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The riff is a belter, the lyrics arrived out of thin air at Ringo Starr's house, and the promo video for it is pure pantomime – the story behind Beavis and Butthead’s favourite Judas Priest song

"Everyone's had a confrontation with a copper and likes to scream about breaking the law, don't they?" - Rob Halford

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How Dolly Parton corralled a Who's Who of rock royalty to record her landmark Rockstar album: "There's more aggression in rock'n'roll – you've got to treat it with respect"

Dolly Parton, the undisputed Queen Of Country, talks about the road to her rock album, transcending country music, and what Stairway To Heaven and Free Bird mean to her

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"Yes, we all want to bang our heads at Christmas, but we also want to sit down with a cup of tea and a mince pie and have a bit of a chillout": Rob Halford's 8 favourite Christmas songs

Metal God Rob Halford salutes the most wonderful time of the year, as he selects his eight favourite Christmas songs

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"As metal staggered to its feet and limped out of the 80s, it was on the cusp of becoming stronger than ever before": How heavy metal got its mojo back

Big hair and bad spandex almost killed any credibility metal had in the 1980s. But metal not only survived, it also came back bigger and stronger than ever

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A brief history of the metal Christmas song – and why there’ll (probably) never be a heavy holiday classic

Superstars from Spinal Tap to King Diamond have all tried to make a heavy metal Christmas classic. Yet, these attempts have never become chart-smashing hits. What gives?

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10 rock and metal covers of Christmas classics that sound made up but actually happened

From The Misfits getting Grinchy to a legendary actor doing a heavy metal Jingle Bells, some of these Christmas covers really are stranger than fiction

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"We got high without drink or anything. It's a record that still takes me to another sphere": Doro picks the soundtrack of her life

Metal Queen Doro picks her records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals what happens when 30 metalheads take on 120 punks

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The 11 most amazing onstage team-ups in heavy metal history

Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne. Trivium and Slipknot. The entire Big Four. These are the most excellent onstage collaborations we’ve ever seen.

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“Through the years I thought one day I’d do a rock record”: Dolly Parton on why she’s made an album with Paul McCartney, Rob Halford, Stevie Nicks and more

The country icon has put together an all-star line-up on her new album Rockstar

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“Dolly Parton is tickling my beard! I thought: ‘Well, this is off to a good start!’”: how Rob Halford ended up appearing on Dolly Parton’s new rock album

Exclusive: Judas Priest’s Rob Halford reveals the secret of his collaboration with Dolly Parton

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“Ronnie Van Zant’s widow wouldn’t allow Lynyrd Skynyrd to use his voice, but she said: ‘I’ll do it for Dolly’”: how Dolly Parton ended up covering Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Free Bird on her new album

Country star Dolly Parton cover of Free Bird also features one of the last appearances by late Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington

Louder

The 10 greatest solo albums in heavy metal history

Bruce Dickinson, Rob Halford and Ozzy Osbourne have all proven you don’t need to be in a band to make top-notch heavy metal

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“This is one more shot at glory for me. I know the things I’ve been denied. I shouldn’t have to build it up all over again”: K.K. Downing on reclaiming his legacy with KK’s Priest – and what his one-off reunion with Judas Priest was really like

The original “Sinner” takes you behind the scenes of his dramas in and out of Priest and their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction – and why his turbo-charged new album is “about the fight and the victory”

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The 10 greatest guest spots in heavy metal history

From Bruce Dickinson teaming with Rob Halford to Dave Grohl’s Probot album, here are the times big names made great metal songs even greater

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10 classic metal albums where the last song is the best

Masterpieces by Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest have all saved the best for last

Louder

"I mean, seriously, how much better does it get?" Dolly Parton on her version of The Beatles' iconic Let It Be, featuring Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Peter Frampton and Mick Fleetwood

Listen to Let It Be, the new single from Dolly Parton's eagerly awaited rock album Rockstar

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“Will I be borrowing the Harley? Nah, they’ve given me a moped!": Richie Faulkner's Elegant Weapons are the supergroup trad metal needs in 2023

How emergency heart surgery, COVID and a love for trad metal led to Richie Faulkner's Elegant Weapons, featuring members of Judas Priest, Rainbow and Pantera

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These are the best new rock songs you need to hear right now, featuring Mammoth WVH, Doro and more

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The 10 best new metal songs you need to hear this week

Doro, Twin Temple and Prong are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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10 metal b-sides and bonus tracks so perfect that they should have been classics

These bangers by Metallica, Linkin Park and more never got an album or single release – but, in hindsight, they really deserved one

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“In those days, you didn’t talk about those kind of things”. Rob Halford's reaction to becoming metal’s first gay icon

How Judas Priest’s Metal God revealed his sexuality and became a trailblazer in the genre

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"I appreciate you." See the heartwarming personal message Dolly Parton sent to Mötley Crüe's Nikki Sixx following their recent collaboration

Dolly Parton remains one of the classiest people in all of music

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Dolly Parton releases duets with Heart’s Ann Wilson, Judas Priest’s Rob Halford

At 77, Dolly Parton is singing her heart out and her face off on two new songs from her forthcoming debut rock album.

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"I sounded like Clint Eastwood clutching a condom!" The story behind Judas Priest's Living After Midnight

How John Lennon – and Rob Halford complaining that his bandmates were making a racket – inspired a metal classic

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John 5, Nikki Sixx, Rob Halford and... Dolly Parton – metal's newest, and best, supergroup?

Bygones, a new single from Parton's aptly-named Rockstar album, features a star-studded cast of supporting players, and is perfectly suited to her vocal delivery

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