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"When we did Live Aid, we could barely play": Pete Townshend says The Who invented stadium rock and then gave it away
He also prefers ABBA to Queen
“When I came up with the main hook I realised it was reminiscent of a Beatles song”: How The Cars created a rock classic
“You can set up amplifiers and drums to your heart’s content”: Gene Simmons defends his $12K ‘personal roadie’ deal
"Whatever floats your boat," the God Of Thunder says
Heart’s Nancy Wilson told Chappell Roan that she’ll be her "rock and roll auntie if you ever need any advice"
"Zeppelin was kind of our influence, and the Beatles and Elton John," says Wilson. “These girls have us and Sheryl Crow and others”
![Justin Hawkins [left] of the Darkness plays an open G on his offset electric and closes his eyes as he performs onstage; soul-reggae icon Johnny Nash [right] frets a chord on his acoustic and wears a patched denim jacket.](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/hWzCjD9ZWQiPPjMtTWiFfa-840-80.jpg.webp)
How Darkness’ Justin Hawkins learned diminished chords from a reggae-soul icon
The Darkness frontman says the late, great Johnny Nash dared to step outside of standard studio chord progressions and broadening a young Hawkins' musical vocabulary in the process
“I said, ‘Are we sure we can write a song about death?’”: The story of Mike + The Mechanics' The Living Years
"If we’d got it wrong, it would’ve been very schmaltzy"
“We might just say, 'Let's go back to the '90s again.' It's not a bad idea”: Kirk Hammett on the next Metallica album
And he has 767 new riffs ready to go!
“The chugging guitar was inspired by a Queen track”: Adrian Smith reveals the origins of his first song for Iron Maiden
It’s on their classic album The Number Of The Beast
