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“Metallica would jam on their stuff in rehearsals, songs like Black Night and Highway Star”: Lars Ulrich on his lifelong love of Deep Purple and the genius of the Machine Head album

Lars Ulrich is a lifelong Deep Purple fan – and here’s why

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"Y'know, I never realised how much I really love my band": Steven Tyler talks American Idol, dysfunctional behaviour, Johnny Depp and the history of Aerosmith

Somehow, Steven Tyler became a bigger star when he stepped away from Aerosmith

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“I play the drums like I drive – crazy”: the epic life and tragic death of Cozy Powell

Drum legend Cozy Powell passed away on April 5 1998 at the age of 50. This is his story, by the people who knew him best

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“Anyone with an alternate viewpoint is liable to get burned at the stake”: Queensryche made an 80s metal classic with Operation: Mindcrime. Nearly 20 years later, they tried to match it with a sequel

The sequel to Queensryche’s Operation: Mindcrime was released in the US on April 4, 2006. This is how they made a follow up to a landmark album

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“Martin is doing his own stuff. He should be having a whale of a time, instead of being embittered about Jethro Tull”: Ian Anderson seemingly rules out the prospect of a ‘Tull reunion with Martin Barre

Anderson doesn't think a reunion with Barre “would make the atmosphere within the band very easy”

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“The record company said, ‘You are completely out of your mind!’ Which I was!”: Scorpions’ hit song Rock You Like A Hurricane originally had a different title, and it was definitely NSFW

Ex-Scorpions drummer Herman Rarebell reveals the title he originally had in mind for their 1984 classic Rock You Like A Hurricane

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“They’re gonna see someone who’s hell-bent on being the most respectful guitar player to the legacy of Eddie”: Joe Satriani issues update on his mission impossible – nailing Eddie Van Halen’s guitar parts

Satch is boning up on Van Halen tracks in preparation for Sammy Hagar's Best Of All Worlds Tour in July – and he knows just what to do if the occasional lick escapes him

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"Black Night? It was done in two hours of drunkenness!": Deep Purple's best songs, in their own words - Only in the revealing new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Scorpions, Sheryl Crow, Gary Clark Jr., The Waterboys, Kris Barras, Big Big Train, Gun, Peter Green, Wolfgang Van Halen and much more

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"You have to manifest your destiny. You have to think about what you want to do, then do it": A celebration of the life of Taylor Hawkins

Two years on from the death of Taylor Hawkins, we remember and celebrate the life of the Foo Fighters drummer, natural showman and perennial 'Mister Fanboy'

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“He’d go to the pub, come back at 9 o’clock, out of it, and go, ‘Right, let’s start’”: the story of Ozzy Osbourne’s forgotten 1970s “prog rock” solo band

A couple years before he met Randy Rhoads and released Blizzard Of Ozz, Ozzy Osbourne tried to launch a solo career with a different band

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“I don’t think there was a single riff I wrote after 1992 that Zack de la Rocha even liked”: how Audioslave saw Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello escaping his own past

In 2006, Audioslave’s Tom Morello and Chris Cornell sat down with Classic Rock to reveal all about their third album, Revelations

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Judas Priest have just scored their highest charting album ever with Invincible Sheield

Judas Priest’s new album Invincible Shield has trounced British Steel, Screaming For Vengeance and Firepower in the UK charts

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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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Raspberries frontman and solo star Eric Carmen dead at 74

The death of power pop pioneer Eric Carmen has been confirmed by his family

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“We hesitated to say yes. The chances of making fools of ourselves were so big”: Live Aid was Queen’s crowning glory. But they nearly turned it down

In the brand new issue of Classic Rock, Queen reveal how one of the greatest live performances in history almost didn’t happen

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“He told me I was like a shaman onstage. I reminded him of Jim Morrison”: Carlos Santana once wanted to start a delta blues band… with Gavin Rossdale from Bush

The story of Mud, the Carlos Santana/Gavin Rossdale supergroup that never was

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"We'd started playing small dance halls for a few hundred people, now suddenly we were opening for the Stones and The Who": A celebration of the life and music of Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington

Gary Rossington was the last surviving member of Lynyrd Skynyrd's founding lineup: He died a year ago

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“I have fond memories of sitting on Lemmy‘s lap after he’d come offstage, with his hair in a white towel turban”: Rob Halford says Judas Priest‘s new album has a tribute to Lemmy and Ronnie James Dio

New Judas Priest song Giants In The Sky from upcoming album Invincible Shield pays tribute to Lemmy, Ronnie James Dio and other great rock icons

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"We argued about everything": The stories behind the making of The Works, the album that returned Queen to rock: Only in the regal new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: The Black Crowes, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, The Pineapple Thief, Wayne Kramer, Scott Stapp, Bush, Green Day, The Stranglers and more

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"I've had to turn my back, because, you know, the big man is not supposed to cry": All the stories from behind the scenes at Kiss's emotional final blow-out at Madison Square Garden

In early December Kiss played their final ever show, at New York's iconic Madison Square Garden: Classic Rock was there to talk to Gene and Paul about the enormity of it all

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"Vince Neil tried to fight me and my bodyguards had to sort him out": Andy Taylor is best known as Duran Duran’s guitarist, but he's a real rocker at heart

Andy Taylor looks back on his early days with AC/DC's Brian Johnson, life as a guitar-wielding pop star, forming the Power Station and discovering Thunder

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“Stumbling on King Crimson and Gentle Giant was eye-opening for me. I went, ‘How can you do that so fast?’”: ex-Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars reveals his secret love of 70s prog

Forget Shout At The Devil – Mick Mars is all about 21st Century Schizoid Man

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"I'm old. I'm glad that what could possibly be my last hurrah is something that people – some people, at least – have noticed": The rise and fall of the forgotten guitar hero, Jake E Lee

After his glory days as Ozzy Osbourne's right-hand man in the 80s and personal tragedy in the 90s, Jake E Lee vanished for 15 years: In 2013, he stepped back into the spotlight

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"He wanted to stay up and party. Bon just wanted to keep the party going": What really happened on the night Bon Scott died?

Mystery surrounds Bon Scott's death to this day: Classic Rock looks back at Bon’s last hours, the world he moved in and the disappearance of the last man to see him alive

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"I love those memories. The ten thousand hours that we spent together being crazy, being wild": As Blackberry Smoke release their eighth album, Charlie Starr looks back on the band's early days

Blackberry Smoke's new album Be Right Here is out today

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