Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour is the highest earning tour of all time
Elton John's farewell tour has raked in more money than any other run of dates in recorded history
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Elton John's Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour is the highest earning tour of all time
Elton John's farewell tour has raked in more money than any other run of dates in recorded history
Big Big Train enlist guitarist Maria Barbieri to cover for Dave Foster
Big Big Train expect to announce further live dates across the UK and continental Europe in August and September
ZZ Top, Elton John and Halestorm shows in New Zealand cancelled as state of emergency persists
Shows cancelled after New Zealand's largest city Auckland was hit with record-breaking amounts of torrential rainfall, causing widespread flooding
There's a Ghost exhibition taking place in Hollywood for one night only
This pop-up ghoul's night out will take place at Hollywood's Whisky A Go Go and features artefacts from an era that clearly never happened
Dance Craze, the classic 1981 2 Tone documentary featuring The Specials, Madness, The Selecter and more, is being released on DVD for the first time ever
Joe Massot's acclaimed concert film featuring the best of 2 Tone is finally getting a DVD/Blu-ray release, and a London screening
Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie announce co-headline Freaks On Parade tour
Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie will set off on a co-headline tour across the US this summer
Marilyn Manson faces new lawsuit alleging sexual assault on a minor
A new lawsuit accuses Marilyn Manson of grooming and sexually assaulting an underage girl in the 1990s
There's now a Christian-themed cover of Survivor's Eye Of The Tiger and Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee donkey, it's the sound of hell on earth
"Rising up, right to the top, fight for Christ, give him glory!" This ultra-cringe version of Survivor classic Eye Of The Tiger might be the final proof that the devil does indeed have all the best tunes
Paul McCartney unearths previously unheard collaboration with Jeff Beck
Paul McCartney shares 1994 collaboration with Jeff Beck, featuring spoken word environmental message from the late guitarist
Kiss' Paul Stanley offers some life goals advice: "If you choose to pursue something that's out of reach, you're an idiot"
Shoot for your dreams or aim for something more realistic? Kiss frontman Paul Stanley offers advice on the importance of setting attainable goals
"Iron Maiden fans are the coolest people on the planet": what your favourite band apparently says about you, according to this hilarious new video
Slayer fans hate everyone and everything; Slipknot fans think the mild salsa at Chipotle is spicy; Megadeth fans have a victim complex. These are just some of the amusing stereotypes dished out in a new video
Watch earliest known footage of Genesis with Phil Collins as lead singer
Genesis played at Toronto's Maple Leaf Hall on March 31, 1976, their fifth ever show with Phil Collins as lead singer
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“Oh God, it’s hard to listen to”: The story behind Nirvana’s final song, You Know You’re Right
On January 30, 1994, Nirvana entered the studio for the last time. The sole song the trio taped that day would become the most controversial recording of their career
"A lesser band might have been humiliated" - the story of the first Kiss show
It's a cold night in New York, and Kiss are about to play their first show... but there's almost no one in the crowd to witness history in the making
Tracks of the Week: eight new songs to make the world a better place
Including The Answer, Mudhoney, Demob Happy, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs and more
Watch Ben Stiller and Bob Odenkirk dress up as Metallica in 1992
Metallica's Enter Sandman gets a loving but cheeky spoof from Ben Stiller and future Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad star Bob Odenkirk
How Van Halen's debut album changed everything, by the guitarists it changed
Jason Becker, John 5, Alex Skolnick, Paul Gilbert, Bruce Kulick, Myles Kennedy and others look back at the astonishing impact of Van Halen's first album
Gogol Bordello's Eugene Hütz on Ukraine and the power of punk-rock resistance
"As an art form that can catapult socio-political observations – there is nothing greater than punk rock" - Eugene Hütz
Tobias Forge: "I would love to play in the Red Hot Chilli Peppers"
Ghost's Tobias Forge on going viral on TikTok, the backlash from going viral on TikTok, the naming of his Nameless Ghouls, and the bands he'd like to play guitar with
The definitive history of every Slipknot mask
Updated How Slipknot’s masks have evolved from their self-titled debut album to We Are Not Your Kind
The Neil Young albums you should definitely own
There's a different Neil Young everywhere you look: melodic troubadour, electric warrior, garage rocker, grunge forefather, synth wrangler and more – and these are his best albums
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida: the improbable story of a 17-minute one-hit-wonder
Iron Butterfly's In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida started life as a 90-second country ballad, but turned into a psychedelic and cultural landmark
Måneskin: "It's not our goal to convince rock’n’roll fans that we're real rock"
Winners of Eurovision 2021 and runners-up on the Italian X Factor in 2017, glam hard rockers Måneskin have gone from hopefuls to arena-filling stars. Here’s why they’re the real deal
Long Train Runnin': the Doobie Brothers' jam that became a dancefloor classic
The Doobie Brothers' Long Train Runnin' was an instrumental showcase for "half-hour solos" before their producer saw its hit potential
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Volume 17 of the Bootleg series finds Bob Dylan in Miami and on excellent form
Bob Dylan's Fragments travels back to the 1990s and the Time Out Of Mind sessions with Daniel Lanois
Steppenwolf lack heavy metal thunder on three albums of declining in potency
Steppenwolf box set the Epic Years 1974-1979 is a far cry from the band's million-selling golden era
If unorthodox avant-punk noise-metal innovation is the question, Dinosaur Jr. are the answer
Four-album box set Puke + Cry: The Sire Years 1990-1997 celebrates J Mascis as face-melting guitar shredder supreme
Lemmy told us that Girlschool rocked and Lemmy was right
This five-disc collection of Girlschool recordings is a fascinating evisceration of a trailblazing rock band
Steve Vai's Vai/Gash is a joyful throwback to simpler times
Vai/Gash is an unearthed, back-to-basics collection from guitar star Steve Vai and his late friend, singer Johnny ‘Gash’ Sombrotto
The Rolling Stones' In Mono: it's great but it borders on abuse
The Stones’ monaural 60s box: eight albums, 16 discs, six kilograms-plus of wallet-rinsing duplication
Black Star Riders: still channelling the warrior spirit of Thin Lizzy
Wrong Side Of Paradise finds main Black Star Rider Ricky Warwick capturing the romance and the strut of old
Måneskin's Rush! is dazzling proof that their trajectory is no fluke
Not a tribute to Geddy, Alex and Neil
Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous: now more live and more dangerous than ever
Thin Lizzy's Live And Dangerous a.k.a. The Greatest Live Album Of All Time – reissued alongside the seven shows recorded to make it
Eric Clapton's Reprise albums wrapped up with box set number two
Eric Clapton's five twenty-first century albums, gathered together in one nifty package, with a bonus disc of rarities
Jared James Nichols is back with a feast of loud-ass guitar
Nashville guitarist Jared James Nichols returns with self-titled fourth album after horror tour accident
