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Ozzy Osbourne. What an absolute legend. And

CLASSIC Rock

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Morse’s Purple Exit Permanent

Guitarist Steve hands over to Simon McBride.

RIP

Thank you… and good night.

Manny Charlton

July 25, 1941 – July 5, 2022 FORMER

Master Of Puppets A Hit Single!

Metallica enjoy their own Stranger Things moment. THIRTY-SIX

“Some people are too full of themselves”

Wolfgang Van Halen appears to take a pot shot at Roth.

NEWS

The news that the two surviving members of

Mike Tramp

Singing in his mother tongue for the first time, he shows that you can teach an old dog new tricks.

Deraps

Are Deraps to Van Halen what Greta Van Fleet are to Led Zep? Quite possibly.

ELOY

Eloy, Philips, Germany, 1971. £750.

NEWS

Former Judas Priest frontman Tim ‘Ripper’ Owens believes

LostAlone

Derby power trio return with megawatt fourth album after eight years away.

MY FIRST LOVE

King Crimson IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING

NEWS

Joni Mitchell played a surprise set at the

Timothy B Schmit

The Eagles vocalist/bassist releases his seventh solo album, with help from a few famous friends.

The Chats

Back flips, bong sheds and a horrible work ethic – meet the latest Aussie slacker punks.

Jesus Built My Hotrod

A troublesome track, eventually finished off when a drunken Gibby Haynes staggered into the studio and babbled a load of nonsense, it became a big seller and a middle finger to the label.

Luke Spiller

The Struts frontman on Taylor Hawkins, the “quirky” new Struts album, and the therapeutic appeal of playing bowls.

Thundermother

A football club has spurred them on, gig time is party time, and they’ve learned their trade from some of the best of the old masters.

Going 4 It...

Exhausted and near breaking point following a US tour, Black Sabbath were hardly ready to start recording a new album. But with a driven Tony Iommi doing the heavy lifting and a mountain of narcotics fuelling the slog, they ended up with the classic Vol 4.

Lucky 13?

It hasn’t had an easy journey, with illness among the hurdles that have come along and stood in its way, but Ozzy Osbourne’s star-studded new album, his thirteenth, is finally upon us. And he reckons it really is something special – so much so that he has an eye on the top spot of the chart.

Songs of Experience

Walter Trout hasn’t had it easy. First it was a troubled childhood, which still haunts him. A few years ago he expected to be dead by now. Recently life’s been good, but the American bluesman’s new album still resonates with echoes of darker times.

GOODBYE TO THE BLUES

After an unremarkable bluesy debut album, Ian Anderson decided that Jethro Tull needed to change tack. With follow-up Stand Up they set out on a new road, which led them to superstardom.

ROCK STASR, INTERRUPTED

The story of Seattle grunge forerunners Bam Bam, fronted by the incendiary Tina Bell, is one of the most compelling – and criminally overlooked – in rock’n’roll. Ten years after Bell’s tragic death, we find out where it all first went right – and then wrong.

FEEL THE FORCE

In June 1979, guitarist Gary Moore sensationally quit Thin Lizzy mid-tour. In our exclusive extract from Gary Moore: The Official Biography, we look back at his immediate post-Lizzy period and the formation of his new band G-Force.

EVAN ALMIGHTY

Out of nowhere, in 1992 The Lemonheads were suddenly stars and frontman Evan Dando was alt.rock’s new god. But in typical rock’n’roll fashion, that’s when things started to go wrong.

The HOT List

the essential new rock tracks you need to hear this month and the bands to have on your radar

HARD STUFF

p74 Muse Despots, diseases, mass uprisings, wildfires, the nuclear shadow… Rich pickings for their new album.

THE HARD STUFF

Talk Talk: post-rock before post-rock. Post-Rock While arguments

Skid Row

With their new singer on board, the band return to the UK to promote their new album.

Big Big Train

The enduring British proggers play Hard Rock Hell in September.

Lillian Axe

The veteran American band tour the UK for the first time since 1993.

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The Rival Sons frontman on the artists, records and gigs that are of lasting significance to him.

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