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“When that song came out, it changed everything”: How Stone Temple Pilots created one of the great alternative rock anthems
By Amit Sharma published
Singer Scott Weiland called the track “a metaphor for a lost, obsessive relationship”

Tears For Fears give Harry Styles’ performance of their biggest hit the seal of approval
By Ben Rogerson published
Given his love of marathon running, he might have missed a trick

“I don’t think we would’ve found any success had someone else been the lead singer”: A rock classic that’s now hit over two billion streams
By Neil Crossley published
How John Fogerty created Creedence Clearwater Revival’s best-loved song

“The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band”: The story of a cult classic
By Paul Elliott published
“A savage series of atonal thrusts and electronic feedback”

When Prince gave the Bangles Manic Monday he assumed they would just sing over his demo, but the band had other ideas
By Ben Rogerson published
“Luckily, Prince liked what we did," says Vicki Peterson

“We were labelled ‘the new Led Zeppelin’. But it was a blessing and a curse”: A great rock band that had it all – and then blew it
By Paul Elliott published
As one critic said, this band had “more good riffs in one song than there are in the first four Black Sabbath albums”

“Black Sabbath and Judas Priest invented true heavy metal music”: How Priest singer Rob Halford remembers their breakthrough moment
By Paul Elliott published
And how they triumphed amid the ‘mudbath’ of the first Monsters Of Rock festival

Songwriter Diane Warren is bewildered by some of her lyrics for what became Aerosmith's biggest hit
By Ben Rogerson published
We'd definitely be willing to miss out on some of those things
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