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“Eddie told me, ‘Roth is driving me nuts'": When Eddie Van Halen asked to join Kiss — and they turned him down!
By Paul Elliott published

“We’re all proud Birmingham people and we love this city”: Black Sabbath have been awarded the freedom of Brum
By Will Simpson published
Honour come a week before their final performance together

“It was the height of our popularity. And of course, when you’ve peaked there’s nowhere to go but down”: How the ‘Worst Band In The World’ had their revenge with the noisiest No.1 album of all time
By Paul Elliott published
The band's motto: Everything Louder Than Everything Else

“Mick came in with a song, but it was very Dylan-esque”: How The Rolling Stones created Sympathy For The Devil
By Neil Crossley published
The Stones were hitting a whole new creative peak

"I dropped some beats apparently. I’ve looked and I can’t find them!": Zak Starkey on Who sacking and more
By Will Simpson published
The ex Who drummer talks ducks, drums and Barry Keoghan playing his dad

Bob Geldof looks back at Live Aid in new trailer for 40th anniversary documentary
By Ben Rogerson published
“No one had ever had 16 hours of anything on television,” says promoter Harvey Goldsmith
![Brent Smith [left] performs in a blazer and white T-shirt as flames from pyro light the stage behind him. On the right, Rick Beato is photographed in a denim overshirt at NAMM 2022.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/9MSHbXfF6HqJNm2sy8DmFS.jpg)
Shinedown frontman Brent Smith on what makes Rick Beato a great producer
By Jonathan Horsley published
Beato co-produced Shinedown's debut album and shared writing credits with Smith, who says the YouTube superstar has a "profound" knowledge of music

New data reveals The Beatles song that most guitarists, pianists and drummers want to learn to play
By Ben Rogerson published
Muse Group has crunched the numbers
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