Ritchie Blackmore had a heart attack 18 months ago, and won't be onstage again in Europe any time soon
Blackmore appears on Candice Night's forthcoming solo album, Sea Glass
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Ritchie Blackmore had a heart attack 18 months ago, and won't be onstage again in Europe any time soon
Blackmore appears on Candice Night's forthcoming solo album, Sea Glass
Bruce Springsteen details Tracks II: The Lost Albums, featuring seven records and 82 previously unreleased songs, 74 never-before-heard
Bruce Springsteen: “I often read about myself in the 1990s as having some 'lost period'. Not really. I was working the whole time.”
Bruce Soord details 10th anniversary edition of debut solo album
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John Lydon lost part of his vinyl collection after his kitchen was accidentally set on fire
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Tobias Forge says most Ghost songs aren’t about the Devil
Despite having written such songs as Satanized and Devil Church, Tobias Forge insists his band aren’t actually obsessed with Old Scratch
John Lydon is getting ever more salty about the success being enjoyed by his former Sex Pistols bandmates
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"Every single song a single, every single single a hit, every hit a direct hit in the face of the man."
This WWE icon once invited a fake Sammy Hagar backstage and watched him snort so much cocaine his nose bled
“There’s people trying to get in the locker room, but we’re like ‘Go, go, go!’ and he’s snorting this big line of cocaine”
Machine Head toured America six days after 9/11
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Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale: “All these men were like, ‘Lose your brother, lose the band, lose your buddies – you should be in pop’”
Halestorm’s singer/guitarist says that a number of businessmen tried to pull her away from being in a heavy metal band during her teens
Billy Corgan to tour to celebrate the anniversaries of three classic Smashing Pumpkins albums, but not with Smashing Pumpkins
What better way to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Smashing Pumpkins' Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness than seeing it performed by a band that's not Smashing Pumpkins?
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