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Nickelback: back with new album Dark Horse

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13. … but now they are, they get free guitars
As the owner of "a credit card that's got no limit", it's no wonder Chad has refined his taste in gear. "My first guitar was a black Flying V [copy]," he recalls. "It was quite the heavy metal guitar, but I traded it in years ago." The frontman now chooses from an arsenal of PRS electrics stored on a tourbus, including a singlecut hollowbody signed and delivered by Paul Reed Smith. "I call him Santa Claus!" he laughs.

14. Chad hates his hair too
The case against Nickelback has long hinged on Chad's 'spaniel-in-a-wind-tunnel' hairstyle, but it might surprise haters to learn the singer is no fan either. "I was watching the How You Remind Me video and even I was disgusted," he sighs. "My hair was terrible. It made me look so old. I was 26 and looked 37."

15. Chad has yet to tire of How You Remind Me
"You have to maintain perspective," he says. "We're not the first band to have a song like this. As soon as I get sick of playing How You Remind Me, Mick Jagger should walk up to me and slap me in the face and say 'hey, when you've played Start Me Up as many times as I have, then you can bitch'."

Still, Kroeger can alway mash up his hits to stop himself getting bored? Here's a clever thing called 'How You Remind Me Of Someday'.

Nickelback's Dark Horse is out 17 November (UK) and 18 November (US).