Brian Fallon and The Painkillers announce US, UK and European tour dates

Brian Fallon announces dates in support of recently announced solo album Not Bad For New Jersey.

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"It feels like a Camel band effort." Andrew Latimer releases new suite of music, From The Vault

From The Vault a suite comprising eight songs, also features Camel members past and present

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"America is not the same place as it was." Mick Jagger reveals why The Rolling Stones' new album Foreign Tongues features a political message about modern-day America

"The American Dream is intact for some people"

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"While Damon Albarn is mainly known as a charismatic Britpop darling, we’d argue that he's actually music's ultimate wingman." Gorillaz charm and delight Rock For People during a varied and entertaining headline set

Damon Albarn's genre-hopping alt pop cartoon project shows off the Blur man's penchant for letting others take centre stage

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"I don't think there is any musician that I've worked with that has ever come close to that." How Jimi Hendrix recorded Purple Haze – on a guitar he'd never played before

The story behind the song that established Jimi Hendrix's psychedelic credentials

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"They're not gonna get anybody heavier than me, are they?" In 1971 Led Zeppelin manager Peter Grant was asked how he dealt with bootleggers

The BBC footage also shows Pink Floyd hearing one of their own bootlegs for the first time – and they're not happy

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