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And on the same night, Kirke got blanked by a “morose” Ginger Baker
“Billy and I were like absolute best friends. We’d go out together almost every night”
“It was the last song for the album, and we laid it down in about an hour”
The Pittsburgh rocker’s biggest hit, The Rapper, was a US No 2 smash
“We should have gone down a note. We should’ve stepped it down half a step or a full step”
“When when it starts to feel too comfortable, too predictable, I start to twitch”
“The rest of the band has my back, is super supportive, and will keep rocking you all in my absence”
“I was able to do it well enough to sustain a 45-year career – but there comes a time”
“We had a beautiful listening session and talked about a lot of stuff”
In August, Glenn Hughes announced he was retiring from touring
“We were keyboard-driven, not by guitars. Very unusual at the time”
“He wants to be on stage. He doesn’t know what else to do, so I think he’s trapped”
“People don’t understand that the original song was much different”
“Philip was the classic rock star in every sense. He was a rock star to the very core of his being”
Hill has played on every Priest album to date, including genre-defining classics British Steel and Screaming For Vengeance
“I loved the craziness of The Beatles’ White Album”
“You hear Whole Lotta Love and you lose your mind. That’s it, period!”
“Queen are so creative, they’re almost up there with The Beatles – and The Beatles are my favourite band”
“I took chances as an artist and a musician – I helped keep the music alive”
Manson – real name Brian Hugh Warner – has faced allegations of sexual misconduct from more than a dozen women in recent years
“In any band there are complicated, triangulated emotions. Egos. And I guess my lack of diplomacy didn’t help”
“I saw him play in 1985, not much more than a year before he died”
“He changed the vocabulary of the guitar – made it a different instrument”
