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“Van Halen were opening for us and they were killing us every night. But they were making us be a better band”: How Journey found Steve Perry and made Infinity, the album that set them on the road to superstardom

Journey were a noodling jazz-rock band with a cult following – until they discovered Steve Perry and made 1978’s Infinity

“I turned up at George Martin’s office with a diabolically bad demo – but he could see there was something there”: How Jeff Beck’s Blow by Blow triumphed against the odds to change instrumental guitar forever

“I turned up at George Martin’s office with a diabolically bad demo – but he could see there was something there”: How Jeff Beck’s Blow by Blow triumphed against the odds to change instrumental guitar forever

50 years on, Blow by Blow remains an inspirational force – a turning point for Beck and guitar-led music in general

"A load of big names kicked us off tours. We frightened them": Cactus should have been huge but it never happened - so we asked them to tell us why

"A load of big names kicked us off tours. We frightened them": Cactus should have been huge but it never happened - so we asked them to tell us why

Born out of hard rock pioneers Vanilla Fudge and contemporaries of Led Zeppelin, Cactus are the unsung innovators of 70s US rock

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"There's nothing wrong with the Cactus debut - it's just that so many other albums circa 1970 did the same things better": Cactus's first album showed they had the chops but not the songs

What do you get if you mix men from Vanilla Fudge, Amboy Dukes and Mitch Ryder’s Detroit Wheels? The first album from Cactus

"To appreciate Cactus, your speakers have to be so loud that they create a wind": Why every home should own the debut album by Cactus

Cactus's first album sounds like they went into the studio, amped up, cranked up, and nailed the lot down one take

A Beck, Bogert & Appice live box set Jeff Beck was working on before his death will be released this fall

Live In Japan 1973/Live In London 1974 was remastered from recordings that had been sitting in Beck's vault for almost 50 years, and features the power trio's interpretations of Superstition, Going Down and more

Days of thunder: the triumph and tragedy of John Bonham

John Bonham’s drumming powered Led Zeppelin like the engine of a battleship, but his death in 1980 did for his band. This is his story

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Jeff Beck: Virtuoso guitarist and one of rock’s all-time greats

Jeff Beck: Virtuoso guitarist and one of rock’s all-time greats

The musician’s time in The Yardbirds and subsequent music career helped define a genre

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Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck announces Tyneside date on his 2022 UK tour

Legendary rock guitarist Jeff Beck announces Tyneside date on his 2022 UK tour

Jeff Beck will be performing in the region next month on his 2022 UK tour when he will be supported by singer-songwriter Sharon Corr of The Corrs

"We got into a big fight with Black Sabbath over a bag of pot": Drugs, death and rock'n'roll - the debauched story of Cactus

"We got into a big fight with Black Sabbath over a bag of pot": Drugs, death and rock'n'roll - the debauched story of Cactus

When Vanilla Fudge split in 1969, Cactus emerged from the meltdown. When they weren’t in jail they were partying. When they weren’t naked they were taking drugs

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