Rock News 2026-02-04

• “Strange people just appeared. We had awful visions of ghosts in the room. There was rustling and scraping at the window. It was happening every full moon”: The creepy tale of Camel’s Moonmadness
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• Guess Who Launches 2026 Reunion Tour: Set List
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• Rock Stars at the 2026 Grammy Awards: Photo Gallery
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• How to watch the 2026 Grammy Awards: Ghost, Deftones, Sleep Token & Amyl And The Sniffers among this year’s nominees
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• Watch 12 New Super Bowl Commercials Featuring Classic Rock Songs
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• "He asked me 'Do you have long hair? Are you willing to wear a dress and high heels? Are you willing to wear lipstick?' Those questions fascinated me." Peter Criss recalls his first conversation with Gene Simmons and the birth of Kiss
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• "The community we found through punk and hardcore music has given us a safe place to swing in the dark." Turnstile win big in the rock and metal categories at the 2026 Grammys, Yungblud and Nine Inch Nails also winners
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• Joni Mitchell, the Cure and NIN Lead Rock's 2026 Grammy Winners
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• "Highly listenable background music." The Alan Parsons Project bake up the ear candy on Eye In The Sky like punk, NWOBHM and new wave pop rock never happened
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• ‘The Beatles’ Four-Part Biopics Debut First Look at Cast
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• Listen to Peter Gabriel's New Song 'Put Down the Bucket'
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• Steve Lillywhite: 'It Was Hell' Working With the Rolling Stones
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• How John 5 Ended Up on Peter Criss’ New Solo Album
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• “We got airplay with that song, and that was remarkable. Unless you were Nirvana or Pearl Jam, radio stations weren’t interested”: How William Shakespeare inspired the song which became a surprise grunge-era hit and saved an entire genre
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• Bret Michaels Denies Thwarting Poison Tour With Financial Demands
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• Top 20 Acoustic Beatles Songs
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• "This is far and away the best live version of Paradise City I've ever seen": Rare footage of Guns N' Roses playing live in 1987 surfaces online
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• The Cure Wins Their First Grammys 50 Years After Forming
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• "Iʼm not doing it out of guilt. Even if I didnʼt do it, the poverty would still be there." How getting stuck in a "rut", some tempting by Bob Geldof and the most A-list bill in history helped Queen pull off the greatest rock set of all time
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• "Some other very well-known people were at that first jam": Adrian Smith on how Smith/Kotzen got started, bonding over British rock and Iron Maiden's big homecoming
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• Here are 5 ways to watch the 2026 Grammy Awards for less – find out if Sleep Token, Deftones, Linkin Park, Spiritbox and Ghost scoop any gongs this year
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• Paul Simon's 2026 Tour Details: Cities and Concert Dates Revealed
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• “We’re not flower children and we’re not yuppies. We’re somewhere in between – the Van Der Graaf Generation”: They had links to Jethro Tull, Voivod and The Cure. Did you really think Men Without Hats were all new wave and no prog?
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• "Once you're comfortable in this space, don't overthink it, just enjoy it." A new recording studio at a historic English school has been named after Justin Hawkins
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• "The ‘bucket’ is all the crap that goes around our head all the time." Peter Gabriel shares new single Put The Bucket Down
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• The Best (and Worst) Eagles Solo Albums
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• Brian May Says Queen Won't Tour America: 'It's a Dangerous Place'
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• No rules. No limits. No quarter. Led Zeppelin: 18 months on the road with the biggest band in the world - only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• "I said, 'Only call me if it’s AC/DC or the Rolling Stones.' A week in, the phone rings, and it’s my agent saying AC/DC called. What?!" From her dad touring with Aerosmith to singing in The Grinch, Taylor Momsen on her life in music and movies
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• "He came down with this battered old Telecaster and played the best solo I’ve ever heard in my life": The debauched story of the Britrock classic made perfect by the last guitar solo from a legend
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• “The school would kick everybody out with hair that touched their ears. Someone on the board found out we were wearing short-haired wigs!” Steve Morse endured educational woes, dodgy gear and jazz snobbery, but knew he could make it as a guitarist
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• "We've experienced the biggest loss we will ever go through." Kelly Osbourne reveals why the Osbourne family are "closer than ever" following Ozzy's death - and has an emotional reaction to the epic Grammys tribute starring Post Malone and Slash
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• "There was no real sign that it was abig protest song, so most people listened to it and didn’t realise": The story of the anti-war commentary disguised as a four-minute pop song that set R.E.M. on the path to global success and stardom
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• George Clinton’s P-Funk Takes It to the Opera Stage: Full Report
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• "They're lining up six hours before the show. They just scream when you go out on stage as if it's Beatlemania." Nine Inch Nails and Korn love them and they might have invented metal's sleaziest subgenre. This is the story of Health
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• “I wrote it on a piece of paper somewhere on tour, and I thought, ‘That’s an album!’” A glimpse of how Ian Anderson creates Jethro Tull lyrics
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• Yungblud Honors Ozzy Osbourne Following 'Changes' Grammy Win
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• Remembering The Music Legends We Lost In 2006
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: February 2, 2026
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• 10 Memorable Moments in the History of Madison Square Garden
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• “We didn’t expect to be Bon Jovi. We didn’t go into this band wanting to own 15 houses and have 17 supermodels on speed dial”: The 90s alt-rock superstars who lost half their audience and angered Axl Rose by making the most antagonistic album “in history”
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• The Best Song Off Every Megadeth Album
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• “I had a conversation once with William Burroughs about trance music and riff music, and repetition”: Jimmy Page on the secrets behind his most iconic guitar solo – and the solo he found hardest to play live
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• Zak Starkey Will Never Forget His First Who Performance
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• “It makes you wanna hurt someone real bad. They always have the most violent pits. Their riffs just bring out the aggression in people”: The three iconic metal albums that changed Ice-T’s life
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• Spring Into It: You Could Win a $500 Visa Gift Card
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• “We ended up getting really, really hammered and commanding the stage. We were terrible, but we knew there was something magical about it”: The US band who stepped out of Bon Jovi’s shadow to become hair metal’s last superstars
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• “The two Johns very began to hate doing TV shows that wanted us to mime. For a band that worshipped Deep Purple, Thin Lizzy and UFO, it became a really big problem”: The huge 80s hard rock hit that drove a wedge between the band that made it
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• New Metallica x Dr. Martens collection are Hardwired to impress… wherever you may roam
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• “Everyone thought we were going to make an album that sounded like Green Day. So we made one that was even heavier than anything we’d done before”: How the reluctant ‘Godfathers Of Hardcore’ wrote the mosh-pit classic that put East Coast punk on MTV
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• Mick Mars' Attorney Hits Back After Motley Crue's Big Legal Win
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• “I had the door slammed in my twice. I decided I’d make damn sure it never happened again”: The iconic singer who rose from the ashes twice to make one of metal’s greatest ever debut albums
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• Why Poison’s Rikki Rockett Made Cash Claim About Bret Michaels
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• "Some horribly lame moments slip into that horribly twee dad-rock territory that blighted so much of his recent work with Status Quo": Francis Rossi doesn't quite return to the pile-driving sound of his old band on The Accidental
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• "We have no use for a standalone singer who doesn't play an instrument, preening themselves like a rock god": Atomic Rooster guitarist Steve Bolton on reviving the band, changing frontmen, and John Entwistle's phallic number plate
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• Parliament-Funkadelic Founding Bassist Billy Bass Dead at 75
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• “The economy of 80s synthpop made it so attractive. Within us were the seeds of something much more musicianly – whether you like it or not”: Tears For Fears sneaked prog into a run of hit singles in 1984 and 85. So why weren’t they at Live Aid?
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• Ozzy Osbourne Honored With All-Star Grammy Tribute
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• "The aspects of America that are really magical to us are the things it seems to reject, like black music or the Beat poets": The story of the multi-version David Bowie song that captured his revulsion of American corporate dominance
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• Van Halen's '5150' Reissue Features Live Recordings and Rarities
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• What To Expect From Deep Purple's Upcoming Album
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• "I shifted from Garbage, Radiohead and Silverchair to black metal." The classic 90s album that changed the life of the singer who'd go on to front one of her country's biggest bands
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• What the 2026 Grammys got right about rock and metal this year - and what they got very wrong
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• Three Dog Night Singer Chuck Negron Dead at 83
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• “We knew costumes wouldn’t be part of it. Phil wouldn’t have been good in a flower mask”: Peter Gabriel’s exit could have finished Genesis. Instead Phil Collins stepped up and they delivered prog classic A Trick Of The Tail
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• What to Expect From Zappa's 'Bongo Fury' 50th Anniversary Box
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• "I miss Ukraine very much. I missed it even more when I realised that I cannot go back there." The Soviet-born heavy metal singer who had to flee war to make her rock star dreams come true
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• Cool new proggy sounds from Arcane Roots, Karnivool, Crippled Black Phoenix and more in Prog's new Tracks Of The Week
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• Hear Roger Taylor's Seething New Single, 'Chumps'
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• Bruce Springsteen Surprises at Tom Morello's Benefit: Video
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• From reggae/metal mash-ups to riff-stacked prog, these are the 11 new metal tracks that everybody needs to hear this week
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• Bruce Springsteen's 10 Strongest Political Songs
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• How Warren Haynes Shaped His Career With The Allman Brothers Band
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• “We played at a punk club in Germany and this guy was pointing a gun at me the whole time. That was uncomfortable!”: The pioneering European metal queen loved by Dio, Lemmy and Gene Simmons
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• "We don't accept the brutality, the lies, the loss of our simplest pleasures": Joan Jett joins growing list of musicians to voice solidarity with anti-ICE protesters
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• "I sang Smoke On The Water with Deep Purple when they came to our school for a music clinic": This is the soundtrack of H.E.A.T frontman Kenny Leckremo's life
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• "The real ideological Nazis began coming out of the closet and attacked our shows." How pockets of mindless violence inspired the most important 63 seconds of punk you'll ever hear
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• Top 10 Chuck Negron Three Dog Night Songs
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• Judge Rules Steven Tyler's Sexual Abuse Trial Can Go Forward
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• "Having to resort to writing something like this is so embarrassing." The story behind the extremely controversial Nirvana song that almost got them banned and made a US President smash up his own daughter's CD
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• "He was a big, burly dude who would go to the beach in a Speedo at 65 years old and hit on women with the most confidence you’ve ever seen." How the death of a loved one, pig squeals and TikTok helped crown a modern metal classic
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• "A one-man calamity, catastrophe. No trace of sanity, an empty shell": Queen's Roger Taylor releases surprise protest song Chumps and doesn't pull his punches
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• “Every song we came up with was like the greatest thing. Every time we’d write another it was like, ‘Oh my god’”: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax and more remember how thrash metal took over the world 40 years ago
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• "I was trying to make a butt sex joke and it was dumb." Maynard James Keenan regrets some of the lyrics he wrote on those early Tool records
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• Deep Purple announce one-off show at London's iconic Royal Albert Hall
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