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

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

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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

HE’S the distinguished elder statesman of British musical theatre and, now eighty, Paul Nicholas shows no sign of slowing down. Paul, who shot to fame in BBC sitcom “Just Good Friends”, is starring in

Amid the mayhem of his European tour, Joe takes time out to give us a guided tour around his 2025 live gear, delivers the lowdown on some of his more storied guitars, and tells us why his mighty multi-amp rig has to run at breaking point in order to make the earth move and those riffs resonate…