Scootering

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Although I didn’t know what its title was for a long time, I’ll never forget when I first heard ‘It’ll Never Be Over For Me’ by Timi Yuro. It was Morecambe 1984, and we were helping set up the room after a deaf and dumb disco (yes – that’s right – an

Australian Guitar

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As one of the few remaining pop-punk bands from the genre’s early-2000s resurgence, Simple Plan maintain their reputation as a stadium-filling musical force in their 25th year of existence. The group first assembled in the FrenchCanadian suburbia of

Prog

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The Yes Top 40 [Prog 107] was an interesting read. The Top 20 spoke volumes either for the age of your readers or the quality of songs. The most recent Yes song in the Top 10 was from 1977, 43 years ago. Doesn’t really say much for stuff released sin

Guitar World

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Q: SKID ROW’S SCOTTI HILL ON ACE FREHLEY “When I talk about Ace, people need to understand that this guy was one of the earliest influences — out of anybody — for me. Before I was a guitar player, I was Ace Frehley for Halloween, so he was on my rada

UNCUT

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HOW did a nice boy from Canada end up in the Pink Fairies? I was playing part-time in a strip club in Vancouver. A friend from high school wrote to me from England telling me to come over to London. He was living with a band called the Deviants abov

Guitar World

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The Big Issue

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Last week I heard a song called The King of Rome for the first time. It knocked me sideways. I immediately listened to it again, and then again. And then I started telling everybody to listen to it. It was released in 2012 so a number of the people I

Evening Standard

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Over the course of the last decade or so, Ed Sheeran went from a gigging Suffolk teenager with an acoustic guitar and a loop pedal, to someone who’s played in front of the Queen, sold out arenas around the world and, by most measures, become one of t

Goldmine

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During the 1970s, rock concerts began to be broadcast on mainstream radio, and quickly developed a strong following. The King Biscuit Flower Hour was the first to break through, and it ran on Sunday nights for over 20 years, across almost 300 station

Scootering

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Sad news of the passing of original 60s Mod, scooter scene, Mod scene and ska/ reggae DJ and promoter Pete Tebbutt broke in November. Pete worked alongside Sean Chapman in promoting and DJ-ing at many events enjoyed by Scootering readers. Sean wrote

Scootering

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Another of this event’s main draws is the diverse music and entertainment on offer. Whether you prefer soul, ska, indie, darkside, party or even live music – all are on offer and included in the very fair entrance fee. For the last 15 years Jay Watso

Goldmine

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For the past 40 years, East Bay Ray has been playing guitar for the Dead Kennedys, one of the premiere bands and originators of the San Francisco punk scene. Ray sat down with Goldmine to talk about life as the only member of the Dead Kennedys to rem

Sound and Image

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Yes, it has happened — I now listen to more music via the internet than on physical media. And it’s not just me. The latest figures show digital sales now exceeding sales of CDs, while in terms of income for the record companies, streaming completely

Sound & Vision

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TOTO HAVE GOTTEN an undeserved bum rap over the years for embodying the adult contemporary vein. But their coolness factor went up a thousandfold recently when emo-rock icons Weezer covered both “Rosanna” and “Africa” live at the behest of a fierce T

Classic Rock

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KATE BUSH SAYS it was a “huge honour and a great privilege” to be invited to become the latest ambassador for Record Store Day. This year’s annual celebration of independent record stores, which began in the United States in 2007 and was initiated in

Australian Guitar

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The success of Ernie Ball strings in and of itself is a remarkable, noteworthy achievement, but it’s only one facet of the company’s extraordinary history over the last 60 years, starting in 1962 when Ernie Ball first packaged his own branded custom

Guitar World

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GUITAR WORLD » OCTOBER 2022 PAGE 48 WHAT PRODUCT IS heard on more recordings than anything else over the last 60 years? Many guitarists, musicians or even casual music fans would probably answer something like the Fender Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul

Prog

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The follow-up to Alone In The Universe. Guess what it sounds like? There’s something incredibly comforting about the Electric Light Orchestra. For the middle-aged among us, they’re one of those bands who have always been there, despite all the person

NPR

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In the wake of "Despacito," Louie Perez of Los Lobos shares what his band did after its own Spanish-language No. 1 song, released 30 years ago.

Classic Rock

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A five-piece hard rock band from South Wales, Scarlet Rebels are busy promoting a debut album called Show Your Colours. Here we meet their singer/guitarist Wayne Doyle. Reviewers have likened your group to Def Leppard circa 1983 or even to Bon Jovi,

Australian HiFi

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It’s Kota Bharu in the remote Malaysian state of Kelantan. The day is hot and sticky and a young John Ong anxiously opens an envelope with his School report. It would be a passport out of the traditions of a developing country he loved but wanted to

Evening Standard

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Once, afrobeats would have been lumped into the category of ‘world music’. Just as anything from outside the Western poposphere was all thrown together as music from ‘elsewhere’, reserved only for nerdy aficionados or pretentious rockstars. Not anymo

Classic Rock

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Empyre were busier than most musicians during lockdown. Vocalist/guitarist Henrik Steenholdt explains how in 2020 the Northampton band released an album and six singles, performed livestreams and even managed to play three proper, physical gigs. How

Classic Rock

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When Rival Sons kick off the UK and Ireland leg of their tour, in Norwich on June 27, it will have been 10 years and 364 days since the release of their second album, Pressure & Time, which will be the focus of the shows. “It’s been cool to get to kn

Prog

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We asked. You voted. In your thousands. Almost 80,000 of you to be precise, by far and away the biggest reader vote this magazine has ever undertaken. So the past month has been a heady whirlwind of names, numbers, quotes, frayed tempers, late nights

Classic Rock

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How has the rock landscape changed since 1998? Everything’s changed with the advent of the internet. It’s taken away everything tactile and made it very clinical. Most people just go for the one obvious track on the album. But after a while the obvi

Guitar Player

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THINGS HAVE NEVER been better for Toto,” Steve Lukather told Guitar Player back in early 2018. “Everything we were told could never happen for us is now happening for us.” At the time, Lukather seemed to be on top of the world. Toto had just released

The Independent

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I guess I have two heads,” Tippa- Irie says, of his personas in private and the public eye. “When I’m on stage, I transform into Tippa Irie who is more courageous and confident, if you like. Whereas Anthony Henry is a bit more reserved and shy; not s

Australian Guitar

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Never before has country music enjoyed such a resurgence in the mainstream. Part of its recent squeeze back into the charts is thanks to an array of artists fusing their own unique sounds and styles into the genre – like Bristol singer-songwriter Yol

NPR

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Trumpeter Hugh Masekela and producer Stewart Levine organized the 1974 festival and produced the new album Zaire 74: The African Artists, which captures performances by Miriam Makeba, Franco and more.