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Broadcasting legend Johnnie Walker dead at 79

The death of Johnnie Walker has been announced by his BBC Radio colleague Bob Harris

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"It'll be a setlist for the ages": Bruce Dickinson promises fans things they've never seen before on Iron Maiden's Run For Your Lives tour

Bruce Dickinson ends the year with a special message for fans

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“We once did a gig for deaf kids. They sat at the front of the stage, put their ears to the ground and soaked up the vibration. They loved it!”: An epic interview with Angus and Malcolm Young, the heart and soul of AC/DC

AC/DC played their very first gig on New Year’s Eve 1973 – 51 years ago today

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We celebrate 50 years of Yes's Relayer on the cover of the new issue of Prog, which is on sale now!

Plus Marillion, Clannad, Pavlov's Dog, Klone, Swallow The Sun, Dilemma and more

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“Bowie comes in wearing a black jumpsuit, holding a can of Heineken and a big bit of cheese”: Simple Minds on the night David Bowie and Iggy Pop invaded their studio

The pair roped in the Scottish rockers for some football-style chanting when they found themselves working in the studio next door

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“It was me being a complete and utter dunderhead”: Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield on the guitar solo where he went full method

There was more to Bradfield’s searing guitar part on this classic Manics cut than flashy playing, the singer and guitarist explains

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“When I found out you could do the Hawaii Five-0 theme in chicken noises, that became the challenge”: Robert Ramsay’s silly and serious album Confound And Disturb

The self-described “Chief Audience Abuser” with Tinyfish and Shineback explored the idea that he might be a musician on 2017 release – but also expounded his theories on the nature of reality

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Former Skid Row singer Erik Grönwall has taken Europe's euphoric anthem The Final Countdown and made it "slow and dark"

Happy New Year!

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"There's a nod to Thin Lizzy's unmistakable dual guitars in there": Gary Moore's son Jack Moore releases debut solo single In My Shoes

Jack Moore's In My Shoes is inspired by the relationship between parents and their sons

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In Memoriam: A tribute to the musicians we lost in 2024

Musicians who died in 2024 include Paul Di'Anno, Wayne Kramer, Dickey Betts, Steve Harley, Duane Eddy, Steve Albini and more

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"We'd be up for days drinking, getting stoned and making music": How the Rolling Stones channelled chaos to make the final album with their most potent line-up

When Ronnie Wood, the Stones and some A-list mates holed up at his house to help with his solo album, it sparked a days-long party and a Rolling Stones hit

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“Biker festivals booked us for some reason… Four songs in, when we were actually about to die, we’d launch into some Status Quo to save our lives”: When the unclassifiable Haze finally got to play for a prog audience, they found it refreshingly easy

80s outfit never had a record deal or management – instead they“got good at being poor” to avoid compromising their musical values, and it’s kept them going through the decades

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Antimatter share video for brand new single Angelic

UK dark proggers Antimatter celebrate their 25th anniversary next year with the release of Parallel Matter

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"Strong evidence that classic rock as an ongoing and healthy genre is worth checking out": The Temperance Movement don't reinvent the wheel on A Deeper Cut, but they sure keep it spinning in the right direction

A Deeper Cut was the last album The Temperance Movement made before parting ways with now-returned frontman Phil Campbell

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“Ian’s flute solo got stretched out… Martin Barre and I would sit and play cards on stage, with a pot of tea. He had no clue what was happening”: Former Jethro Tull members share their favourite moments

Mick Abrahams, Clive Bunker, Jeffrey Hammond, Peter John Vettese and Tony Iommi recall what they learned from – or what they did to – band leader Ian Anderson

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"What a man! What a life!What a loss!": Peter Gabriel pays heartfelt tribute to 'the rock'n'roll president' Jimmy Carter

Former US President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100

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Made famous by The Doors, the historic Morrison Hotel has been destroyed by fire

The fire at the Morrison Hotel in downtown Los Angeles was attended by firefighters from 17 different companies

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“We were pot-smoking hippies and Rick Wakeman was a pub guy. The angle twisted and we went off in a new direction”: The epic story of Yes and the three albums that changed the course of music

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“We weren’t ready to go into the studio… we got the feeling the label didn’t care about us any more”: Despite an uneasy line-up change, a lawsuit and no idea about singles, the Moody Blues returned to superstardom with Long Distance Voyager

With help from an ex Yes member and a new engineer, 1981 release marked a significant update without a loss of their musical values. But is it a concept album?

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“I called Gene Simmons. He said: ‘How the hell did you get this number?!’ That was when I got the idea that we weren’t going to be best buddies”: Dee Snider’s wild tales of Robert Plant, Frank Zappa, Freddy Krueger and Kiss

From Johnny Cash and John Denver to Manowar and Henry Kissinger, former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider has mixed with them all

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“It was us and them.… We got away with it mostly, but in certain songs you can hear a bit of a wobble”: Given Barclay James Harvest’s difficult personal and financial relationships with orchestras, why did John Lees do it again?

The recently-released live record from 2023 shows how much has changed in 50 years, as John Lees’ Barclay James Harvest look forward to the “progtastic” double album they’ve nearly finished

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"I wasn’t fired, they just didn’t call me back. I didn’t even get a note from David saying it’s time to move on": The unlikely story of George Murray, the David Bowie bassist who became a school superintendent

Plucked from obscurity in 1975 to be in David Bowie’s band, then unceremoniously dumped five years later, bassist George Murray looks back on his time with the Thin White Duke

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Massive Attack hope to release new music next year: “It’s good – I’m looking forward to it!”

The trip-hop pioneers have been sitting on new songs for four years due to a “dispute at the label”

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The people behind Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown are planning a Syd Barrett movie

Could Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett and The Mamas & The Papa’s Cass Elliot be getting the big screen treatment?

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Gentle Giant announce reimagined, remixed and remastered version of 1977 live album Playing The Fool

Gentle Giant will release Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience in the Spring

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