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“I don’t think we’re a band that will last forever. We could break up any time”: On the road with Thin Lizzy in America in the late 1970s

Thin Lizzy hit their stride between 1977 and 1979 – and journalist Harry Doherty had a front row seat for their American tours

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"The thought of being in jail in tights didn't appeal to Freddie at all": Queen and the struggle to make Day At The Races

After A Night At The Opera, Queen had the world at their feet. But how on Earth do you follow such an album?

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“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

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“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

Ben Hardy: ‘I wasn’t keen on getting my willy out to be perfectly honest’

One of the rare ‘EastEnders’ actors to leave the BBC soap and actually make it in America, the British star of ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ and ‘The Voyeurs’ talks to Ellie Muir about full-frontal nudity, his new queer drama ‘Unicorns’, and why he wouldn’t work with Bryan Singer again

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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

The Guardian - UK

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.

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Drunken shenanigans. MTV-upsetting videos. Furious Brazilians. Sun City: With The Works, Queen returned to their rock roots, and annoyed a lot of people

The Game dialled down Queen's hard rock, and Hot Space was such a departure that it confused their fan base. It was time for a rethink

Louder

“When the bass comes back in it’s like a punch in the face. Nobody plays like that anymore”: Listen to John Deacon’s isolated bassline on Killer Queen

John Deacon’s bass playing on Killer Queen is guaranteed to blow your mind

Guitar World

"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'

Louder

Freddie Mercury: The Final Act documentary to air on TV tonight

The music doc Freddie Mercury: The Final Act digs into the life and legacy of one of the greatest frontmen in rock history

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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

Louder

Lycett, Acosta and Duran Duran condemn Birmingham’s 100% arts budget cut

Napalm Death, visual artist Pogus Caesar and Peaky Blinders’ Steven Knight also among city’s cultural figures warning over ‘horrifying’ move

The Guardian - UK

“Forget the luxuriant moustaches and sawn-off mike-stands that would come to define them: if the prog ethos meant avoiding the expected, they were definitely a prog band”: You’ve always known the truth about Queen

Mike Portnoy and Steve Howe provide supporting evidence that Bohemian Rhapsody is only the tip of the band’s boundary-pushing iceberg

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"I've lived, I really have. I've done it all. I love the fact that I make people happy": The life and times of rock's most outrageous star, Freddie Mercury

How a shy kid from Zanzibar helped propel Queen to superstardom

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“No Synthesizers”? No way! How Queen backtracked on a boast, embraced synths and went stratospheric

The real story of Queen’s much misunderstood love/hate relationship with electronic instruments

Louder

"Thank you lovely DCC ladies. What a blast!": watch Queen perform Fat Bottomed Girls with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

Queen and Adam Lambert share the stage of the American Airlines Center in Dallas with the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders

The Guardian - UK

Moon landings, light-minutes and Duran Duran’s three Taylors – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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The Independent UK

Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor says prostate cancer is ‘asymptomatic’ after end-of-life diagnosis

Guitarist called the scientist who recommended the treatment ‘the Elon Musk of cancer’

Louder

Queen were poor. Their singer sounded like a "bleating sheep". Their music was greeted with indifference. But they believed in themselves, and their debut album would make the years of pain worthwhile

One minute Queen were taking the bus and watching their Top Of The Pops performance in a shop window: the next they had the world at their feet

Evening Standard

Duran Duran’s Andy Taylor discusses shock U-turn after receiving end-of-life care for cancer diagnosis

The guitarist is now gearing up for the release of his first solo album in decades after seeking alternative treatment

The Independent UK

Duran Duran star Andy Taylor rubbishes rumour that he ‘can’t stand’ former bandmate Nick Rhodes

Former band guitarist has denounced rumours of a feud with ex-bandmates

Metal Hammer

Every The Darkness album ranked from worst to best

Few bands do OTT rock’n’roll quite like The Darkness - and here’s where to start with their back catalogue

Louder

“Thanks to everyone who has extracted a morsel of enjoyment from our music”: Queen receive a BRIT Billion Award

The award from the BPI is to commemorate Queen surpassing one billion streams in the UK

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"I wasn't likely to upstage Brian or Freddie": Queen's John Deacon - a tribute to an elusive bass giant

Brian May: "He won't talk to me, so why the f**k would he talk to you?"

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