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"We’re thinking, why would we do someone else’s song? Why can’t you take one of our songs?": How Simple Minds' Don't You (Forget About Me) eventually became the perfect meeting of worlds – but two other stars turned it down first

They didn't want to record Keith Forsey's song, but it became a US No. 1 for the Glasgow band via The Breakfast Club and fan John Hughes

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"My man management skills are very poor, but the music that gets made is usually worth it": The story of John Kalodner, the man who made rock stars

He signed Foreigner. He helped Whitesnake go global. Aerosmith owe him. He is music biz A&R legend-cum-rockstarmaker John Kalodner

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“Gritty, fast-paced and hectic”: Billy Morrison recruits Steve Vai, John 5 and Ozzy Osbourne for his first solo record in 9 years

The Billy Idol guitarist is set to team with a stellar cast – including his co-guitarist Steve Stevens – for a record that sees him reflecting on a riotous world, and you can hear the first single, Drowning, now

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"As many recycled Led Zeppelin riffs as Kingdom Come or '80s Whitesnake with an even stronger whiff of cheese": Emotions In Motion by Billy Squier - Album Of The Week Club review

Buoyed by the success of breakthrough album Don’t Say No, Billy Squier teamed up once again with Queen producer Reinhold Mack to create 10 tracks of state of the art, radio-friendly pop rock

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"Imagine, if you will, a long-lost UFO concept album about a seance gone awry": The Unexpected Guest by Demon - Album Of The Week Club review

The NWOBHM was a broad church, and Demon's second album The Unexpected Guest was more melodic than most

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“A guitar that is at home playing jazz lines as it is for NYC 1973 punk rock”: Knaggs strips down Steve Stevens’ signature guitar to its purest rock ‘n’ roll form with the SSC-J

The latest iteration of the Billy Idol guitarist's signature guitar goes back to the basics, but still has room for Bare Knuckle pickups and other premium specs

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The Most Painfully '80s Celebrity Photos of All Time

We're all just material girls living in a material world.

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From Britney to Germán Bringas: the best old music our writers discovered in 2023

Our belated discoveries included some giant hits of the 80s and 90s as well as little noticed Moroccan genius and Polish post-punk

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"They had drawings of me as the T-1000": Billy Idol explains why he missed out on android assassin role in Terminator 2

We could have seen Billy Idol sharing the screen with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: Judgment Day if not for cruel fate

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On Halloween 1990, Billy Idol played the final show of his Charmed Life tour in Seattle. The night would feature Faith No More dancing naked, 600 dead fish, five miniature pigs, a goat, and a visit from the Seattle police department

Billy Idol's Charmed Life tour-closing show at Seattle Coliseum on October 31, 1990 was quite the party

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“I wanted to create an instrument that had that beautiful old-school P-90 sound”: Knaggs unveils the Billy Morrison Keya-J-M, a Fralin-equipped high-end signature model for the Billy Idol guitarist

Morrison's new signature model is a thicker-bodied version of Knaggs' Keya J P2, and with hum-canceling P-90s it looks a bona-fide rock 'n' roll machine

Guitar World

"Joey got to take the mask off and be a different person": how The Exorcist, quoting Airplane! and Joey Jordison's mum turned Wednesday 13 from Hot Topic clerk to glam punk star

Joey Jordison had already found acclaim with Slipknot, but horrorcore glam-punks Murderdolls let him flex an entirely different side to his music

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10 rock stars who missed out on their dream movie roles

David Bowie in The Lord Of The Rings? John Lydon in Quadrophenia? WASP’s Blackie Lawless as The Terminator? These are the Oscar-winning performances that never were

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"We went there to have a whale of a time – a sex holiday, really. But it got out of hand": Billy Idol on the Thailand vacation that ended with a visit from the army

In 1989, Billy Idol desperately need a break from his troubles in Los Angeles, but things went from bad, to worse, and then to much, much worse

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10 terrible punk albums with one classic song

These punk albums are stinkers that only a mother could truly love, but each features one redeeming, gleaming diamond in the dirt

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"Ultimately, they weren’t Rick Wakeman" - Clem Burke and Glen Matlock on the outsider appeal of the original punk bands

Ahead of their gig with Iggy Pop at the Dog Day Afternoon festival in London, Blondie’s Clem Burke and former Sex Pistol Glen Matlock talk punk, punk and more punk

Evening Standard

God Save the Punks: London braces for Iggy Pop’s new festival Dog Day Afternoon

The new one-dayer at Crystal Palace Park pays homage to the spirit and legacy of punk

The Guardian - UK

Streakers, heat seekers and all-star surprises: Saturday at Glastonbury 2023 – photo essay

Acts from Lizzo to Lewis Capaldi sweated it out under the baking sun – with on-stage guests ranging from Johnny Marr to Central Cee’s cute baby

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If you were wondering what Robert Fripp and Toyah are like on tour, wonder no more

Much to humanity's delight, pro-shot footage of Robert Fripp and Toyah performing Billy Idol's Rebel Yell at the Isle Of Wight festival has emerged

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The Sisters of Mercy: Vision Thing - Album Of The Week Club review

"I wanted to make a 2D rock record. I wanted something that chuntered happily along" - Sisters Of Mercy mainman Andrew Eldritch on 1990's Vision Thing

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10 Best Kellyoke Covers From The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Kelly Clarkson Show has highlighted so many great Kellyoke song covers. However, we selected the best ones.

Wales Online

The Who Quadrophenia Tour Vespa restored in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust

Scooter ridden on stage by Billy Idol in 1966 was locked in Roger Daltry's garage until his son-in-law took charge of restoring it

The Orange County Register

Siouxsie, Iggy Pop, Billy Idol top Cruel World 2023 lineup

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Goldenvoice’s Cruel World Festival will return to Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena on May 20 and will feature performances by Siouxsie, Iggy Pop, Billy Idol, Love and Rockets, Adam Ant, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Human League and more.

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What links Billy Idol and Douglas Coupland? The Saturday quiz

From long-tongued mammals to Billy Idol, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

Salon

Queer wedding planning at world's end

I notice how our rings press against each other. We watch as the zebras stroll to a hilltop above the waves

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