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“We get off stage and I haven’t seen him like that in 20 years. He was livid.” How Metallica’s crazy team-up with Lady Gaga started with an A-list dinner party and almost ended in total chaos

It has become one of the most surprising and iconic images to have emerged from the Grammys in recent years: James Hetfield, barrel-chested and iron-lunged...

“He said something I found really juvenile and offensive. He told me that Jesus was an alien and he could levitate.” How Megadeth tapped into UFO conspiracy theories for 1990 thrash classic Hangar 18

Megadeth's 1990 album Rust in Peace is one of the best thrash albums ever made, but it was recorded in absolutely chaotic circumstances. Dave Mustaine...

“I’m not going to be doing this forever.” Watch a giddy Freddie Mercury warm up before his last ever show with Queen

It wasn't meant to be Freddie Mercury's final performance, and it certainly wasn't billed as such, but Queen's 1986 show at Knebworth has gone down...

“It’s my favourite Rolling Stones song and, naively, I thought: ‘Oh, they’ll love this.'” How Carter USM upset the Stones and enjoyed a live on-air ruck with a once-popular TV presenter

Effectively written out of history by the immediately subsequent media-friendly circus that was Britpop, Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine were significantly more successful in the...

“You can’t deny Henley’s chops as a lyricist, but they are wasted here on trite tunes and lifeless production.” Don Henley closes out the 1980s on the all-star The End Of The Innocence

Don Henley - The End Of The Innocence (Image credit: Geffen) The End Of The InnocenceHow Bad Do You Want It?I Will Not Go QuietlyThe...

“It was when we knew Roger Waters wasn’t going to be part of anything we did, but before he’d officially left. He had us trapped in limbo. I was putting my toe in the water”: David Gilmour’s solo career

In 2020 Prog looked back over David Gilmour’s solo career beyond Pink Floyd, which at that time amounted to just four albums, along with several...

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