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The best new rock songs you need to hear right now

Including The Wildhearts, Larkin Poe, Dorothy and five other guardians at the rock'n'roll gates

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Rush's Alex Lifeson has returned to the stage to play a Christmas-themed Black Sabbath cover with Barenaked Ladies

It's all kicking off in Toronto

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“Nothing ever came of this because McCartney couldn’t recognise good stuff.” Why Paul McCartney's dream of making a sci-fi musical film about earth-invading aliens with legendary author Isaac Asimov never got off the launch-pad

The story behind Paul McCartney's 1974 vision of making a sci-fi musical film about music-loving aliens

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“Jimmy Page allowed Eric to unleash the power he had”: How Eric Clapton helped reinvent the blues with The Bluesbreakers’ landmark Beano album

The epic story of John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers’ 1966 blues rock milestone Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton

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Les Penning and Robert Reed share video for new single, their cover of Xmas fave Fairytale Of New York

Les Penning and Robert Reed's new five-track EP Fairytale Of New York is out now

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“He had a level of charisma beyond what you normally experience”: Christopher Nolan on working with David Bowie

The Oppenheimer director worked with Bowie on 2006’s The Prestige, but the rock’n’roll icon needed some convincing first

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“He’s one of the most gifted songwriters that ever lived. What can I say? I’m not worthy!”: The eccentric prog icon who blew Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris’s mind

The greatest ever songwriter to stand on one leg!

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“I said, ‘No way, I’m not having a song on some show we’ve never heard of’ and my publisher pretended that conversation never took place”: how Stephen Fretwell came to have one of his songs as the Gavin & Stacey theme tune

In short: the singer-songwriter is very lucky to have a publisher who doesn’t pay any attention to his instructions

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“They didn’t do the posing rock thing – that attitude has stuck with me ever since”: Ruts DC drummer David Ruffy explains why Edgar Broughton Band are his prog heroes

He hails their punk ethic, their experiments with electronica, and their way of writing songs about real people

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"His ear was very crusty." Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne on meeting Paul McCartney for the first time

Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne smoked a joint with Beatles icon –and was fascinated by Sir Paul's "crusty" ear

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“If we weren’t tied to the whims of another band, things would be different. There’s been a lot of bumps in the road”: The story of Brad, the greatest Seattle band no one ever talks about

Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard’s other band Brad should have been as big as Pearl Jam themselves

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“I’m told that I introduced Ozzy to cocaine when Black Sabbath opened for Mountain on their first American tour”: Leslie West’s wild tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix and Tom Hanks

Playing with The Who, jamming with Hendrix, partying with Bowie, Jagger and Lennon -late Mountain man Leslie West did it all and more

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“Whether as a solo performer or part of a band, his remarkable playing and strident yet emotive voice remains a remarkable legacy”: John Wetton’s Concentus live box set, volume one

Expansive 10-disc collection is the first of three charting decades of his onstage work

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"Confidence Man are ridiculous. They're also one of the best live acts on Planet Earth right now." Melbourne's EDM party starters turn Brixton Academy into a delirious rave with one of the gigs of the year

Confidence Man are a dazzling, ludicrous triumph in Brixton. Surely arenas beckon?

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“I grew up around rock stars. My dad’s mates were Mark Knopfler and Thin Lizzy… and Christopher Biggins was a mainstay in our house!”: the indie-pop superstar who had a slightly different upbringing than your average frontman

A famous frontman looks back on a childhood surrounded by rock stars, actors and welders that his dad had brought home from the pub.

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“Don’t blame me for glam metal. Most of those bands played their hairspray cans better than their instruments”: The wild story of Hanoi Rocks’ Back To Mystery City, the glam-punk classic that helped invent Guns N’ Roses

The story of Hanoi Rocks’ Back To Mystery City, the glam-punk album that invented Guns N’ Roses

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“The sort of thing which got prog a bad name, but which now seems increasingly bold and ambitious”: 10 essential Greg Lake songs

From King Crimson to ELP and beyond, he left a catalogue of impressive creations from an extraordinary musical journey which included that Christmas song

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Ghost Of The Machine's second album will "scratch that prog itch" promises singer Charlie Bramald

UK prog sextet Ghost Of The Machine will release second album Empires Must Fall in March

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Surviving Bonzos feature in hilarious new Still Barking unboxing video

A 20-disc, career-spanning Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band box set Still Barking is released in December

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Electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk recruit skate legend Tony Hawk to announce North American tour celebrating the 50th anniversary of their game-changing Autobahn album

German electronic music legends Kraftwerk promise “Gesamtkunstwerk – a total work of art” for 2025 multi-media tour

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"Sometimes a gig is more than just a gig." Friends of the late, great Mark Lanegan - including Josh Homme, Dave Gahan, Chrissie Hynde and Bobby Gillespie - assemble in London for an emotional, once-in-a-lifetime celebration of a truly singular talent

On what would have been Mark Lanegan's 60th birthday, friends and peers salute a much-missed musical maverick

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“Eccentric characters at the centre of songs was all the rage… maybe it was all the acid!” Steve Howe’s bandmate, a tragic grocer and an unfinished concept album – was Excerpt From A Teenage Opera the strangest prog hit single ever?

Tomorrow singer Keith West found himself at No. 2 in the Top 40 in 1967 with a song he’d never been meant to sing

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Classic Rock magazine's best rock albums of 2024

The Black Crowes' comeback album Happiness Bastards has been voted the album of the year in Classic Rock magazine's annual end-of-year writer's poll

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The best albums, the biggest shows, and the megastars who rocked our world - only in Classic Rock's Best Of 2024 special edition

Also in this issue: AC/DC, David Gilmour, Foreigner, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, Ghost Bruce Dickinson, Hawkwind, the Black Crowes and more - and three exclusive gifts

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From before he used the Elephant Man's spine for a marimba: Tom Waits' The Heart Of A Saturday Night still sounds smoky on anniversary coloured vinyl

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