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“Am I Evil? was me trying to beat Black Sabbath’s Symptom Of The Universe. I was determined to come up with something heavier”: The story of Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations, the cult album that invented Metallica

Diamond Head’s Lightning To The Nations should have turned them into NWOBHM-era superstars, but instead it inspired Lars Ulrich to start his own band

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Fill your heads with heavy metal thunder: The Saxon albums you should definitely listen to

Almost 50 years on from their formation, NWOBHM spearheads Saxon and much-loved frontman Biff Byford are verging on national treasure status – and these are their best albums

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"This blistering set of old and new material deserves to be heard": Def Leppard's homecoming captured on the slick One Night Only Live at The Leadmill

Def Leppard’s spectacular homecoming show, now available on CD and DVD

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“We weren’t trying to better Iron Maiden. We were trying to better Michael Jackson!”: The metal fan’s guide to Def Leppard

From the NWOBHM to the world – how Def Leppard became one of the biggest British rock bands of all time

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"Well here we are again. In the middle of a wonderful tour": Neal Schon responds to Jonathan Cain's lawsuit

Neal Schon has taken to social media to hit back at Jonathan Cain's claims of profligate spending

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Heart cancel remaining tour dates as Ann Wilson prepares to undergo preventive chemotherapy

Heart cancelled their European tour last month, and now their remaining US dates have been shelved

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"This next song is about destruction, like all heavy metal songs": In 1979, the fledgling Def Leppard played a small club show in Sheffield, and our man was there

Joe Elliott might decry the phrase "heavy metal" in 2024, but 46 years ago he was ready to embrace it

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"MTV was the first time that technology became a rock star": The story of 1984, the year everything changed

Sitting between the heritage of the 70s and the glitzy, big-haired peak to which the 80s would ascend, 1984 was a quietly pivotal time for music, popular culture and the world as we knew it

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“Just Be Yourself”: 20-Year-Old Woman Lives in The 1980s, And She Couldn’t Be Happier

"Any malls that have a hint of 80s original architecture in it makes me feel like I’ve been transported back in time." The post “Just Be Yourself”: 20-Year-Old Woman Lives in The 1980s, And She Couldn’t Be Happier first appeared on Bored Panda.

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The 50 greatest metal EPs of all time

From the early days of Def Leppard and Iron Maiden to modern classics via the likes of Sleep Token and Spiritbox, these are the best metal EPs in history

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Watch Nancy Wilson and Sammy Hagar join forces for a stellar cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb

Sammy Hagar joined Nancy Wilson onstage at Alice Cooper’s 21st Annual Christmas Pudding Fundraiser in Phoenix, AZ

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Disturbed's David Draiman would "love" to collaborate with Taylor Swift: "She's a brilliant woman and one of the great songwriters of our time"

Disturbed frontman David Draiman is a total Swiftie, and would "collaborate with Taylor if she ever wanted to, on any given day"

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30 musicians on the album that changed their life as a kid

Members of Kiss, Black Sabbath, Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Rage Against The Machine and more reveal the albums that set them on the path to rock stardom

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10 brilliant but overlooked albums turning 40 this year

1983 was the year heavy metal truly took off in America, but some of rock and metal's biggest bands released albums that fell by the wayside

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ScotRail to put on extra trains and late services for TRNSMT, Mötley Crüe, and Def Leppard crowds

Glasgow is set for a massive few days for music fans with TRNSMT festival returning to Glasgow Green from Friday to Sunday following a show by Mötley Crüe & Def Leppard.

Manchester Evening News

Lytham Festival 2023: Full line up, stage times, schedule and how to get tickets

George Ezra, Lionel Richie and Sting are among this year's headliners

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Watch Alice Cooper and his writhing snake lift Billion Dollar Babies to psychotic new heights

More gold from the Midnight Special archive: footage of Alice Cooper performing Billion Dollar Babies in 1979

Irish Mirror

Ireland's top music promoter already securing A-list acts for festivals next year

Melvin Benn, Festival Republic MD, was speaking ahead of Marlay Park's week-long concerts later this month

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Dublin Live

Marlay Park concert revellers urged to plan ahead in warning from organisers

People will not be permitted to bring their own alcohol into the venue and all bags cannot be bigger than an A4 size

Irish Mirror

Marlay Park concerts: Urgent warning issued by promoters as a quarter of a million people to attend

Revellers will descend on Rathfarnham’s Marlay Park over the coming weeks for seven headline shows, which kick of from June 20

The Guardian - UK

‘We’re a new age travelling circus’: the duo who took Britney Spears to the Yorkshire seaside

From Lionel Richie saying hello to Lytham to Kylie doing The Locomotion on a train in Scarborough, promoters Cuffe and Taylor have managed to lure a host of big names to provincial towns around the UK. What’s their secret?

Daily Mirror

Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe review - dripping in nostalgia that somehow still works

Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe took to Sheffield's Bramall Lane last night to mark the start of their European tour and was filled with as much 80s rock nostalgia as you would expect

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Def Leppard's Drastic Symphonies: You know the songs, but you’ve never heard them like this

Def Leppard go orchestral on Drastic Symphonies: treading water has never sounded so legacy-enhancing

The Independent UK

Def Leppard return home to help save famous Sheffield venue

It was 10 songs in before singer Joe Elliott launched into the instantly recognisable hits Hysteria and Pour Some Sugar On Me.

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Mammoth WVH launch "completely different" new single Like A Pastime

Like A Pastime comes from Mammoth WVH's second album Mammoth II, due for release in August

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