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INSANE: 6 - The Real Truth

“On a few occasions I didn’t bother turning up at the early Hawkwind gigs - I earned more money busking at cinema queues”: Dave Brock’s life and times

From a dreamer using subway tunnels as echo units to leader of the anti-establishment icons, his encounters include Lemmy, LSD and celebrity druids

Louder

Every cover song by Metallica, ranked from worst to best

We’ve listed the 40 covers that metal’s biggest band recorded in the studio and released to the public in reverse-order of excellence

Metal Hammer

Corey Taylor: My stories of Lemmy, Dimebag Darrell, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Björk and more

Slipknot's Corey Taylor heard the world’s dirtiest joke from Lemmy, hung out with Björk, battled Dave Grohl at table tennis, raided Metallica’s fridge, talked ‘weirdness’ with Mike Patton and almost joined Anthrax

Metal Hammer

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Has Steven Wilson's remix of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time become the definitive version?

Steven Wilson's version of Hawkwind's Warrior On The Edge Of Time gets a vinyl release. Can we let him have a go at Hall Of The Mountain Grill too?

Louder

"Dave was really nervous about talking to these guys": Why Dave Grohl ditched the Foo Fighters to make extreme metal supergroup Probot, featuring members of Venom, Sepultura, Motorhead and more

Tired of playing rock shows with Foo Fighters, Dave Grohl recruited his favourite vocalists for the all-star metal project Probot

Metal Hammer

“For Lemmy and I, Hawkwind wasn’t a job, it was like family. That’s why he was so devastated when he got fired”: Stacia Blake’s role in space rock

They both left the pioneering band in 1975, but for dancer and lifelong artist Stacia, the connections were never broken

Louder

“Some guy who obviously didn’t recognise me said, ‘You just ruined a classic song.’ But another chap replied, ‘He’s allowed. He wrote the song!’”: Keith Emerson’s disastrous karaoke incident

The keyboard legend's jam-packed career saw interactions with a varied cast from the ‘strange’ Dario Argento to Motörhead’s Lemmy

Louder

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Lemmy's golden rules of songwriting, and the three songs he loved the most

Late Motörhead mainman Lemmy on the genius of Abba, what he shares with Jimi Hendrix, the best lyric he ever wrote, and the greatest songs ever written

Metal Hammer

Foo Fighters secret Glastonbury set review – a band who have learned to fly again

A vast crowd have got wise to the secret – the band were billed as ‘the Churnups’ – and are greeted with a set that shows Foo Fighters have recaptured their very essence

The Guardian - UK

Six times huge bands have secretly performed under fake names

As the Churnups – aka Foo Fighters – rock Glastonbury, we look back on six times major bands have taken to the stage under a top-secret pseudonym

Metal Hammer

When Cliff Burton met Geddy Lee: “He started pacing, he started smoking pot, and he was like, ‘Oh my God!’”

Kirk Hammett remembers when Rush frontman Geddy Lee showed up at a Metallica show

Guitar World

Do you need a great singing voice to be a great rock’n’roll frontman?

Dee Snider created a Twitterstorm by suggesting that Ronnie James Dio was a great singer but not a great performer – and rock history is filled with other examples

Louder

In 2006 we asked Lemmy to tell us about his ultimate rock'n'roll icon: he chose Tina Turner

"She was like greased lightning" - Lemmy revealed his admiration for the late Tina Turner, and spoke of a gobsmacking evening in the company of The Ikettes

Louder

Celtic Frost’s Tom G Warrior: “They said I sang like Lemmy with the warts inside his mouth”

From troubled outsider to all-round metal visionary – these are the life and times of Celtic Frost/Triptykon leader Tom G Warrior

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The saga of Hawkwind's Space Ritual

After blasting out of the underground via the acid-laced rocket fuel of Silver Machine, Hawkwind created a spectacular multimedia live show unlike anything seen or heard before: the Space Ritual

Metal Hammer

Lemmy once tried to kick Tenacious D off a Motorhead show...so they snuck on stage and played anyway

Lemmy didn't feel Motorhead needed a warm-up band for their LA show in 2011: "We were like, ‘Oh ****, Lemmy hates us."

What Hi-Fi?

19 best British rock songs to test your hi-fi system

Not sure if your speakers are up to scratch? These cast-iron classics will give your hi-fi system the vigorous rock workout it demands.

Metal Hammer

Slash: My stories of Keith Moon, Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy and more

Slash met Keith Moon when he was 11, spent a long night with Lemmy in a Soho boozer, and had an unlikely on-stage encounter with James Brown. These are his stories

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Motorhead's Mikkey Dee: "I'm glad Lemmy doesn't have to experience today's political correctness because he would be going f**king crazy"

Former Motorhead drummer Mikkey Dee says he is glad "jokester" Lemmy isn't here to experience cancel culture

Metal Hammer

Motorhead's Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee didn't get a chance to say goodbye to Lemmy before he died: "I couldn't even go over to the funeral"

Lemmy's Motörhead bandmates Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee didn't get an opportunity for a final goodbye with Lemmy before his death

Guitar World

Jet Harris was Britain’s first bass guitar player, the first to own a Fender Precision, and its first rock’n’roll hellraiser too

Fights, car crashes, affairs with starlets – Jet Harris set the template for British bass players and bad behaviour, and along the way inspired everyone from McCartney to Lemmy

The Guardian - UK

Open-minded and truly eclectic: Nik Turner was the spirit of Hawkwind

Despite his sometimes turbulent relationship with the rest of the band, Turner’s saxophone was an integral part of their gritty and cathartic 70s sound

The Guardian - UK

Nik Turner, Hawkwind co-founder and saxophonist, dies aged 82

Member of influential British space-rock band also played in Sphynx, Inner City Unit and Space Ritual

Daily Mirror

Inside Sam Fox's wedding: Norwegian pop stars, three-tier cakes and custom cars

Sam Fox tied the knot on Saturday, marrying her partner of six years Linda Olsen with a lavish ceremony in Essex. The newlyweds first began dating in 2016, a year on from the death of Sam's long-term partner Myra Stratton

The Independent UK

Revellers celebrate ‘unifying’ Queen with corgis and Elvis impersonator

About 1,000 people turned out for Warwick’s civic celebrations marking the Platinum Jubilee.

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