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It’s a femininomenon! How Chappell Roan slow-burned her way to stardom

The US singer’s debut album hit UK No 1 nearly a year after it was released, as fans fawn over her maximalist pop, queer themes and magnificent displays of camp

The Guardian - UK

“If I wanted to have a string sound, I had to change, unload and reload while I was playing, and that led to all kinds of problems”: Queen live keyboard player Spike Edney on ‘80s tech, streamlining his rig and using Freddie Mercury vocal samples

“I suppose what I think is that Queen is quite a demanding musical adventure, and there are lots of things that can be done to make their sounds more realistic for the audience,” he says

MusicRadar

Men are proving their masculinity by ... staring at nothing for hours on end. Could I hack it?

A six-hour journey with no screens, no music, no books: less ‘dopamine detox’, more absolute nightmare, says freelance writer Rich Pelley

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"Joe Elliott knows more about Mott than I do. You just have to sit back and listen to him": Ian Hunter's stories of Freddie Mercury, David Bowie, Bob Dylan and more

He’s Ian Hunter, solo artist and former Mott The Hoople frontman, and these are some of his stories

Louder

Best shorts for men in 2024 and how to style them

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Evening Standard

"We always play UK tours even if we're operating at a loss": Joe Elliott on the importance of Britain to Def Leppard

In 2008, Joe Elliott sat down with Classic Rock to discuss the band's roots, selling Britain to America, and that iconic Union Jack shirt

Louder

Susan Egelstaff: The BBC's reduced Olympic coverage is a huge blow to sports fans

The value of sport being on free-to-air television channels cannot be under-estimated and so the BBC's reduced coverage of Paris 2024 is a huge blow…

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"The best way to be anonymous in a band is by not forming a band. Don’t do it!" How Ghost fought Hollywood to make their own blockbuster movie, Rite Here Rite Now

An international box office hit, Ghost's Rite Here Rite Now movie succeeds where the likes of Metallica have previously failed

Metal Hammer

Zandra Rhodes looks back: ‘Freddie Mercury was wonderful, but dressing Zsa Zsa Gabor was awful’

The fashion designer on early creativity, her celebrity clients and moving on after cancer

The Guardian - UK

"You have a right to a complete show. You paid for it. If they cut the power, be my guests, do what you want": Chaos, no-shows and bomb scares on Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion tour

Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion tour was one of the most volatile and mysterious to ever hit Europe. This is the full story

Metal Hammer

"The songs are not fossils. They're alive and evolving": Brian May says Adam Lambert is taking Queen's songs to places Freddie Mercury never did

Queen's Brian May talks to Sammy Hagar about Freddie Mercury, Adam Lambert, and curating Queen's legacy

Louder

“Listen to Romeo And Juliet by Prokofiev. It’s one of the heaviest pieces of music you’ll ever hear”: The magic and mystery – but not genius – of Muse’s first decade

With each of their first four albums Matt Bellamy and co injected more prog to their music, finding inspiration via classical composers, magic mushrooms and a Ouija board

Louder

“Even when Freddie was nothing and nobody, he was Jimi Hendrix in his mind. And I enabled him to have that at his fingertips”: Brian May on his symbiotic songwriting relationship with Freddie Mercury – and the guitar innovations he never got credit for

The Queen guitar legend shares memories and spills secrets in this epic interview, dishing on what form his Gibson-made guitar might take – and the unlikely tale behind his new collaboration with Steve Cropper and Billy Gibbons

Guitar World

Five Great Reads: the Ronaldo show, sex with Tracey Emin and cookbooks in The Bear

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - AU

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What Hi-Fi?

The 9 best musical movies to test your surround sound system

These are the top musical movies our reviewers use to test surround sound systems.

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50 Hard-To-Believe Images And Facts That Are Outright Amazing (New Pics)

FOMO is real with all the fantastic things happening globally, but luckily, there are "depositories" to help us catch up. The post 50 Hard-To-Believe Images And Facts That Are Outright Amazing (New Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.

Evening Standard

OPINION - London Pride 2024: Look at the attacks on our trans siblings and tell me we don't need Pride

I’m not being funny but… it’s Pride this Saturday. I know, I know, I touched on the corporate side of things a few weeks ago, but as a queer man living in the times we’re living in, I just have a few more things to say.

The Independent UK

Piers Morgan confesses what he didn’t enjoy about the Eras Tour

‘Everyone else in our group got uplifting loving messages,’ he writes about the friendship bracelets at the concert

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The Independent UK

Pekingese called Wild Thang wins World’s Ugliest Dog contest

Eight-year-old Pekingese from Oregon finally wins hotly contested competition

The Guardian - US

Eight-year-old pekingese Wild Thang wins World’s Ugliest Dog contest

Eight dogs vied for the title in the Sonoma-Marin Fair’s disagreeable-looking dog competition

MusicRadar

I Want It All: Sony snaps up Queen back catalogue for over $1 billion

Sony buy Queen back catalogue

The Guardian - UK

Adam Lambert: Out, Loud and Proud review – give this compelling singer his own podcast series

The Queen frontman is a rousing interviewer as he celebrates trailblazing artists in queer music history – especially during a tricky chat about Freddie Mercury

Metal Hammer

“We could do anything we wanted with our hair and our clothes in front of tens of thousands of people. We were gods!”: how guitar legend Steve Vai survived Whitesnake

The story of guitar icon’s Steve Vai’s brief but eventful union with David Coverdale and Whitesnake for the Slip Of The Tongue album

WhatToWatch

Adam Lambert Out Loud and Proud release date, Adam interview and everything we know

Adam Lambert: Out Loud & Proud sees the Queen frontman interview trailblazing LGBTQ artists who have fought for their place in the music industry.

AAP

Celebrities hit icy water for Daniher's Big Freeze

AFLW and basketball legend Erin Phillips has stolen the show as a plethora of sporting greats slid down a slide into icy water to raise funds for MND research.

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