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When Maddy Prior told her mother “We were going electric,” she replied “What are you going to do with the gas cooker dear?” Maddy’s smile lights up her face like the seaside illuminations in her Blackpool birthplace. The singer had been talking about her folk-rock band Steeleye Span, of course, …

Ronnie Wood has revealed he joined the Rolling Stones because he was “in the right place at the right time”. The guitar great, who joined the group in 1975, told Desert Island Discs he happened to be at a party with the band when its then guitarist Mick Taylor told …

Marking the release of the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown this week, British music and audio pioneer Cambridge Audio has conducted a new survey of over 5,000 music fans worldwide. They were asked to list their all-time Top 5 most influential music artists. And it will come as little …

There are very few globally successful rock bands with at least 10 songs that even the most casual music fans could name. Aside from The Beatles, Queen is the most successful band in world history, having surpassed Led Zeppelin’s total certified units with over 190 million at least sold worldwide. …

With songs tailor-made for festivals and a sound that grips like Hulk Hogan, this suburban Brighton four-piece look certs for indie rock stardom. The late, great Tommy Cooper once released a single called Don’t Jump Off The Roof Dad, about a working man driven to despair by modern life. Plus …

On December 30, 1999 he attacked Harrison with a kitchen knife, punctured one of his lungs and caused head injuries. Olivia managed to stop Abram by striking him over and over with a fireplace poker and lamp. Harrison was hospitalised after taking over 40 stab wounds and had part of …

The Weeknd has just announced an incredible follow-up to his massively successful North American Tour. The American artist will be hitting stages across Europe and the UK in the summer of 2023. The After Hours Til Dawn tour will kick off on June 10 in the UK and will run …

In return, Sean revealed: “My dad, when he first heard your voice he was in America, I think, already, and he was thinking that’s the first new kind of British singing that he really liked and dug. I think he said that he loved your music and the songs, and …

Imagine being a little boy and your mother suddenly marries the father of the most famous man in the world. David Stanley was still only five years old when his mother Dee married Vernon Presley on July 3, 1960. Elvis himself was deeply upset by the marriage, especially by the …

Each year it still seems hard to believe (and even harder to accept) that the world lost Freddie on November 24, 1991. After valiantly battling AIDS while holding court and entertaining friends and family from his bed even in the final weeks, the star finally let go. As his condition …