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Mark Hoppus and Melissa Joan Hart

Blink 182's Mark Hoppus recalls "awful" date with Melissa Joan Hart

Richard Ashcroft 2024

Richard Ashcroft to headline SMR 2025 at the Lamex Stadium

Richard Ashcroft

David Bowie and his daughter Alexandria Jones inset

David Bowie's daughter Lexi Jones quietly releases debut album Xandri

Liam Fray in Manchester, December 2008

Why Liam Fray thinks Courteeners' St. Jude still connects with their fans

Damon Albarn in Blur's Song 2 video

How Blur escaped Britpop with Song 2

Blur

The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger & Keith Richards in 2023 with their limited edition merch inset

The Rolling Stones launch upcycled limited edition clothing collection

The Rolling Stones

John Altman, Rod Culbertson, Ray Ashcroft and Stephen MacKenna in Birth Of The Beatles; Ian Hart in Backbeat; Mark McGann and Kim Miyori in John and Yoko - A Love Story; and Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Nowhere Boy.

The best Beatles biopics

The life and times of Earls Court Exhibition Centre: the venue hosts the Stones in May 1976; Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin in May 1975; and David Bowie in May 1973.

UK live music venues we've lost over the years

Kurt Cobain performing live onstage with Nirvana at Palasport, Modena on 21 February 1994

What did Nirvana play at their final gig before Kurt Cobain died?

Nirvana

Nirvana's Dave Grohl, Kurt Cobain and Krist Novselic in Frankfurt, 12th November 1991

Which Foo Fighters song is about Kurt Cobain?

Foo Fighters

Hard-Fi are to mark 20 years since the release of their debut album Stars Of CCTV

Hard-Fi announce 20th anniversary edition of Stars Of CCTV album

Catfish and the Bottlemen

Catfish and the Bottlemen add three new UK & Ireland shows for 2025

Catfish And The Bottlemen

Richard Ashcroft with the late Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis inset

How Richard Ashcroft's Song For The Lovers was inspired by Joy Division

Richard Ashcroft

Wet Leg on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Weds 2nd April 2025

Watch Wet Leg perform Catch These Fists on Fallon

Queen's Brian May in 2023

Brian May reveals why Queen blocked "gangster rap" artist from sampling them

Freddie Mercury in the video to Queen's I Want To Break Free

How I Want To Break Free became Queen’s most controversial song

John Lydon with Sex Pistols' Glen Matlock, Steve Jones with Frank Carter

John Lydon says he'll never return to "woke" Sex Pistols and is "shocked by how awful" their gigs are with Frank Carter

Sex Pistols

Sum 41 at the 2025 JUNO Awards

Sum 41 say goodbye with emotional "final" music video Radio Silence