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Following 30 years of living with blood cancer, Mike Peters – frontman of The Alarm – has died at the age of 66

Leader of north Wales rockers The Alarm and beyond, Mike Peters left us on April 29.

SLY STONE, WHO DIED ON June 9 at 82, wrung greatness out of the American abyss. Early in his career, Stone was an avatar of a more peaceful future, forming Sly and the Family Stone as one of the count

With 28 albums’ worth of songs to choose from, “hopefully there will be some surprises”.

From drugs, despondency and dead bats to changing the face of modern metal and gaining an unlikely celebrity status, this is the rollercoaster story of Ozzy Osbourne’s solo career

Life on the outside It has been two ...