Rock News 2026-04-01

• Paul McCartney Plays First Concert of 2026: Set List + Video
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• “I became carried away with my playing and when I turned around this hard-as-nails guy had a tear streaming down his cheek”: How a million-selling hair metal band made one of the most epic ballads of the 80s – with help from the Rolling Stones’ producer
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• Guns N' Roses Kick Off World Tour With Live Debut of New Songs
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• “I liked Master Of Puppets, but I’d definitely change the channel when Dave Mustaine got in the car”: Ex-Megadeth bassist David Ellefson remembers his first impression of Metallica’s 1986 game-changer
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• “Greg Lake was a bit of a cabaret singer. Jon Anderson, whatever you think of his lyrics, bloody meant it”: The prog stars who influenced a comedy musician’s career – and made him become a milkman for a while
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• How a Lesbian Bar and Monty Python Helped Billy Idol Get His Name
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• "We exchanged no words. He eyed me up and down, dipped the silver tube he wore on a chain into a bag of white powder, shoved it up my snout, then walked out. I was up for three days." The day The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde met Motorhead's Lemmy
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• "We want it to happen just as much as you do." Resurrected prog metal heroes Nevermore reveal why they won't play the USA in 2026
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• Babymetal announce a tour of the Americas with support from Halestorm and Violent Vira, plus an expanded edition of last year’s Metal Forth album featuring Bring Me The Horizon’s Jordan Fish
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Irish Rock Bands
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• "He was screaming about being in Vietnam and running in front of cars." How a childhood encounter with an absconded psychiatric inpatient inspired a song that would change the face of metal
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• Classic Rock's Tracks Of The Week: March 30, 2026
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• Toyah and Robert Fripp return with their most disturbing Sunday Lunch video yet
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• America's 250th birthday will be celebrated with a July 4 concert at a military base in Kentucky headlined by a hologram of Charlie Daniels
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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: Only the Final Four Remain
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• Win an Aerosmith 'Aerosmith' Deluxe Vinyl Box Set
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• How Arthritis Made Keith Richards Adapt His Guitar Playing
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• Masked-up Canadian math rockers Angine de Poitrine announce new EU and UK tour for October
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• "I'll definitely take being number one in fourteen countries!" The story of the song that heralded Blondie's comeback – but tanked in the US
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• Paul McCartney Announces New Album, 'The Boys of Dungeon Lane'
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• "Pete Doherty said that I was a high-kicking acrobat crossed with Nico. I was very pleased with that." Approved by Blondie, Iggy Pop and the Sex Pistols, The Molotovs are a ferocious generational voice
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• Watch Zakk Wylde’s New Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
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• Guns N' Roses Announce Lineup Change for 2026 World Tour
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• Deep Purple and Kansas Announce 2026 Tour Dates
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• "Appropriate action will be taken." Kid Rock is being investigated by the US Army after posting a video of military helicopter flyby
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• "You can borrow the luggage of the past, you can amalgamate it with things that you've conceived could be in the future, and you can set it in the now." How David Bowie conquered time to write the song that gave him an audience
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• Iron Maiden Announces 2 Major Additions to EddFest Lineup
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• "We're honouring a legend." Inside King Ultramega, the star-studded tribute to Chris Cornell featuring members of Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Mastodon, Anthrax and more
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• Can You Answer These 50 Bob Dylan 'Jeopardy!' Questions?
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• Bob Dylan Reveals Over a Dozen New Summer Tour Dates
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• "I would love to release a live album of this lineup." No plans for new Pantera music, but Charlie Benante wants to document the comeback
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• Watch Rush Make Their 2026 Live Debut at the Juno Awards
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• "Blessedly free of vibraphones and scatological humour." Todd Rundgren delights some and confounds others on A Wizard, A True Star
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• "We talked a lot about Neil – about his view on music and drumming." New Rush drummer Anika Nilles looks back on her first rehearsal with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson
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• Watch close-up footage of the brand new singer of extreme metal legends Arch Enemy crushing it at the band's return show in Beijing, China on Friday night
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• Watch Rush debut new live line-up with powerful rendition of Finding My Way at the Junos
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• Gene Simmons Announces Summer 2026 Solo Dates With '80s Rockers
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• "She's skipping, spinning, hollering and slapping the hell out of her frame drum when she’s not riling the crowd up." Mysterious Viking war trance duo Eihwar bring a party like no other to London
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• Former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley to perform at band’s blockbuster Knebworth festival in July, playing songs from The X Factor, Virtual XI and The Best Of The Beast
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• The Black Crowes Albums Ranked Worst to Best
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• 34 Things You'd See in a Typical 1970s Kitchen
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• Vote for the Best Album of the '70s: Pink Floyd vs. The Who
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• “First I’d go, ‘That’s amazing – I played that?’ Then I’d say, ‘Hey, I’m gonna have to play that live!’” Just two examples of when Rush took being Rush too far
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• Is a New Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks Collaboration Coming?
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• Watch Zakk Wylde in emotional video for Black Label Society's Ozzy Osbourne tribute
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• Fleetwood Mac and Eric Clapton Producer Mike Vernon Dies
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• Lou Gramm Announces 2026 Tour for New Solo Album
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• Billy Joel 'Jeopardy!' Questions: How Many Can You Get Right?
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• “Makes Hieronymus Bosch’s visions of Hell look like a nursery school”: Thrash veterans Kreator bring demons, wicker men and the most fire this side of Parkway Drive to stunning London show
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• Bob Dylan Launches a Patreon: What's on It?
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• "Hanoi Rocks could've been one of the biggest bands in the world. The potential was there, but fate had other plans." Michael Monroe looks back at a career packed with thrills, spills, triumphand tragedy
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• Bruce Springsteen 'Jeopardy!' Questions: How Many Can You Answer?
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• “He switched people on to jazz in the same way we made classical music available to young people”: ELP drummer Carl Palmer’s musical icon is a trumpeter
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• John Fogerty Expands 'Centerfield' Ahead of MLB's Opening Day
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• “We soaked up all of this great music and that song has bits of all of that – that open-stringed riff that Sepultura, Machine Head and Slipknot were famous for”: How a group of Florida teenagers wrote the anthem that gave mid-2000s metal a shot in the arm
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• “I freely admit to doing disgraceful things in the past. What I did to certain band members was appalling. I hope that’s all behind me”: When Robert John Godfrey rebooted The Enid
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• 9 Rock Stars Who Were Fired and Then Outshined Their Former Bands
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• Guns N' Roses keyboardist Melissa Reese bows out of World Tour due to "personal reasons"
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• How Melissa Etheridge's 'Rise' Album Was Inspired by Tom Petty
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• “They perceived it to be blasphemous. It was not pornographic. It was serious. It was my first experience of the gulf between a record company and an artist”: Vangelis’ disgust at the treatment of Aphrodite’s Child masterpiece 666
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• "Olivia Rodrigo said to my daughter, Without your mother, none of this would have happened." Melissa Auf der Maur, one of the unsung heroes of '90s rock, is finally getting her flowers
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• "There's no denying that Gong has changed me." Kavus Torabi on the new adventures of psychedelic rock, jazz, space-rock and more collective Gong
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• “I just wanted to punch that dude in the face." How Linkin Park pushed themselves to the limit on Hybrid Theory and changed the face of metal
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of Scottish Rock Bands?
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• Ex-Iron Maiden Member Added to Rock Hall Nomination Ballot
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• I'm a life-long Rush fan and I can't believe there's an 18% saving on the newly-released Grace Under Pressure super deluxe edition in Amazon's Big Spring Sale
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• The Sons of Kiss' Stanley and Simmons Release Their Second Single
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• "There was nothing about this decision that came easily": The unlikely resurrection of Rush by Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Anika Nilles – only in the new issue of Classic Rock
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• Deep Purple announce US tour with Kansas and Jefferson Starship
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• “People would stampede like wildebeest towards the stage. They’d go wild. We’d think: ‘This is what it’s about.’ It was like the Stones, The Doors, Zeppelin”: The rise, fall and many resurrections of the goth pioneers who hated being called a goth band
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• Eric Clapton Announces 2026 Crossroads Guitar Festival
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• I’m an old-school Star Wars geek and I just can’t get enough of these 12 Death Star-sized discounts in Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
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• “I said, ‘Inform Mr Jagger that the fee is a million dollars.’ He just about choked on that. But he knew the Stones needed us”: Twelve months of chaos, carnage and controversy that turned Guns N’Roses into rock’s biggest band – and nearly killed them
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• “A 15-year-old girl came up and said, ‘I have a formal request from my family that you marry me.’ Her brother looked like he’d murder me if I said no”: King Crimson’s rock star moments include a food fight and an adult movie soundtrack
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• Who Are the 'Big 4' of British Rock Bands?
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• "Robert Plant came up with some lyrics for my music that were extraordinary." Jimmy Page releases previously unheard home demo version of Led Zeppelin's Ten Years Gone
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• "I kind of did that on purpose, because there's just so much fake AI stuff going on." Journey's Jonathan Cain admits to deliberately misleading fans over Steve Perry return
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• "Parents come up to me and instead of going, ‘Oh you’re not a good role model because you talk about sex’, they say the opposite!" How Halestorm's breakthrough anthem smashed some silly taboos in rock 'n' roll
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• “There was definitely some butting of heads – between Kerry King and Dave Mustaine, myself and Dave Mustaine, Dave Mustaine and Dave Mustaine”: The chaotic early 90s mega-tour that put thrash metal in arenas – and invented ‘The Big 4’
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• "I was so terrified to go out I stayed in my room for a week." Rare 1974 talkshow footage starring Ozzy Osborne, Jon Lord and Ian Hunter appears online
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• Former ELO members reunite to present band's silver electric cello donated to Royal Birmingham Conservatoire
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• Arnel Pineda Tried to Pull Out of Journey's Farewell Tour
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• "There'd be guys in full Kiss make-up just standing there flipping us off for the whole set." After the release of Adrenaline, Deftones faced hostile audiences and were forced to hone their chops the hard way
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• How Would Neil Peart Feel About the Rush Reunion?
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