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"I was on my own, out in one of the gnarliest neighbourhoods. You’re scared, thinking, 'How do I get out of here?'" How a song about living in a rat-infested squat helped turn Green Day into one of the world's biggest bands

While West Oakland in the late 80s sounded like a sketchy place to live, it inspired a pop punk classic

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"I have decided to take a break." Neil Young cancels upcoming European tour, saying "This is not the time"

Neil Young was scheduled to begin a run of European shows in June - including six UK dates

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"There are no plans for any physical release of this recording." Steven Wilson announces new live album Impossible Tightrope and launches hi-res audiophile resource

Headphone Dust will host high-resolution, 5.1, and Atmos/spatial audio editions of Wilson's work

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"This isn’t a contest. This isn’t a gimmick. This is your chance to join." Here's everything you need to do if you want to become the new vocalist for multi-platinum rockers Skid Row

Skid Row's announce world-wide search for new vocalist

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"I have this memory of killing myself, blasting my head off, and then throwing the guitar at the amp over and over." The story behind the most intense song on the most ambitious rock album of the '90s

Life isn't always easy as a perfectionist

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Great new prog you must hear from Green Carnation, Magenta, Exploring Birdsong, A.A. Williams and more in Prog's Tracks Of The Week

Cool new proggy sounds from Chris Braide & Dean Johnson, HeKz, EchoVerse and more in this week's Tracks Of The Week

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Steve Hackett's on the front cover of the new issue of Prog, on sale now!

Plus Big Big Train, Neal Morse, Karnivool, Darryl Way's Wolf, Happy The Man, Soen, Wolverine, Textures, Tiger Moth Tales, Esoterica and loads more...

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"The title track features a blistering, grandstanding, once-in-a-lifetime vocal." Jay Buchanan is captivating and contrary on Weapons Of Beauty

Rival Sons singer Jay Buchanan’s solo album is full of heart, blues and soul

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"It was a nightmare to mix, but we got it sounding raw and filthy." The Black Keys announce "primal" new album Peaches!, launch first single

The Black Keys have also announced two UK shows for later this year

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"Queen's music doesn't belong to Freddie. It doesn't even belong to Queen any more." Writer/comedian Ben Elton reveals why Robert DeNiro's dream of making a musical about Freddie Mercury's life was vetoed by Brian May and Roger Taylor

The story behind the Queen musical that never saw the light of day

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"It was this dream song that just turned up as I was waking up one morning. It came to me fully formed." The story of the cinematic classic that kick-started Bob Mould's second life

Bob Mould spent much of 1991 on punishing tours in a bid to salvage his ailing career - then came the song that showed him the way forward

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"I'm a grownass woman. I’m a female in the world taking care of myself. I can do whatever I want." Femme Fatale singer Lorraine Lewis on relaunching the band, skydiving in a bodysuit and joining OnlyFans

Femme Fatale's original 80s singer Lorraine Lewis returns with a new line-up and the same drive and ambition

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“The email said, ‘John Cale is looking for you.’ It absolutely terrified me. I thought I was in trouble!” How the Velvet Underground icon voiced a powerful song on Cate Le Bon’s new album

Michelangelo Dying, which she says is more of an exorcism than an album, was nearly released without Cale performing on the track Ride, because she was too afraid to ask him

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"When people hear my versions of pop songs, they're shocked. They never expect to hear Adele sound like that." Meet Solomon Hicks, the New York guitarist bringing the blues to a new audience

Solomon Hicks just wants to make you feel good

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"When Robert Plant introduced me I achieved closure. I had my song back for the first time since 1961." How Bonnie Dobson's post-apocalyptic first song finally found its way home via the Grateful Dead, Nazareth, Jeff Beck, the Allman Brothers and more

For over three decades, Morning Dew's authorship was in dispute, but its author wasn't afraid to call out the injustice

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"This is far and away the best live version of Paradise City I've ever seen": Rare footage of Guns N' Roses playing live in 1987 surfaces online

The footage of Paradise City was shot on the same night Guns N' Roses filmed the Welcome To The Jungle video

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"Iʼm not doing it out of guilt. Even if I didnʼt do it, the poverty would still be there." How getting stuck in a "rut", some tempting by Bob Geldof and the most A-list bill in history helped Queen pull off the greatest rock set of all time

Queen's Live Aid performance has become the stuff of legend – we look back at how the iconic set really happened

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No rules. No limits. No quarter. Led Zeppelin: 18 months on the road with the biggest band in the world - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in Classic Rock 350: Smashing Pumpkins, Michael Monroe, Jay Buchanan, Joan Armatrading, BB King, Ten Years After, The Mission, The Boomtown Rats, Tyketto, Danny Francis, Peter Capaldi and more

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Deep Purple announce one-off show at London's iconic Royal Albert Hall

Deep Purple are to return to the scene of their Concerto For Group And Orchestra live album

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"We have no use for a standalone singer who doesn't play an instrument, preening themselves like a rock god": Atomic Rooster guitarist Steve Bolton on reviving the band, changing frontmen, and John Entwistle's phallic number plate

On the back of their first album in 42 years, Atomic Rooster are about to hit the road

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“The school would kick everybody out with hair that touched their ears. Someone on the board found out we were wearing short-haired wigs!” Steve Morse endured educational woes, dodgy gear and jazz snobbery, but knew he could make it as a guitarist

The ex Deep Purple member recalls how he got started in music, and beginning to write Kansas-style songs – long before he accidentally joined them

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"The aspects of America that are really magical to us are the things it seems to reject, like black music or the Beat poets": The story of the multi-version David Bowie song that captured his revulsion of American corporate dominance

With input from Trent Reznor and Ice Cube, I'm Afraid Of Americans was rescued from Showgirls ignominy and given a prescient, unnerving video

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"Once you're comfortable in this space, don't overthink it, just enjoy it." A new recording studio at a historic English school has been named after Justin Hawkins

The Darkness frontman attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of The Justin Hawkins Recording Studio

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"A one-man calamity, catastrophe. No trace of sanity, an empty shell": Queen's Roger Taylor releases surprise protest song Chumps and doesn't pull his punches

Chumps is the latest in a long line of politically-charged songs from the Queen drummer

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: February 2, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Skindred, Suzi Quatro, Karnivool and more

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