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“I felt the stage fright because the band just wasn’t good enough. I said, ‘This will be our last record.’ Then things began to take off”: Even lockdown couldn’t dampen The Pineapple Thief’s spirits when they released Versions Of The Truth

It may have been the 13th album by Bruce Soord’s band, but he regarded is as their third, after drummer Gavin Harrison’s arrival changed everything

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"It's so broad a concept that it's impossible to answer objectively": We asked who the 'big four' of classic rock were and you did not hold back

The results are in, and a Mount Rushmore of classic rock is ready to be carved

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"I look round and there's puke all over the place, and I thought, this is not going well": How Rainbow's classic lineup came together then fell apart

Ritchie Blackmore and his band reflect on Rainbow Rising, hailed as an instant classic upon its release in 1976

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"There's a vulnerability to the sound, but strength too, evoking a refusal to settle or submit." Slow Crush embark on an emotional journey with seductive third album Thirst

Belgian shoegaze quartet Slow Crush deliver captivating follow-up to 2021's Hush

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"I’m slowly building up towards a new album." David Gilmour hopes to have a new record out "within the next year or two."

David Gilmour fans might not have to wait too long for a follow-up to Luck and Strange

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"Who knows where this will all lead?" Radiohead announce first live dates for seven years

Radiohead will perform four consecutive nights at London's O2 Arena as part of European dates in November and December

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“There are two types of bands. One is s**t. The other is The Hives”: 45 minutes with the world’s greatest band, The Hives

Our reviewer tries and fails to take notes every minute of a gig by The Hives at The Outernet, London

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“It was such a shame to leave A Secret Wish on its own. The band still had such great potential – it was unfinished business”: Claudia Brücken and Susanne Freytag couldn’t dump Propaganda and their prog roots in the past

Their 1985 contained tones of Pink Floyd, Kraftwerk and Supertramp. It took until 2022 for the singers and producer Stephen Lipson, as xPropaganda, to deliver The Heart Is Strange. But it was worth the wait

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Sex Pistols forced to postpone North American and South American tours after Steve Jones breaks his wrist

"God save the wrist!"

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"It's one of the best rock songs ever!" Queen's Brian May talks exclusively to Classic Rock about working with The Struts on their newly reimagined update of their debut single Could Have Been Me

"Working with Luke, I'm often thinking of Freddie."

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"We’re not just into camels and palm trees." 20 years ago, Amine Hamma was arrested for playing death metal. Now he’s helping build Morocco’s metal scene

Rabat's Tricinty Festival is helping put Moroccan metal on the map

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Solstice to reissue remastered version of 1984 debut album Silent Dance

Solstice's 1984 debut album, Silent Dance, will be released on vinyl and CD in November

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25 complicated concept albums explained as simply as possible

The music might be brilliant, but how do concept album plotlines fair once they're distilled to their bare bones?

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“I once played with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson. You can imagine how I was feeling… I got through YYZ. They told me I was playing too fast!” Taylor Hawkins’ love for prog stars Rush, Genesis, Yes and more

Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins discusses how he got into prog rock

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"The stench of success was horrible for a lot of people": Whipping boys of the music press in the 90s, Bush are still fighting back

Gavin Rossdale on thirty years of Bush, the mysteries of music making, Steve Albini and the defiance of gravity

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The Who announce super deluxe version of Who Are You including 71 unreleased tracks

The news arrives with just 112 days left until Christmas

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The A-Z of Britpop Anthems

Mid '90s nostalgia is at a peak, but there was much more to Britpop than scene figureheads Oasis, Blur and Pulp

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“We were virtually given free rein. In fact, they spent so much money on studio time, there was very little left for promotion”: How Caravan’s In The Land Of Grey And Pink became an unheralded prog classic

The leading lights of the Canterbury Scene’s third album is a genuine masterpiece – but pitifully few people heard about it on its arrival

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Sennheiser SoundProtex Plus earplugs review

Plug your lugs with these highly-versatile earplugs from a seminal audio heavyweight

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Hayley Williams is low-key taking over the world, and the misogynist music industry can't do a damned thing about it

The unstoppable rise of Hayley Williams, an icon for our time

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"I'm outside of the mainstream, and that's how I like it": Blaze Bayley's debut solo album flopped 25 years ago - but now he's taking it on the road

Blaze Bayley and his band are playing the whole of Silicon Messiah live and it's finally coming to life

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"One song took about seven weeks to do. It was insane": The Moody Blues on their best and worst albums, Charles Manson, and the mood-altering magic of Nights In White Satin

The Moody Blues were just another British R&B band. Then they got into some old clothes, mind-expanding drugs and lashings of Mellotron… and helped invent prog rock

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“He said, ‘We can’t use this – people will think we’re a Christian rock band!’ I went and got myself a drink. There was no arguing with that kind of thinking”: Marillion’s battle over the cover for Afraid Of Sunlight

Diplomacy abandoned singer Steve Hogarth and keyboardist Mark Kelly in disagreement over 1995 artwork, which was later reinstated. In the end it was just another fight between mates

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"We dreamt of coming here for such a long time." How Bleed From Within went from British metalcore underdogs to Slipknot-endorsed international metal stars

From touring with Slipknot to opening for Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine in the US, Bleed From Within are a band on the rise

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Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: September 1, 2025

Eight songs you need to hear right now, from Cheap Trick, the Vintage Caravan, Foxy Shazam and more

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