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"Paul was read the riot act, and given the chance to put things right. But he didn't put things right": The story of Iron Maiden - the Paul Di'Anno years

As the 1980s dawned, Iron Maiden were about to record their debut album. It was the start of a journey that would launch them into the stratosphere, but there were some massive hurdles to overcome first

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"Phil started going mental cos he's got these two bass drums and he doesn't know what to do with them!" How the delivery of a new drum kit gave Motörhead's Overkill to the world

'Fast' Eddie Clarke: "Once we'd cracked the formula of how to work together on Overkill, that's when we really started to take off"

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“Well-structured harmonies were important and we liked to be quite artsy… but there was pressure to become more and more commercial”: The tale of prog-tinged City Boy, who landed a hit pop-rock single and never recovered

Starting as an art-rock project in the vein of 10cc or Queen, work with producer Mutt Lange and the 1978 single 5.7.0.5. let to dispute, distraction and eventual destruction after several promising proggy albums

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Reggie Yates looks back: ‘I went from a council estate to working with the people I watched on TV’

The actor and broadcaster on how his mum kept him grounded, an awkward encounter with Sting, and why making documentaries changed him

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“Ritchie Blackmore went into the pit with a box of tomatoes and started throwing them at the singer”: how Deep Purple changed Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott’s life

Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott on his love of Deep Purple – and the deep cut he loves

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"Do you mind if I wear this as a laugh?" The true story of the night that 25,000 thick British TV viewers thought Manic Street Preachers had started supporting Irish terrorists

Manic Street Preachers' June 1994 performance on Top Of The Pops was one of the more memorable moments in the show's history

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"The bigger I got as a solo artist, the more we had to pay the Mob": Peter Frampton looks back over an extraordinary six-decade career

Peter Frampton has lived the rock life to its fullest, playing many parts – prodigy, teen idol, guitar hero, global superstar, forgotten man, comeback kid, survivor

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Abba, cabaret and smug marionettes: the 1974 Eurovision song contest reviewed!

Fifty years since Abba won with Waterloo, fans are paying tribute to a pop classic. Its status is a far cry from its origins in a celebration of weedy pop and dodgy lyrics – and, whisper it, ‘nul points’ from Britain

The Guardian - UK

Sex, Mozart and chanting monks … the 20 best Euro-pop UK hits – ranked!

As Nena’s 99 Red Balloons turns 40, we look back at the best continental foreign-language songs that achieved cross-Channel success

The Guardian - UK

Gary Davies looks back: ‘I wouldn’t go anywhere without a hairdryer and my curling tongs’

The DJ on fulfilling his dream of being on Top of the Pops, life after Radio 1, and how All Saints saved him

The Guardian - UK

Wild at heart: Liz Bonnin’s mission to wake us up to the natural world

Liz Bonnin is not your run-of-the-mill wildlife presenter. She’s been in a girl band, hosted Top of the Pops and even interviewed Leonardo DiCaprio for morning TV. But now she wants to inspire the next generation

The Guardian - UK

‘I had to fax the lyrics to the gospel choir’s pastor’: how the Soup Dragons made I’m Free

‘We were indie kids but suddenly we found ourselves at a party, chatting with Dennis Hopper as Jon Bon Jovi walked past and Madonna had just left the building’

The Guardian - UK

“The media built up this mutual hatred between prog and punk, but really I don’t think it existed”: Sonja Kristina on Curved Air’s impact - and the time she nearly quit

Singer became a sex symbol and inspired Kate Bush and Siouxsie Sioux... but she also pretended to sleep to avoid interaction at parties

Louder

‘She spoke truth to power, always’: Sinéad O’Connor’s affinity with Black music – and liberation

The Irish musician expressed solidarity and an appreciation for Black music with gospel, rap and roots reggae recordings, which were often fuelled by her own experiences of marginalisation

The Guardian - UK

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10 times nu metal gloriously gatecrashed mainstream TV

From Slipknot smashing TFI Friday to bits to Evanescence beefing with 50 Cent at the Grammys, the 2000s had it all

The Guardian - UK

Francis Monkman obituary

Multi-instrumentalist with Curved Air and Sky who composed the soundtrack to The Long Good Friday

The Guardian - UK

‘Changed podcast culture forever’: the greatest shows you’ve ever listened to

To celebrate 20 years of podcasts, Guardian readers tell us about their favourites – from revolutionary true crime to deliciously sweary analysis of Top of the Pops

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Sharleen Spiteri looks back: ‘I was in my own little world and wouldn’t have enjoyed posing like this’

The Texas frontwoman recalls standing up to bullies at school and in the music industry – and honing her DIY skills

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‘An astounding rush of real-time creativity’: 40 years of the Smiths’ Peel Sessions

Not everyone finds it easy to listen to the Smiths now, but those early transmissions were utterly formative for this vital new band and their enraptured fans

The Guardian - UK

‘I didn’t think it was annoying enough’: how Spitting Image made The Chicken Song

‘It’s a piss-take of Agadoo by Black Lace, one of those mindless summer hits. Someone said “Hold a chicken in the air” and I went “Stick a deckchair up your nose”. We finished it in four minutes’

Daily Mirror

Antiques Roadshow expert stuns guest with five-figure sum for unique Beatles autograph

The long-running BBC One show looked back at pieces of memorabilia brought in by members of the public as part of a special show celebrating the 100th anniversary of the broadcaster

Evening Standard

Why was ‘Relax’ banned? Frankie Goes to Hollywood biopic in the works

The Liverpool pop band reunite for the first time in almost four decades for a concert to celebrate their city’s hosting of Eurovision

Guitar World

The British Invasion that failed: why Slade, Status Quo, the Sweet and Dr. Feelgood never conquered the USA

Slade’s Noddy Holder and Jim Lea join Status Quo’s Francis Rossi, the Sweet’s Andy Scott and Dr. Feelgood’s Wilko Johnson (in one of his final interviews) to explain what did – and didn’t – go down in the ’70s

Glasgow Live

When Glasgow band took 'Bananarama track' to top of the UK charts

Thirty years ago this week a reissue of a reworked Bananarama album track, that had been released a decade earlier, unexpectedly soared to number one and gave Glasgow band the Bluebells their moment in the sun.

The Guardian - UK

‘He has this brilliant ability to inspire’: cult rock eccentric John Otway’s never-ending tour hits Gibraltar

Fans of ‘Rock and Roll’s Biggest Failure’ have taken him from Top of the Pops to Cannes, and keep him touring constantly in his 70s. We head to a fan convention to find out why

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