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“I was working with Pete Townshend just after Moon died. I said: ‘Have you got anybody? I’ll leave Genesis’”: Phil Collins comes clean about wanting to join The Who, Led Zeppelin at Live Aid and the young rock legend who sent him a letter of support
2+ hour, 23+ min ago (1568+ words) A candid interview with Phil Collins from 2016 As drummer-turned-frontman with Genesis and a solo star in his own right, Phil Collins is one of the most successful musicians in history, beloved by everyone from Robert Plant to the Foo Fighters....
"The songs and listeners were fake, the millions of dollars stole was real." American fraudster earns eight million dollars streaming AI songs that no human has ever listened to
1+ hour, 48+ min ago (393+ words) A music writer since 1993, formerly Editor of Kerrang! and Planet Rock magazine (RIP), Paul Brannigan is a Contributing Editor to Louder. Having previously written books on Lemmy, Dave Grohl (the Sunday Times best-seller This Is A Call) and Metallica (Birth…...
“That’s my Porsche 911 at the beginning…”: the synth-rock anthem that kicked off with the sound of the singer’s sports car, sampled fireworks and inspired Trent Reznor to start writing Nine Inch Nails’ debut album
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (474+ words) This 1986 single pushed these Essex trailblazers into a whole new realm and they never looked back Black Celebration, as their fifth record would come to be called, changed everything. It was, frontman Dave Gahan explained to Smash Hits at the…...
How Kraftwerk influenced a band who influenced a whole era of British music
2+ hour, 21+ min ago (607+ words) An undersold concert by the German icons in 1975 led a young duo to adopt electronic instruments. Their first song launched a clutch of cutting-edge genres In 2011 OMD's Andy McCluskey told Prog how Kraftwerk were directly responsible for his band's debut…...
“Some bands wouldn’t function without each other, like Led Zeppelin. I was never like that. I was thought of as an egomaniac”: The Swedish shredder who compares himself to Beethoven, hates the blues and loves being rock’s most divisive guitarist
8+ hour, 23+ min ago (1948+ words) When they made Yngwie J Malmsteen, they broke the mold Ynwgie Mamsteen is one of rock's great guitar icons, equally loved and ridiculed for his light-speed shredding " and his often outrageous proclamations about his own talents. In April 2019, as he…...
“We were musicians and we knew how to play. We weren’t just a bunch of hippies running around playing three chords”: This rock icon broke away from her band to launch a solo career with an album that divided the critics. A year later she was dead
12+ hour, 23+ min ago (356+ words) Janis Joplin's I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama would be the last album she released during her lifetime Her restlessness dovetailed with her ambition. The rapturous reception she was getting in the UK and Germany that autumn fed…...
Bloody Well Right! Breakfast In America might have had the bangers, but it was Crime Of The Century that truly saved Supertramp's bacon.
9+ hour, 24+ min ago (433+ words) Released at the end of October 1974, Supertramp's third album, Crime Of The Century is their absolute masterpiece. Like Rush's 2112, born out of adversity, it is one of the great make-or-break albums; the thrill of the last roll of the dice,…...
"If you ask me what it's like to be a woman in rock, I'll scream." Slipknot, snow fights and sexism: the summer that changed everything for Italy's biggest metal band
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (1886+ words) After 2002's Comalies, Lacuna Coil had officially put Italian metal on the map Lacuna Coil had established themselves as one of goth metal's leading lights in the early 2000s, becoming the biggest metal band their home country of Italy had ever…...
“To my shame, I did have big hair when I was a teenager – the full Mötley Crüe. But I could never get with Poison”: The 80s thrash classic Korn guitarist Head calls “the ultimate metal album” – and the record he thinks should be thrown in the trash
16+ hour, 23+ min ago (640+ words) The albums that shaped the Korn guitarist's life Korn guitarist Brian "Head' Welch can rightly call himself one of the architects of nu metal, a man whose band have inspired countless acts that followed? But which bands influenced him? In…...
“I was feeling a bit despondent because Free had broken up. I met a lady who was Brazilian and she said: ‘Come down and stay with me’”: How a supergroup formed from the ashes of one of the UK’s greatest bands wrote one of rock’s ultimate outlaw anthems
19+ hour, 16+ min ago (766+ words) It would be fair to say that things weren't looking great for the remaining founder members of Free when the group parted ways in 1973. "I was feeling a bit despondent because Free had broken up," says Kirke. "I met a…...