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“They stole our name, which means Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora were listening to our records. But the main reason people know us is Gary Moore, and that doesn’t bother me at all”: The tale of the original Irish Skid Row

Bassist Brush Shiels looks back on his lifelong friendship with Moore, why he won’t sue the American hair metal band, and how Peter Green was responsible for their first album sounding so bad

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"We are all fifteen-year-old boys. The fart jokes were rampant": Lzzy Hale reflects on touring with Skid Row

"The meat is so sweaty"

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“We were all ready to become millionaires after a couple of years... He was great at that age. I couldn’t believe it”: How Gary Moore came to join Skid Row at just 15 years old – and why the guitar legend left

Brush Shiels, bassist with the Irish blues rock band, explains why despite two albums plus prestigious support tours with The Allman Brothers Band and Mountain under their belt – Moore still decided to leave

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“I can sing it in the original key, with no backing tapes at all. I sing it at every show”: The smash hit ’80s power ballad that wouldn’t die

And after 30 years, the singer is still waiting for a reunion with his old band

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"It was the day I'd been waiting for my whole life, but I was dismayed": How Skid Row and Sebastian Bach Went To War

Skid Row were once blood brothers, but infighting and a split with their singer turned it all into an ‘abyss of hatred’

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“I sometimes do seven shows in a week. A week! I did 91 cities in 2024 — I’m not exaggerating. For an old man I think I deserve a little credit”: Why ex-Skid Row star Sebastian Bach is the hardest working man in showbiz

"I'm not slowing down," the 57 year-old says

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“I said to Paul Hamer, ‘The best I can do is just play your guitar.’ I didn't want any money for it, because when I like a guitar, I just like it”: On Gary Moore's full-length tribute to Phil Lynott, Greeny took a backseat to Superstrats

On his own after a number of short-lived bands and the death of his friend, Thin Lizzy leader Phil Lynott, the late guitar hero ditched the ‘hard rock’ sound he'd grown tired of for something with more modern ingredients

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“It was Gary’s idea to bring the Irishness back into Thin Lizzy": Guitar hero Gary Moore made only one album with the band - and it’s a classic

“His style of playing pushed everybody to become better,” said fellow guitarist Scott Gorham

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"Every night I was living out my teenage fantasy." Lzzy Hale talks joining childhood heroes Skid Row

Lzzy Hale grew up watching 80s rock stars on TV. In 2024, she got to be one, playing with a beloved childhood band

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Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale once dumped a guy for falling asleep during a Tool show

Harsh but understandable

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“This record is about unapologetically accepting that you are the sum of all of your parts”: Halestorm discuss their next album, inspired by Motörhead, country and Skid Row

Produced by country connoisseur Dave Cobb, Halestorm’s sixth album will be sometimes eclectic, always energetic

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Former Skid Row singer Erik Grönwall has taken Europe's euphoric anthem The Final Countdown and made it "slow and dark"

Happy New Year!

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“I can’t marry you, but we can totally have an affair sometime”: Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale is open to singing with Skid Row again

Hale will probably never join Skid Row full-time, but she says she’ll be there if the glam veterans ever find themselves in dire straits

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“Ozzy put a pint glass over his mouth and sucked it until he burst all the blood vessels around his face. Then he turned into a character from Planet Of The Apes”: Gary Moore’s wild tales of Ozzy Osbourne, Phil Lynott and Led Zeppelin

Ozzy, Robert Planet, Rory Gallagher, Peter Green, Ginger Baker – late, great guitarist Gary Moore crossed paths with them all

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Watch Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale cover Crawling amid rumours of Linkin Park returning with female singer

Is she teasing or trolling? Either way, it sounds great!

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"He'd cook you a breakfast like your mother, then go out trawling through the markets buying second-hand clothes": A tribute to Phil Lynott, by the guitarists who played alongside him

Phil Lynott's bandmates share their memories of their late, lamented, but inimitable frontman Philip Lynott

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“At the end of the day, back in ’88, when I was in the studio singing Youth Gone Wild, I was making a record that I loved myself”: Sebastian Bach recruits his 11-year-old stepson on guitar for a rendition of the Skid Row classic

Bach recruited his young stepson Trace on guitar and his son Paris on drums for a searing run-through of the Skid Row hit

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“My internal teenager’s like, ‘Jon Bon Jovi knows who I am. Oh my god!’” Lzzy Hale reacts to Bon Jovi’s leader telling her to join Skid Row

Halestorm’s singer/guitarist fronted Skid Row for four shows in May and June

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"The amount of sugar in the lyrics could kill a whole army": Winger attempt to tweak the hard rock formula on their debut album with mixed results

A more serious proposition than many of the Sunset Strip generation, Winger's debut combined melodic hooks with no small amount of technical skill

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A&E is airing music biographies of rockers Sammy Hagar and Sebastian Bach tonight

The A&E Biography series continues with hard-rock docs on Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar and Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach

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Lzzy Hale says new Halestorm album will be “weightier”, “heavier” and “different”

The US hard rockers are currently working on the followup to 2022’s Back From The Dead

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"The more I listened to 18 And Life and Youth Gone Wild, the more I knew that these songs were meant for me to sing": Sebastian Bach looks back on his extraordinary life

He played clubs and guzzled beer at 14; fronted Skid Row and got hit records, star friends, a taste for coke and the sack; then things got really interesting

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“Please, Lzzy, join Skid Row! Put the two bands together if you need to!”: even Jon Bon Jovi thinks Lzzy Hale should become Skid Row’s permanent new singer

Who should be Skid Row’s new singer? Jon Bon Jovi has the answer

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"How do you even wear that? It's like, ridiculous!" Sebastian Bach berates fan for wearing Skid Row t-shirt

Sebastian Bach says he'd like to rejoin Skid Row. Don't count on it happening any time soon

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Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale isn’t joining Skid Row full-time: “This particular time in my life prevents me from committing”

The Halestorm leader fronted the glam legends for four shows this summer and hopes to collaborate with them again in the future

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