21 h. ago Rock legends The Who sack drummer Zak Starkey after question marks over Royal Albert Hall bust

The legendary rock band made the decision to part company with him after their two shows at the Royal Albert Hall in March, where they performed their iconic hits

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28 h. ago Rock icons The Who axe drummer Zak Starkey after 29 years in brutal band shake

The Who's Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend have reportedly sacked long-time drummer Zak Starkey who has played in the band since 1996 after the rock icons are said to have wanted a change in their music.

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37 h. ago Iconic rock band will only return to Glastonbury Festival in 'life or death' situation

It comes after the band announced a six-date UK tour including one night at Manchester Co-Op Live

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40 h. ago Judas Priest star Les Binks dies aged 73 as band pays tribute to 'first

Rock legend Les Binks, who was the drummer in metal band Judas Priest, has died at the age of 73, with the band celebrating his "first class" drumming in a tribute online

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54 h. ago Sting praises Adolescence choir for creating ‘beautiful’ cover of Fragile

The 73-year old former frontman of the rock band, The Police, shared the post on Monday with a video from the hit Netflix drama.

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68 h. ago ‘The Citizen Kane of rock movies’: glam rockers Slade and their bid for cinema greatness

Fifty years ago, the Black Country legends made Slade in Flame, about a band screwed by the music business. It tanked and almost finished them. Now, as it’s re-released, the film is being seen as a prescient gemDaryl Easlea was eight years old when he got the 4A bus with his mate Graham down to the Odeon in Southend-on-Sea to see his favourite rock band make the leap from vinyl to celluloid. After 12 consecutive top 10 singles – including six No 1s – Slade had finally made their first movie, Slade in Flame. It has just turned 50.What young Easlea saw in 1975 was not the fun-packed adventures of a happy-go-lucky glam rock foursome, but a dour, downbeat film about being chewed up and spat out by the music industry. Easlea, who would grow up to be Slade’s biographer, didn’t care. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Maverick who scored vs Man City headbutted teammates, smoked after games and formed rock band

Dani Osvaldo was compared to Johnny Depp for his looks and lifestyle, but the former Southampton and Roma striker's off-field antics were even more wild than the Pirates of the Caribbean

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4 d. ago Wild Premier League striker headbutted teammates, smoked after games and quit for rock band

Dani Osvaldo, who has been likened to Johnny Depp, was a talented striker who played for the likes of Roma and Southampton but his career was overshadowed by his off-field antics

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5 d. ago TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe: ‘I remember thinking I never want to do this again’

TV on the Radio’s frontman hit rock bottom at the height of the band’s powers and stopped performing music for good. But with his acting career taking off and a genre-jumping new solo album, one of rock’s great polymaths is backSitting in the belly of north London’s Islington Assembly Hall in the middle of four sold-out nights, TV on the Radio frontman Tunde Adebimpe is recalling the precise moment he wanted to quit his band – and music – for ever. It was 2019 and the group, an art-rock four-piece who haven’t made a record that wasn’t adored by critics since emerging from Brooklyn in the early 00s, were opening for Weezer and Pixies at Madison Square Garden in New York.Over the years, they’ve made five studio albums and also lost bass player Gerard Smith, who died suddenly in 2011. They’ve grieved and grown together. Adebimpe is their talisman. A tall, expressive focal point, able to rabble-rouse with songs such as Wolf Like Me, or calm the congregation with low-slung trac...

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7 d. ago Iconic rock band bassist’s wife shot by police and arrested for attempted murder

Jillian Shriner, wife of Weezer bassist Scott Shriner, has been arrested for attempted murder after she allegedly raised her handgun to police after an alleged hit and run incident

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9 d. ago How Blondie drummer Clem Burke stopped taking drugs and drinking in his rock band heyday as he 'detested what substance abuse did to people'

The sad news of Blondie drummer Clem Burke's death at the age of 70 was revealed on Monday - following his 'private battle with cancer'.

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9 d. ago Blondie star dead aged 70 after private battle with cancer as band pay tribute

The rock band shared a tribute on Facebook on Monday which read: 'It is with profound sadness that we relay news of the passing of our beloved friend and bandmate Clem Burke.'

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1 week ago Florence Welch buys £1.9million Somerset estate and waits YEARS to move in amid major renovations AND the house might be haunted

The lead singer of indie rock band Florence and The Machine first bought the Grade II listed home in 2021 and submitted final plans last year to partially demolish buildings on the land in order to restore it.

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1 week ago It could set the industry back 50 years: fashion braces for impact of Trump tariffs

From farmers to designers, the entire supply chain will be hit – but it is unclear what duties apply to a finished productFirst it was steel producers. Then automobiles. Now the fashion industry has been left reeling from Donald Trump’s announcement on Wednesday that he was imposing tariffs on more than 180 countries including severe levies aimed at some of fashion’s biggest manufacturing regions.Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs included a 10% duty on all imports to the US but “worst offender” countries – those with whom America has bigger trade deficits – face a higher rate. Several of these are key to fashion’s supply chains. China, where everyone from Prada to Zara outsource production, faces a 54% duty. Vietnam, where more than half of Nike’s footwear was produced last year, will be subject to a 46% tariff. Pakistan, a key manufacturer of denim items, will be hit with a 29% duty. Bangladesh, where garment manufacturing makes up to 80% of its total exports, will be subjected to 3...

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1 week ago Rock band Muse postpone Istanbul show over promoter comments about anti

Turkish fans had urged the rock band to cancel the show as thousands of citizens protest the recent arrest of mayor Ekrem Imamoglu

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2 w. ago Beatles biopic cast confirmed as stars assemble on stage for first time ahead of epic four film project

The Beatles cast for Sam Mendes' upcoming biopics about the iconic British rock band has been revealed. 

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2 w. ago Maybe I’m Amazed by John Harris review – with a little help from John, Paul, George and Ringo

The Guardian journalist’s tender account of how music became a bridge between him and his autistic son, James, is full of wit and wisdomHalfway through Maybe I’m Amazed, there’s a photograph of John Harris’s son, James, with one of his heroes. James is a young-looking 10 in knee-length shorts decorated with stars. Ian Hunter of 1970s rock band Mott the Hoople stands beside him, a hand gently around his shoulder. “Sixty-nine years separate them,” Harris writes. “Here is proof of how songs and their creators find fans in the most unlikely of places.”Maybe I’m Amazed is the story of a growing child’s love of music, but it’s more than that: it’s also about how songs provided a whole world for James, and his family, after his autism diagnosis. It marks a departure for Harris, whose previous journalism, aside from his political work for the Guardian, has involved editing magazines and writing columns, reviews and other books about music. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Magnificent, rare worm with its own campaign song: the giant Gippsland earthworm

This immense worm moves slowly and gracefully underground and can grow to the length of an outstretched armMore fantastic invertebrate nominations hereThe giant Gippsland earthworm already has an upbeat campaign song.“I am a real worm, I am an actual worm,” bangs the chorus of Doctor Worm, a late-90s novelty hit by the American indie rock band They Might Be Giants. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Rock band Goose sack member over ‘behavior in personal life’

The band said percussionist Jeff Arevalo’s behavior ‘does not align with the band’s core values’

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3 w. ago Rock band Goose fire member over ‘behavior in personal life’

The band said percussionist Jeff Arevalo’s behavior ‘does not align with the band’s core values’

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