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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: January 26, 2026

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from the Claypool Lennon Delirium, Joanne Shaw Taylor, Elles Bailey and more

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“Let’s not forget he was still learning how to sing as ‘Bryan Ferry.’ I know I captured a fantastic atmosphere, complete with mistakes”: Some of Roxy Music hated Virginia Plain, but its producer loved it

Former King Crimson man Pete Sinfield tried to balance prog and pop sensibilities on the 1972 single, and had answers for the criticisms levelled at it

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"I said something like: 'It would be really, really dreadful if that got wiped' and I found out later that that's exactly what he did": The story of the UFO classic inspired by a pair of murderous twins

For a much-loved ballad on 1981's The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent, UFO turned to the criminal underworld for inspiration

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"We left mistakes in, we didn't clean it all up – which is a hard thing to do when you're a musician": How His Lordship hit the rock'n'roll bullseye with one of the best albums of 2025

Pretenders' sidemen James Walbourne and Kris Sonne's second album as His Lordship is a savage blast of high-octane, garage-rooted R&B

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"Released under a more credible banner, it would have sold millions and been regarded as brilliant": Sweet rock hard and conjure up a cult classic on Give Us A Wink

Could Sweet still produce after dumping Chinn and Chapman? You bet!

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Yungblud responds to backlash over controversial Till Lindemann photo: “You all know what I stand for, always. I’ll be more for it in the future”

Yungblud responds to fans’ disappointment after a photo appeared online of him with Rammstein’s Till Lindemann

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"She understands the history of music, but she’s also pushing it forward. She is the future." Record company execs expect big things of Dave Grohl's daughter Violet

Violet Grohl has signed a record contract with Republic Records/Island EMI who say "she represents the next generation of artists"

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"If we manage to survive the tour, go back to Canada and have a rest, who knows what'll happen. I suspect some music will eventually come out." Geddy Lee on the chances of recording new Rush material

With a massive reunion tour on the horizon, Rush icon Geddy Lee is open to making new music with drummer Anika Nilles

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Debate: What was the best prog album of 1976?

Punk might have been on the rise but Rush, Genesis, Jon Anderson, Van der Graaf Generator, Kansas, Alan Parsons, Camel and Soft Machine released records that became all-time greats. But which one is your favourite – and why?

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"It doesn’t feel like anything we’ve done before": Tedeschi Trucks Band announces new studio album and mammoth tour - listen to first single I Got You now

Future Soul will be released during Tedeschi Trucks Band's upcoming residency at New York's Beacon Theater

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“I said, ‘There are no vocals. It’s an instrumental album.’ The lawyer said, ‘Do you mean we’ve just paid $12,000 for a piano player?’” Rick Wakeman relives the moment he delivered The Six Wives Of Henry VIII to a horrified record label

In 1970 they gave him Scotch in the morning, a big cash advance and a three-ton limousine. Eventually the man who’d hated the resulting album gave him a platinum disc for its sales

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"I’m scared I’ll get in trouble." How the teenage son of a Canadian punk rocker sampled Beabadoobee without her knowledge on a song about a young man's dying words, and racked up two billion streams without leaving his bedroom

The story behind viral hit Death Bed (Coffee For Your Head)

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Prog's Tracks Of The Week! Awesome new proggy sounds from Opeth, NMB, Myrkur and more...

There's cool new proggy sounds from Esthesis, worriedaboutsatan, Holosoil, JeGong and more in this week's Tracks Of The week

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"We thought we made really good records, but we never envisaged hanging out and playing boules at Elton's house": How Therapy? ram-raided the mainstream with an ode to the soap opera of teenage existence

Inspired by Irish punk and the Smash Hits Awards, Screamager brought Therapy? unexpected fame

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"A man was beheaded there and sometimes you can hear his head rolling down": The historic Loch Ness manor once home to Jimmy Page and Aleister Crowley is opening to the public for the first time in 260 years

A home with a dark history, Boleskin House has been fully restored after being gutted by fire in 2015 and 2019

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Debate: Who is the greatest drummer of all time?

Drummers: Turning good bands into great ones since time immemorial

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"It's hard rock for us. It's got a bit more of an 'oomph' than stuff we've been doing for a while": Def Leppard launch new single Rejoice ahead of Las Vegas residency

Def Leppard say they've returned to a rockier sound

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"I've loved it and hated it, loved it and hated it": The story of the breakthrough hit its writer doesn't want to talk about ever again

Drink cider from a lemon? Grant Nicholas reveals the real inspiration behind Feeder's hit single Buck Rogers

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"We are monitoring Mick's progress daily": Uriah Heep founder Mick Box to miss dates on farewell tour after falling ill

Mick Box will miss his first Uriah Heep shows since 1969: Stand-in guitarist announced

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"Dementia? What is? NO! Trump smart, pass brain test, name giraffe!" Jack White mercilessly mocks Donald Trump over "365 wins in 365 days" claims

The White Stripes' founder has promised to block any followers who tell him to "stick to music"

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"I felt like I’d fallen into the bowels of the earth." Fears that witches under the spell of Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page had targeted him to help birth the Antichrist led a paranoid David Bowie to store his bodily fluids in the fridge

A fascination with occult magic did nothing to help David Bowie's sanity in the mid '70s

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"It sounded like the way ice cream on a hot summer day tastes." How a Marquis de Sade biography, Willy Wonka's Oompa-Loompas and a bum note helped "a metal girl from Ohio" write a rock anthem that wowed Nirvana and changed Olivia Rodrigo's life

"We thought no-one would play it." The story behind one of the great '90s alt. rock singles, The Breeders' Cannonball

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"They took a record that I'd made and erased all my songs, all my vocals. I thought, 'I won’t let you get away with this'": From goth glory to bad blood - the Gene Loves Jezebel story

Reflecting on both success and rancour, identical twins Michael and Jay Aston look back on their time in the band – and at each other’s throats

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"It was a long year with many rewards. A couple of us developed expensive hobbies involving white powder and noses": The song that turned an English blues outfit into globe-trotting rock stars with high-maintenance habits

All thanks to a warm, evergreen slice of pure pop genius

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"I just wish that Rage Against The Machine would make a new record!": Buckcherry's Josh Todd on the state of the nation, managing old habits, and going back to school

After 11 studio albums, Buckcherry are on a roll - and Josh Todd is getting good grades

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