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Run-ins with riot police, pyro to rival Rammstein and a show at the Sydney Opera House – here’s how five surfer dudes put Aussie metal on the map

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

With Scorpions’ 60th-anniversary celebrations in full swing, guitarist Rudolph Schenker and vocalist Klaus Meine look back at how the band went from being called ‘the worst German import since the V2 bomb’ in the UK to being their country’s officially lauded rock icons. With

SLASH WAS THERE when, in the aftermath of Guns N’ Roses’ 1987 debut album, Appetite for Destruction, the band suddenly exploded onto a chaotic arc from Sunset Strip hopefuls to one of the biggest, mos

Live and “on fire”.

Fifty years on, Brian May and Roger Taylor reveal the vision, precision and daring behind Queen ’s A Night At The Opera , the album that rewrote rock’s rules.