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“Originally, Metallica had a dreadful tape as our intro. Then our manager came up with the idea of replacing it with The Ecstasy Of Gold”: How metal’s biggest band turned a song from a Clint Eastwood movie into the greatest intro music in history

No Metallica show is complete without The Ecstasy Of Gold as its intro tape

“The last thing I wanted to do in the world was to have a fist fight with Pete Townshend. Unfortunately he hit me with his guitar”: The tangled story of one of rock’s mythical lost albums – and the two classics it eventually produced

The Who’s Lifehouse album could have been Pete Townshend’s masterpiece – but no one understood it

Toniio PRESENTS NEW SINGLE: ‘Repeat’

Straight from Puerto Rico comes a fresh new sound making waves with authenticity, international appeal, and undeniable energy. Toniio, an independent urban artist with a...

“We thought he was copping out joining AC/DC, cos they were a pretty simple rock band”: Before he joined one of the most iconic bands in music, this legendary Australian singer was in a forgotten country-rock outfit

The Mount Lofty Rangers were a brief and largely overlooked part of Bon Scott’s pre-AC/DC career

“He was great at self-promotion. He was also excellent at spreading confusion”: They played alongside Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Blind Faith (and Keith Chegwin). Then this 60s prog outfit were gone

Rumours of alchemy, magick, war heroism and Van Gogh’s ear surrounded the “bonkers, eclectic and free-thinking” group earlier known as The Giant Sun Trolley, National-Balkan...

“ZZ Top use sequencers and drum machines – do you consider them an industrial band? Of course not!”: The twisted birth and chaotic explosion of industrial music

From Throbbing Gristle to Ministry, industrial became one of the defining sounds of the 1980s

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