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"Almost nobody seemed to realise it was him." Watch Rolling Stones legend Mick Jagger sing a 100-year-old folk song in an English pub

Rolling Stones frontman gives impromptu performance at the Half Moon in St Clements

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"I remember looking at him and thinking: 'This guy's gonna die.'" Robben Ford's wild tales of Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Kiss, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison and more

Session guitarist extraordinaire Robben Ford got high with George Harrison, hit on by Barry Manilow, yelled at by Miles Davis, blanked by Bob Dylan and headhunted by Gene Simmons... and these are his stories

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“He was like an alien. He could talk about anything. That’s when we said, ‘Let’s make him do lyrics!’”: Rush’s Neil Peart, an exploding golf ball and two career-changing conversations

Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson recall their late friend and bandmate, recalling what he brought to the band and how they began to move on without him

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"Pure sonic velvet. Electric Warrior is the perfect mix of heavy crunch and acoustic swagger." T.Rex's collection of sun-dappled narco-rockers is more than the two hits

Marc Bolan sheds his hippy skin and reinvents himself as a golden god with a gleaming, screaming electric guitar

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All the songs Rush have never played live… yet

Rush have recorded 167 original songs. They’ve never played 42 of them. Could that change on the Fifty Something tour?

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Former Jethro Tull arranger and keyboardist Dee Palmer has died, aged 88

Dee Palmer worked on Tull's classic early 70s albums and was the band's keyboardist from 1976 to 1980

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Rush just played a classic song for the first time in 47 years in Los Angeles

The Fifty Something tour continues to throw up surprises – and this time it was A Farewell To Kings, aired for the first time since 1979

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“I suspect they’ve had a lesser impact on the music world due to the complexity of their music”: No-Man’s Tim Bowness on his prog hero, Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson

They collaborated on Bowness’ 2017 album Lost In The Ghost Light, but his appreciation for the rock flute icon goes back to Tull’s early trilogies

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“Ozzy asked whether I had night-sight goggles. I didn’t. He told me you could pick up an ex-military pair for $10,000!”: Legendary songwriter Russ Ballard tried to write a song with Ozzy Osbourne – and failed

Ozzy offered Ballard tips on how to get high-grade military hardware - and Ritchie Blackmore just wanted to play “minstrel music”

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“I reckon Ritchie Blackmore might have thought we’d made a mistake having them open for Rainbow, as we just couldn’t match them”: When AC/DC blew Rainbow off stage

Warning: never, ever let AC/DC open for your band

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Download might be the home of rock, but Pendulum and Cypress Hill just showed why the festival is wise to mix it up a little

Drum 'n' bass and hip hop might not seem like obvious fits for Download, but Pendulum are now Donington veterans - while Cypress Hill's world class set was long overdue

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"Celebrate this iconic album on the grandest scale possible." Billy Corgan adds additional shows to his orchestral Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness opera tour

"This magical dream doesn’t have to end"

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How the band David Bowie called “a psychotic Beatles”made the '80s weirdest and most influential alternative rock album

Nirvana's Kurt Cobain admitted it, but pretty much every single alt. rock band has 'borrowed' from Pixies' 1988 masterpiece Surfer Rosa

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Muse announce The Wow! Signal Europa Tour in support of their forthcoming tenth album

Matt Bellamy's band will tour Europe this winter

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Top new proggy sounds from Haken, Polyphia, A-Tota-So and more in Prog's brand new Tracks Of The Week

Cool new prog you must hear fromRodrigo Y Gabriela, If These Trees Could Talk, Redshift and more in all new Tracks Of The Week

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"If one were to cut the crap from The Clash's final album, it could be released as a seven inch single, with no B-side." Ten forgettable punk albums with one killer song

Each of these thoroughly mediocre punk albums features one redeeming, gleaming diamond in the dirt

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DC hardcore legends Scream announce UK and European tour dates

The band that introduced the world to Dave Grohl is back

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Jethro Tull announce newly expanded and remixed reissue of their 1999 album J-Tull Dot Com

New three-CD and Blu-ray release J-Tull Dot Com: Another Cast Of The Net will be available in August

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"I met God when I was high on opioids! It was a spectacular moment of realisation." Garbage's Shirley Manson on love, grief, and that beachball incident

Garbage and Skunk Anansie embark on a co-headlining UK tour next week

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"God knows what I'm on about on that song. It's such a mishmash. All the nasty subjects in one go." The story of the controversial Rolling Stones classic they won't play live any more

With origins in the Australian outback and a rare riff from Mick Jagger, Brown Sugar's lyrics are still a source of controversy

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“Five minutes is a great length for a song. You can really get a lot in, while leaving people wondering. But then, when you’ve got a 13-minute song…” Prog icons Yes keep things tight on new album Aurora

Guitarist Steve Howe discusses their unplanned three-record run, speculates on what’s left for the future, and explains why he’s still bothering with the current line-up

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"It's this melodic, wonderful thing, with two guitars interweaving in a way that's not just shredding." The Black Keys' Patrick Carney picks the songs that have soundtracked his life

The Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

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Attention all planets of the Solar Federation! Someone's made a multi-cam video of Rush's first full performance of 2112 in nearly 30 years

The internet is finally proving to be worthwhile

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"It's an exploration of the dark underbelly of the American dream." The story behind the Eagles "spooky" classic Hotel California

How a "Mexican reggae" demo turned into one of classic rock's greatest ever anthems

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How to watch Alanis Morissette perform at the men's 2026 FIFA World Cup opening ceremony in Toronto... from anywhere

The Canadian-born singer-songwriter will lead her home country's festivities at the opening ceremony in Toronto ahead of the men's football World Cup. Here's how you can watch all the music before the big kick-off

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