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The greatest gig I've ever seen: 24 writers pick the most memorable live show of their lives

24 life-changing live shows from 60 years of gigs

Louder

"The Layers is a subtle and unique pedal, with a lot of expressive depth": MXR Layers review

MXR's soundscaping pedal will sample, modulate, pitch-shift and stack your sound for lush, rich textures

MusicRadar

“I called Gene Simmons. He said: ‘How the hell did you get this number?!’ That was when I got the idea that we weren’t going to be best buddies”: Dee Snider’s wild tales of Robert Plant, Frank Zappa, Freddy Krueger and Kiss

From Johnny Cash and John Denver to Manowar and Henry Kissinger, former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider has mixed with them all

Louder

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“Too big for our boots? We were a bunch of kids destined for factory life. We were not going to screw this up”: The tempestuous story of Def Leppard’s High ’N’ Dry, the album that turned them into US stars

1981’s High ’N’ Dry was the record that introduced Def Leppard to America – and changed things for ever

Louder

"Paul was read the riot act, and given the chance to put things right. But he didn't put things right": The story of Iron Maiden - the Paul Di'Anno years

As the 1980s dawned, Iron Maiden were about to record their debut album. It was the start of a journey that would launch them into the stratosphere, but there were some massive hurdles to overcome first

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“If it sounds like I’m standing over a body that’s just been stabbed to death, then it’s perfect.” The brutal heavy metal masterpiece that had producer Rick Rubin yelling: “More Satan!”

How the evil of Slayer flowed “after a few martinis”…

MusicRadar

"Phil started going mental cos he's got these two bass drums and he doesn't know what to do with them!" How the delivery of a new drum kit gave Motörhead's Overkill to the world

'Fast' Eddie Clarke: "Once we'd cracked the formula of how to work together on Overkill, that's when we really started to take off"

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“We weren’t trying to better Iron Maiden. We were trying to better Michael Jackson!”: The metal fan’s guide to Def Leppard

From the NWOBHM to the world – how Def Leppard became one of the biggest British rock bands of all time

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"Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong": Praying Mantis once vied with Iron Maiden for attention, but setbacks and bad decisions took them on a very different journey

Praying Mantis ran alongside Iron Maiden in the early days of the NWOBHM race, but only Maiden shot to fame

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“We were on the right track at the start, but drugs and booze made us lose our way”: the explosive story of Wild Horses, the supergroup who had it all and threw it away

Featuring former members of Thin Lizzy and Rainbow, Wild Horses should have been huge – but chemicals, egos and bitterness got in the way

Louder

“Somebody told me you people are crazy, but I'm not so sure about that. You seem to be alright to me.” On June 13, 1978, The Cramps played a riotous gig for the residents of a Californian psychiatric hospital. They didn't want to leave

The Cramps' infamous gig at Napa State Hospital probably should never have happened, but its now part of punk rock history

Louder

"He wanted to stay up and party. Bon just wanted to keep the party going": What really happened on the night Bon Scott died?

Mystery surrounds Bon Scott's death to this day: Classic Rock looks back at Bon’s last hours, the world he moved in and the disappearance of the last man to see him alive

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"Towards the end it was not pretty. I scraped myself off the walls of insanity. I was barking like a dog": the last days of Deep Purple

On July 19, 1976, Deep Purple officially split up. The ending was horrible, marked by addiction and jealousy

Louder

BBC removes Russell Brand programmes deemed to ‘fall below public expectations’

An episode of ‘QI’ and a Joe Wicks podcast appearance have been wiped from BBC platforms

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BBC removes some Russell Brand content from iPlayer and Sounds apps

THE BBC has removed some Russell Brand content from its iPlayer and Sounds apps, saying it “now falls below public expectations”.

The Guardian - UK

‘On reflection, it’s very uncool’: readers’ scrapbooks of pop fandom

With the Wham! documentary showcasing Andrew Ridgeley’s mum’s scrapbooks of their career, readers share their own shrines to Roxy Music, Metallica, David Bowie and more

The Guardian - UK

Peter Silverton obituary

Other lives: Music journalist who became a national newspaper executive

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Guns N' Roses needed weird British dessert names explaining to them when they visited the UK for the first time

Guns N' Roses had quite a time of it when they stepped onto British soil for the first time, and the confounding dessert menu was just the start of it

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Five brilliant but obscure NWOBHM albums that could have been huge in a parallel universe

They could have been Iron Maiden. Or Def Leppard. Or even Saxon. But they weren't

Guitar World

Level 42's debut album: a Britfunk classic that took slap bass and bent harmonics to a new, uh, level

It's 1981 and the bass players of the UK are looking at their thumbs and wondering if they can keep up…

Louder

Argus by Wishbone Ash: the return of the greatest least-known million-selling rock album ever made

The fiftieth anniversary edition of Wishbone Ash's Argus is a class act, with an ear-opening remix and a brilliant half-minute of silence

What Hi-Fi?

One of the world's most highly engineered turntables joins Absolute Sounds' Ten collection

The UK high-end hi-fi distributor has made the latest Döhmann Audio Helix record player the sixth member of its esteemed Ten collection.

The Guardian - UK

Can BBC radio thrive in a new world of podcasts?

The loss of Ken Bruce, following other big-name DJs, is a blow for Radio 2. The challenge now is to stay relevant

The Guardian - UK

‘We are everything that scares curtain twitchers’: the bands resurrecting the spirit of Oi!

The hardcore movement grew from working-class angst in the late-70s, but got tainted by racist aggro. Now a new wave of bands are reviving its cathartic anger – without the far-right associations

Manchester Evening News

James Brown: 'How I went from Madchester to starting Britain's most notorious mag - and rehab'

The founder of Loaded magazine, James Brown, says the city played an important part in a cultural moment

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