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Savatage announce London Shepherd’s Bush Empire show for June

US prog metal legends Savatage will play their first live shows in over a decade with singer Zak Stevens throughout Europe next year

“Given the state he was in I would have given him two years, tops. But Sharon literally rescued him”: Inside the booze-soaked 35-year friendship between Lemmy and Ozzy Osbourne

Drink, drugs, urinating up unsuspecting keyboard players’ legs – fellow hellraisers Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy were partners in crime for decades

“I grew up around rock stars. My dad’s mates were Mark Knopfler and Thin Lizzy… and Christopher Biggins was a mainstay in our house!”: the indie-pop superstar who had a slightly different upbringing than your average frontman

A famous frontman looks back on a childhood surrounded by rock stars, actors and welders that his dad had brought home from the pub.

“Don’t blame me for glam metal. Most of those bands played their hairspray cans better than their instruments”: The wild story of Hanoi Rocks’ Back To Mystery City, the glam-punk classic that helped invent Guns N’ Roses

Hanoi Rocks were the cult Finnish livewires who accidentally helped invent the glam metal scene – and 1983’s Back To Mystery City album was their...

“I just see a pie hit me in the grill”: Metallica’s Robert Trujillo on the rock legend who caked him in the face onstage

It was the Metallica man’s birthday and an iconic rock veteran wanted to make sure it was properly celebrated

“The sort of thing which got prog a bad name, but which now seems increasingly bold and ambitious”: 10 essential Greg Lake songs

From King Crimson to ELP and beyond, he left a catalogue of impressive creations from an extraordinary musical journey which included that Christmas song

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