Rock News 2026-01-27

• "I heard that Metallica needed a bass player and brother, I was writing letters, made a tape of myself playing and sent it. Never heard a word back." The 80s pop culture icon who made an unlikely bid to join the world's biggest metal band
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• Kansas Drummer Phil Ehart Reveals New Memoir, 'I Am Phil'
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• "We thought we made really good records, but we never envisaged hanging out and playing boules at Elton's house": How Therapy? ram-raided the mainstream with an ode to the soap opera of teenage existence
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• The guy who just climbed that skyscraper live on Netflix listened to a lot of Tool on the way up
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• Joe Walsh Misses First Eagles Show in Over 50 Years
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• The Top 25 Albums of 1966
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• The Best (and Worst) Solo Album by Every Member of the Beatles
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• “Lemmy loved them. He was into anything fast and exciting and noisy. And they could play their instruments, unlike the punks”: The trailblazing 80s metal band loved by Motörhead, Iron Maiden and… George Michael
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• Hungry heart for music biopics? Here's how to watch Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere from as little as £3.99 on Disney+ – but you only have 2 days left to grab this deal
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• Color Photos Prove the 1950s Weren’t a Black-and-White World
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• "A Russian girl came to my parents’ door with suitcases and said, ‘I have sold everything in my life. I’m going to marry your son and live with you now." How two unknown European bands changed the face of metal in the 90s - and broke up its boys club
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• "I went from touring to working behind a bar in Manhattan, busting my butt to pay bills." How one of metal's most beloved bands reunited with an old friend to get a much-needed new lease of life
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• "A man was beheaded there and sometimes you can hear his head rolling down": The historic Loch Ness manor once home to Jimmy Page and Aleister Crowley is opening to the public for the first time in 260 years
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• Best and Worst Solo Album From Every Member of the Rolling Stones
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• “I said, ‘There are no vocals. It’s an instrumental album.’ The lawyer said, ‘Do you mean we’ve just paid $12,000 for a piano player?’” Rick Wakeman relives the moment he delivered The Six Wives Of Henry VIII to a horrified record label
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• Founding Parliament-Funkadelic Bassist Billy Bass Dead at 74
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• “It fitted with the nastiness of the human condition and war and stuff. I wanted the words to sound violent and aggressive”: The apocalyptic anthem that sowed the seeds for prog – and became “the first heavy metal song” in the process
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• Classic-Era Scorpions Bassist Francis Buchholz Dies at 71
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• "I’m scared I’ll get in trouble." How the teenage son of a Canadian punk rocker sampled Beabadoobee without her knowledge on a song about a young man's dying words, and racked up two billion streams without leaving his bedroom
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• “The truth is that I love Def Leppard, I love Enya, I just loved The Eurythmics and Broadway musicals and pop”: How metal’s ‘mad scientist’ wrote his breakout song – and confused the hell out of a prog legend
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• Lou Gramm Announces New Album 'Released' and Shares New Song
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• The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: January 26, 2026
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• Rockers React to 'Insane' Border Patrol Killing of Alex Pretti
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• How Dave Mustaine Found His Megadeth Voice: Exclusive Interview
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• Dave Matthews Band Announces Spring and Summer US Tour Dates
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• Yungblud responds to backlash over controversial Till Lindemann photo: “You all know what I stand for, always. I’ll be more for it in the future”
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• Inside REO Speedwagon's Harrowing Experience With A Private Plane
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• “For five minutes I was thinking I could have ‘guitarist for Genesis and Yes’ on my CV”: Why Steve Hackett didn’t take up the offer to join Chris Squire’s band, and what the late bassist said about his friend’s ego
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• Where to See America Live: 2026 Tour Dates Revealed
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• "It doesn’t feel like anything we’ve done before": Tedeschi Trucks Band announces new studio album and mammoth tour - listen to first single I Got You now
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• "It wasn't as big as Guns N' Roses - but it could have been. It just didn't last long enough." A member of one of rock's most celebrated supergroups says things could have got even bigger if the wheels hadn't fallen off
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• “Keith Moon put the piranha in the bath and ordered a raw steak from room service. He told the waiter to throw the steak in the bath.” Shotguns, carnage and exploding drumkits – the insane story of The Who’s very first US tour
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• "If we manage to survive the tour, go back to Canada and have a rest, who knows what'll happen. I suspect some music will eventually come out." Geddy Lee on the chances of recording new Rush material
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• Spoon Announces 2026 Tour Dates Across The U.S.
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• “I had such dreams that people would see what I saw in them, but it was not to be”: When this prog metal singer had his band’s logo tattooed on his arm, they were already planning to fire him
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• Will Skid Row Tour This Year With A New Singer?
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• Hear Megadeth's Version of Metallica's 'Ride the Lightning'
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• “It feels good to have a thousand people flipping you off. Just to see the amount of middle fingers go up when we go into it is amazing”: The alt-rock superstars who trolled their fans with a 70s easy listening cover – and scored a huge hit with it
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• Prog's Tracks Of The Week! Awesome new proggy sounds from Opeth, NMB, Myrkur and more...
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• "Released under a more credible banner, it would have sold millions and been regarded as brilliant": Sweet rock hard and conjure up a cult classic on Give Us A Wink
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• "The lift stops. The doors open. And this bloke gets in. And it's Peter ****ing Gabriel!" What happened when Ozzy Osbourne bumped into the prog legend who made the album he was "obsessed" with
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• "I had 20 kids on my doorstep looking in my windows. I couldn’t go to the grocery store." Tom Cruise, Eminem, the Twin Towers and a million sales in a week - the story behind the album that made Limp Bizkit the biggest rock band on the planet
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• The 20 Best Albums of the Half-Decade Ranked: 2020-2025
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• Former Scorpions / Michael Schenker bassist Francis Buchholz dead at 71
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• 10 Years Gone: 15 Legendary Musicians We Lost in 2016
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• "We were a gang. I'd get into fights in bars defending them. But I had my dream taken away": With Guns N' Roses, Steven Adler went close to the edge more than anyone - but then it all came crashing down
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• “A taxi knocked KK over. Glenn became an instant medic: ‘He needs hot water!’ He later told me: ‘Worst part is, I was tripping on acid at the time’”: How Judas Priest “danced with death” to make the album that turned them into superstars
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• "We left mistakes in, we didn't clean it all up – which is a hard thing to do when you're a musician": How His Lordship hit the rock'n'roll bullseye with one of the best albums of 2025
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• “There was a point where My Chemical Romance were opening shows for us. Quite quickly, they weren’t anymore”: The story of the post-hardcore takeover that didn’t quite happen
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• Alice Cooper's 2026 Spring Tour: Full List of U.S. Cities
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• Sly Dunbar of Sly and Robbie Dead at 73
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• Kevin Cronin Says REO Speedwagon Became an 'Impossible Situation'
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• Thomas Dolby Reveals Innovative 2026 Concert Tour Plans
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• Earth, Wind & Fire and Lionel Richie Announce 2026 Tour
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• "We spend a lot of time stabbing babies, fornicating with dogs, bombing churches." The dark, twisted, brilliant but largely forgotten grunge band who could have been bigger than Nirvana
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• “Let’s not forget he was still learning how to sing as ‘Bryan Ferry.’ I know I captured a fantastic atmosphere, complete with mistakes”: Some of Roxy Music hated Virginia Plain, but its producer loved it
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• “If you see any Pink Floyd tribute act there’s an utter po-facedness to them. That seriousness has become the image of Floyd forever. We wanted a sense of fun”: Why Gary Kemp had to be part of Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets
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• “There was a wishing well, a three-legged black cat, and the live room overlooked the mist-covered countryside.” Meet Cwfen, the Scottish doom witches giving Macbeth a run for his money
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• “I am not a great singer who can sing in any band, but I know I’m a better singer than the mask allowed me to be”: Ghost’s Tobias Forge likens performing in his old masks to “running 100 metres in flip-flops”
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• The Change in California Law That Ensnared Two Rockers Again
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• Rod Stewart Slams 'Draft Dodger' Trump for Insulting NATO Troops
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• “I’ve got fame, I’ve got adulation, but I was still in the mental prison." One of heavy metal's most iconic stars reflects on the day he knew that he had to choose between sobriety or annihilation
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• Debate: Who is the greatest drummer of all time?
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• “When our agent heard the song live for the first time, he called me and said, ‘This is a hit!’ And he was right!”: The 80s metal anthem that turned the band who wrote it into global superstars – and the X-rated title it nearly had
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• Debate: What was the best prog album of 1976?
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• Eagles' 'Greatest Hits' Becomes First Album to Hit 40M US Sales
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• Bonnie Raitt Expands North American Tour With More 2026 Dates
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• Goose Announces 2026 Summer Tour Across North America
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• "It was the requiem for the kind of life that we all had dreamed would be in the sixties": More than half a century on, a folk-rock anthem about the souring of the American Dream continues to confound and inspire
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• How David Bowie's 'Station to Station' Redefined His Music
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• "And you know what? I'm just sharing ten years of groupies with ya, frat boy!" Why one of the biggest bands in rock music put a major music service out of business (and made one of the 2000s' strangest comedy sketch videos)
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• “I’d put it up there with any of the greatest ballads that have ever been written. You can’t replicate it”: How one of rock’s most moving ballads was written in 15 minutes with a little help from the Bible
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• "I said something like: 'It would be really, really dreadful if that got wiped' and I found out later that that's exactly what he did": The story of the UFO classic inspired by a pair of murderous twins
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• “The song is about death. It came inside an actual dead person’s skull”: When The Flaming Lips proved they love you with a Halloween track lasting 24 hours
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• L.A. Guns Announce 2026 World Tour With Support From Tom Keifer
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• Geddy Lee Is Open to Making New Rush Music
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• "Wander into Alice's Attic, a realm of insanity… if you dare!" Alice Cooper announces Alice's Attic tour
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• Top 5 Rolling Stones Concert-Opening Songs
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• What To Expect From Tedeschi Trucks Band's 2026 Tour
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• "She understands the history of music, but she’s also pushing it forward. She is the future." Record company execs expect big things of Dave Grohl's daughter Violet
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• "I hope my music and music films will ease some of the unwarranted stress and threats you are experiencing from our unpopular and hopefully temporary government": Neil Young gifts his entire back catalogue to the residents of Greenland
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• "The first song I ever wrote with Ozzy was on that guitar - and then also, the last tribute to him." Ozzy Osbourne's longest-serving guitarist Zakk Wylde opens up on the emotional new song he's written in memory of the Prince Of Darkness
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• Aerosmith's 1973 Debut Album Gets Expanded Legendary Edition
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• “That world just wouldn’t acknowledge our scene. It was either death metal bands or it was Cradle Of Filth everywhere”: The cult US hardcore band who smashed boundaries to make one of the 21st century’s most influential albums
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