Cherie Currie on meet & greets, fan camaraderie, and the global cabal behind a worldwide takeover
Former Runaway Cherie Currie plans to play "the songs I know people love" on what will likely be her final UK tour
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When David Bowie first appeared on TV it was not as a musician but as president of The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-Haired Men
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The band’s first phase features a charming, very English sense of melancholy and melodrama – matched with wilful prog complexity
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The story of Love And Rockets, the former Bauhaus members who helped sell goth to America
Love And Rockets emerged from the ashes of Bauhaus – but unlike their old band, they hit big in the States
Bush’s Gavin Rossdale on what the mammoth success of their debut taught him
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Watch a drunk U2 taunt Phil Collins
The Genesis frontman was tasked with presenting to an inebriated Bono & co. in 1992 and they were in a cheeky mood
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In 2012, Rush released their nineteenth and final studio album Clockwork Angels – and last words don’t come any better
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Their music ranged from all out hard rock to big pop hits (and occasionally funk). But here’s undeniable proof they could prog out with the best of them as well
The wild history of Love/Hate, the greatest Sunset Strip band nobody cared about
Love/Hate blazed out of late 80s LA with killer debut Blackout In The Red Room – only to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
How Soundgarden returned from the wilderness with King Animal
Soundgarden’s 2012 comeback album King Animal was their first in 16 years – and it found the grunge pioneers finally comfortable with their legacy
How Deep Purple split from Ritchie Blackmore and made a funky masterpiece in Come Taste The Band
Ritchie Blackmore was out, US hotshot Tommy Bolin was in and Deep Purple’s Mk IV line-up were about to make the most under-rated album of their career
The twisted life and decadent times of Aleister Crowley, metal’s favourite occultist
How Aleister Crowley, aka The Great Beast, influenced generations of metal bands
Zakk Wylde’s crazy tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Axl Rose, Eddie Van Halen and more
Trashing hotel rooms with Ozzy, teaching Mark Wahlberg how to rock and almost joining Guns N’ Roses – Black Label Society guitar berserker Zakk Wylde has done all of it and more
Watch footage from David Bowie's last ever live performance
The rock'n'roll icon drew a line under his live career with a charity gig performance in New York in 2006
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
Stone Temple Pilots on how Interstate Love Song came together
Written in a parking lot, titled on a tour bus, Scott Weiland & co.’s biggest hit truly was one for the road
The ever-humble Billy Corgan on how he was the best songwriting foil for Courtney Love
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"This is a teaching album": Why I ❤️ Led Zeppelin IV, by Heart's Ann Wilson
Heart's singer Ann Wilson remembers learning along with Led Zeppelin
