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A beginner's guide to Sweet in 10 brilliant songs, from chart hits to deep cuts

The Sweet are best known for their pop hits, but their back catalogue is a varied treasure trove of glam and hard rock. Here are their 10 finest moments

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“With deference to everybody in Beat, my function is to amuse myself and hopefully you. I can’t do music from 45 years ago”: Why Bill Bruford demoted himself from the King Crimson, Yes and Genesis league

Bill Bruford retired in 2009 and later sold most of his equipment to Tool’s Danny Carey. Then he found he wasn’t finished on stage – and he’s come back re-energised

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"The thing about rock, if it’s real, is that it will always be relevant": Kula Shaker's Crispian Mills on mass psychosis and the best way to solve writer's block

Kula Shaker's current tour ends in May, and you might hear some brand-new songs from the next album

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Featuring Joe Bonamassa, Mark Morton & Charlie Starr, The Darkness and five other tattooed beat messiahs

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"I got Bowie’s microphone with his lipstick on it!" Sex Pistols' Steve Jones on stealing David Bowie's musical equipment from a London stage on the night before the final Ziggy Stardust performance

Before he became the guitarist for the Sex Pistols, Steve Jones was an accomplished thief, as David Bowie was to discover to his cost

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“Musicians can get upset with each other, but you’re family. Chris Squire and I were like brothers – he was Darth Vader and I was Obi-Wan Kenobi!” Jon Anderson’s time-travelling solo album 1000 Hands

In 2019 he reincarnated 30-year-old demos with former Yes bandmates and a stellar supporting cast, offering positive and long-held opinions to a rapidly-changing world

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"John Paul Jones' production rounds the edges a little but that's not necessarily a good thing": The Datsuns back themselves into a musical cul-de-sac on Outta Sight / Outta Mind

The trousers were tight, the guitars were wielded like weapons, but The Datsuns' second album hasn't aged well

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A rare studio recording of Yes playing a wild version of The Beatles' Eleanor Rigby has surfaced online

The recording was made two months before Yes signed their deal with Atlantic Records

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Toyah and Robert Fripp return to action with spirited cover of Tina Turner's evergreen sporting anthem The Best

Better than all the rest, etc

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"I am deeply disturbed and hurt by all of this": Kevin Cronin slams REO Speedwagon concert organisers after being "knowingly excluded" from hometown show

The charity show in Champaign, Illinois, will pay tribute to late REO Speedwagon members Gary Richrath and Gregg Philbin

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"This song is our tribute to Winnipeg": Bachman-Turner Overdrive team up with Neil Young for first new song in 40 years

60 Years Ago arrives as Bachman-Turner Overdrive embark on their Back In Overdrive tour

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“It got to the point where I didn’t want to go in. It was painful”: the story of the lost Supergrass album that led to their split

In 2009, the Britpop icons went into the studio to make their seventh record and by the time they left, they were no more.

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“Justin Hawkins has got a crazy brain. He kept giving me all of these great lines”: How The Darkness persuaded a Hollywood A-lister to appear on their new album

When The Darkness call, Hollywood picks up the phone

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“Our manager said Mick Jagger and Jeff Beck were in the crowd. I had to put it out of my mind and play”: The epic story of Living Colour, the band that revolutionised 80s hard rock

Living Colour are the black rock band who blazed a trail through the 80s and 90s music scene

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“We don’t write love songs, we write hate songs”: how Skunk Anansie gave 90s British rock a shock to the system

As their debut single turns 30, we head back to the beginnings of a scintillating quartet who’ve always done things their own way

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“Kenneth Anger laid a terrible curse on me. It was written out in blood. I burnt it at a crossroads”: Marianne Faithfull’s wild tales of Keith Richards, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan and more

Singing with Page and Metallica, flirting with Hendrix, getting high with Clapton – the late Marianne Faithfull did it all

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“It came very close to where I wasn’t going to do the album; I didn’t feel that what we’d agreed was fair”: How Pink Floyd made The Division Bell

Pink Floyd explored the theme of communication on 1994 album The Division Bell – despite their infamous communication issues

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"This is a song that I always always go back to, it’s one of my favourites ever.” Watch pop superstar Dua Lipa cover a classic INXS anthem, live in Sydney

Dua Lipa maintains her pledge to cover a local hero's song on every stop on her world tour

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"We wanted something raw." The Young Gods announce imminent arrival of their 14th studio album, Appear Disappear, share its hard-hitting title track, and reveal UK/Europe tour dates

Switzerland's premier post-punk/industrial heroes are back

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Watch Bruce Springsteen unleash his inner guitar hero, and jam with Flea, Johnny Depp and R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, in powerful tribute to Patti Smith at New York's iconic Carnegie Hall

"If I had sung this song, it would not have been a hit" Springsteen says, before passionate performance of Because The Night at Patti Smith tribute gig in NYC

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Her Grammy-slaying supergroup boygenius may be on hiatus, but the much-anticipated Forever Is A Feeling finds Lucy Dacus looking to the future with optimism instead of dwelling on the past

Lucy Dacus shares first solo album since boygenius announced their indefinite hiatus

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Gentle Giant share brand new live video for Free Hand

Gentle Giant will release the reimagined, remastered and remixed Playing The Fool: The Complete Live Experience in May

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My Bloody Valentine announce first UK headline tour in over a decade

Dublin shoegaze legends My Bloody Valentine will play UK arena shows this coming winter

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"The haters won’t stop us from doing what we do": Geoff Downes on Asia's new lineup and the band's future plans

The Geoff Downes-led new lineup of Asia play the band’s first three albums, one per night, in April

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"It's the father and mother of The Dark Side Of The Moon!": The full inside story of Pink Floyd's Live At Pompeii - only in the new issue of Classic Rock

Also in this issue: Bon Jovi, Steven Wilson, The Darkness, Gary Moore, Smith/Kotzen, Bush, Envy Of None, The Pretenders, Goo Goo Dolls, The Damn Truth, Simon McBride and more

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