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“This is either going to be a nice coda to Van Halen or it’s going to ruin my life”: Wolfgang Van Halen explains the extreme risk that comes with playing his dad’s songs onstage

Wolfgang has performed Van Halen songs in public on only two occasions since his father Eddie passed away in 2020

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“Yungblud seems to have positioned himself as a natural heir to the Ozzy legacy”: Justin Hawkins defends his brother’s comments over the VMAs Ozzy Osbourne tribute

Yungblud starred alongside Nuno Bettencourt, Joe Perry and Steven Tyler for an all-star medley of Prince of Darkness tunes – which was met with derision by Dan Hawkins

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“All of this posturing is Jim Morrison meets the bloke from Stone Temple Pilots meets everybody else who’s ever owned a pair of leather trousers”: Justin Hawkins backs up his brother’s criticism of Yungblud’s VMAs Ozzy Osbourne tribute

“It’s not authentic”... says the frontman of The Darkness

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Justin Hawkins compares Yungblud's Ozzy Osbourne tribute to 'male stripper' and School of Rock

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins has skewered Yungblud's MTV Video Music Awards tribute to late legend Ozzy Osbourne.

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"It's like watching David Hasselhoff": Justin Hawkins backs brother Dan's criticism of "poseur" Yungblud's Ozzy tribute

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins explains why "musicians of a certain age" feel "irked" by Yungblud

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"Makes me sick how people jump on this sh*t to further their own careers": The Darkness guitarist Dan Hawkins slams MTV Ozzy tribute

MTV's tribute to the late Ozzy Osbourne featured Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Nuno Bettencourt and Yungblud

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“Of course it was gonna be a hit! This song is one of the few tracks from that period of the Noughties that really is original. It’s got a super distinctive sonic signature”: Inside the making of a Queens Of The Stone Age classic

A genius riff from Josh Homme and drumming heroics from his buddy Dave Grohl

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“I’m not a big fan of bands that take themselves too seriously. Look at Angus Young. He’s a grown man who wears a schoolboy uniform”: Justin Hawkins unfiltered – the inside story about the rise, fall and rebirth of the Darkness

This is the story of a band who blew up, broke up, and got back up again with an appetite to record the album of their lives. And Justin Hawkins admits, he's lucky to be be alive to tell the tale

Guitar World

“I like a standard-tuning guitar. If you can’t put your ideas across with that, you’re in trouble”: Justin Hawkins on why he’s not convinced by alternate tunings

Hawkins believes that E standard offers plenty of opportunity for expression

Guitar World

“Now it’s coming back and everyone is getting excited about it”: Liam Gallagher’s son thinks guitar music is only now making a return – and the Oasis reunion could be to thank

Gene Gallagher, of indie band Villanelle, says a new era of rock music is here

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The sound of glorious pandemonium: Two nights with The Darkness in Ireland

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins and writer Pat Carty worked together as apprentice joiners in the 1990s: 30 years on, we put them together again

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“We can see this dividing opinion more than almost any guitar we’ve reviewed”: Atkin JH3001 review

What happens when charmingly bonkers rockstar Justin Hawkins is given free rein to design his own guitar? Guess what? He comes up with something charmingly bonkers!

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“The importance of one clear voice playing the melodies and solos are things we take seriously”: Joe Satriani reveals how Satch/Vai’s onstage chemistry works – and why sometimes some songs are best left to Steve Vai

Satch says playing with Steve Vai is an opportunity to expand each other's material, but says maintaining one clear voice for melodies and solos is key

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"Bringing a long-awaited rock 'n' roll flair to the world of soundbars": Marshall’s Heston 120 packs the latest tech into the style signature of its classic amp heads

It’s so retro that The Darkness have been resurrected to help roll it out

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“It is an absolute phenom for us to be able to present to you now our teenage aspirations in this song”: Joe Satriani and Steve Vai are living out their teenage dreams in the video for their new single featuring the ‘Voice of Rock’ Glenn Hughes

I Wanna Play My Guitar is a love-letter to the instrument from two maestros on top of their game

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“This song depicts all of the things Joe and I loved about pounding rock ‘n’ roll and the glorious guitar”: The SatchVai Band's second single is an ode to the instrument that made them famous – and it features Glenn Hughes on vocals

Guitar World and Guitar Player have an exclusive premiere of the '70s-flavored track, which arrives a month and change ahead of the band's first tour

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“That was the first time I’d ever listened to one and gone, ‘What is that? I want to learn how to do that’”: Justin Hawkins is known for his rock chops – but a soul and reggae legend inspired him to break the rules

The Darkness singer on how Johnny Nash inspired him to broaden his musical horizon

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“It’s getting ridiculous. We’re the last men standing, unless some new wave of rock comes along…” The rise, fall and resurrection of The Darkness, the band on a mission to save rock

As their new album Dreams On Toast proves, The Darkness are everything rock’n’roll should be in 2025

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The Darkness' Justin Hawkins doesn't regret mocking Liam Payne

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins has no regrets about mocking Liam Payne in a video before his death because he had no idea the tragic singer was struggling in private.

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Justin Hawkins was 'petrified' about playing at Taylor Hawkins tribute concerts

The Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins was "petrified" about performing at the tribute concerts for Taylor Hawkins because of his band's close connection to the late Foo Fighters drummer.

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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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The Darkness’s Justin Hawkins: ‘People saw our new music video and assumed I was back on drugs’

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: Once one of the biggest bands on the planet, The Darkness are back with a new album and a change of direction. Justin Hawkins talks to Kate Solomon about why he thinks the music industry has never taken them seriously, how he no longer writes songs to…

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"When the storm clouds clear, the band’s innate pop sensibilities shine as brightly as ever": In a world of bread-and-butter rock bands, The Darkness remain the toast of the town

Grain expectations: Lowestoft legends The Darkness mix it up on eighth studio album Dreams On Toast

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“It was probably the first time I’d ever sort of listened to one and gone, ‘What is that? I want to learn how to do that!’”: How a soul and reggae legend introduced the Darkness' Justin Hawkins to diminished chords

The Darkness frontman says the late, great Johnny Nash dared to step outside of standard studio chord progressions and broadening a young Hawkins' musical vocabulary in the process

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In these troubled times, what we really need is a honky tonk single from The Darkness tackling the issue of male flatulence during lovemaking

Hot On My Tail comes from Dreams On Toast, the new album from The Darkness

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