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Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith, Metallica's Lars Ulrich with an image of the original This Is Spinal Tap film inset

Chad Smith and Lars Ulrich to cameo in This Is Spinal Tap sequel

Red Hot Chili Peppers

The Kooks' Inside In/Inside Out album

Watch The Kooks' stripped-back performance of their Naïve single on Radio X

The Kooks

Liam Gallagher and John Squire conclude UK leg of joint tour at the Troxy, London

Liam Gallagher & John Squire wrap up UK dates of their joint tour at the Troxy, London

Richard Ashcroft 2024

Richard Ashcroft confirms support acts for homecoming shows at Wigan's Robin Park

Richard Ashcroft

The Who

Pete Townshend teases "final tour" before The Who "crawl off to die"

The Who

Suede press 2024

Suede announce outdoor gig for Heritage Live 2024

Suede

The Kooks, Declan McKenna and The Cribs are on the line-up for Live At Leeds: At The Park 2024

Live At Leeds: In The Park 2024 - final acts confirmed

Pattie Boyd with George Harrison and Eric Clapton with an item of her collection inset

Pattie Boyd collection sells for almost £3 million at auction

Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins in 2010

How Taylor Hawkins got the call to join Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters

Taylor Hawkins at the premiere for the Foo Fighters movie Studio 666, on 16th February 2022

Taylor Hawkins: his life in words and pictures

Foo Fighters

How do you rate these guitarists? Bernard Sumner from Joy Division/New Order, Joey Santiago from Pixies and Peter Buck of R.E.M.

10 of the most underrated guitarists in rock

Damon Albarn in 2014

Damon Albarn's 12 best songs: from Blur to Gorillaz and beyond

Blur

Red Hot Chili Peppers in February 1988: Flea, Anthony Kiedis, Hillel Slovak and Jack Irons

These famous bands changed their names... from what?

Queen in 1975, around the time of their album A Night At The Opera... named after a famous Marx Brothers film

Albums and songs named after classic movies

David Bowie and Mick Jagger in the much-mocked Dancing In The Street video

Are these the worst cover versions ever?

Songwriters that stay out of the spotlight: Liam Gallagher, John Deacon and Ringo Starr

These classics weren't written by the band's chief songwriter

The Global Awards 2024 winners have been announced

Foo Fighters win Best Rock & Indie at The Global Awards 2024: full winners list

Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan of Guns N'Roses

Guns N' Roses among those to be honoured at Inaugural GRAMMY Hall of Fame Gala

Guns N' Roses