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loudersound.com | Mick Wall
In 1975, Elton John was the biggest rock star in the world. His last four albums had all gone to No.1 in both Britain and America and he’d notched up a dozen US Top 10 singles, including three No.1s. His most recent chart-topper, Philadelphia Freedom, was inspired by his new friend Billie Jean King, the American women’s tennis legend who had beaten Bobby Riggs in the famous Battle Of The Sexes match the previous year.
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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Mick Wall
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Terry O'Neill / Iconic ImagesIn 1975, Elton John was the biggest rock star in the world. His last four albums had all gone to No.1 in both Britain and America and he’d notched up a dozen US Top 10 singles, including three No.1s.
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flipboard.com | Mick Wall
The Beatle George Harrison never wanted to work with again: “It’s nothing personal”During their career, The Beatles were famed for being one of the more unifying bands around, managing to bring together a whole nation to support …
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1 month ago | 
loudersound.com | Mick Wall
For Metallica, the 90s were just like the 80s – only in reverse. The 10 years it took them to go from unloved New Wave Of British Heavy Metal copyists, when they formed in LA in 1981, to globe-straddling multi-platinum-selling rock titans on a sales par with Michael Jackson and U2, with the release of their fifth album, Metallica, aka the Black Album, in 1991, saw them evolve faster than a speeding bullet.
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yahoo.com | Mick Wall
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Clay Mclachlan/Getty ImagesFor Metallica, the 90s were just like the 80s – only in reverse.
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2 months ago | 
loudersound.com | Mick Wall
At the height of AC/DC’s Australian success in the mid-70s, before they’d cracked it in Britain, let alone America, Bon Scott was already a star in his own mind. Sitting in some pub in Sydney, a large beer and a quadruple whisky on the table before him, that gap-toothed grin on his face and a friendly female companion by his side, he would be the life and soul of the party. As his great friend and former AC/DC tour manager Ian Jeffery recalls, it didn’t matter if he’d been in the place before.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Mick Wall
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Pictorial Press Ltd / Alamy Stock PhotoAt the height of AC/DC’s Australian success in the mid-70s, before they’d cracked it in Britain, let alone America, Bon Scott was already a star in his own mind.
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2 months ago | 
flipboard.com | Mick Wall
9 hours agoA$AP Rocky dives into Rihanna's arms as not guilty verdict is read at felony assault trialLOS ANGELES (AP) — A$AP Rocky dove into the arms of Rihanna Tuesday as a clerk read the not guilty verdict at his trial on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
express.co.uk | Mick Wall
All white now, Steve Lukather, left, live on stage with Toto (Image: Masanori Doi)Toto star Steve ‘Luke’ Lukather stopped dyeing his hair when he turned 65, after his eldest son intervened. “I’d been dyeing it black since my thirties,” the singer-guitarist tells me. “Then, two years ago, my son Trevor said, ‘Look at your pals Jimmy Page and Brian May, they’ve stopped’. “I said, ‘But I don’t know what’s underneath!’ I was born with dark brown hair.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
loudersound.com | Mick Wall
By 1988, rude dudeness (tattoos included) was an established fact of life on Sunset Strip. What had begun a few years before as the scum also rising in sleazy Hollywood flea havens like the Starwood and Gazzarri’s was now the mainstream. Millions were being made out of what these days is called hair-metal.
