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Rush’s Geddy Lee: ‘I regret how I behaved with Neil Peart’
Rush frontman Geddy Lee reflects on how his parents surviving Auschwitz affected his childhood, the death of Neil Peart, and a Rush reunion
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60 great albums you've probably never heard
From undiscovered classics by artists you've never heard of to underrated gems by all-time greats… Find your next favourite album here
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From drugs to jail, Boy George’s life is full of spice – so why is his memoir so bland?
The singer speeds through the experience of selling 50 million albums and writing Karma Chameleon – focusing on his fashion choices instead
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Dire Straits’ John Illsley: ‘We’ve been offered huge amounts of money to get back together’
To mark the release of a huge live box-set, Mark Knopfler’s longtime brother in arms explains why Dire Straits reached the end of the road
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Why Billy Bragg and Red Wedge failed to make Labour rock
Assembled in 1985, the pop collective set out to swing the youth vote for Neil Kinnock and kick Thatcher out. It didn’t quite go to plan
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Why nobody wants their MTV: the sad decline of music on television
MTV may hand out Video Music Awards but it has stopped showing music videos. Why has every other TV channel followed suit?
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Stormzy, All Points East: triumphant homecoming for a leading light of British music
As the rain poured down on thousands of revellers in east London's Victoria Park, the grime star delivered a wondrously wide-ranging set
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The once-great Metallica are now metal’s most shameless money-grabbers
After decades of earth-shaking creativity, the highest-grossing metal band of all time are stuck on autopilot – and charging more than ever
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Is this the best Pink Floyd album you’ve never heard?
Made before his feud with Roger Waters reached boiling point, Rick Wright’s Wet Dream sank without trace in 1978. Has its time finally come?
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‘Respectable’ rock snobs once laughed at metal – but they’re not laughing now
What Elvis Costello called ‘boring music for boring people’ now rivals pop as the music industry's creative and commercial backbone. How?
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Zelensky is right – listening to AC/DC at work makes you better at your job
The Ukrainian president has confessed that blasting ‘dad rock’ helps make him more productive. Should employers take note?
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Why the Sixties – and the songs – will never end for the Grateful Dead
With no hits, little stage presence and few original members, the band now known as Dead & Company are filling stadiums with ease – for now
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Inside Axl Rose’s appetite for destruction – and unlikely rehabilitation
The Guns N’ Roses singer was once the most politically incorrect – and egotistical – man in rock. How did he end up headlining Glastonbury?
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From Kate Bush to Motörhead: the 50 best live albums ever made
Pining for a gig but don’t want to pay through the nose? There’s always the next best thing
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Inside The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, the album that radicalised America
In 1963, the unassuming 22-year-old troubadour fired the starting pistol on a decade of upheaval – and popular music would never be the same
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I saw Ozzy pee on the Alamo – and other hair-raising rock war stories
During his years at Melody Maker, Allan Jones enjoyed unfettered access to rock's wildest stars – and somehow lived to tell the tale
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