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“How long did it take me to get over it? Oh, quite a while”: Brian May on the “supreme injustice” of Roger Taylor’s Queen B-side "making as much money as Bohemian Rhapsody"

“It was a real sticking point for the band and it’s good we got through it,” he admits

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“They said, ‘The Ace Hotel have you on camera leaving with the guitar.’ I was like, ‘I thought it was a gift!’” Machine Gun Kelly on the time he stole a cheap Martin from a hotel – and was billed $5,000

The damaged instrument is inscribed with a message that echoes MGK’s guitar-playing mantra – and it’s one of his most cherished instruments

Guitar World

‘Unmatched’ Blondie drummer Clem Burke dies aged 70 after cancer diagnosis

The New Jersey-born drummer featured on all of the band’s studio albums, including hits such as Call Me and Heart Of Glass

Evening Standard

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"Clem was not just a drummer; he was the heartbeat of Blondie." Blondie drummer Clem Burke dead at 70

Punk/New Wave legend Clem Burke (Clement Anthony Bozewski) has passed away following a battle with cancer

Louder

David Bowie’s daughter paves her own way with debut album release

With very little promotion or advertisement, David Bowie’s daughter has stepped into her own musical spotlight and released her debut album Xandri

The Independent UK

‘I wrote it while bored on a health farm’: how Mike and the Mechanics made All I Need Is a Miracle

‘The demo had my singing on it. When I played it to the band, the look on their faces said, “We’re in trouble, boys”’

The Guardian - UK

Blondie drummer Clem Burke dies aged 70: ‘He was the heartbeat of Blondie’

Musician was remembered for his ‘talent, energy and passion’

The Independent UK

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“I had never done that before. I thought Jimmy was going to go, ‘Nice one’ – he looks at me and goes, ‘Don’t you ever do that again’”: That time Chrissie Hynde enraged one of her Pretenders bandmates because she stopped playing mid-gig

The guitar icon once decided to spontaneously shake things up on stage, and ended up feeling the wrath of Jimmy Scott

Guitar World

“Dave was the master of some of the most iconic basslines in music history”: Dave Allen, former Gang of Four bassist and post-punk heavyweight, dies aged 69

Allen’s work on Gang of Four’s first two albums would inspire generations and influence the likes of Nirvana, REM, and Flea, who has paid tribute to the late bass icon

Guitar World

“I said, ‘Wow, Jeff Beck has really taken it to the next level.’ But then I realised, ‘Wait a minute - this isn’t Jeff Beck!’”: Steve Stevens reveals his two all-time favourite guitar solos

Billy Idol's sidekick pays tribute to Page and Holdsworth

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"Abba were in matching white fur coats, looking like polar bears. Sid went running over. ‘Abba!’ Then he vomited. They were horrified." John Lydon on the day Abba met the Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were huge fans of Abba. Abba may not have been huge fans of the Sex Pistols

Louder

Gang of Four bassist Dave Allen dies aged 69

Bandmates pay tribute to friend and ‘Ace of Bass’ who helped forge the post-punk band’s sound

The Guardian - UK

“Give it up for Neil Finn!”: Dua Lipa sings a Crowded House classic on her Radical Optimism tour - and brings out its writer to perform it with her

Finn once said that the 1986 hit “came out fully formed”

MusicRadar

I got Metal Hammer’s writers to name the ‘bad’ metal albums they can’t get enough of

From Metallica and Lou Reed’s Lulu to Iron Maiden’s No Prayer For The Dying, the Metal Hammer team band together to defend their favourite clangers

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“The main acoustic is a $100 Fender – the strings were super-old and dusty. We hate new strings!” Meet Great Grandpa, the unpredictable indie rockers making epic anthems with cheap acoustics – and recording guitars like a Queens of the Stone Age drummer

The mercurial Seattle indie rockers have returned with their first album in six years, Patience, Moonbeam – they tell us how their lush, multifaceted arrangements all begin on the humble six-string

Evening Standard

FKA Twigs Coachella replacement revealed after she pulled out last minute due to visa issue

The Perfect Stranger singer outraged fans but all is not lost

Guitar World

“I think Pantera might’ve talked about this in Hot and Heavy”: Kayla Kent nails Eddie Van Halen’s Ice Cream Man solo in the style of Dimebag Darrell

The Dime-loving shred star is at it again, blurring the lines between the tone and playing styles of two greats in one blinding performance

Guitar World

“The most convincing acoustic tone from an acoustic electric that we’ve yet heard”: LR Baggs AEG-1 review

This cutting-edge electro from LR Baggs has a plywood body frame, torrefied spruce top, rosewood back and studio-quality electrics – and we can’t wait to plug it in…

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“You can almost hear the music in your head when looking at these photos”: How legendary photographer Jim Marshall captured the essence of the Grateful Dead and documented the rise of the ultimate jam band

An upcoming book of photos captures Marshall's unique relationship with the Dead. His former assistant, the photographer Amelia Davis, explains how he became part of the Dead family

The Independent UK

Dave Allen, influential Gang of Four bassist, dies aged 69

Musician’s distinctive playing style became a defining force for the post-punk band

The Independent UK

Ryan Adams’ Belfast concert described as ‘most uncomfortable ever’

‘Struggling to describe the chaos of Ryan Adams [in] Belfast,’ one fan wrote

Metal Hammer

Ghost’s Tobias Forge comments on recently leaked solo album Passiflora: “If you write a love letter and that just disappears into the void, you would try to distance yourself from it as soon as possible”

The frontman’s only solo album leaked in February after going unheard for 17 years

The Guardian - UK

‘Goths don’t have sex – we just stare into the black sun’: Billy Corgan’s honest playlist

The Smashing Pumpkins songwriter and guitarist on overdoing karaoke, joining Pink Floyd on stage and his secret love of Katy Perry’s Roar

Louder

"We haven’t adjusted it for the taste of modern kids. This is how it's meant to be heard": An interview with the makers of Becoming Led Zeppelin

As Becoming Led Zeppelin continues to take the world by storm, we talk to the duo who put it all together

The National (Scotland)

‘English record company said my songs were stupid’, says Caledonia singer

Caledonia singer Dougie MacLean has told how his music was branded “banal, stupid, and parochial’ by an English record company during his early…

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