Doing it for themselves

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ALT BLK ERA

Sisters Nyrobi and Chaya started Alt Blk

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Metal Hammer Magazine

3 January 2025

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Lord of this world in a career now stretching close to six decades, black sabbath mastermind

Some call him the Iron Man. Others see him as the Master of Reality or the Hand of Doom. One thing everyone seems to agree on, however, is that heavy metal was first conceived in the mind of Anthony F

Prog

Rosalie cunningham

Shaken and stirred – former Purson bandleader has a licence to thrill on third solo album.

Classic Pop

“everyone recognised there was a higher cause – and you don’t often get that in pop music”

When Midge Ure published his autobiography, If I Was, 20 years ago, he was keen to stress that his memory may have misled him at times, even in his own life story. “I didn’t want to upset anybody,” he

Maybe Not...

Jeff Beck had no equal for the joyous, headstrong energy and beguiling subtlety he brought to his playing. When he died suddenly in January of 2023, he left behind the lightning rods through which his electrifying talent passed – an eclectic collection of guitars, many of which are as heavily customised as the hot-rod cars that were Beck’s other ruling passion. Almost exactly two years after his passing, these legendary instruments are now set to go under the hammer in London. We join the experts from Christie’s auction house on the eve of the sale to take a closer look at ‘Oxblood’ and other historic instruments from Jeff ’s career – and discuss the portrait they paint of a pragmatic, restless yet peerlessly gifted ta lent and his musical legacy