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"I went from sleeping on a mattress to playing arenas inside two years": Creed's rise and fall was fast, but now, thanks to the TikTok generation, they're selling more tickets than ever

Twenty-five years ago the Human Clay album put Creed on top of the world, but it was the calm before the storm

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"It's not hard to see why they struck gold": The riffs still ring as Creed's Human Clay is expanded for its 25th birthday

A twenty-fifth-anniversary reissue of Creed's globe-conquering second album Human Clay

Louder

On board the Creed cruise: the unfathomable return of the ‘worst band of the 90s’

The long read: I took a cruise with thousands of fellow lunatics to find out how this much-mocked rock band became so beloved

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"A lot of our best songs happened that way": Mark Tremonti on the unexpected key to Creed's success on Human Clay and their remarkable comeback 25 years on

"The Creed stuff has a lot more clean guitar parts than I remembered"

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"The first three records of our career, everybody was talking about how we were going to fail. Each next step was going to be a disaster”: Mark Tremonti and Scott Stapp on the unlikely rebirth of Creed – and why they’ve always been cool

Thanks to a pair of sports franchises, a bizarre Super Bowl commercial and some shows that sold out in record time, Creed are back. Here, Stapp and Tremonti tell us how it all went down

Guitar World

Creed wrote megahit Higher onstage in front of 4,000 people, reveals Mark Tremonti

Singer Scott Stapp “liked to play this game where he would put the band on the spot and say, ‘We’re going to write a song,’” the guitarist explains

Metal Hammer

“He would put the band on the spot and say, ‘We’re going to write a song.’ I would just start riffing… in front of a live group of people”: Mark Tremonti reveals one of Creed’s biggest hits was spontaneously written in front of 4,000 people

The track has helped spearhead Creed’s resurgence in recent years, and is used as a rallying anthem by two major sporting institutions

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"It was probably in front of 4,000 people": Scott Stapp and Mark Tremonti reveal the surprising story of how the chorus of Creed hit Higher was written during a live show

"It was freestyle"

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“You can just see the decline”: The time that Creed bassist Brian Marshall went to war with Pearl Jam

That went well Brian, nice one

Louder

“For years we have been trying to find it”: Mark Tremonti’s cherished ‘My Own Prison’ Les Paul – which helped kickstart Creed’s career – has been found almost 26 years after it was stolen

Tremonti’s beloved Gibson, which played a crucial role in the recording of Creed’s debut album, was returned to its rightful owner on his 50th birthday

Guitar World

"We're not defined by the five worst days in our lives": Scott Stapp has had dark days, but he knows the world we live in is not all unicorns and rainbows

Returning with new solo album Higher Power, Creed frontman Scott Stapp reflects on why music keeps pulling him through

Louder

“Chord voicings, amps and dynamics are all elements of how I solo. I’m not a guy who improvises… I use well-thought-out lines that are outside the box”: Yiannis Papadopoulos on taking Scott Stapp to a higher power

The Greek-born shredder says the Creed frontman is a “very, very good guy” and explains how they worked together to add a new heaviness to the singer’s solo output

Guitar World

"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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Will Creed make new music together? Scott Stapp hopes so

Scott Stapp can’t certainly say if Creed will write new songs, but he embraces the idea with arms wide open

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Kid Rock: My stories about Metallica, Axl Rose, Pamela Anderson and more

He's bad karma for James Hetfield, was in a sex video shot by Scott Stapp, and watched Jerry Lee Lewis show Keith Richards who’s boss. He's Kid Rock, and these are his stories

USA Today Sports Media Group

Which Creed song best represents your Big Ten football program?

Which Creed song best represents your Big Ten football team? #B1G

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MLB Fans Couldn’t Stop Laughing at Creed Lead Singer Scott Stapp for His Awkward Statement at Astros-Rangers

He had strong Rob Lowe vibes.

USA Today Sports Media Group

The Texas Rangers’ obsession with Creed’s music, explained

The Texas Rangers are giving some credit to Creed for their success.

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"Scott Stapp mistakes the trite for the profound and delivers hallmark card lyrics with an earnestness bordering on the comical": Creed: Human Clay - Album Of The Week Club review

Criticised for being exemplars of the beige stodge-rock that followed grunge, Creed sold albums by the million. We try and figure out why

Louder

These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring Scott Stapp, Starbenders, Baroness and more

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