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Sir Paul McCartney hails ‘phenomenal’ impact of ‘greatest band ever’ the Beatles

The rocker, 83, shot to fame in the best-selling musical act in the 1960s.

Evening Standard

“I could make it into something really good”: Paul McCartney wants to get his hands on Prince’s unearthed cover of a classic Beatles song, but there could be a problem with that

Back in 1998, Prince said that reviving an artist's voice after their death is "the most demonic thing imaginable"

MusicRadar

“I said, ‘It’s everything I need. Can I borrow it to do my demo?’ They went, ‘Let me ask Ern’”: Steve Morse on how a gear nightmare lead him to Ernie Ball – and the signature guitar of his dreams

Morse has become one of Ernie Ball’s most loyal and high-profile endorsers – and it all started with a broken volume pedal

Guitar World

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“It’s about time!” Wes Borland’s Jackson King V went from factory floor reject to Limp Bizkit icon – now it’s been released as a signature guitar

Borland’s Custom Shop V started out as a left-handed factory reject – and this signature reissue replicates it in all its glory

Guitar World

"Everything health-wise caught up with me at the same time. Whatever could go wrong did go wrong." Phil Collins is feeling a lot better, but won't be performing at his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction

"They asked me if I would perform. I said, No."

Louder

“I don't think there's any other 16-year-old producer for Drake right now. So it’s an odd experience, but it's crazy”: Meet AP Melodies, the teenage producer who’s ended up with production credits on two new Drake songs

“Everyone’s all like, ‘How did you do this?’ The whole school is just hyped"

MusicRadar

“This is almost clickbaity – but it’s like a lot of people lost the plot with the vintage guitar thing”: Jared James Nichols on what he’s looking for from a golden era Gibson and why he doesn’t feel comfortable playing other people’s vintage guitars

Obsessing over value, or how rare something is, are we forgetting what makes these instruments special in the first place?

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“He called and said, ‘I don’t like what’s going on with Ritchie Blackmore. I’m looking for an escape’”: That time Ronnie James Dio offered to front ’70s glam-rock outfit The Sweet

Internal disagreements led Dio to very different gig as he sought an escape from Blackmore’s Rainbow, while The Sweet were grappling with their frontman's drinking problems

Guitar World

Slam Dunk 2026 was evidence that hardcore might just be the most exciting music scene on Earth right now

From rising bands like Guilt Trip and Pest Control crushing it to Knocked Loose and Malevolence bringing the mosh, hardcore and metalcore ruled Slam Dunk

Metal Hammer

The Chicks announce intimate 'Taking the Long Way' 20th Anniversary Tour. 'This is our lives'

The Chicks are taking their 2006 album “Taking the Long Way” on tour this fall

The Independent UK

Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland unveils his first Jackson signature guitar – and it’s a single-pickup King V with a headstock so reversed it’s “upside down”

Featuring one Seymour Duncan Invader, one Floyd 1500 Series vibrato, and one headstock that requires a double take

MusicRadar

Emerson, Lake & Palmer announce newly remastered reissue of Works Live

Carl Palmer will bring his An Evening With Emerson, Lake & Palmer to England for three shows in February 2027

Louder

“Who’s gonna tell Rivers it’s not private?”: Weezer frontman uploads a whole heap of acoustic covers onto YouTube

But did he mean to do it?

MusicRadar

‘The UK is a hostile environment to do art’: Tara Clerkin Trio on their bold, bright music – and the fight working class artists face

The British band’s breezy, collagist sound has charmed underground music fans – though it belies the family and financial strife that went into their beautiful second LP

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Guitar World

“It's hard to overstate how influential this album was. It’s the connecting glue between me, Misha and Periphery”: How Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood went from Sikth super-fan to playing in the band

Former bassist for Periphery, Getgood pinpoints the pickup selection and pick technique he’s been using onstage with Sikth

Metal Hammer

“I got a letter from Ozzy telling me my services weren’t needed and Axl had gotten rid of me”: How Zakk Wylde launched Black Label Society with the booze-fuelled chaos of Sonic Brew

In the late 1990s, Zakk Wylde formed Black Label Society during time away from Ozzy’s band. Cue lawsuits and a lot of alcohol

Guitar World

“We were heavily in debt. Either we go home, and I go work for my dad as a plumbing assistant, or we just say screw everybody”: Alex Lifeson on the Rush “protest record” that saved the band – and won them their independence

How Rush at the brink led to Lifeson, Lee and Peart crafting one of their most commercially successful records

Guitar World

“A great way to break away from the typical blues soloing sound of pentatonic scales”: How to use dominant 7 arpeggios in a blues guitar solo

Because you can't have enough exit ramps from traditional blues phrases, here's how you can use the notes of a dominant 7 chord to spice up your solos

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Evening Standard

Cruz Beckham’s girlfriend Jackie Apostel reveals surprising way they met after defending 10-year age gap

Apostel, 30, has been dating the youngest son of Sir David and Victoria Beckham, 21, since 2024

Metal Hammer

"I said, 'I think we should write the best song in the world.' Jack Black said, ‘You can’t do that!'" How Dave Grohl, Ben Stiller, Bob Odenkirk and Maynard James Keenan helped Tenacious D bring the greatest tribute song ever to the world

Tenacious D had friends in high places, and they used them to bring this 2000s smash hit to life

Metal Hammer

"She goes, 'I love your beard' and starts to clean it!" What happened when country icon Dolly Parton met Judas Priest frontman and heavy metal legend, Rob Halford

Two icons met in the most unusual of circumstances and it left an indelible impression on Rob Halford

Evening Standard

Pitbull and BST festival appeal for bald cap counters for world record attempt

The plan for the world record attempt came after BBC Radio 1 presenter Greg James texted the singer with the idea.

Guitar World

“I was in Norman’s Rare Guitars in LA when I spotted the Les Paul. I played it for hours in the shop”: The unlikely fate of Big Country frontman Stuart Adamson’s ‘Peace in Our Time’ Les Paul

Bruce Watson shares the story of a guitar that encapsulates the time Big Country tried to break America – before they took their Scot rock sound to Moscow

Metal Hammer

"We can turn people who have never heard us before into fans." If demonic riffs wrapped around heavenly melodies give you a lift, take the Earth Tongue elevator

New Zealand duo Earth Tongue's third album Dungeon Vision is out now

Guitar World

“No guitar does everything, but this comes dangerously close”: PRS DGT Semi-Hollow review

After testing the water with a limited-edition version, PRS has added David Grissom’s semi-hollow signature to the Core lineup. But are we worthy?

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