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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

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No-shows, bomb scares, police intervention… GN’R’s Use Your Illusion tour was one of the most volatile to have ever hit Europe, and one that remained shrouded in mystery. Hammer ’s sister mag, Classic Rock , tracked down the people who were there to get the full inside story

With Iron Maiden celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, we talk to all the members of the band and look back over the successes, trials, tribulations, thrills, spills and genre-defining records of the longest-running and arguably greatest heavy metal band of them all.

THIS FEBRUARY 23, George Harrison would’ve turned 82. But, as is often the case, the universe had a different plan in mind, and — instead — the former Beatle left us at age 58 way back in 2001. But de