Age is just a number; rock’n’roll is forever

As metal’s most iconic band celebrate their golden jubilee, Steve and Bruce take us inside their epic half-century journey – and what comes next

Paul Weller’s career is a rare phenomenon in British music. Six decades in, he’s still making records that matter, still selling out tours, still chasing the next thing. What makes Weller endure? Afte

I guess my main preoccupations at 16 were just trying to stay out of trouble. I was incredibly unsuccessful with finding girlfriends and things like that. Really, very, very unsuccessful. I think I wa

At the end of July, thousands of fans gathered for Ozzy Osbourne’s funeral procession in Birmingham. Some of them shouted “Ozzy forever!” The hard rock singer died 22 July 2025 at the age of 76.1 Afte

it’s a funny old world

From Cheshire village halls to LA Babylon, he’s the obsessive music fan who rode the Hammond grooves of The Charlatans through baggy, Britpop and beyond . But how has his band remained together through 37 years of chaos and tragedy as well as triumph? “We had to get used to heaviness,” says Tim Burgess .