There are pranks like the old whoopee-cushion under the bride’s chair, and then there’s Bill Ward being hospitalised on multiple occasions style of pranks. If practical jokes inherently flirt with crossing the line, then Black Sabbath drove over it with a bulldozer when it comes to the stunts that they pulled on their poor old […]
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Just like every other decade, the 1990s chart behemoths trigger intrigue to the forgotten smashes with equal fascination as the lauded gems of the era. The UK number one lost to time is made up of all kinds of things. Sometimes they’re just bad and haven’t stood the test of time; others are overshadowed by […]
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Across the music landscape, no band has ever been more significant than The Beatles, and perhaps there never will be another to match them. Peerless. One of the main reasons for their incredibly vast and longstanding influence over music lies in the fact that they were a pioneering force within pop and rock. The Fab […]
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Orchestral, bluesy, and pioneering, Led Zeppelin was never a band keen on pigeonholing themselves into one specific genre. While we now look back and call them a rock band, there was so much more than that going into their sound. They were making music at an exciting time when experimentation was welcomed, and as a […]
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The celebration paused, gently and completely, and something far more powerful took its place. On New Year’s night welcoming 2026, inside a softly lit concert hall in London, England, the familiar rhythm of countdowns and celebration quietly stepped aside. What followed was not announced in advance and did not need explanation. When Julian Lennon and […]
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Late afternoon in early autumn, 2025. The grounds of Friar Park rest in near silence, broken only by wind moving through trees and the distant call of birds. There is no press, no audience, no sense of occasion beyond what memory itself provides. Seated beside the resting place of George Harrison, Olivia Harrison and Dhani […]
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There will never be another artist with half the career that Ozzy Osbourne had. ‘The Prince of Darkness’ was certainly a lot more eccentric than the average rock and roll frontman, but while it’s easy to see him as either a sinister figure or the lovable dad on The Osbournes, both of them were caricatures […]
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Decades after the single release of ‘I Am the Walrus’, The Beatles song still has millions of listeners stumped as to the meaning of many of its manic, meandering, and magical lyrics. That was the whole point, with its writer, John Lennon, making a mockery of anyone subjecting his band’s songs to close analysis. Some […]
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The new year had only just begun, yet the air already carried the weight of memory. In the muted twilight of early 2026, far from any stage or spotlight, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones, Jimmy Page, and Jason Bonham stood together at a quiet resting place in Clewer. It was not a public moment. There […]
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If there’s one thing that Robert Plant has learned from his years in the music industry, it’s the importance of momentum. As much as people like the idea of working at their own pace, there’s no chance that anyone could manage to stick around in the industry without having some traction behind them when they […]
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