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Bon Jovi Forever (Legendary Edition) ISLAND Jon Bon ...

Nick Mason speaks to Mark Blake.

Deep Purple’s longest-serving guitarist Steve Morse on the records, artists and gigs of lasting significance to him.

Cum on, there’s still time to feel the noize…

Thirty years, 10 albums, a reservoir of booze – Orange Goblin are linchpins of the British metal scene. But these hairy warhorses are about to call time on their career

Welcome to the second of our special Review Of The Year joint interviews. Here, indie provocateur BAXTER DURY and Sleaford Mods’ splenetic frontman JASON WILLIAMSON turn their attentions to the landscape, musical or otherwise, of 2025. Stand by for a bleak, brash, honest and often humorous assessment of the year just gone. Their conclusions? “We’re just flogging this dead horse, aren’t we?” they tell Mark Beaumont