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IN THE SMASHING MACHINE , DWAYNE JOHNSON PLAYS A UFC PIONEER WHOSE BIGGEST FIGHTS WERE OFTEN INTERNAL. AS DIRECTOR BENNY SAFDIE TELLS US, IT’S ALL ABOUT THE EMOTIONAL BATTLEGROUND…

Every month we get inside the mind of one of the biggest names in music. This issue: Roy Harper . Since the mid-60s, the progressive folk singer-songwriter has enjoyed a successful solo career that’s also found him collaborating with everyone from Pink Floyd and Peter Gabriel to Kate Bush and Ian Anderson. But he’s never quite reached the commercial heights of his peers. As his Final Tour: Part Two fast approaches, he looks back over highlights from his career so far and teases a brand-new album.

THE DAY BEFORE THE SMASHING MACHINE PREMIERES at the Venice Film Festival in early September, Mark Kerr describes his emotional state as “vibrational.” It’s tough to pin down where jet lag ends and ne

IN A 1992 Guitar World feature that celebrated the release of Spinal Tap’s reunion album, Break Like the Wind, it was reported that lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel had been, at some point during the band’

WITHOUT A SINGLE doubt, the most familiar character in heavy metal, the late Ozzy Osbourne, was presented to the public as a madman, a maniac and a court jester whose life was a constant ricochet from

The grand parade of lifeless packaging? Far from it, as this much-delayed blockbuster reissue of one of prog’s most fascinating and frustrating albums finally proves.