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Keith Moon's favourite song by The Beach Boys wouldn't just be a moment of musical joy but become a sad reflection of a life ...
Bands are firing drummers, and trading drummers, and rehiring back the drummers they just fired last week. It's a full-blown crisis behind the kit. How did it happen?
Paul McCartney had no interest in replacing Ringo Starr, even when a legendary drummer from The Who wanted to take his spot ...
Billie Joe Armstrong always leaves his best work onstage, but he felt not every Green Day was the best from a moral perspective.
Roger Daltrey has seen better days. The Who frontman, 81, admitted that he is “nervous” about his health as the “Baba O’Riley ...
Pity the poor session player, whose lot is to provide music with all the guts for none of the glory. The fallout from drummer ...
Whether you know it or not, you’re a fan of classic rock. Such an assumption can be made because classic rock is one of the ...
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In 1991, "Dire Straits" began what was billed as the biggest tour in the history of rock music with a performance in Dublin. The two-year, 24-country tour reached a total live audience of more than ...
While best remembered for declining the job as Led Zeppelin's frontman, Terry Reid was a vocalist of rare talent, heralded by ...
The history of rock music includes high highs, but it also includes low lows, like these three drummers who died too young.
In a season that has seen Jared Horstman and Max Stambaugh combine for 14 feature wins, a first-time winner didn’t seem to be ...
A 70-year-old man has turned his life around after losing a 6st 1lbs and earning a place in the semi-finals of a national ...