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'New normal': Climate campaigners sound alarm over Arthur's Seat blaze

CLIMATE campaigners have warned that wildfires – like a blaze which tore through gorse on Arthur’s Seat at the weekend – will become the…

The National (Scotland)

"I remember thinking, This is ridiculous. Johnny finally said, 'This isn’t working'." Rick Rubin once tried to get Johnny Cash to record Robert Palmer's US number one single Addicted To Love

Johnny Cash's American Recordings sessions with producer Rick Rubin yielded some incredible music, but not everything worked

Louder

“The only gear I brought was a red Hamer prototype. That guitar is magical. I used it on Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love, David Lee Roth’s California Girls and with Mick Jagger”: Eddie Martinez explains how he helped Run-D.M.C. bring rock to hip hop

Armed with his legendary red Hamer, Martinez stepped into one of the most iconoclastic collaborations of the '80s as Run-D.M.C. became the first hip-hop act to bring the crunch of electric guitar into the rap game

Guitar World

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“The groove was so thick, and what am I playing? A simple, Boom-Bop-Tish-Bop-Boom-Bop? It was unbelievable”: The making of Robert Palmer's Addicted To Love

We go deep behind the scenes with the team behind the hard-hitting global smash that turned around Palmer’s career

MusicRadar

Mikey Madison paints the town red (and that town is London)

The Anora actress and EE Rising Star nominee wore archive Giorgio Armani at last night’s BAFTA party

Marie Claire

"The tours were getting longer and crazier, and the expectations around us were astronomical." How Powerslave cemented Iron Maiden as the biggest metal band on the planet in 1984

Is fencing better than karate? Was the world about to end? How many frozen daiquiries can you have and still pull off an epic solo? Maiden were answering all the important questions when they made Powerslave

Metal Hammer

‘It’s massive’: farmers shocked at budget – but is concern over inheritance tax overblown?

Countryside defenders from NFU to Clarkson are up in arms – but experts say only richest estate owners will be affected

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“People have long talked to me about that bass solo, but I never gave it a lot of thought”: Andy Fraser names the forgotten song that marked the pinnacle of his bass playing with Free

Having already sparked Free’s biggest hit, All Right Now, Andy Fraser once again proved that the bass can be a focal point as much as an accompaniment

Guitar World

Taxing the wealth of UK’s richest would raise billions for public services

Letter: Reforming the tax system is the smart solution to meet the societal challenges of today, says Robert Palmer

The Guardian - UK

“Rod Stewart wooed me to come out on tour and I agreed – then I decided not to do it. He said, ‘Oh, I bet you’re going out on tour with Robert’”: Eddie Martinez on playing with Blondie, Run-D.M.C. and that solo in Robert Palmer’s Addicted to Love

Martinez is a bona-fide session guitar legend with more hits than Ty Cobb. Here he looks back at some of his biggest tracks, working with “solid cat” David Lee Roth, and saying no to Rod Stewart

Guitar World

"Vince Neil tried to fight me and my bodyguards had to sort him out": Andy Taylor is best known as Duran Duran’s guitarist, but he's a real rocker at heart

Andy Taylor looks back on his early days with AC/DC's Brian Johnson, life as a guitar-wielding pop star, forming the Power Station and discovering Thunder

Louder

HMRC investigations of wealthy ‘tax dodgers’ halve in five years

The drop in civil inquiries by fraud unit sparks criticism that the authority’s use of its powers of enforcement are waning

The Guardian - UK

A hitman, a predator politician and a cowardly and callous murder

These were the biggest criminal cases in the Hunter in 2023.

Newcastle Herald

‘Mick Jagger was surprisingly hard-working’: the all-star life of synth whiz Wally Badarou

His reputation for futurist pop got him work with everyone from Grace Jones and Talking Heads to Foreigner – now the French keyboardist is reissuing a soundtrack for a yoga DVD that became a Balearic classic

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“He’s real tough, and when he’s liquored up, he can really play!” Pat Hare influenced Stevie Ray Vaughan, beat Cream and Led Zeppelin to the blues-rock punch, and recorded an eerily prescient guitar knockout called I’m Gonna Murder My Baby

A remarkably gifted, but equally volcanic, guitarist who played with Howlin’ Wolf, James Cotton, Muddy Waters, and Bobby Bland, Hare made a seismic (and largely forgotten) impact on the development of blues-rock, before receiving a life sentence in prison

The Guardian - UK

‘It was incredible when she said yes’: why Chaka Khan teamed up with Bombay Bicycle Club

They are London indie stalwarts, she’s a multiple Grammy-winning great. So how on earth did the band end up duetting with the soul legend on their new album?

MusicRadar

Session guitar ace Eddie Martinez breaks down his parts on Robert Palmer, Run-DMC and Steve Winwood hit songs

The player behind Addicted To Love, Higher Love, King Of Rock and Simply Irresistible

Guitar World

Guy Pratt: “I always thought that the second I walked out the studio, the producer would be on the phone to Pino Palladino”

The session stalwart discusses his career as a sideman, gigging with Pink Floyd, and chatting to Noel Gallagher and Suzi Quatro for his music podcast, The Rockonteurs

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Hitting UK's richest 350 with 2% wealth tax 'would generate £16billion for Treasury'

Researchers have calculated how much cash could be injected into the Treasury if a wealth tax was applied to the richest people in the country

The Independent UK

Prince Harry seeks to challenge denial of request to pay for own UK police protection

A lawyer has asked a London judge to allow Prince Harry to challenge the government's denial of his request to pay for police protection when he visits the U.K. Attorney Shaheed Fatima said Tuesday that the government had exceeded its authority

Reuters

Prince Harry should not be allowed to pay for police protection, court told

Prince Harry should not be allowed to pay for his own police protection while in Britain because wealthy individuals should not be able to buy specially trained officers as private bodyguards, lawyers for the British government told a court on Tuesday.

Guitar World

How Kareem 'Big K.O.' Denis and Darryl 'DMC' McDaniels are bringing hard rock guitar back to hip-hop

The Firebird-loving guitarist/producer and Run-DMC legend on their mission to prove hip-hop can be just as heavy as metal, getting gear tips from Billy Gibbons, and why Gibson humbuckers are the foundation of funk and soul guitar

ABC News

Zack Mavin not criminally responsible for 2020 Shortland murder of Robert Palmer

A Supreme Court justice finds the charges against Zack Mavin to have been proved, but says the 26-year-old is not criminally responsible for his actions.

The Guardian - UK

Cost of visit to Hampton Court gardens goes from free to as much as £29

Dismayed locals and Liberal Democrat MP Munira Wilson are calling on palace to reconsider large fees

Newcastle Herald

Ten pieces of evidence that show accused murderer knew stabbing was wrong: crown

He wore a disguise, did not want to hurt anyone but took a large knife and stabbed well-known Shortland local Robert "Bobby" Palmer.

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