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LEPPARD/CRUE TOUR HITS THE ROAD. FINALLY!

Joe Elliott reveals how Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe defied broken ribs, rain and humidity to launch the much-delayed The Stadium Tour of North America.

More Names For Taylor Hawkins Tribute

John Paul Jones and Krist Novoselic added to the bill.

Stars Slam USA Abortion Ruling

Outrage at the Supreme Court's decision.

Dawes

Taylor Goldsmith on digging jazz, doing things on his own terms, and Dylan confusing him with Taylor Swift.

Amongst Liars

Against what their name suggests, they’ve taken it upon themselves to tell a few truths.

DE DE LIND

Lo Non So Da Dove Vengo ENon So Dove Mai Andrò. Uomo È Il Nome Che Mi Han Dato, Mercury Records, Italy, 1972. £750.

Tim Bowness

One half of No-Man on his new album’s guests, mixer pal Steven Wilson and what’s happening with their band.

MY FIRST LOVE

Black Sabbath HEAVEN & HELL

Snowy White

The veteran guitarist on ghosting the Floyd, washing up with Peter Green and how to wind up Roger Waters.

Brave Rival

These rootsy headbangers from Plymouth are always up for a piña colada.

Marshall Tucker Band

Can’t You See

Chuck Leavell

He’s been with the Stones for most of their 60 years, but still gets thrills from watching his bandmates on stage.

His Lordship

They listen to what Chrissie Hynde says, they’re cranked up, they wear cheap suits, they dig raw rock’n’roll…

NO STOPPING THE TOP

The death last year of bassist/vocalist Dusty Hill looked like it might be the end of ZZ Top. But no. With their guitar filling his shoes, it’s business as usual. tech now

A SPIN OF THE TOP'S

Billy Gibbons looks in the rear-view mirror and gives some observations on ZZ Top’s studio-albums back catalogue

DAVE MUSTAINE

He was there at the beginning of two of metal’s most influential groups, drank enough to fill the San Diego river, hit the canvas and lifted himself back up and found God, and still has the ambition to make Megadeth the biggest metal band in the world.

Coronation Night

A hit film and soundtrack album, Purple Rain represented Prince’s breakthrough moment. But it was the tour that followed – and one show in particular – that made him a superstar. His band the Revolution’s Wendy, Lisa and Bobby Z look back…

Second Light

In 2015, The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon thought the band was over for good. Mounting pace and pressure following their Springsteen-approved 2008 album The ‘59 Sound had left them drained and ready to stop. So what brought them back?

IN FROM THE COLD

Time apart allowed H.e.a.t to grow and their returning singer to mature sufficiently, Kenny Leckremo tells Classic Rock.

LOVE STORY

After a nightmare reception to her album The Dreaming, who knew that three years in a barn in Kent would yield a singular, unrepeatable landmark in pop music. ”I was surrounded by elemental forces,” Kate Bush says of the album that made her a bona fide superstar.

A DEAL WITH GOD

Running Up That Hill, Kate Bush’s hallmark anthem from Hounds Of Love, helped to revitalise her career back in 1985. Now it has been given new life 2022 by the Netflix series Stranger Things.

THE HOT LIST

THE ESSENTIAL NEW ROCK TRACKS YOU NEED TO HEAR THIS MONTH AND THE BANDS TO HAVE ON YOUR RADAR

Anthrax

XL NUCLEAR BLAST

ROUND-UP: BLUES

Marcus King: an album that’s gritty, punchy and

Cats In Space

Kickstart The Sun HARMONY FACTORY

ROUND-UP: MELODIC ROCK

▢ Generation Radio: bringing classic 80s rock back to

H.e.a.t.

Force Majeure EARMUSIC

BEST OF THE REST

Other new releases out this month.

Waysted

Heroes Die Young – Waysted Volume Two: 2000-2007 HNE RECORDINGS

Little Feat

Waiting For Columbus (Super Deluxe Edition) RHINO Expanded

God Only Knows: The Story Of Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys And The California Myth

David Leaf OMNIBUS PRESS The life of Brian. You

The Sound Of The Machine: My Life In Kraftwerk & Beyond

Karl Bartos OMNIBUS Memoir from the co-composer of some

Glam! When Superstars Rocked The World 1970–74

Mark Paytress OMNIBUS

Siouxsie And The Banshees

There have been bands as prolific, and arguably some as wildly creative, but few have melded the two so well.

Essential Playlist

Mirage The Scream Metal Postcard (Mittageisen) The Scream

GWAR

If you’re gearing up for one of their shows, you might want to consider taking an umbrella.

Bouchard Brothers

Meet the siblings, solo artists and co-founders of Blue Öyster Cult.

Download Festival 2022 Donington Park, Castle Donington

Legends return, legends say goodbye and legends are made when the UK’s loudest major festival returns.

Rammstein

‘This jaw-dropping mega-show is pretty near perfect.’ The

The Soundtrack Of My Life

Genre-hopping blueser Fantastic Negrito on the records, artists and gigs that are of lasting significance to him